Psychology Summer Program
High School Summer Program
This summer, IIT Institute of Psychology is offering "Psychology in Everyday Life" to introduce high school students to the profession of psychology. The work shop will be a rich learning experience designed to help students make the connection between psychological principles and human behavior in everyday life. Students will acquire a broad array of facts about the developing child, the aging adult and everything else that occurs across the lifespan.
Lectures and Discussions
The learning experience for students will look something like this: Students arrive. They sit in their seats, some in the front row, some in the back. They chat, sip sodas, or just glaze over. At some point, conversations stop, drinks are put aside, and all eyes turn to the professor who looks around the class, and says, "Alright, let's get started." It looks simple enough, but there are tacit and non-verbal rules that govern this complex human interaction. Under the topic heading Social Influence and Small Group Behavior, the professor explains the underlying, scientifically based principles that define and explain these phenomena. Students are fascinated by the lectures, but the connection between the facts presented and the existence of these facts in their everyday experience of their classroom could easily go unobserved if it weren't for the professor drawing attention to the students' own human behaviors as concrete examples of the principals discussed. Then, the students and professor leave the classroom and go in search of these psychological principles that define behavior in the classroom and every facet of everyday life in the real world.
At IIT, we believe that the point of every psychology class is to help students understand their world. When they walk out of the classroom, they will have acquired a broad range understanding of psychological theory and the scientific research these theories are based upon. More importantly, they will have gained an understanding that the value of what they learn in the classroom is not the score on the exam, but is the insight they gain by being able to see and understand the principles of psychology in everyday human behaviors.
Faculty
Enrollment is limited to 14-18 students per session. Sessions will be led by IIT Psychology Full Professor Bob Schleser and a doctoral level TA, Jocelyn Lebow. Dr. Schleser has more than 20 year experience teaching psychology and consistently receives some of the very highest ratings by students for his teaching and mentoring.
Format
Field trips are included. Lectures are minimal. There are no multiple-choice midterms and no final paper. However, there are plenty of group discussions about the things that confuse, delight, anger, and fascinate students in their everyday lives.
The "Psychology in Everyday Life" workshop will be held in (room TBA).
"Psychology in Everyday Life" is a one-week series of all-day workshops for commuting students. The same one-week workshop will be offered twice this summer, from Monday, July 14 to Friday, July 18, and again from Monday, July 21 to Friday, July 25. The workshop will run from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm each day.
Applications are due on Tuesday, July 1, 2008. The application form, including instructions, is available for download below:
2008 Psychology in Everyday Life Application Form (doc)
The cost of the program is $485 which includes all materials, refreshments and lunch for the participants. Partial scholarships are available for students with financial need. Please call Ms. Karry White for more details on scholarship assistance. Participants who complete the program are awarded certificates. Teachers keep records of performance and may write letters of recommendation, as requested.
For more information, contact:
Karry White
Illinois Institute of Technology
Institute of Psychology
3105 S. Dearborn Street, LS 252
Chicago, IL 60616
Phone: 312.567.3500
Fax: 312.567-3493
kwhite8@iit.edu
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