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Research Mentorship Program: Courses and Research Topics

• Interdisciplinary 93S is the lecture course. Students attend lectures (six hours a week for 6 weeks) and read related publications. Course reading collection is composed of recent papers in the disciplines of the mentors. Students learn to analyze papers and write their own, evaluate research presentations, and present their own research in a scientific symposium held at the end of the program. The lectures cover a variety of hard science and social science topics. This diversity exposes mature high school students to the nature of research across diverse disciplines in a form that highlights similarities and differences.
  
  
• Interdisciplinary 93SL is the matching laboratory course. This is where students engage in hands-on research with a research mentor of their choice during six intensive weeks. Throughout this period they gather original data, learn to analyze it, to present it, and to write a research paper based on that data. Depending on the nature of the project lab hours may range from 20 to 35 hours a week, occasionally working into the night when necessary. Library and fieldwork are parts of this experience.

Grades & Credits
The Summer Research Mentorship Program is an interdisciplinary program. The 8 units of academic credit awarded will become part of your permanent record at UCSB.

Research Topics
Research topics may change each summer depending on the available mentors, however the focus is always on recent research developments that demonstrate the use of University-level Methods of Investigation in departments across campus. Over the past three years we have expanded the availability of research projects in the arts, humanities, languages, music, social sciences, and various interdisciplinary fields, while continuing to maintain a rich diversity of research projects in the various laboratory science and engineering fields. Please feel free to inquire about any discipline that interests you.

Only in mid or late May we will know for sure which projects will be with us. Topics currently under consideration include, but are not limited to the following:

Anthropology	Law & Society
Astronomy	Linguistics
Biology	Marine Biology
Biometrics	Marine Ecology
Chemistry	Mathematics
Classics	Media and Technology
Communications	Neuroscience
Ecology	Physics & Materials
Economics	Political Science
Environmental Studies	Psychology
Film Studies	Religious Science
Geography	Sociology
Geology	Women Studies

Reseach Mentorship Symposium Schedules
Click below to view the RMP Symposium topics and schedule.

• Summer 2001
• Summer 2003
• Summer 2004
• Summer 2005
• Summer 2006
• Summer 2007

Research Mentorship Flyer (pdf)

 

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