The Columbia University Science Honors Program (SHP) is a science program at

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that runs during the school year for tenth-, eleventh-, and twelfth-grade

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students.

Curriculum

Since 1958, SHP has offered courses spanning the full range of the pure and applied sciences, from

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neuroscience Neuroscience is the science, scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a Multidisciplinary approach, multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, an ...

and

physiological psychology Physiological psychology is a subdivision of behavioral neuroscience (biological psychology) that studies the neural mechanisms of perception and behavior through direct manipulation of the brains of nonhuman animal subjects in controlled experime ...

, to

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