Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course 9)
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Bachelor of Science in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
General Institute Requirements (GIRs)
The General Institute Requirements include a Communication Requirement that is integrated into both the HASS Requirement and the requirements of each major; see details below.
Summary of Subject Requirements | Subjects |
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Science Requirement | 6 |
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) Requirement [two subjects can be satisfied by 9.00 and one other HASS subject in the Departmental Program]; at least two of these subjects must be designated as communication-intensive (CI-H) to fulfill the Communication Requirement. | 8 |
Restricted Electives in Science and Technology (REST) Requirement [can be satisfied by 6.100A/6.100B and 9.01 in the Departmental Program] | 2 |
Laboratory Requirement (12 units) [can be satisfied by a laboratory in the Departmental Program] | 1 |
Total GIR Subjects Required for SB Degree | 17 |
Physical Education Requirement | |
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Swimming requirement, plus four physical education courses for eight points. |
Departmental Program
Choose at least two subjects in the major that are designated as communication-intensive (CI-M) to fulfill the Communication Requirement.
Required Subjects | Units | |
Tier I | ||
6.100A | Introduction to Computer Science Programming in Python | 6 |
6.100B | Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science | 6 |
9.00 | Introduction to Psychological Science | 12 |
9.01 | Introduction to Neuroscience | 12 |
9.40 | Introduction to Neural Computation | 12 |
9.07 | Statistics for Brain and Cognitive Science | 12 |
Tier 2 | ||
Select three of the following; up to seven may be taken: | 36-84 | |
Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology | ||
The Human Brain | ||
Developmental Neurobiology | ||
Computational Psycholinguistics | ||
Cellular Neurophysiology and Computing | ||
Principles and Applications of Genetic Engineering for Biotechnology and Neuroscience | ||
Perception | ||
Neural Circuits for Cognition | ||
Emergent Computations Within Distributed Neural Circuits | ||
Computational Cognitive Science | ||
Infant and Early Childhood Cognition (CI-M) | ||
Tier 3 | ||
Select up to four of the following: | 0-48 | |
Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System | ||
Current Topics in Developmental Neurobiology (CI-M) | ||
Genes, Circuits, and Behavior | ||
The Brain and Its Interface with the Body | ||
Neuroscience of Morality (CI-M) | ||
Materials Physics of Neural Interfaces (CI-M) | ||
Laboratory | ||
Select one of the following: 1 | 12 | |
Experimental Molecular Neurobiology (CI-M) | ||
Systems Neuroscience Laboratory (CI-M) | ||
Laboratory in Psycholinguistics (CI-M) | ||
Machine-Motivated Human Vision (CI-M) | ||
Research | ||
Select one of the following (Laboratory cannot also count for Research): | 12-18 | |
Experimental Molecular Neurobiology (CI-M) | ||
Systems Neuroscience Laboratory (CI-M) | ||
Research and Communication in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (CI-M) | ||
Research in Brain and Cognitive Sciences | ||
Laboratory in Psycholinguistics (CI-M) | ||
Machine-Motivated Human Vision (CI-M) | ||
Undergraduate Research | ||
Restricted Electives | ||
Select zero to four subjects. 9.URG cannot count as a Restricted Elective | 0-48 | |
Units in Major | 168-174 | |
Unrestricted Electives | 54-72 | |
Units in Major That Also Satisfy the GIRs | (48-60) | |
Total Units Beyond the GIRs Required for SB Degree | 180 |
The units for any subject that counts as one of the 17 GIR subjects cannot also be counted as units required beyond the GIRs.
1 | These subjects can count toward either the Laboratory or the Research requirement, but not both. |
Restricted Electives
2.003[J] | Dynamics and Control I | 12 |
2.180[J] | Biomolecular Feedback Systems | 12 |
2.184 | Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement | 12 |
5.07[J] | Introduction to Biological Chemistry | 12 |
5.12 | Organic Chemistry I | 12 |
5.13 | Organic Chemistry II | 12 |
6.1200[J] | Mathematics for Computer Science | 12 |
6.1220[J] | Design and Analysis of Algorithms | 12 |
6.1400[J] | Computability and Complexity Theory | 12 |
6.3000 | Signal Processing | 12 |
6.3900 | Introduction to Machine Learning | 12 |
6.4100 | Artificial Intelligence | 12 |
6.8301 | Advances in Computer Vision | 15 |
6.8611 | Quantitative Methods for Natural Language Processing | 15 |
7.03 | Genetics | 12 |
9.72 | Vision in Art and Neuroscience | 12 |
18.03 | Differential Equations | 12 |
18.06 | Linear Algebra | 12 |
18.404 | Theory of Computation | 12 |
24.211 | Theory of Knowledge | 12 |
24.900 | Introduction to Linguistics | 12 |
24.901 | Language and Its Structure I: Phonology | 12 |
24.902 | Language and Its Structure II: Syntax | 12 |
24.903 | Language and Its Structure III: Semantics and Pragmatics | 12 |
24.904 | Language Acquisition | 12 |