>The Symbolic Systems Program is an interdisciplinary undergraduate and Master's program, based in the departments of Computer Science, Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy and the School of Education. Students take a core of basic courses in these disciplines and then specialize in a concentration area comprising five courses. The suggested concentrations include a concentration in Human-Computer Interaction. The Master's program is now also open to applicants from outside Stanford.

>Stanford’s Symbolic Systems program bridges the gap between humanity and technology

>A symbolic system is generally a system which computes and communicates using symbols. The two obvious and outstanding examples are, of course, minds and computers, and symbolic systems as a field is very much concerned with these two phenomena.