Cognitive Systems FAQ
In this area of the site, we will try and answer most of the common advising questions and provide you with contacts if you still need help.
The most common questions we receive are:
- How do I get admitted into Cognitive Systems?
- Which courses are eligible/ineligible for a COGS degree?
- Who do I talk to for advising?
- What if course requirements change after I start?
- What kind of jobs can a COGS student get?
A quick way to get all of your questions answered is to Browse the FAQ listing by Tags, on the sidebar at the right. Tags link related questions together, making it easier to find relevent answers.
General Questions
- Are there any COGS related events?
- Are there any scholarships?
- Are there exchange opportunities in COGS?
- Do I have to be in COGS to take the courses?
- Do we get to dissect cadavers?
- Do we have to study all four areas?
- How big are COGS classes? Will I be in a lecture hall with 300 students?
- How many hours/week expected for labs?
- I'm not very good at programming, will that matter?
- What do philosophy and linguistics have to do with COGS?
- What grades do I need to get in/stay in?
- What kind of stuff will we study?
- What's expected of me in COGS 200?
- What's expected of me in COGS 300?
- What's expected of me in COGS 401?
- What's expected of me in COGS 402?
- Which module courses should I be taking?
Admission questions
- Can I apply for this program when I'm entering UBC from high school?
- How do I apply to COGS?
- How do I get admitted into Cognitive Systems?
- How do I get into UBC?
- Is there a deadline for applying to the program?
- What is Cognitive Systems?
- What is the minimum mark for the Cognitive Systems Program?
- Who do I contact for advising?
- Who do I contact to find out more information about the Cognitive Systems program?
- Why should I complete a degree in Cognitive Systems?
Questions about the program itself
- Can I Major in XYZ and Minor in Cognitive Systems?
- Do we get to work with robots?
- Does UBC have a graduate program in Cognitive Systems?
- How can I become more involved in the program?
- How large is the graduating class?
- Is the Computer Science/Linguistics/Psychology stream just another way to complete a degree in Computer Science/Linguistics/Psychology?
- Is there anywhere I can talk with current COGS students?
- Is there Co-op in Cognitive Systems?
- What is the faculty to student ratio?
- What's the difference between Cognitive Systems and Cognitive Science?
- What's the difference between the two Brain and Cognition streams?
- Where is the Cognitive Systems office/building located?
- Why are there so few required course?
- Why isn’t there a Philosophy stream in the Cognitive Systems Program?
- Why was COGS created when we could have done the Integrated Sciences Program and had a bit more freedom (i.e., no linguistics or philosophy)
Questions about jobs/academic future
Questions about course planning
- Am I making good choices for the rest of my courses? (modules)
- Are there any 100-level prerequisites for the core courses?
- Can I apply for pharmacy/medicine after Cognitive Systems, or do I have to graduate from the Faculty of Science to get into pharmacy/medicine?
- Can I declare my major in my first year?
- Can I take the Science stream of Cognitive Systems if I only got accepted into the Faculty of Arts at UBC?
- Can I use COGS courses towards a minor in PSYC/LING/CPSC/PHIL?
- Do the COGS core classes (200/300/401/402) count as Arts or Science credits?
- How can I find a placement for the research project course?
- How do I plan out my degree?
- I want to take a course in a certain module but that course has too many prerequisites and I can’t fit it in my schedule – what do I do?
- I'm in another major/senior year, how do I switch to COGS?
- Is there an honours program?
- I’m already two years into a different degree. How hard would it be for me to switch to COGS?
- What are modules?
- What high school courses should I be taking?
- What if course requirements change after I start?
- What if program requirements change after I start the degree?
- What sort of degree will I get from the program?
- When I’m choosing courses from modules, do I pick courses from each module or can it be mostly from one module, such as EECE to fill some prerequisites?
- When/how/where do I declare my major?
- Where do I go to see an advisor?
- Which courses are eligible for a COGS degree?
