This course will allow students to learn about emerging concepts and theories in Cognitive Science that focus on the interplay between the individual agent and its social/material context to study cognition. The course will complement the perspectives offered by other disciplines of the program by providing a situated action perspective towards fundamental cognitive mechanisms such as reasoning, planning and social cognition. The conceptual and theoretical aspects of the course will also be supplemented by empirical case studies of social interaction. Hence, students will have a chance to critically evaluate various theoretical positions in cognitive science by conducting empirical analysis of social interaction. This will allow students to explore qualitative methodologies used in several fields related to Cognitive Science such as cognitive anthropology, socio-linguistics and learning sciences.