An Undergraduate Curriculum for Cognitive and Information Sciences

认知和信息科学（CIS）计划提供了一个示范本科课程，旨在让学生接触智能系统的研究。 它的目的是作为一个模式，为类似的计划在其他机构的发展，因为他们开始进入这一新兴领域。 新提出的专业的核心是关注整合计算机科学，心理学，哲学，神经科学和数学的形式理论和信息。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接触到基本的科学理论和这些理论在教育，系统设计和数据库检索中的应用。 该计划将通过课程内的前/后考试和毕业后的离职面谈进行内部评估，并通过专家顾问的季度实地考察和印第安纳州大学教育学院顾问的全面第三年审查进行外部评估。该提案的有形产品将包括CIS学位的一般信息及其要求和材料，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特定课程。 最重要的将是课程软件和实验室软件开发的所有四个核心CIS课程，和其他几个;这个课件将强调互动，动手学习通过做，并将在一个易于使用的形式正在开始或正在计划在这一领域的其他程序。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，并将根据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.