<p>What special academic opportunities does your student’s college offer, particularly in his/her major?</p>
<p>My son is in and interdisciplinary dual major cogsci-copmsci. That program offers the following.</p>
<li>Requires a senior thesis for graduation. It seems that more colleges are requiring this or encouraging students to tackle this in lieu of another upper-level course or two.</li>
<li>A bi-weekly luncheon seminar with presentations given by students, faculty and guest speakers. Lunch is provided by the cogsci department.</li>
<li>A weekly evening lecture required of the Minds and Machines course but open to all students in the program. The 2 hour lecture includes resident faculty, visiting faculty, and the occasional movie.</li>
<li>The program oversee the Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasonong lab and the Cogworks lab and are very active in getting undergrads in the program involved in one or more ot the research projects in these labs. The student and faculty researchers often present their work at the luncheon seminar. This encourages more undergrad participation in their research.</li>
<li>Dual advising because of the interdisciplinary nature of the degree program.</li>
<li>The lego robot Wampus World rodeo.</li>
<li>Cisco Academy which upon successful completion, they recieve Cisco Network certifications</li>
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