Students will learn about how we:
- Generate ideas and give shape to these thoughts
- Develop memory and use both short-term and long-term memory in all things that we do, from interacting with people to viewing films and reading novels.
- Work to help us navigate different spaces from home to school to films, novels, comic books, to novels.
- Allow us to create pictures, music, stories, novels, short stories comics, poetry, films, architecture ...
- Allow us to read interior states of mind from exterior gestures in everyday activities and how creators of video games, TV shows, films, comic books, novels, and so on use this in pleasurable ways when they create characters.
- Allow us to experience, say, a film that we know is not real yet we experience it as if it were real.
- Allow us to commit to memory significant moments in a film, novel, comic book, video game.
- Allow us to attach value to things we encounter and how we build emotion into what we value.
Students will also learn about:
- What parts of the brain activate when we read fictions or watch films or TV shows
- How some stories are built as puzzles to be solved
- How the great stories and philosophies we encounter in the humanities can enrich our understanding of the sciences.
- How our understanding of how stories work can help enrich our understanding of how science and medicine works: from doctor visits when patients tell the story of their body and symptoms to doctors reading the stories about their patients.
Students will:
- Develop interests in neuroscience and cognitive science and basic research.
- Acquire knowledge of how our emotions and thoughts work in everyday activities as well as in more specialized activities like making stories and consuming those stories.
- Have hands-on activities in the brain science lab.
- Learn that the intersection of the sciences and humanities can teach us something foundational about what it means to be human.
- Learn the scientific method and humanities in the analysis of all that we do and make.
- Learn how research in the cognitive sciences can be applied to the humanities and vice versa.
- Learn how issues in the cognitive sciences and humanities relate to the kind of knowledge and thinking skills that are needed for everyday life, including telling stories around the dinner table to watching your favorite TV show or playing your favorite video game.
Outcomes:
- Learn from and establish professional relationships with world-renowned professors at The Ohio State University.
- Professional networking and possible letters recommendation from college professors.
- Open doors for opportunities to institutions of higher education.
- Learn what it is like to learn at a college campus.
- Help prepare students for the college experience.
- Create professional relationships with advanced college student Team Leaders.
- Create lifelong friendships with students from across the Columbus schools.
- Receive a certificate of completion.