<p>I am wondering if cognitive science is a very heavy math oriented field. Most school’s prerequisites for the major requires the student to take calculus 1 and 2 at least and physics for some, but what about after that? Is there more math involved?</p>
<p>Depends on the program. At some schools, Cognitive science is heavily related to Computer science (for which you would have to take quite a bit of math), while at others it’s more at the Psychology and Philosophy end (for which you wouldn’t have to take much). Why would you need Physics, though? That’s strange. Anyway, I would not classify Cognitive science as a “math intensive” field, at least for 95% of the programs.</p>
<p>thank you sir.</p>
<p>more info and opinions would be great.</p>
<p>At my school you can sort of choose how you want to go about the major. The major here requires a “Formal Systems” class, which can come from upper level math, quantitative linguistics, or a philosophy course in formal logic.
One upper level requirement, Artificial Intelligence, comes from the CS department and has numerous pre-reqs, but you don’t need to take AI as there are other options. These include psychology, philosophy, anthropology, etc.
Some intermediate statistics are necessary.</p>
<p>So basically you’re allowed to choose if you want a math intensive cog sci major or not. Even if you don’t end up taking linear algebra or multivariate calc, it’s probably a good idea to take some intro CS courses to get some basic programming and applications of logic for a true interdisciplinary cognitive science program.</p>