UT-Dallas's Cognition & Neuroscience Program

[derekream]

I was recently offered admissions into the M.S. in Cognition & Neuroscience program for Fall 2013 at The University of Texas at Dallas. My overall view is, it looks fantastic. I will be focusing on the cognitive-neuro track as opposed to the other ones that they offer (human-computer interaction/AI, Neuroimaging and diagnostics, etc.). UTD is unique in the sense that they don't have a psychology or a neuroscience department, however, audiology, cognition-neuroscience, psychology, speech-language pathology are all housed in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. I am extremely excited about this program, I will get to take many neuroscience and cognitive psychology and cognitive science courses as well as psychology courses.

My end goal is to become a Ph.D. psychologist, and with the emails that I have received back from program heads at UT-Austin, University of Houston, Texas Woman's University and even University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, this master's degree would make one very attractive for doctoral studies in clinical or counseling psychology.

Anyone else have any insight into this program?

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[axia90]

Hey, sorry I can't provide an answer to your question but I was wondering if I could contact you personally about entering an MS program in cognitive neuroscience with a political science/public policy background. You were at least studying psychology during undergrad, so not coming from as far in the left field as I am, but I would really appreciate any advice from your experiences anyway. Thanks!