Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Psychology
Summer@Brown – Pre-College Psychology and neuroscience Courses
Each summer, students from around the world choose Brown University Pre-College Programs to experience the challenge of college-level academics, and prepare for college success. Brown Pre-College is committed to the ongoing work of building a diverse, inclusive and equitable learning community where differences are valued and respected.
stanford – clinical neuroscience immersion experience (CNI-x)
The Clinical Neuroscience Immersion Experience (CNI-X) at Stanford University is an intensive summer program that generally follows a student’s sophomore, junior, or senior year of high school. Students attend a two-week (10-day) session which provides introductory exposure to fascinating topics in neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology plus an opportunity to complete a collaborative capstone project.
During each session, students from across California, the country, and the world are exposed to the breadth of research found in the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Through interactive seminars with Stanford faculty and researchers, students learn about principles of neuroscience, clinical neuropsychiatry, neuroscience research, psychiatric epidemiology, behavioral and social sciences, and more. CNI-X also covers topics important to young people, including professional and career opportunities in medicine and science, plus self-care strategies in the transition to adulthood.
In addition to participating in interactive lectures, students in each session will spend guided time working in small teams to develop innovative, novel solutions to social issues related to psychiatry, psychology, or neuroscience. These ideas and solutions will then be presented at a final capstone session in front of an audience of classmates, families, and the program’s faculty and staff.
CNI-X is a fast-paced, intense, challenging, creative, and bonding experience for students. Previous students have come from very diverse academic backgrounds, and have a wide range of career aspirations, including law, sociology, medicine, psychology, engineering, business, fine arts, and more.
UCSD Summer Session – Cognitive Science & Psychology
Why Summer Session?
Accelerate progress towards your degree
Enroll in courses that are difficult to enroll in during the fall, winter or spring quarters
Enhance your career prospects
Enrich your cultural and intellectual knowledge
Courses include: Behavioral Neuroscience; Drugs and Behavior; Clinical Assessment/Treatment; Psychology of Sleep; Psychology and the Law; Industrial Organizational Psychology; Psychology Laboratory Topics.
USC Summer Classes
USC Summer Programs extends a tradition of excellence to outstanding high school students through a diverse offering of four-week summer courses. As a “Summer Trojan,” you will balance academic and campus life as you prepare for college — and earn college credit. USC Summer Programs’ courses are taught by USC faculty and experienced professionals of the USC academic community. Our faculty create an engaging academic experience by combining lectures, hands-on workshops and labs, and guest speakers. Each course is designed to be more interactive, engaging and challenging than accelerated high school classes or the broad introductory courses offered by other summer pre-collegiate programs.
Psychological Science and Society: Why are people the way that they are? Why do they do things that they do? What can psychological science teach me about what it means to be human? What can it teach me about the world? How can I use this knowledge to construct a life worth living? And how can I use this knowledge to improve the lives of those around me? If these questions (especially the last two) keep you up at night, you have definitely chosen the right course. In the “Psychological Science and Society” course, you will delve into the fascinating world of psychology, learn how to think like a real scientist, get your creative juices flowing, apply this new knowledge to your own life, and develop skills and strategies that will help you excel in your future goals and in your endeavors of contributing to the scientific field and to society.
The Brain: Introduction to Neuroscience: Are you considering a career in health care, psychology, or the behavioral sciences? Are you otherwise interested in the scientific study of the human brain? In “The Brain: Introduction to Neuroscience,” you will discover some common and unusual aspects of the brain in everyday life and under abnormal circumstances. You will explore normal brain development as well as abnormal occurrences in the brain and their effects on human function and behavior over the lifespan.
Boston University summer challenge: seminars
It’s called Summer Challenge because it pushes you in so many ways. You will explore your interests, discover new ones, test your academic boundaries, and immerse yourself in the college experience. Along the way, you will make new friends and get to know more about Boston University. Are you up to the challenge?
Boston University’s Summer Challenge seminars allow you to engage in a high level of learning and achievement with other high school students—without focusing on grades. Choosing two noncredit seminars (one morning, one afternoon), you’ll participate in lectures, discussions, individual and group work, project-based assignments, and field trips. Small class sizes ensure ample attention from experienced college instructors as you meet the challenges of college-level study. Each seminar culminates in a final class presentation. Following the conclusion of your Summer Challenge session(s), a certificate of completion and letters of evaluation from both seminar instructors will be provided to you.
Georgetown university summer college
This summer, get a head start and earn college credit at Georgetown. Our Summer College courses ease your transition into the college learning environment through a blend of lectures, class discussions, and featured guest speakers. You’ll have the opportunity to take classes with current undergraduate students, learn from prestigious Georgetown faculty, and engage in challenging coursework that will prepare you for success in college and beyond. Choose from our approved list of five-week on-campus courses, eight-week online courses, or opt to do a combination of both. Upon completion of your course(s), you will have access to an official transcript from Georgetown University.
General Psychology: This introductory course surveys the field and acquaints the student with the major areas of Psychology, including perception, memory, cognition, neuroscience, learning, motivation, emotion, personality, social behavior, development, and psychopathology.
Yale Summer Session
Studying at Yale gives students a newfound appreciation for their academics and offers an opportunity to forge friendships that will last a lifetime. Students come to Yale Summer Session to:
Earn credit toward their major and fulfill requirements for their degree
Explore a new field or topic
Focus intensely on one particular subject
Study with Yale faculty
Prepare for the challenges of highly selective colleges
Neurobiology: In-person Course. Introduction to neuroscience, divided into 3 course modules: 1) Cellular neurophysiology, addressing the excitable properties of neurons and the function of synapses, 2) Systems neurobiology, examining neural circuits as they relate to the functional properties of the nervous system, with each system that is addressed examined in detail, and 3) Neural development and plasticity, examining the cellular and molecular mechanisms governing neural development, plasticity, and the establishment of memory. Prerequisites: introductory course in biology (BIOL 101-104) and at least 1 semester of college chemistry. A course in physics or its equivalent is also recommended but not required.
Moralities of Everyday Life: Online Course. The modern science of moral thought and moral action explored through disciplines such as cognitive science, social and developmental psychology, neuroscience, behavioral economics, and analytic philosophy. Empathy and compassion in babies and young children; emotional reactions to family, friends, and strangers; the origins of prejudice and bigotry; sexuality, disgust, and purity; punishment, revenge, and forgiveness; the relationship between morality and religion.
Thinking: Online Course. A survey of psychological studies on thinking and reasoning, with discussion of ways to improve thinking skills. Topics include judgments and decision making, causal learning, logical reasoning, problem solving, creativity, intelligence, moral reasoning, and language and thought.
Introduction to Clinical Psychology: Online Course. Study of the major forms of psychopathology that appear in childhood and adult life. Topics include the symptoms of mental disorders; the etiology of disorders from a variety of perspectives (psychological, biological, and sociocultural); and issues pertaining to diagnosis and treatment.
Multicultural Psychology: Online Course. Multicultural Psychology examines how identity, and its social contexts, impacts human behavior and perspectives. This course will introduce students to theoretical and practical approaches used to assess the impact of culture on various psychological processes. Such examination will be guided by real-world application of material covered in class and required readings. Topics will include class, culture, family, gender, mental and physical health, race, religion and spirituality, and stereotyping and prejudice.
Autism and Related Disorders: Online Course. Survey of current understandings and treatment of autism from infancy through adulthood. Topics include etiology, diagnosis and assessment, treatment and advocacy, and social neuroscience methods. Focus on ways in which research findings are integrated into diagnosis and treatment practices.
The Psychology of Changing One’s Mind: Online Course. When and how do we change our minds? We are constantly learning information about other individuals, groups, objects, ideas, and so on, but this new information does not always influence what we think and how we feel. What determines when we update our beliefs and feelings? This course will review cutting-edge psychological science to answer this question, with special attention to social and cognitive research on how we change our minds about other individuals and groups.
harvard pre-college summer school program
Harvard’s Pre-College Program for high school students is an intensive two-week summer program designed to give you a glimpse of college life. You will live on the Harvard campus during your two-week session while taking a college-level course with other Pre-College Program students.
Courses include:
The Science and Practice of Mindfulness: Mindfulness is a way of attending to the experience of the present moment with full awareness and without judgment or reactivity. Studies show the benefits of mindfulness include stress reduction, emotional balance, greater mental focus, and improved physical health, as well as changes in brain biology more supportive of overall well-being. This course explores the theory and practice of mindfulness and current research in brain and neuroscience associated with mindfulness and its outcomes among youth. We also discuss how mindfulness can be helpful during the life challenges of late adolescence, as well as its general application to clinical contexts. This course is designed to be both comprehensive and practical, involving an applied approach that is experiential including practice exercises, readings, lectures, class discussions, and small group work. Students gain fundamental competencies in mindfulness practice, an understanding of the science behind it, how it can apply to life change and well-being, and knowledge about its application to clinical contexts.
Stereotypes and Attitudes: The Science of First Impressions: Stereotypes seem indispensable for navigating the social and natural worlds. Just as "ducks quack" expresses a stereotype about ducks, "boys don't cry" expresses a stereotype about boys. Theorists have argued that these descriptions also communicate a standard of evaluation for ducks and boys alike. More recently, social psychologists have been interested in stereotype threat and implicit bias as side effects of stereotypical thinking. In this course we question the benefits of stereotypical thinking and engage deeply with social psychology, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and moral philosophy. We interrogate both stereotypical thinking and phenomena in its vicinity such as stereotype threat and implicit bias. This is an exciting opportunity for students to grapple with a cutting-edge interdisciplinary issue while critically engaging with both psychology and philosophy. This course focuses on reading skills, including reading scientific studies and philosophical texts; critical thinking skills, including argument mapping and experiment design; as well as presentation and writing skills.
Language and Thought: Almost everyone has heard of the claim that Eskimo languages allegedly have a hundred words for "snow." While this myth has long been debunked, linguistic relativity (the idea that our language can shape our thoughts) still constitutes a fruitful area of research. Recent studies show how particular properties of languages can lead their speakers to carve up the conceptual space in different ways—by affecting how they partition the color spectrum (for example, whether they have different categories for blue and green) or how they conceptualize motion events (for example, whether they focus on the path or the manner of motion). In this course, we explore the relationship between language and thought through the lens of cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and linguistic anthropology; going through an overview of the historical origins of linguistic relativity and critically engaging with contemporary research on the subject. This is an opportunity for students to familiarize themselves with an interdisciplinary issue central to debates revolving around the universality versus culture-dependence of concepts. In addition, this course focuses on helping students cultivate academic reading, presentation, and writing skills, and introduces them to the scientific method and principles of experimental design in psychology and social sciences.