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Complete four or more consecutive years of recognized, full-time education in English within Canada immediately prior to attending UBC.
Complete four or more consecutive years of full-time education in English in a country other than Canada where English is the principal language. These four years must be immediately prior to attending UBC.
Achieve a final exam grade of 70% or better on the provincial examination portion of Alberta English Language Arts 30-1, BC English 12 (achieved August 2019 or earlier), or equivalents.
Achieve a final grade of 4 or better on Advanced Placement (AP) English Language & Composition or AP Literature & Composition; or achieve a final grade of 5 or better on International Baccalaureate English A (higher-level or standard-level).
Achieve the competence standard indicated by one of the tests of English language proficiency that evaluates skills in listening, reading, speaking, and writing.
Successfully complete six credits of post-secondary first-year English studies at a recognized university in an English-speaking country. You must submit a transcript showing completion of these courses by February 15. For students at North American post-secondary institutions registered in English courses in the January to April term, we will accept a final transcript showing completion of these courses until May 15, if there are spaces left in your degree.
Graduate from a recognized degree program at an accredited university at which English is the primary language of instruction in a country where English is the principal language.
Attend four or more years at an eligible international secondary school that uses English as the language of instruction but operates in a country where the primary language is not English. These four years must be immediately prior to attending UBC. You will need to submit a transcript as soon as possible to UBC’s Undergraduate Admissions Office.
Achieve a UBC Certificate in English Language or CEL by completing Level 600 of the UBC English Language Institute’s English for Academic Purposes program on UBC’s Vancouver campus.
CAEL, Canadian Academic English Language assessment, Overall 70
Cambridge English Qualifications, B2 First
C1 Advanced
C2 Proficiency, 180
CEL, UBC Certificate in English, 600
IELTS, International English Language Testing System (Academic), 6.5, with no part less than 6.0
PTE, Pearson Test of English (Academic), Overall: 65
Reading: 60
Listening: 60
Writing: 60
Speaking: 60
TOEFL, Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-based test (UBC’s institution code is 0965), Overall: 90
Reading: 22
Listening: 22
Writing: 21
Speaking: 21
This Science program provides you with a grounding in the principles and techniques used by intelligent systems, both natural and artificial. It emphasizes the study of existing systems (i.e., linguistics), the design of new ones (i.e., machine intelligence), and the design of interfaces between different forms of intelligent agents. You can choose to specialize in either Cognition and the Brain, or Computational Intelligence and Design.
Cognitive Systems sits at the intersection of computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It is the study of the systems that enable people to think, of the systems that can help and hinder our thinking, and of the artificial systems in which something like cognition is accomplished.
We teach, use, and re-conceptualize the most important and in-demand tools of the 21st century: the tools that every organization, business, and government is hoping to benefit from. We know how to understand data, and we know that data never speak for themselves. We know how to design effective cognitive systems, and we understand the ethical complexities of doing so.
As a student in the Cognitive Systems program, you’ll have hands-on research experiences that will equip you to work at the outer limits of scientific understanding, pushing to increase knowledge of those aspects of human nature that have proved most resistant to scientific explanation.
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Year 1:
CPSC 110 - Computation, Programs, and Programming
CPSC 121 - Models of Computation
Year 2:
COGS 200 - Introduction to Cognitive Systems
LING 100 - Introduction to Language and Linguistics
PHIL 220 - Symbolic Logic
STAT 200 - Elementary Statistics for Applications
Year 3:
COGS 300 - Understanding and Designing Cognitive Systems
COGS 303 - Research Methods in Cognitive Systems
PHIL 451 - Philosophy of Mind
PSYC 365 - Cognitive Neuroscience
Year 4:
COGS 401 - Seminar in Cognitive Systems
COGS 402 - Research in Cognitive Systems
As a Cognitive Systems graduate, you’ll be equipped with the skills and knowledge required to put information to work for the human good: you’ll have an understanding of information, an understanding of the human, and an understanding of the good. Strong, multidisciplinary foundations established through the Cognitive Systems program will provide you with a unique, multifaceted perspective and prepare you to think flexibly. Cognitive Systems graduates are in demand in any number of professions in which computer science, the human mind, and other complex systems interact.
Program graduates
Founder and CEO, PatentPal
Data Science Consultant, Cardinal Path
Business Intelligence Consultant, Visier
Software Engineer, Microsoft
Medical Insurance: 500 CAD per year
