Symbolic Systems
School of Humanities and Sciences
An interdisciplinary program focusing on the relationship between natural and artificial systems that represent, process, and act on information.
What You'll Study
The undergraduate program in Symbolic Systems is an interdisciplinary program focusing on the relationship between natural and artificial systems that represent, process, and act on information. The mission of the program is to prepare majors with the vocabulary, theoretical background, and technical skills necessary to research questions about language, information, and intelligence, both human and machine. The curriculum offers a combination of traditional humanistic approaches to these questions as well as a training and familiarity with contemporary developments in the science and technology of computation. Students in the major take courses in cognitive science, computer programming, computational theory, probability, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence. The program prepares student for careers in corporate and private sectors as well as for further study in graduate school.
Degrees Offered
- BS
- Coterm
More Information
Learn more about Symbolic Systems in the Stanford Bulletin
Exploratory Courses
SYMSYS 1
Minds and Machines (CS 24, LINGUIST 35, PHIL 99, PSYCH 35, SYMSYS 200)