Symbolic Systems

2026-2027

60 courses

SYMSYS 1Minds and Machines (CS 24, LINGUIST 35, PHIL 99, PSYCH 35, SYMSYS 200)
SYMSYS 103Modern Research Methods in Cognitive Science
SYMSYS 104Introduction to Race and Technology (ANTHRO 104D, CSRE 104)
SYMSYS 122The Social & Economic Impact of Artificial Intelligence (CS 22A, INTLPOL 200)
SYMSYS 123Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence
SYMSYS 12NAnimal Cognition (PHIL 12N)
SYMSYS 132Language and Thought (PSYCH 132)
SYMSYS 151DEthical STEM: Race, Justice, and Embodied Practice (AFRICAAM 151, ARTSINST 151C, CSRE 151C, ETHICSOC 151C, STS 51D, TAPS 151D)
SYMSYS 154Ethics on the Edge: Business, Non-Profit Organizations, Government, and Individuals (PUBLPOL 134, PUBLPOL 234)
SYMSYS 161Lessons from the Trenches: Applied Symbolic Systems in Entrepreneurship and Investing
SYMSYS 164HOceans Exploration: Gulf of California (OCEANS 164H, OCEANS 264H)
SYMSYS 167DPhilosophy of Neuroscience (PHIL 167D, PHIL 267D)
SYMSYS 168AAI 360: What's Critical to Know about AI (AFRICAAM 106C, AMSTUD 106B, ARTHIST 168A, CSRE 106A, ENGLISH 106A)
SYMSYS 176SStudying Stanford: Governance, Culture, and Innovation
SYMSYS 190Senior Honors Tutorial
SYMSYS 191Senior Honors Seminar
SYMSYS 192Symbolic Systems in Practice
SYMSYS 193Public Service for Social Impact: Pathways to Purposeful Careers (CSRE 190A, ENGLISH 180, INTNLREL 74, POLISCI 74B, PSYCH 190A, PUBLPOL 75B, SOC 190A, URBANST 190A)
SYMSYS 195ADesign for Artificial Intelligence (CS 247A)
SYMSYS 195BDesign for Behavior Change (CS 247B)
SYMSYS 195DResearch in Digital Democracy (SYMSYS 295D)
SYMSYS 195EExperimental Methods (PSYCH 251)
SYMSYS 195GDesign for Play (CS 247G)
SYMSYS 195IImage Systems Engineering (PSYCH 221)
SYMSYS 195LMethods in Psycholinguistics (LINGUIST 245B)
SYMSYS 195MMeasuring Learning in the Brain (EDUC 464, NEPR 464, PSYCH 279)
SYMSYS 195NNatural Language Processing with Deep Learning (CS 224N, LINGUIST 284)
SYMSYS 195QWhat does AI get right and wrong about language?
SYMSYS 195RWriting Systems: Theory, History, and Cognition (SYMSYS 295R)
SYMSYS 195SService Design with AI (CS 247S)
SYMSYS 195TNatural Language Processing in the Social Sciences (PSYCH 290, SOC 281)
SYMSYS 195UNatural Language Understanding (CS 224U, LINGUIST 188, LINGUIST 288)
SYMSYS 195VData Visualization (CS 448B, EDUC 458)
SYMSYS 195WDoes Language Influence Thought?
SYMSYS 196Independent Study
SYMSYS 197Practicum in Teaching SymSys 1
SYMSYS 200Minds and Machines (CS 24, LINGUIST 35, PHIL 99, PSYCH 35, SYMSYS 1)
SYMSYS 201Digital Technology, Society, and Democracy
SYMSYS 202Theories of Consciousness (PHIL 182J)
SYMSYS 203Cognitive Science Perspectives on Humanity and Well-Being
SYMSYS 205The Philosophy and Science of Perception (PHIL 185J)
SYMSYS 206Topics in Natural and Artificial Intelligence (PSYCH 247)
SYMSYS 207Conceptual Issues in Cognitive Science
SYMSYS 20QThe Data-Driven World
SYMSYS 210Governance Design: Real, Virtual, and Imaginary Worlds
SYMSYS 245Cognition in Interaction Design
SYMSYS 25Transformers United V6 (CS 25)
SYMSYS 280Symbolic Systems Research Seminar
SYMSYS 290Master's Degree Project
SYMSYS 291Master's Program Seminar
SYMSYS 294Computational Symbolic Mathematics (CME 294)
SYMSYS 295DResearch in Digital Democracy (SYMSYS 195D)
SYMSYS 295RWriting Systems: Theory, History, and Cognition (SYMSYS 195R)
SYMSYS 296Independent Study
SYMSYS 297Teaching in Symbolic Systems
SYMSYS 298Peer Advising in Symbolic Systems: Practicum
SYMSYS 299Curricular Practical Training
SYMSYS 2SIntroduction to Cognitive Science
SYMSYS 389ARace, Ethnicity, and Language: Racial, Ethnic, and Linguistic Formations (ANTHRO 320A, CSRE 389A, EDUC 389A, LINGUIST 253)
SYMSYS 8The Logic Group (Oxford)