The Mind & Brain certificate provides students majoring in different programs with cross-disciplinary training in several ancillary fields that study various aspects of the mind and brain. The program requires two introductory courses from two different fields (LING, PHIL, PSYC), and two junior/senior level electives.
At the completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Teach students the core concepts of inference and computing.
- Provide basic training in statistics from a computational perspective.
- Formulate effective questions that can be answered with data, computer programming, data management and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, statistical inference, and data-driven decision making.
- Apply data science to disciplinary problems.
- Gain one depth experience to understand one of the disciplines that use data science.