Example B.S. Course Schedules

Beginning in Fall 2011, the department will no longer be offering its own statistics course (the old BCS 200). Students will fulfill the statistics requirement for the major by taking STT 212. Multiple sections of that class are offered in both Fall and Spring semesters.

Freshman Year
Fall

  • BCS 110: Neural Foundations of Behavior
  • BIO 110: Principles of Biology I (or BIO 112)
  • Free Elective
  • Primary Writing course

Freshman Year
Spring

  • BCS 111: Foundations of Cognitive Science
  • MTH 161: Calculus
  • Symbolic Systems or Computer Programming course
  • 1st of 6 Cluster courses

Sophomore Year
Fall

  • BCS 151: Perception and Action
  • BCS 152: Language and Psycholinguistics
  • Symbolic Systems or Computer Programming course
  • 2nd of 6 Cluster courses

Sophomore Year
Spring

  • BCS 153: Cognition
  • BCS Allied Field Elective
  • BCS Upper-level Elective
  • 3rd of 6 Cluster courses

Junior Year
Fall

  • STT212: Applied Statistics for the Biological and Physical Sciences I (replaces BCS 200 in Fall 2011)
  • BCS Allied Field Elective
  • Free Elective or BCS 205: Laboratory in Development and Learning
  • 4th of 6 Cluster courses

Junior Year
Spring

  • BCS 203 or BCS 208: Lab course or Free Elective
  • BCS Elective course
  • Open BCS Elective
  • Free Elective

Senior Year
Fall

  • BCS Elective course
  • Open BCS Elective
  • Free Elective
  • 5th of 6 Cluster courses

Senior Year
Spring

  • BCS Elective course
  • BCS 310: Senior Seminar
  • Free Elective
  • Free Elective
  • 6th of 6 Cluster courses

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