Earn Graduate Credit While Attending the April Conference

You may earn two semester graduate credits through the prestigious Boston University School of Education. The course requires you to attend a pre-conference workshop plus the three-day conference and to attend additional class time with a professor during the conference. The extra class time will take place at the Marriott Cambridge Hotel. The Course requires you to pay ($525) for the conference  and ($150 or $225) for a pre-conference workshop, and a $50 administrative fee plus the Boston University tuition fees. Boston University tuition would be $1,142 for two semester credits (includes tuition, transcripts, and a $50 student fee). This credit is accepted by most universities in the United States and many internationally. To register for the BU course, call 781-449-4010 ext. 105 or call 617-388-0906. Or register online for the conference and add $1,142 for BU tuition. 

Please pay for the conference and the Boston University course separately. Visit the conference registration page and register for the conference and pre or post conference workshop, plus $50 administrative fee (total: $525 plus pre-conference fees). Then send us a separate check for $1,142 (1,092 BU tuition +$50 student fee) made out to Boston University for the course tuition fees.

Boston University
Two-Academic Credit Graduate Course

BU COURSE #: SE 590

NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AND LEARNING
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This course explores some of the new research in the neurosciences, and in particular what this new research says about the working of the child and adolescent brain. Significantly for educators, the course will examine how neuroscience research informs our understanding of learning as well as obstacles to learning. Research in the areas of memory, perception, reading, language acquisition, the nature of depression and other mental disorders such as autism and maldevelopments in sensory integration, are not only intriguing in themselves, but carry implications for the ways we think about how the brain learns, and in turn, how we approach the work of teaching children and youth. Among the topics to be considered are: The effects of stress and gender on learning; teenage brains; biology and behavior; early childhood; critical periods, experience and brain plasticity; the biology of child temperament; the emotional brain; stress and students with learning disabilities; dyslexia, fluency and the brain; and the damaged brain; how abuse and neglect shape the developing brain.

 

The course is unusual for Boston University in that it meets in conjunction with the "Learning and the Brain" conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, over the period of April 26 through April 29, 2008, at the Boston Marriott Cambridge Hotel. During this course, students are required to attend conference sessions, as well as meet together as a seminar, during the conference where the material learned in the conference lectures and workshops will be discussed. Students will be expected to have read the assigned readings prior or during to the Conference and to prepare a final paper in which they will have an opportunity to critically appraise some aspect of neuroscience research and its relation to education. Given the compressed nature of the course, the instructor will remain in contact with students as they write their final paper. The course requires students to enroll in the "Learning & the Brain" conference and a pre-`or post- conference workshop as well as pay tuition fees to Boston University.

These two graduate credits are issued through the Department of Special Education, School of Education, Boston University.

(Includes BU tuition, processing fees, etc.). Must be paid in full by check or credit card by April 14. Does not include the conference registration, or pre- or post-conference registration fees.

Applicants may cancel the academic credit program prior to April 20 to receive a refund of tuition and fees, less a $50 cancellation processing fee. No cancellations are accepted after April 20. The course may be cancelled if enrollment is less than 10 people.

PIRI and BU reserve the right to cancel this academic credit program at any time and for any reason. If academic credit program is canceled by PIRI or BU, registrants will receive a full refund of tuition and fees, but will remain registered in the conference. If you wish to cancel from the conference, there will be a $150 cancellation fee.

For academic credit information, call 782-449-4010 ext. 105.

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