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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Given how small these LACs are, the total number of students affected is still relatively small. Based on this article, around 15 years ago, 7 students wanted to major in cog sci and last year it increased to 23 students. I guess now there are a few more who enjoy the subject and want to major in it.

Seems like Pomona could just solve the problem of mismatch of supply and demand by following Pitzer's lead and restricting their cog sci major to Pomona majors alone. Currently, Scripps, CMC and Mudd students can also major off-campus in cog sci at Pomona (but not Pitzer). Pitzer takes care of its own students, seems like Pomona should do the same.

I think as small colleges in the 5Cs can't field fully staff every departments in every subject, the future may bring more of this. More majors following Pitzer's lead of limiting that to only their own students. And less cross-majoring and cross-registering will be available across the 5Cs unless space allows (which here it doesn't).[/quote]

true. I think 5Cs are going to gradually limit the cross-registering over time between colleges because of precisely this problem. they already are (like pitzer for cog sci) because they are too small to fully staff a full dept in each college and it limits their own students from getting into the majors they want. the whole consortium is only the size of wake forest (under 6000 students) so even a whole, the 5c consortium is even a bit smaller than most midsize colleges and only a few thousand larger than wesleyan.[/quote]
Meh. Cognitive science isn’t a well supported major at almost any college. Having dedicated faculty in cognitive science is pretty rare- they’re usually faculty stretched across various disciplines (psychology, neuroscience, cs, etc.). It’s not too different from cognitive psychology, and it is only recently popular for Pomona. Pomona has a lot of resources in neuroscience that students take advantage of, with far more courses and professors at the Natural Science Department (Pitzer/Scripps) and CMC’s integrated science.

My son is in a very popular major for all the 5Cs (mathematics). He can easily go to Harvey Mudd, CMC, Pitzer, or Scripps and has to take Bayesian statistics, advanced real analysis, modeling, etc. The colleges are pretty well staffed for most majors. It just happens to be that cognitive science was tiny up until last year.[/quote]

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