Ph.D. Program Information

Concentration in Cognitive Development

The Ph.D. concentration in Cognitive Development prepares students for careers in higher education, research, and applied settings for which cognitive development training is appropriate background.

The course requirements for the Ph.D. with a concentration in Cognitive Development are as follows:

1. CD 151 Advanced Intellectual Development
2. Two other courses in Cognitive Development (see list below)
3. Two other courses in Developmental Psychology outside the field of cognitive development (physiological, social, biological, personal, etc.)
4. CD 140 Statistics
5. CD 142 Problems of Research: Methods and Design
6. CD 144 Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods
7. CD 243 Applied Multivariate Data Analysis (or equivalent)
8. CD 285 Advanced Research Methods in Applied Developmental Science (or equivalent)
9. Two Advanced Seminars in Cognitive Development
   (e.g. CD 251 Seminar in Intellectual Development, CD 253 Advanced Seminar in Piagetian Psychology, PY 243 Structure and Process in Cognitive Theory)
10. Four or more Concentration Electives
11. Two Open Electives
12. Internship
13. Two Qualifying Papers
14. Doctoral Dissertation

M.A. and Ph.D. Cognitive Development Concentration Electives:

Child Development

• CD 143 Technologies of the Self
• CD 145/ED182 Technological Tools for Thinking and Learning
• CD 152 Development of Thought and Language
• CD 153 Culture and Learning: Issues for Education
• CD 155 The Young Child's Development of Language
• CD 156 Applied Aspects of Physiological Development
• CD 157 Theories of Spiritual Development
• CD 158 Psychological Study of Creativity
• CD 197 Learning Disorders
• CD 243 Applied Multivariate Data Analysis
• CD 243-MW Reading Dyslexia and the Brain
• CD 251 Seminar in Intellectual Development
• CD 253 Advanced Seminar in Piagetian Psychology
• CD 285 Advanced Research Methods in Apllied Developmental Science.

Computer Science

• CDC 131 Artificial Intelligence

Education

• ED 112 Mathematics Learning Environments
• ED 130 Human Development and Learning
• ED 191A Symbols, Knowing & Learning
• ED 230 Seminar in Psychological Studies in Education
• ED 243 Assessment and Diagnosis of Cognitive Abilities
• ED 273 Seminar in Research Methods

Philosophy

• PH 103 Logic
• PH 114 Topics of Logic
• PH 116 Philosophy of Science
• PH 117 Philosophy of Mind
• PH 126 Theories of Human Nature
• PH 131 Epistemology
• PH 133 Philosophy of Language
• PH 134 Philosophy of Social Science
• PH 161 Empiricism
• PH 163 Rationalism
• PH 170 Computation Theory

Psychology

• PY 103 Brain and Behavior
• PY 107 Advanced Statistics I
• PY 129 Cognitive Neuroscience
• PY 144 Memory and Retention
• PY 146 Comparative Cognitive and Behavior
• PY 149 Psychology of Language
• PY 152 Development of Gender
• PY 232 Core Course in Cognitive Psychology
• PY 243 Structure and Process in Cognitive Theory
• PY 244 Cognition and Learning
• PY 247 Cognition
• PY 234 Core course in Developmental Psychology

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