认知科学学士学位课程的结构旨在为学生提供适用于各种与信息相关的职业的基本技能：心理学，神经科学，人工智能，媒体，信息处理，医学分析，数据表示和信息检索，教育，科学研究，人机交互，多媒体，知识管理和信息政策。这些技能在技术和说明文写作，数学分析，实验技术和计算机编程中也具有广泛的适用性。认知科学探索智能系统的本质，侧重于思维和信息的形式理论，并寻求对思维，学习和理解的更好理解。教学，认知技能以及旨在以建设性方式增强人员能力的智能系统的开发。该领域本质上是跨学科的，计算机科学，心理学，哲学，神经科学，语言学，
The B.A. major in cognitive science is structured to give students fundamental skills that are applicable in a wide variety of information-related careers: psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, media, information processing, medical analysis, data representation and information retrieval, education, scientific research, human-computer interaction, multimedia, knowledge management, and information policy. The skills also have wide applicability in technical and expository writing, mathematical analysis, experimental techniques, and computer programming. Cognitive science explores the nature of intelligent systems, focusing on formal theories of mind and information, and seeks a better understanding of mind, learning and teaching, cognitive skills, and the development of intelligent systems designed to augment human capacities in constructive ways. The field is inherently interdisciplinary, with contributions from computer science, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, biology, anthropology, and other fields. Both natural intelligence (in humans and in animals) and artificial intelligence fall within the scope of inquiry. The field deals with aspects of complex cognition, computational models of thought processing, knowledge representation, dynamics of real-world engagement, and emergent behavior of large-scale interacting systems.