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May 03, 2000
Contact:
Psychobiology Workshops Offered for High School Students and Teachers
Darren Johnson
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081Applications are currently being accepted for high school students and faculty who wish to participate in this summer's Introduction to Psychobiology workshops at Southampton College of Long Island University.
Courses run July 9 through 14. The application deadline is May 28. Students must be entering 10th through 12th grades in the fall and have at least a combined 950 on the PSAT or SAT or a B average in coursework. Tuition, room and board total $375. Educators may take a concurrent, 30-hour workshop, and it may apply to in-service academic credit. Other summer workshops for high school seniors include marine science, environmental science, drawing, writing and web design. For further information contact the College's Summer Office at (631) 287-8175.
Psychobiology is the study of brain-behavior relations. Topics are as diverse as whale and dolphin behavior, psychosomatic illnesses, structure and function of the nervous system and animal learning. The comprehensive, interactive high school workshop will include classroom lectures, laboratory exercises and field trips. Students will investigate human and animal behavior by biologists, psychologists and neuroscientists.
Introduction to Psychobiology workshops will be taught by Southampton College faculty members. The College's popular psychobiology program boasts a modern laboratory for experimentation in neurophysiology, electrophysiology and animal learning. Recent advances in technology for studying psychology's relation to the biology of the nervous system have contributed to the amalgamation of the two academic disciplines, and thus Southampton College's innovative undergraduate psychobiology program has grown from 39 to 150 majors in just the past four years.