What is Cognitive Science?
Cognitive science is the study of how the mind works, functions, and behaves. In order to understand how the brain makes a decision or conducts a mission, cognitive science involves several existing disciplines such as philosophy, neuroscience, or artificial intelligence to be applied as a scientific area of research. Cognitive science aims to explain knowledge and action that can benefit people in many ways, such as creating smarter devices or designing educational programmes.
Faculty of Cognitive Science & Human Development
UNIMAS
The cognitive science course were being offered in University Malaysia Sarawak under Faculty of Cognitive Science & Human Development. It is a course only offered by UNIMAS and not available at other universities. Although not as popular as other courses, for me it is very interesting and a lot of things can be learned through the subjects taught. As one of the cognitive science students at UNIMAS, I am very proud to continue my studies in this course and I am now in year 3. In this courses, we have been given a chance to choose whether to go to hard science or soft science subjects. Most of the students usually choose the soft science subject while other students that interested to study more about coding will choose hard science. The trademark that is always used is “first come, first serve”.
Subject Offered
Year 1 - Year 3 (Core)
YEAR 1
Semester 1
Introduction to Cognitive Science
Discrete Structure
Introduction to Linguistics Analysis
Basic Programming
Cognitive Psychology
Semester 2
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
Calculus and Linear Algebra
Cognition and Design
Human Development Psychology
Cognitive Neurosciences
YEAR 2
Semester 1
Philosophy of Mind
Research Methodology
Narrative and Discourse Analysis (Soft Science)
Expert System and Analysis (Hard Science)
Object Oriented Programming (Hard Science)
Computational Thinking (Soft Science)
Database Management Systems (Hard Science)
Computer Graphic (Hard Science)
Semester 2
Internship
YEAR 3
Semester 1
Human Computer Interaction
Final Year Project I
Human Behaviour and Organisation
Web Programming (Hard Science)
Virtual Reality (Hard Science)
Computer Vision (Hard Science)
Project Management (Soft Science)
Semester 2
Final Year Project II
Computational Intelligence
Applied Neuroscience for Special Needs
Computational Linguistic
Learning Disabilities in an Inclusive Society
Mobile Computing
Knowledge-Based Systems
Career as a Cognitive Science Students
As a graduate of the cognitive science program, the careers that we capable to apply are:
Artificial Intelligence
Business
Data Analysis
Education
Public Intelligence
Healthcare
Human Performance
Information Processing
Law
Marketing
Product Design
Psychology
Research
Software Design
It all depends on the interest of each student to engage in the field of there interest.