Earn Graduate Credit While Attending the 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 will cost $575 for the conference ($525 for conference plus $50 administration fee), and $1,142 for Boston University tuition. Please provide two seperate payments: One check for $575 made out to Public Information Resources (PIRI) and another check for $1,142 made out to Boston University (BU).

The $1,142 BU tuition fee includes two semester credits, 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 add the $50 administrative fee (total: $575). 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. 

Pre-Conference Workshops and MIT Brain Scan Tours are not required for the course and are an additional costs if you wish to enroll in them.

Boston University
Two-Academic Credit Graduate Course

BU COURSE #: SE 590

NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH, EMOTIONS 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, emotions, 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 Nov. 21 through Nov. 23, 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 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 Nov. 7. Does not include pre-conference registration fees.

Applicants may cancel the academic credit program prior to Nov. 7 to receive a refund of tuition and fees, less a $50 cancellation processing fee. No cancellations are accepted after Nov. 7. 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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