printer friendly pageSYMSYS 290: Master's Degree Project
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
SYMSYS 291: Master's Program Seminar
Enrollment limited to students in the Symbolic Systems M.S. degree program. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Davies, T. (PI)
SYMSYS 201: ICT, Society, and Democracy
The impact of information and communication technologies on social and political life. Interdisciplinary. Classic and contemporary readings focusing on topics such as social networks, virtual versus face-to-face communication, the public sphere, voting technology, and collaborative production.
SYMSYS 206: Topics in the Philosophy of Neuroscience
Preference to Undergraduates. Focus is literature in philosophy and neuroscience whose topics include perception, memory, neurophenomenology, sensorimotor accounts of consciousness, computational models, and eliminativism, among others. Prerequisites: Familiarity with philosophy (
Phil 80) or neuroscience.
| Repeatable
for credit
SYMSYS 209: Battles Over Bits
The changing nature of information in the Internet age and its relationship to human behavior. Philosophical assumptions underlying practices such as open source software development, file sharing, common carriage, and community wireless networks, contrasted with arguments for protecting private and commercial interests such as software patents, copy protection, copyright infringement lawsuits, and regulatory barriers. Theory and evidence from disciplines including psychology, economics, computer science, law, and political science. Prerequisite:
PSYCH 40, 55, 70, or
SYMBSYS 202.
SYMSYS 211: Learning Facial Emotions: Art, Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction
Learning to recognize facial emotions by drawing a live model versus the psychology method of using classified images of subtle and micro expressions. Dimensions of analysis include cognitive modeling and neuroscience. The design of human-computer interaction systems for people with cognitive deficits such as autism and Aspergers, which integrate the art and psychology approaches using methods such as robot heads, avatars, and facial recognition software. Prerequisites:
PSYCH 1 or consent of instructor.
TIBETLNG 1: First-Year Tibetan, First Quarter
Grammar, reading, and composition. Tibetan culture and the Tibetan view of reality.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Clark, R. (PI)
TIBETLNG 2: First Year Tibetan, Second Quarter
Continuation of 1.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Clark, R. (PI)
TIBETLNG 3: First Year Tibetan, Third Quarter
Continuation of 2.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: Language
Instructors:
Clark, R. (PI)
TIBETLNG 199: Individual Work
May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Clark, R. (PI)
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