Summer And Fall 2012 Registration Letter - Brooklyn College - CUNY

PSYC 1000 (Psychology 1.1), PSYC 3530 (Psychology 57.1), and a choice of one course from each of
the following groups: Group A: PHIL 3123 (Philosophy 12.3), PHIL 3410 (Philosophy 26), PHIL 3401
(Philosophy 27), PHIL 3420 (Philosophy 28) or PHIL 3601 (Philosophy 42). Group B: CISC 3410 (CIS
32) or CISC 1410 (CIS 10), PHIL 3423 (Philosophy 29), PSYC 3580 (Psychology 57.2). The minor can
be taken together with the CIS major and deals with the issue of “What is cognition and how can it
be created artificially?”
26. The CIS Department offers a Minor in Parallel and Distributed Computing. This is a valuable minor
for science majors or those who wish to program multi‐core computers. The minor consists of CISC
1110 (CIS 1.5) or CISC 1180 (CIS 2.80), CISC 1150 (CIS 2.50), CISC 3110 (CIS 15), CISC 3130 (CIS 22),
CISC 3350 (CIS 46), CISC 4330 (CIS 46.5), CIS 47 (CISC 3330), CIS 55 (CISC 4335).
27. Advanced (senior year) students with good records can also consider taking a graduate course
offered by the department, as an advanced elective, if they satisfy the prerequisite conditions. This
requires the approval of both the department and the Academic Advisement Center. For
information, contact Professor Simon Parsons – parsons@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu
28. Urge your non‐major friends who have not taken CIS classes to take CORC 1312 (CC 3.12), the core
computing course. Also, both majors and non‐majors can take CORC 3303 (CC 30.03), Exploring
Robotics, or CORC 3310 (CIS 30.10), Paradoxes and the Limits of Knowledge to satisfy an upper‐tier
Core Curriculum requirement. See the web or the printed Schedule of Classes for details.
29. You are welcome to visit our departmental website for all sorts of good stuff at:
http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/cis . You will be able to link to the other items from this
page.
30. You can also join the CIS department email list by clicking on the following link to get regular email
about courses, jobs and other information of interest to CIS students:
http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/cis/majordomo?cistalk