{"id":31272,"date":"2011-08-09T15:55:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=31272"},"modified":"2024-04-24T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T18:00:48","slug":"ma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/grs\/programs\/cognitive-neural-systems\/ma\/","title":{"rendered":"MA in Cognitive &amp; Neural Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The master\u2019s program in Cognitive &amp; Neural Systems is no longer admitting students.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MA students are required to complete eight term courses (32 units), at least six of which must be from the CNS program\u2019s curriculum. The remaining courses may be selected, with approval of the student\u2019s faculty advisor, from other CNS courses and from courses offered by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">Biology<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">Computer Science<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">Engineering<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">Mathematics &amp; Statistics<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">Medicine<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">Physics<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">Physiology &amp; Biophysics<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">Psychology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Language Requirement<\/h2>\n<p>There is no foreign language requirement for this degree.<\/p>\n<h2>Comprehensive Examination<\/h2>\n<p>The MA examination is offered each year in January and in May. A student must have passed at least four 500-level courses in the CNS curriculum to take the MA examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The master\u2019s program in Cognitive &amp; Neural Systems is no longer admitting students. MA students are required to complete eight term courses (32 units), at least six of which must be from the CNS program\u2019s curriculum. The remaining courses may be selected, with approval of the student\u2019s faculty advisor, from other CNS courses and from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2696,"featured_media":0,"parent":3506,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31272"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95002,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31272\/revisions\/95002"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}