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Departmental Advanced Courses for 2012-13
Courses that count as departmental courses toward the Advanced Course requirement in psychology can be broken down into the following categories:
- Courses listed as Psychology in the course catalog
*note PSY 1504 taken in Spring 2008 will not count for concentration or secondary field credit
- Courses taught or co-taught in other departments by departmental faculty or psychology courses from other schools
- Certain Harvard Summer School courses
- Certain Study out of Residence courses
2. Courses not listed in the psychology section of the catalog but taught or co-taught by departmental faculty or psychology courses from other schools count as departmental courses. Please check the Course of Instructions to find when these courses are offered:
- African and African American Studies 241, Topics in African American Social Science
- Freshman Seminar 49n, Measurements of the Mind
- Graduate School of Education H-236, Adolescent Development (cross-registration required)
- Graduate School of Education H-611A/B, Moral Adults: Moral Children (cross-registration required)
- Linguistics 130, Psycholinguistics
- Linguistics 132, Psychosemantics
- Mind, Brain, and Behavior 91z. Music, Mind, and Brain
- Mind, Brain, and Behavior 92, A Systems Neuroscience Approach to Conscious Perceptual Experience
- Mind, Brain, and Behavior 93, Conscious States: Waking, Sleeping, and Dreaming
- Mind, Brain, and Behavior 94z, The Self: What Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Tell Us
- Mind, Brain, and Behavior 95, Addiction, Choice, and Motivation
- Mind, Brain, and Behavior 96, The Science of Happiness
- Mind, Brain, and Behavior 97a, Avian Cognition: Why Being Called a Bird Brain is a Compliment; not open to students who have already taken Psy 980f
- Mind, Brain, and Behavior 99z. Creativity Research: Madmen, Geniuses, and Harvard Student
- MIT 9.03, Neural Basis of Learning and Memory
- MIT 9.20, Animal Behavior
- MIT 9.57J, Language Acquisition
- MIT 9.59J, Laboratory in Psycholinguistics
- MIT 9.66J, Computational Cognitive Science
- MIT 9.68, Affect: Biological, Psychological, and Social Aspects of "Feelings"
- MIT 9.77, Computational Perception
- MIT 24.906j, The Linguistic Study of Bilingualism
- Molecular and Cellular Biology 80, Neurobiology of Behavior
- Science B-29, Evolution of Human Behavior - no longer offered
- Science B-44, Vision and Brain - no longer offered
- Science B-62, The Human Mind (only if not used for Tier 1 requirement and taken PRIOR to spring 2009) - no longer offered
- Science of Living Systems 15 (formally Science B-60), Developmental Psychology: Origins of Knowledge - this course can be taken to meet the Foundational Course requirement if taken in Fall 2011 or later. This course replaces Psychology 16 as a Foundational Course, and students may take only one of these courses toward the concentration.
- Social Analysis 43, Psychological Trauma - no longer offered top
3. CERTAIN Psychology courses offered by the Harvard Summer School will automatically count for concentration or secondary field credit if you have not already taken the equivalent course during the academic year. For summer 2013, PSYC S-1, Introduction to Psychology may be taken to meet the Introductory Psychology requirement, and the following courses may be taken for ADVANCED COURSE credit only: Summer 2013 courses are:
- PSYC S-980v, Summer Seminar - The Insanity Defense, Ellsworth Fersch (limited enrollment) (cannot be taken if Psy 980v taken at Harvard College)
- PSYC S-1072, The Psychology of Emotional, Behavioral, and Motivational Self-Regulation, Richard McNally
- PSYC S-1870, Law and Psychology, Ellsworth Fersch
- MBB S-91 Study Abroad in Trento, Italy: Art, Mind, and the Brain
- MBB S-93, Study Abroad in Trento, Italy: Mind, Brain, and Behavior in Decision Making, Giorgio Coricelli
- MBB S-101 Study Abroad in Trento, Italy: Windows into the Structure of the Mind and Brain, Alfonso Caramazza and John Assad
Please note that Psych S-1240, Abnormal Psychology and Biology S-50, Neurobiology CANNOT meet the Foundational requirement and PSYC S-1900, STAT S-100 and STAT S-102 CANNOT meet the basic methods requirements of the concentration or secondary field in psychology. Students cannot complete Related Life Science courses in the summer school.
When registering for a summer school course, you should indicate that you are a Harvard College student. This way the courses will appear on your student record. top
4. Psychology courses taken through an approved Study Out of Residence (SOR) program may count as departmental advanced courses toward the concentration but not toward the secondary field if:
- They are on the automatic approval list
- They are approved by petition in advance. SOR courses in psychology must meet the same guidelines as non-departmental petitioned courses. Please see Study Out of Residence for additional information. Courses taken out of residence have their own set of deadlines. top
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