Summer Springboard
Psychology & Neuroscience
ACADEMIC COURSE
EXPLORE THE BRAIN-BEHAVIOR CONNECTION THROUGH HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES, EXPERT INTERACTIONS, AND RESEARCH TRAINING
Course Highlights
- Explore the fascinating relationship between the brain and human behavior, uncovering how different brain regions influence thoughts, emotions, and actions.
- Participate in hands-on activities such as brain dissections and real-world experiments to investigate complex questions about human behavior and brain function.
- Gain a thorough understanding of various treatment approaches for mental health disorders that impact millions of people worldwide, including therapy and medication strategies.
- Learn how to develop your own psychological theories and design scientific experiments to rigorously test them, building foundational research skills essential for the field.
- Discover the diverse career paths within psychology, including roles in academic research, clinical practice, and applied psychology, and understand what daily work in these professions involves.
- Interact directly with clinical psychologists, neurologists, and researchers who specialize in brain science and mental health, gaining valuable insights from their expertise.
Summer Springboard
Psychology & Neuroscience
Course Overview
Nothing is more fascinating and mysterious to us than each other. How do people work? How do I work?
Students will learn to tackle these fundamental questions with the tools of psychological science. Students will learn about classic experiments in psychology, with the goal of getting a hands-on, experiential understanding of how people work and how psychologists study them. They will explore social dynamics; emotions; personality; mental illness; the nature of beliefs; neuroscience; and the relationship between the mind, brain, and body. As a capstone project, they will construct their own miniature psychology theory, design/run an experiment to test it, and present findings to the class.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Outcome #1
Uncover the mystery of how the mind works, and examine the connection between the brain and human behavior.
Outcome #2
Develop solutions to the complex questions of human behavior through hands-on activities such as a brain dissection and real-world experiments
Outcome #3
Understand treatment strategies for a variety of mental health issues that affect millions of individuals
Outcome #4
Interact with clinical psychologists, neurologists and researchers who are experts in this specialized field.
