An Undergraduate Curriculum for Cognitive and Information Sciences

认知与信息科学本科课程

• 批准号: 9752299
• 负责人: Richard Shiffrin
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-03-01 至 2002-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9752299&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Curriculum; Cognitive; Information; Sciences

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.

认知与信息科学（CIS）课程提供了一个模型本科课程，旨在让学生接触智能系统的研究。当其他机构开始进入这一新兴领域时，它的目的是作为开发类似项目的典范。新提出的专业的核心是思想和信息的形式理论，它整合了计算机科学、心理学、哲学、神经科学和数学。课程不仅培养学生在这个新领域（写作、数学、实验和计算机编程）的基本技能，而且还培养学生在特定子领域（如人类认知、学习和教学、逻辑和计算）的专业知识。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方面的应用。该项目内部将通过课程前/后考试和毕业时的离职面试进行评估，外部将由专家顾问进行季度实地考察，并由印第安纳大学教育学院的顾问进行全面的第三年评估。该提案的有形产品将包括CIS学位的一般信息及其要求，以及以教学大纲、课堂讲稿、幻灯片、参考书目、作业和考试的形式提供的特定课程的材料。最重要的将是为所有四个核心CIS课程开发的课程软件和实验室软件，以及其他几个；本课件将强调互动性，在实践中学习，并将以一种易于在该领域开始或计划的其他课程使用的形式。这些产品将通过我们现有的技术报告系列和时事通讯，通过电子媒体、网站和其他大学的联系人进行传播，并应其他开展此类项目的机构的要求提供。