Social Sciences Courses

A quantitative introduction to the energy system and its environmental impacts.

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

The course introduces students to classical theoretical traditions of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and George Simmel, as well as their contemporary theoretical heirs.

This course explores the opaque world of intelligence and international security

This course surveys research methods in the social sciences in preparation for the

This course reviews development policy making in urban areas, focusing on differing economic, demographic, institutional, and political settings.

This course is a neuroscience-based survey of memory systems.

This course covers introductory and intermediate level statistics, and covers topics including principles of measurement, central tendency and variability, probability and distributions, correlation, hypothesis testing, t-tests, analysis of variance and c

Grief is ubiquitous

Climate change, as well as a host of environmental challenges like access to clean water, pose an existential threat to our planet

Why did so many species evolve to have two sexes? Why is sex dichotomous in our gametes, but continuous in our bodies and behavior? Did we evolve to have a sense of our own gender identity, and if so, why? This course takes a deep dive into these question

This course is an introduction to the study of psychopathology

This course looks at psychological and physical health from the perspective of positive psychology.

This course begins by looking at the history of the term and its theoretical underpinnings, distinguishing it from related but nevertheless distinct forms of persuasive speech.

This introduction to moral and political philosophy is one of the most popular courses taught at Harvard College.