纽约大学的语言与心理专业是一种跨学科的方法，可以通过学习语言来理解人的思想。作为认知科学的核心，这项努力已成为卓越的研究前沿，在人文，社会科学和硬科学之间建立了联系。纽约大学的语言与思维学习计划具有很强的综合性，反映了该领域的跨学科特色，它从语言学，心理学和哲学三个部门汲取了课程。人类语言是“语言与思想”学习计划的中心，但专业比语言学更广泛，该计划还结合了心理学实验技术和哲学探究。目的是为学生提供探索语言和人类思维新观点的必要背景。从语言学，心理学和哲学的跨学科交叉中选择十门必修课。除了该专业的定义课程（
NYU's Language & Mind major is an inter-disciplinary approach to understanding the human mind by studying language. At the core of Cognitive Science, this endeavor has emerged as a preeminent research frontier, forging links across the humanities, the social sciences and the hard sciences. Reflecting the strongly inter-disciplinary character of this frontier, NYU's Language & Mind study program is strongly integrative, drawing courses from three departments: Linguistics, Psychology and Philosophy. Human language is at the center of the Language & Mind study program, but the major is broader than Linguistics, the program also incorporates Psychological experimentation techniques and Philosophical inquiry. The aim is to give students the necessary background for exploration of new perspectives for both language and the human mind.There are ten required courses selected from an interdisciplinary cross-section of Linguistics, Psychology, and Philosophy. Beyond the defining course of this major, called Language and Mind, students take three courses in Linguistics (selected from a set of ten Linguistics courses), one in Philosophy (selected from a set of three Philosophy courses), four in Psychology (selected from a set of nine Psychology courses), and an additional course from one of the three departments.The Honors track encourages ambitious research that aims to reflect the frontier nature of the major and supports work at the interface between established disciplines. The Honors research is carried out under the advising of two faculty members from different departments.This major, intended as an introduction to cognitive science, is administered by the Departments of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology. Ten courses (40 points) are required (four in linguistics, one in philosophy, four in psychology, and one additional course). All must be completed with a grade of C or better.