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Sunday 09.01.2011
The Middle European interdisciplinary master programme in Cognitive Science (MEi:CogSci) is a joint master's programme, which is offered jointly by the following institutions:
- University of Vienna (coordinating partner) (& Medical University of Vienna)
- Comenius University of Bratislava
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
- University of Ljubljana
- University of Zagreb
As this curriculum is conceptualised as a joint master's programme, ultimately a joint academic degree will be awarded by the participating institutions.
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NEWS
- There are still SOME PLACES AVAILABLE for WS2010 at University of Vienna. PLEASE APPLY! (for details see Application Procedure @ Vienna )
- APPLICATION for WS2010 at University of Ljubljana open until 1.9.2010. (for details see Application Procedure @ Ljubljana )
- The MEi:CogSci programme has been nominated for the Learning Award 2009.
Cognitive Science
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary project involving different scientific fields in science, technology, and the humanities, dealing with the phenomena of cognition – perception, reasoning, thinking, and behaviour – from an interdisciplinary perspective. Cognitive science grew out of the cybernetics movement in the 1950s and has seen a number of paradigm changes since. Anthropology, Artificial intelligence, Biology, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Psychology have emerged as core disciplines.
The question of human cognition is older than science. One could see the question who we are as one of the very traits that make us human. Cognitive science takes a fresh approach in looking at the phenomena involved from different angles, taking up a question which is deeply philosophical and looking at it in an interdisciplinary manner through the eyes of different disciplinces and scientific methods, frequently testing models by computer simulation or by building robots, conducting experiments, and neuroimaging. This kind of approach gains fundamental importance as it deals with the fundamental substrate of our knowledge-based society.
Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinary study programmes are challenging: Coming from one field, each student will have to gain insight into other major disciplines involved. Students will have to acquire the basics, gain insight into different experimental methods, and at the same time learn to engage in an interdisciplinary discourse and gain practical experience in interdisciplinary work, partly in an intercultural environment. The goal is to educate researchers. Thus, “knowing a little bit of everything” will not suffice; students will have to gain profound conceptual knowledge as well as solid methodological research skills. Two years are a relatively short time to reach such sophisticated educational goals. Thus, a curricular architecture has been developed to help students meet these goals; this will mainly occur through the integrative kernel of the curriculum.
Qualification Profile
Information on Career Fields and Job Possibilities
Schedule of Courses
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