Cognitive Science · Study Library

Beijing Language and Culture University · Cognitive Science & Technology · 2026 cohort

This is one student's working library for a four-year Cognitive Science degree, heading toward a master's abroad. It exists because the programme is brand new — there are no senior students to ask, so the curriculum had to be mapped out from scratch: what each course covers, which textbook it uses, and what has to be self-taught on the side (the maths and programming the degree assumes but does not teach).

About the language: the navigation and this page are in English. The notes themselves are written in Chinese, because that is the language the courses are taught in — so most links below open Chinese pages. The module list marks which parts are still Chinese-only. Translated notes are being added gradually.

What is inside

Each module page lists what it contains, which textbook it follows, and how it was verified.

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Major Courses Chinese

24 course notes covering all four years, plus a plain-language concept dictionary of every term the courses use

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Study Roadmap

16 stages pairing maths with programming — built to fill the gap the degree leaves open

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Electives Chinese

Deep learning, NLP, large language models, computational linguistics — theory alongside code you can actually run

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Math Chinese

Linear algebra, probability, statistics, optimisation, dynamical systems — original notes plus a sympy-verified formula sheet

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Programming Chinese

Python, the scientific stack, Git, reproducible research — plus a complete runnable analysis project

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General Courses Chinese

Required political theory, PE, and general-education electives, with the credit structure of each

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English Chinese

A 4,449-word searchable vocabulary database (ZH ↔ EN), with 1,759 of them grouped into 17 themes

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Cheatsheets Chinese

Code and maths formulas, condensed for quick lookup

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How to use it

Left sidebar — the complete table of contents, all 103 entries. Type in the filter box to narrow it down.
Search — full-text search across every page. Chinese text, so search in Chinese.
Every page footer shows when the site was last updated.
The site is entirely static — no tracking, no external services, nothing loaded from a CDN.

How the content was checked

This matters more than it sounds: study notes that are quietly wrong are worse than no notes.

Every code block was actually run, including the ones that are supposed to error.
Mathematical results were recomputed with sympy / numpy.
Citations carry DOIs that were verified against CrossRef.
A single script re-checks the whole site — rendering, links, anchors — in one pass.
Where something could not be verified, it says so on the page rather than being smoothed over.

Language

中文版 / Chinese version — the complete original site.