Academic content
The main components of the curriculum for a minor in Cognitive Science include: cognitive architectures, i.e., the structural and functional organization of biological and technical systems that are capable of cognitive activity, as well as the foundations of – and problems understanding – cognition as information processing; the representation and organization of general and domain-specific knowledge as well as learning processes involved in the acquisition of knowledge and inference processes involved in the use of knowledge; the processing of natural language as it pertains to information processing as well as perception and sensorimotor processes (control of action); applied cognitive science: human-computer interaction; computerized learning systems; the technology of knowledge-based systems: artificial intelligence programming (“expert systems”) and knowledge engineering; as well as concepts for applying and evaluating “intelligent” computer systems as a further related area. The goals of the course of study are the acquisition of methodological skills from the humanities and the empirical sciences to the extent that they are necessary for research in cognitive science and, in particular, mastery of the methods of cognitive modeling, including programming techniques of artificial intelligence (AI), the acquisition of a broad knowledge base in general cognitive science in combination with specialized knowledge in one of the subdisciplines named above, and the integration and practice of cognitive analysis and modeling of representations and processes in cognitive systems through project work.
Subject combinations
An overview of all possible combination subjects for Kognitionswissenschaft (Cognitive Science):
- Ancient Civilization Studies
- Archaeological Sciences
- Educational Science and Education Management
- German Studies
- Cultural Analysis/European Ethnology
- English and American Studies
- Cultural and Social Anthropology
- FrancoMedia – French Language, Literature, and Media Culture
- German Studies from a German–French Perspective
- History
- IberoCultura – Spanish Language, Literature, and Culture
- Islamic Studies
- Jewish Studies
- Classical Philology
- Art History
- Media and Cultural Studies
- Musicology
- Early Modern and Modern History
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Romance languages and literatures
- Sinology
- Scandinavian Studies
- Slavic Studies
- Sociology
- Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Statutes
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Zulassungs- und Immatrikulationsordnung (ZImmO)
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Prüfungsordnung B.A.: Anlage A
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Prüfungsordnung B.A.: Rahmenordnung § 18
(Nur bei Studienbeginn vor dem 1. Oktober 2015 und sofern nicht Anwendung von § 18 Absatz 12 n.F. beantragt wurde)
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Prüfungsordnung B.A.: Rahmenordnung
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Prüfungsordnung B.A.: Kognitionswissenschaft (Nebenfach)
(Nur bei Studienbeginn vor dem 1. Oktober 2025; Abschluss des Studiums bis spätestens 31. März 2029)
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Prüfungsordnung B.A.: Kognitionswissenschaft (Nebenfach)
(Nur bei Studienbeginn zwischen dem 1. Oktober 2011 und dem 30. September 2013; Abschluss des Studiums bis spätestens 30. September 2018)
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Prüfungsordnung B.A.: Anlage A
(Nur bei Studienbeginn vor dem 1. Oktober 2011 und sofern nicht ab dem Wintersemester 2011/2012 eine Neueinschreibung für ein anderes Haupt- oder Nebenfach erfolgt ist)
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Prüfungsordnung B.A.: Rahmenordnung
(Nur bei Studienbeginn vor dem 1. Oktober 2011 und sofern nicht ab dem Wintersemester 2011/2012 eine Neueinschreibung für ein anderes Haupt- oder Nebenfach erfolgt ist)
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Prüfungsordnung B.A.: Kognitionswissenschaft (Nebenfach)
(Nur bei Studienbeginn zwischen dem 1. Oktober 2005 und dem 30. September 2011)
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