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:
- Acquire and update knowledge base: Students acquire knowledge of the field; they understand influential theories, scientific findings, and applications to real-world issues.
- Critically evaluate and integrate information : Students should be able to understand, critically evaluate, organize, and integrate information. Students will receive training in scientific literacy to judge the validity and reliability of information (e.g., distinguish reliable from less reliable sources). This training is intended to enable students to independently.
- Address questions with objective evidence: Students should know the power, scope, strength, and limitations of scientific evidence, and aspire to use these standards ethically and where appropriate.
- Articulate applications of psychological knowledge: Students should understand the basic principles and applications of psychology and articulate how these principles can be useful in their everyday lives. They should also be able to communicate these principles and applications orally and in writing.
- Demonstrate social awareness and cultural understanding. Students should be able to understand the ways that sampling bias and investigator bias may shape psychological findings. Students should be able to consider the ways that ability, language, class, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, ethnicity, indigeneity, and race influence psychological findings.
