Curriculum
A central focus of the CAP curriculum is education in the integral fields of cognition, action, and perception. We encourage our students to improve their quantitative skills, including both statistical techniques and dynamical modeling.
The following courses are our curriculum guidelines. Students should consult with their advisors to select courses on each list that support their research goals.
- Cognition (two courses)
- Categories and Concepts
- Cognitive Psychology
- Embodied Cognition*
- Learning and Instruction
- Memory
- Psychology of Language
- Similarity
- Perception & Action (two courses)
- Dynamical Systems in Psychology*
- Embodied Cognition*
- Learning
- Mirror Neurons
- Motor Control
- Perception and Action
- Sensation and Perception
- Methods (two courses)
- Computational modeling
- Dynamical Systems in Psychology*
- Dynamics and Complexity
- Dynamic user-centered research and design
- Mathematical modeling
- Skill Courses (two courses)
- PSY 530 Analysis of Variance
- PSY 531 Regression Analysis
- Breadth Seminars (two courses)
to be selected together with your advisor - Research Seminar (each Semester)
- PSY 598 Cognition, Action, & Perception (CAP) Seminar
- PSY 598 Dynamics of Perception, Action, and Cognition (DPAC) - required by some advisors
- Research Hours (30 Semester Hours)
- PSY 592 Research (three hours)
- PSY 599 Thesis (three hours)
- PSY 792 Research (12 hours)
- PSY 799 Dissertation (12 hours)
* may only be used to satisfy the requirements of one category.