Courses
Students are expected to complete the equivalent of at least twelve half-courses by the time they finish their degree (half-courses are one-semester courses 12 weeks in duration). Of these, six should be in cognitive psychology. During each academic year, the faculty will offer two seminars in major areas of cognitive psychology, and a year-long research seminar. Ordinarily, students should register for these seminars during each of their first three years.
Graduate seminars in cognitive psychology offered within the last few years include:
- Basic Issues in Cognition
- Basic Visual Processes
- Visual Cognition
- Consciousness and Cognition
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Human Memory
- Attention
- Language and Reading
- Modelling Cognitive Processes
- Cognitive Neurospsychology of Reading
The other six courses are to be taken outside the cognitive area. Two of these courses should be in statistics and the remaining four should be from other areas of the Department (e.g., Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology), or possibly from other departments at the university. The specific set of courses taken by a student will be selected by the student in consultation with his or her supervisor to fit the student's needs and interests.
