Sample Track Themes for the B.A. Degree

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These themes are provided as examples of popular BCS track themes. You are strongly encouraged to discuss with your BCS Faculty Advisor other coherent sets of courses that fit your interests.

Neuropsychology and Mental Disorder

BCS 240: Basic Neurobiology
BCS 242: Neuropsychology
BCS 243: Neurochemical Foundations of Behavior
BCS 246: Biology of Mental Disorders
BCS 265: Language and the Brain

Psycholinguistics†

LIN 110: Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
BCS 162: Understanding Reading
BCS 172: Development of Mind and Brain
BCS 259: Language Development
BCS 261: Language Use and Understanding
BCS 264: Signed Language Structure
BCS 265: Language and the Brain

Perception and Action

BCS 191Q: Seeing and Acting in a Virtual World
BCS 220: The Intelligent Eye
BCS 221: Audition
BCS 222: Foundations of Vision: Perception and Computation
BCS 228: Human-Machine Interaction
BCS 245: Sensory and Motor Neuroscience

Computation and Cognition

BCS 191Q: Seeing and Acting in a Virtual World
BCS 222: Foundations of Vision: Perception and Computation
BCS 230: The Computational Brain
BCS 232: Artificial Intelligence

Development

BCS 172: Development of Mind and Brain
BCS 240: Basic Neurobiology
BCS 249: Developmental Neurobiology
BCS 259: Language Development

Music Cognition and Language

Required:

BCS 260: Music and the Mind
BCS 221: Audition

Choose at least one from:

BCS 259: Language Development
BCS 261: Language Use and Understanding
BCS 265: Language and the Brain

Speech and Hearing†*

LIN 110: Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
BCS 221: Audition
BCS 259: Language Development
BCS 261: Language Use and Understanding
BCS 264: Signed Language Structure
BCS 265: Language and the Brain

†LIN 110 can be used for BCS elective credit only by students completing a track in Psycholinguistics or Speech and Hearing.

*Students interested in pursuing graduate work in Speech and Hearing are strongly encouraged to take LIN 210 Introduction to Sound Systems even though it cannot be used to fulfill the BCS track requirement.

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