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Cognitive Science of Language

Interdisciplinary Social Science ProgramsUndergraduateCLS - College of Letters and Science
Overview

Subject

COGSCI

Course Number

144

Department

Interdisciplinary Social Science Programs

Course Level

Undergraduate

Course Title

Cognitive Science of Language

Course Description

This class will explore language and the psychological and neurological processing related to language, language use, and cognition from the multidisciplinary perspective of cognitive science. This psycho-neuro-linguist approach will ask whether language is a unique system within the overall cognitive system, with its own specialized representations and operations, or whether language is more continuous with other cognition.

Minimum

3

Maximum

3

Grading Basis

Default Letter Grade; P/NP Option

Method of Assessment

Written Exam

Instructors

Pageler

American Cultures Requirement

No

Reading and Composition Requirement

None of the Reading and Composition Requirement
Prerequisite
Cognitive Science 1/1B/N1 preferred

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Credit Restriction Courses. Students will receive no credit for this course if the following the course(s) have already been completed.

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Credit Replacement Courses. Upon passing, students can use the following course(s) to replace a deficient grade for this course.

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Course Objectives

The objective of this course is to excite interest in and explore language and cognition through the lens of cognitive science. The psychological and neurological processing related to language helps to show the nature of the human mind in comparison to others, the unique variety of cognition that language serves, and the relation of that type of cognition to other types. This not only helps to reveal various forms of cognition but also how those forms relate in human, as well as non-human, minds. To do this we will ask: 1) What is language as a system and behavior of humankind? 2) Where is the knowledge of language from? 3) How is language acquired, processed, and lost in the human brain? 4) What do the empirical results and the history of linguistic studies that we cover reveal about how we think about language and, by implication, human beings themselves.

Formats

Lecture

Term

Fall

Duration (in weeks)

15

Minimum Hours

3

Maximum Hours

4

Outside Work Hours Min

5

Maximum Hours

6

Term

Summer

Duration (in weeks)

6

Minimum Hours

7.5

Maximum Hours

9.5

Outside Work Hours Min

14

Maximum Hours

16
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