<p>Hi!
I'm just wondering..what is the difference between these majors: cognitive science and psychology?</p>
<p>Also, which major would be more useful in the workplace? And why?
Thanks!</p>
<p>The major requirements are very different. While psychology is very broad in studying different aspects of human metal processes and behavior, cognitive science has emphasis in understanding the nature of mind, and somewhat puts behavior on the backburner. Psychology, the major, is pretty straightforward, you take a lot of psychology classes, Cognitive Science on the other hand is interdisciplinary, many classes from many different departments.
In terms of being more useful in the workplace it seems like the computer science and linguistics background that cognitive science requires gives a fairly noticeable gain in starting income for graduates.
Look at what past graduates have done in either major. </p>
<p><a href="http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/CogSci.stm%5B/url%5D">http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/CogSci.stm</a>
<a href="http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Psych.stm%5B/url%5D">http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Psych.stm</a></p>
<p>im interested in minoring in one of them. anyone know the classes needed for the minor?</p>
<p>there are no such minors</p>
<p>Actually, I'd seen cog sci to be more broad than psychology -- in the sense of more interdisciplinary.</p>