This honors seminar is intended to introduce high school students to the field of psychology by balancing the scientific aspects of the field against students' practical concerns. An overview of the field of psychological knowledge will be provided and related to life concerns. Spanish for Conversation With two weeks of intensive immersion in Spanish, this seminar simulates the language experience of travel abroad. All sessions are directed toward preparing the participant to communicate in Spanish on a range of different subjects. Mornings begin with a language learning emphasis, including vocabulary building, conversational activities, and a grammar review.
Afternoon sessions focus on cultural study and group and individual projects.
Activities such as interviews with Hispanic college students, dancing salsa and merengue, dramatizations of cultural reading, research on the Web, cooking a Spanish meal, and production of a class newspaper are designed to apply the language skills addressed in the morning. Students must have completed two or more years of Spanish by the end of May 2001. Students who may have completed the Spanish sequence in their high school and would like a review before college are also encouraged to apply. Each student will have a computer account and build a personal home page. Field trips to a Web developer and to an Internet service provider are also planned.