An Undergraduate Curriculum for Cognitive and Information Sciences

认知与信息科学(CIS)课程提供了一个模范本科课程，旨在让学生接触智能系统的学习。它旨在作为其他机构开始进入这一新兴领域的类似项目发展的典范。新提出的专业的核心是将计算机科学、心理学、哲学、神经科学和数学整合在一起的正式的心理和信息理论。该课程为学生提供这一新领域(写作、数学、实验和计算机编程)的基本技能培训，但也促进了特定子领域的专业知识的发展，如人类认知、学习和教学、逻辑和计算。新设计的课程将使学生了解基本的科学理论以及这些理论在教育、系统设计和数据库检索中的应用。该计划将在内部通过课程前/后考试和毕业后面试进行评估，外部通过专家顾问的季度实地考察和印第安纳大学教育学院顾问的第三年全面审查进行评估。这一建议的具体成果将包括关于独联体学位及其要求的一般信息，以及以教学大纲、课堂讲稿、幻灯片、书目、作业和考试的形式提供的具体课程的材料。最重要的将是为所有四门核心CIS课程以及其他几门课程开发的课程软件和实验室软件；该课件将强调互动、在实践中学习，并将以一种易于为该领域正在开始或正在规划的其他方案使用的形式。这些产品将通过我们现有的技术报告系列和时事通讯、电子媒体、网站和其他大学的联系人进行传播，并将应启动此类计划的其他机构的要求提供。

The Cognitive and Information Sciences (CIS) program offers a model undergraduate curriculum designed to expose students to the study of intelligent systems. It is intended as a model for the development of similar programs at other institutions as they begin to move into this emerging field. The core of the newly proposed major concerns formal theories of mind and information that integrate computer science, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and mathematics. The curriculum gives students training in the basic skills of this new field (writing, mathematics, experimentation, and computer programming), but also fosters the development of expertise in particular sub-fields such as human cognition, learning and instruction, logic, and computation. Newly designed courses will expose students to both basic scientific theories and to applications of these theories to education, system design, and database retrieval. The program will be assessed internally by pre/post exams within courses and exit interviews upon graduation, and externally by quarterly site visits by expert consultants and a comprehensive third-year review by consultants from Indiana University's School of Education. The tangible products of this proposal will include general information on the CIS degree and its requirements and materials for specific courses in the form of syllabi, lecture notes, slides, bibliographies, assignments, and exams. Most important will be the course software and laboratory software developed for all four of the core CIS courses, and several others; this courseware will emphasize interactive, hands on learning through doing, and will be in a form easily usable by other programs that are beginning or being planned in this area. These products will be disseminated through our existing technical report series and newsletter, through electronic media, web sites, and contacts at other universities, and will be provided upon request of other institutions starting such programs.