Brown University courses

...prepare you for college level neuroscience courses and show you how scientific and societal topics are often intertwined. By the end of this course...

...Together we will delve into illnesses such as depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorder... Learn about: Mental Health, Mental Illness...

...Prerequisites: No prerequisites, but knowledge of biology and chemistry at the high school level is assumed...

...and motor systems and sensory transduction with in each of these systems, the process by which stimuli from the external world are transformed into signals the brain can understand...

...“Think about It” is a one week intensive pre-college course that introduces students to cognitive neuroscience. The central goals of this class are to 1)...

...students will be able to: -explain common acid/base phenomena and apply it to new problems -have foundational skills in calculating properties of an acid/base system...

...the chemical and cellular basis of biochemistry. We will first introduce basic organic chemistry such as the structure and function of functional groups such as alkanes...

...In this class, we’re going to talk about how pollutants move through the environment, what sort of impact they have on different animals, and what that means for us humans...

...agriculture, biotechnology, hospitals, scientific law, and education. This laboratory intensive course will give students the opportunity to study... Learn about: Molecular Biology...

...hydrocarbons, fats and lipids, enzymes, and finally nucleic acids. Students will learn the health-related connection between the science they are studying...

...We will ground our work in an exploration of the aspects of ancient Greek theater, including tragedy vs. comedy, the amphitheater, and the ancient festival context...

...and social currents that produced the works of art. The students will be expected to read the assignments for each class and to recognize depictions of buildings...

...shape what we find scary? In this course we will analyze works of literature from ancient Greece and Rome and compare them with modern horror films...

...students will be introduced to Mesoamerican culture focusing on the Mesoamerican Ball Game. As the course has progressively traveled forward in...

...Topics include core constructs for processing both tabular and structured data; decomposing problems into programming tasks; data structures...

...models and then translate these ideas into mathematical models that can be programmed into a computer. As an introduction to the course, we’ll learn about... Learn about: Artificial Intelligence...

...offering credit-bearing courses drawn from across the Brown curriculum and open to rising and graduated high school seniors. VISIT PROGRAM PAGE INFORMATION...

...The goal of this course is to learn how to program using R, a popular, user-friendly programming language for statistics and data visualization that is great for beginners!...

...course for interested high school students to explore the topics and methods involved in data science. No prior programming or math experience is required...

...beginning first with acquaintance with the dominant ethical frameworks of the 20th and 21st centuries, then employing these frameworks to understand...