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Departmental Electives
Courses that count as departmental electives in psychology can be broken down into the following categories:
- Courses listed as Psychology in the course catalog (Tier 3 courses)
*note PSY 1504 taken in Spring 2008 only will not count for concentration or secondary field credit
- Courses taught or co-taught in other departments by departmental faculty
- 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 count as departmental courses. In 2008-2009, these courses are the following:
- African and African American Studies 241, Topics in African American Social Science
- Freshman Seminar 23s, The Seven Sins of Memory
- [Freshman Seminar 26p, Scientific Study of Consciousness] - no longer offered
- Freshman Seminar 49n, Measurements of the Mind
- [Linguistics 132, Psychosemantics]
- Mind, Brain, Behavior 9x series (formerly Psy 987x series)
- [Mind, Brain Behavior 151, Evolving Human Nature] - no longer offered
- [Mind, Brain, Behavior 152, Consumable Science] - no longer offered
- Molecular and Cellular Biology 80, Neurobiology of Behavior
- [Music 235r, Cognitive Theories of Music]
- [Neurobiology 135 (formerly Psy 2350), Current Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience Research]
- Science B-29, Evolution of Human Behavior
- [Science B-44, Vision and Brain]
- Science B-60, Origins of Knowledge
- Science B-62, The Human Mind (if not taken for introductory requirement)
- Social Analysis 43, Psychological Trauma 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 2008, PSYC S-1, Introduction to Psychology may be taken to meet the Introductory Psychology requirement, and the following courses may be taken for ELECTIVE credit only:
- PSYC S-25x, Summer Seminar—The Meaning of Madness, Rich McNally
- PSYC S-1015, Psychological Trauma, Rich McNally (only if you have not taken Social Analysis 43 in the College)
- PSYC S-1240, Abnormal Psychology, Shelley Carson
- PSYC S-1870, Law and Psychology, Ellsworth Fersch
- PSYC S-1875, Delinquents Criminals, Psychopaths, and Terrorists, Ellsworth Fersch
Please note that Psych S-1240, Abnormal Psychology and Biology S-80 CANNOT meet the Tier 2 requirements and PSYC S-1900 and STAT S-100 CANNOT meet the basic methods requirements of the concentration or secondary field in psychology.
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.
*List for Summer 2009 will be updated mid-Spring 2009 top
4. Psychology courses taken through an approved Study Out of Residence (SOR) program may count as departmental electives 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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