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The Cognitive Science Advising office will be closed July 3rd and 4th in observation of the Independence Day Holiday. Advisors will be back online and available again starting Monday July 7th. 

Looking to support your fellow CogSci Golden Bears? Join our Peer Advising Team for the 2025-2026 Academic Year! Our Cognitive Science Peer Advising application is now open to apply. Click HERE to access the Peer Advising Application!

Please note: The Cognitive Science Advising office will be closed for the winter break from  Friday, December 22 - Friday, January 5. Both in-person and remote appointments, as well as remote drop-in advising, will be available again beginning Monday, January 8th. 

Best wishes for a restful break and happy new year. 

Sincerely, The Cognitive Science Staff

Congratulations to Cognitive Science affiliate faculty Alison Gopnik for winning what many call the Nobel Prize of Cognitive Science! 

CogSci Winter Advising Update

• No Advising 12/23/22 - 1/2/23: Cognitive Science Advising will be closed during the campus closure from Friday, December 23, 2022 through Monday, January 2, 2023. During this time, advising will not be available, including email.

The Cognitive Science program has decided to allow P grades to fulfill all major requirements for the Fall 22 semester in light of the disruption caused by the ongoing strike and the recent announcement made by the College of Letters & Science. Make sure to review the FAQs when making your decision.

Please note that CogSci advisors will not be holding  regular drop-in hours November 21-23, and that the advising office will be closed for the Thanksgiving Holiday on Thursday and Friday November 24th and 25th. 

You can reach an advisor over email or via CalCentral appointments on November 21-23. 

Have a safe and happy holiday! 

Mark your calendars! Enrollment season is upon us and we know you all have questions to get answered. This update is to let you know that all CogSci enrollment advising services will be drop-in from 10/3-10/21. You can drop-in using this link from 10am-12pm & 2pm-4pm. There will be no appointments during this time.

Fall advising hours are available beginning Monday, August 22

By appt: M-Th 10-12 & 2-4; F 10-12 & 2-3

Drop-in Remote: M-F 3-4

Due to the recent COVID 19 surge, the Cogsci advising office will be delivering services entirely remotely until further notice. The CogSci advising office has developed a new hybrid model to deliver services to students in-person, remotely, by appointment, and drop-in, and in various time zones. We hope to return to that model once it is safe to do so. 

To make an advising appointment, students should use the CalCentral advising tool.

Per the recent announcement from L&S, the Cognitive Science program will be accepting PNP grades for all major requirements through Summer '21. This includes pre-requisites.

Hello Golden Bears!

The Cognitive Science Program is looking to collect feedback from students, current and former, regarding their volunteer, research, and/or internship experiences as they relate to cognitive science. The purpose of this is to gain an understanding of where our students are when they're out in the field as well as to know which opportunities our students would enthusiastically endorse. 

As you all wrap up finals, the advising staff would like you all to know that from December 23rd-Jan 4th the advisors will be out of the office. We will not be available for appointments and cannot promise that we will be checking our emails during this time. If you have something pressing that needs to be discussed, you still have the opportunity to schedule appointments on Dec. 21-22 (next Monday and Tuesday); otherwise you will have to wait until Jan. 5th for our appointments to open again. 

CogSci 190, Section 2, entitled Rhythms of the Brain: Neuronal Communication and Networks can count as the Computational Modeling Requirement for Spring '21 Please make sure to read the course description as this course will require calculus and discrete math skills. 

Any students interested in enrolling in CogSci classes remotely in Fall 2020, please check back later for updates. We are hoping to enable anyone from anywhere in the world to enroll in Fall 20 cogsci courses. Stay well everyone! 

COGSCI N1: Introduction to Cognitive Science - Class #: 13101 

Prerequisite / Lower Division Course for CogSci

Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences, L&S Breadth

• 3 units

• Taught by Linda Isaac 

• Summer Session A: May 26 - July 2

• TU, W, TH: 10:00 am - 12:29 pm