One week TEEN RESEARCH PROGRAM for entering Grades 10-11-12. Price: $1,150/$995
Have you ever been surprised by someone’s reaction to a meme or an online post? Are you curious how your peers think about current events? Well, then, discover the field of social psychology and learn to conduct your own research in this exciting program. We’ll use previous studies about people’s attitudes toward current events as a guide to design a behavioral research study to investigate your own questions about social media. Learn the real-world science skills needed to run the study and analyze our results, interpreting data, making inferences, and sharing ideas along the way. This program will enable you to think more critically about your own social media use and how it influences your communities. You will learn how to use scientific techniques to study what shapes beliefs and feelings, all the while adding new strategies to your scientific sense-making toolkit and gaining valuable experience for your college and career pathways.
This program is based on a Big Ideas course at UC Berkeley, developed by the Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, who will make a guest appearance.