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Minor Requirements

  1. Complete a major in one of the member disciplines (Computer Science, Psychology or Philosophy) or other approved program.
  2. Twenty-four credits beyond the major, including
    1. COG 120 and 180.
    2. Six-10 additional credits chosen from COG 180, 280, 399, 480 or 499.
    3. Remaining credits chosen from PSY 121, 201, 204, 231, 310; ENG 220; CSC 117, 120, 220; or PHL 303, 305, 347. Other courses in the constituent disciplines may be included with approval.
  3. No more than eight credits that have been applied to another minor may be applied to the Cognitive Science minor.

 

Alma's "green" residence hall, Wright Hall, was completed in January 2005. The modern, 60-bed apartment-style hall features a number of environmentally friendly features, including geothermal heating and cooling, recycled-content ceiling tiles and carpeting, energy-efficient windows, rooftop solar heating panels, energy-efficient showers and washing machines, and a computerized energy monitoring system.

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Faculty Profile

Dr. Andrew Thall
Departments: Mathematics

Dr. Andrew Thall is a man of many talents — as an undergraduate at Kalamazoo College, he majored in mathematics, but was only interested in pure mathematics theory. After college, he worked as a baker, and then in a photo lab, before going back to school part-time.

“When I began my graduate work at Carolina, I happened to wander into the computer science building,” the assistant professor of mathematics and computer science says. “This was when they were designing their own graphics supercomputers and just starting to work with virtual reality. It was then I decided to study computers.”

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