First-year students considering Social Studies may want to take Economics 10 or any upper level course for which Economics 10 is a prerequisite. They may also want to take an ethical reasoning or philosophy course to determine whether they enjoy social...
We will count all Social Studies courses and all courses taken to fulfill Social Studies requirements.
A focus field is an interdisciplinary area of study proposed in the junior year and refined in the senior year; it should be associated with the student’s senior thesis topic. Students will be asked to submit an advisor-approved description of their...
Students commonly include courses outside of our five member departments (Anthropology, Economics, Government, History, and Sociology) in their focus fields. Typically, courses that have substantial social science, historical, or social theoretical...
Yes. If you change thesis topics, and your new topic does not follow from your original focus field courses, you will need develop a new focus field and, if necessary, take courses during your senior year to complete it.
Yes, as long as the secondary field is substantially different from your focus field in Social Studies. Harvard College allows only one course to overlap between the primary and secondary fields.
Social Studies concentrators routinely pursue joint concentrations when students’ academic areas of interest overlap with programming in other departments that offer substantial coursework in the social sciences. You can read more about joint...
All of the courses that you are counting for Social Studies concentration credit must be taken for a letter grade, except for Social Studies 99, which is graded SAT/UNSAT. However, we will count courses that are transferred for Harvard credit (either...
No, because first-year seminars are not letter-graded.
