{"id":4209,"date":"2013-04-03T20:07:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T00:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:37:07","slug":"changes-to-the-bcogsc-new-3-year-and-4-year-pathways-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2013\/changes-to-the-bcogsc-new-3-year-and-4-year-pathways-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to the BCogSc \u2013 new 3 year and 4 year pathways available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Changes to the BCogSc \u2013 new 3 year and 4 year pathways available\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Beginning in Fall 2013 students in the Bachelor of Cognitive Science degree will have three pathways available to them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Bachelor of Cognitive Science (Honours) requires 20.0 credits and normally will take 4 years to complete. Students may choose from one of two pathways, as well as one of five specializations streams. The first pathway mirrors the offerings of our current program, and culminates in a 4<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;year honours thesis. The second pathway offers a coursework alternative to the thesis.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The third pathway, the Bachelor of Cognitive Science (General) degree, is a three-year, 15.0 credit degree that provides the same broad interdisciplinary training as the Honours degree, but without the intensive focus in a particular specialization subject.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">For more details please see our overview articles <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/prospective-students\/undergraduate-studies-in-cognitive-science\/\">here<\/a> (for prospective students) and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/current-students\/undergraduate-3\">here<\/a> (for current students)<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in Fall 2013 students in the Bachelor of Cognitive Science degree will have three pathways available to them. The Bachelor of Cognitive Science (Honours) requires 20.0 credits and normally will take 4 years to complete. Students may choose from one of two pathways, as well as one of five specializations streams. 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