AAAS S-125
Readings in Black Radicalism
Walter Johnson PhD, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34164 | Section 1
Description
This course introduces students to some of the key texts and ideas in the history of Black radical thought since the nineteenth century. Key topics include Black anti-slavery and anti-imperialism, Black Marxism, Black feminism, intersectionality, and reparations.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
Glenda R. Carpio PhD, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
ANTH S-1068
Anthropology of Food and Foodways
Gavin H. Whitelaw PhD, Executive Director for the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35452 | Section 1
Description
Food and eating are not just necessary for life, they are the basis of culture. Through selection, ingestion, and digestion of food, we make the outside world a part of us. It is not surprising then that food and its associated practices have long nourished the discipline of anthropology. This course applies a comparative, anthropological lens to the study of food by examining the connections between what we eat and who we are. Through readings, podcast listening, discussions, and a spectrum of hands-on experiences, including field excursions, we explore the production, distribution, and consumption of food in a range of cultures and contexts. From family meals and dumpster diving to artisanal cheeses and farmers’ markets, the course addresses the ways food shapes not only our relationships with people, but to our environment, our community, and other nations and cultures. We interrogate not only what food is but what constitutes good food. We examine what can, cannot, and should not be eaten; what role food plays in the creation of community and the construction of identity; and the intersection of food activism and social justice. We explore changes to food systems, in particular transformations in food production and distribution, and the impact of industrial diets on the body, lives, and livelihoods. While engaging with debates that animate the anthropological study of food, students draw on readings, audio, and visual sources, and employ empirical methods to research a dimension of their immediate foodscape.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 8:30am-11:00am, CGIS South S040
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
Stephen A. Mitchell PhD, Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore, Harvard University
Daniel Peter Dalicsek MA, Maritime Archaeologist, Moesgaard Museum
ANTH S-1150
Can We Know Our Past?
Jason Ur PhD, Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35811 | Section 1
Description
What happened in the past, and if and how we should remember it, is hotly contested. What is our degree of certainty about the past societies and cultures that historians, archaeologists, and others study today? Whose past matters? And how should we remember it? Most of the human past happened in prehistory. This course emphasizes material remains, which are studied primarily by the tools of archaeology. We start with basic questions such as: what is left of the past? How do we find these remains, and how can we know how old they are? Students explore how the past is created in, and sometimes for, the present; how history and archaeology have been used to advance imperial and colonial agendas; and how nations have used the same tools to create their own postcolonial identities. Course readings present a general background, while synchronous meetings present case studies. Students interact with 3D artifacts, web maps, experiments, and other digital methods. After completing this course, students recognize claims made about the past and toward what ends, are able to assess their validity, and understand why the past matters today and for the future.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Required sections Fridays, time to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. Harvard College students: this course counts for either the Histories, Societies, Individuals Gen Ed requirement or the Science and Technology in Society Gen Ed requirement (but not both) and is equivalent to Gen Ed 1105. It does not count for the College’s divisional distribution requirement.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
ANTH S-1300
Human Evolution
Bridget A. Alex PhD, Lecturer on Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University and Editor, Sapiens Magazine
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35599 | Section 1
Description
How do we know how humans evolved? This course investigates the evidence and methods used to reconstruct human evolution. We review eight million years of evolutionary history, focusing on the origins of defining features of our species such as bipedalism, tool use, language, art, and agriculture. We evaluate interpretations of the past using different lines of evidence including genetic and fossil data, the archaeological and ethnographic records, and comparisons with living primates. To gain first-hand experience in research methods, students work with fossils and artifacts from Harvard museums and complete exercises in Harvard laboratories.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Museum of Comparative Zoology 529
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course is a Summer Seminar. Learn more about Summer Seminars on this page. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
ANTH S-1415
Anthropology of Crisis
Lowell A. Brower PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35770 | Section 1
Description
This course tracks the maneuvers of folklore and expressive culture through crises, conflict zones, and emergency situations. By examining the creative interventions of storytellers, performers, and artists in response to a wide range of profound ruptures and transformations from political upheaval to genocidal violence, forced migration, social revolution, ecological disaster, and everyday rites of passage the course illuminates and interrogates the powers, potentials, politics, and poetics of cultural performance, communal storytelling, ritual praxis, and folkloric tradition in the face of destabilizing change and unprecedented emergence. We ask how storytellers revive and revise old stories to confront new challenges, how preexisting expressive forms weather unprecedented socio-cultural storms, and how individuals and communities attempt to re-narrate themselves after calamity. What role can storytelling play in imagining communities, navigating rites of passage, and confronting existential and ethical dilemmas? How do people turn their afflictions into art, make sense of their sufferings, treat their traumas, and transform their tribulations? What roles can folklore play in reimagining communities, rehabilitating selves, and remaking worlds?
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students
ANTH S-1645
Money and Power: Cultural Approaches to Economic Life
James P. Herron PhD, Director of the Harvard Writing Project and Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35817 | Section 1
Description
This course considers how culture shapes the economic aspects of our lives. That is, we seek to understand the economy not as a separate realm with its own special logic and structure but instead as embedded in the social relations, identities, and cultural practices of everyday life. Our major course themes include exchange, money, debt, commodification, markets, and labor. We consider questions such as, how do the different kinds of exchanges we engage in gift exchanges versus market exchanges, for instance shape our relationships with others? We explore the social meaning of money and the role of the market in our lives. In a world where it is possible to rent a family, does money destroy love and intimacy? What aspects of our lives are governed by the logic of capitalism and what aspects escape capitalism’s grip? Why does it feel shameful to be in debt, and how has this shame been manipulated for political purposes? Why in the US do we consider work to be sacred and morally purifying even though many of us have tedious jobs? The course readings include theoretical and empirical works drawn mainly from the fields of anthropology, economic sociology, and heterodox economics.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, William James Hall 105
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ANTH S-1662
The Human Market: The Global Traffic in Human Beings
Keridwen N. Luis PhD, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33520 | Section 1
Description
The course introduces students to the wide range of cultural and ethical questions surrounding the trade in humans. We consider issues ranging from the traffic in women and children to the trade in human organs. We especially explore the cultural, racial, class, and gender issues inherent in transactions in human beings and their flesh. Who is selling their organs on the international market and why? Whose babies go to whom in international adoption, and who decides what the best interests of the children are? Whose bones are sold to museums and medical schools, and what do such transactions mean?
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ANTH S-1663
The Supernatural in the Modern World
Lowell A. Brower PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35604 | Section 1
Description
What do our ghost stories say about us, what do our beasts betray about us? Which witches bewitch us, which rumors consume us, and what sense can be made of what haunts us? Restless spirits, alien invaders, wicked witches, bloodthirsty vampires, legendary cryptids, murderous ogres, Illuminati satanists, deep-state conspirators, memetic online menaces: our contemporary bestiary is overflowing with meaningful monsters. Our spine-tingling intellectual task in this course is to analyze the roles that these malevolent entities and the supernatural narratives we tell about them play in our everyday lives, our collective psyches, our communities, our politics, and in the crises we confront as individuals and groups. Are our occult stories allegories of our modern discontents or simply holdovers from our childhood nightmares? Are they symptoms of specific societal crises or representations of timeless pan-human fears? How has the witch hunt, the rumor panic, the standardized nightmare of the group transformed in this meme-ified age of online participatory culture, global interconnection, ecological catastrophe, and fake-news-driven conspiracy thinking? What can we learn about ourselves, our pasts, and our futures by thinking deeply about what scares us the most? And how frightened should we be of what we might find if we dig too deeply into that question? While trembling together in the creepiest Zoom-room on campus, we analyze the supernatural in relationship historical memories, cultural anxieties, folk traditions, spiritual beliefs, physiological sensations, political conflicts, environmental disasters, existential imperatives, and just about everything else under the moon. Because nowhere is safe from the things that go bump in the night, our interdisciplinary journey takes us across time and space into the bellies of various beasts, from the gates of Harvard Yard, to the hills of Rwanda, to the message boards of 4chan, to the proms of rural Pennsylvania, to the ships of the Middle Passage, to the villages of medieval Europe, to the halls of the White House, to your creepy neighbor’s basement, and to the deep dark woods. Our abominable assignments include creative reading responses, the documentation and analysis of frightful folklore, a fearsome final project, and a co-created haunted Harvard virtual tour. Course activities may include local excursions, storytelling sessions, and paranormal experimentation. Enroll if you dare.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
ANTH S-1666
Social Medicine and Social Change in Boston
Jason Bryan Silverstein PhD, Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine and Co-Director, Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health Program, Harvard Medical School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35774 | Section 1
Description
No one wants someone they love to starve or go without medicine or shelter, but one in ten people go hungry every day, a record-high number are homeless every night, and nearly three million children live in extreme poverty in the United States, one of the wealthiest nations on earth. This course takes a social medicine approach to investigating problems of poverty and their interventions in Boston, Massachusetts. Social medicine is a discipline that examines how political, economic, and historic forces become embodied as pathologies and how the same forces that create uneven distribution of disease also create barriers to care. Some of the pathologies we examine are addiction, hunger, homelessness, mental illness, and homicide, all worsened by racism, sexism, and sometimes the very institutions that ought to help. In this course, we emphasize understanding the observations, judgements, and calls to action from people who endure the miseries of poverty. To do so, students read ethnographic research in medical anthropology and learn directly from community members during class visits. Students complete three group ethnographic exercises which take them to a jail, ask them to report on a program for the homeless, and create an act of service based on what they learn from their informants is a specific need for physical survival.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 6:30pm-9:00pm, Harvard Hall 201
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
Nicholas H. Harkness PhD, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
APMA S-115
Mathematical Modeling
Zhiming Kuang PhD, Gordon McKay Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33607 | Section 1
Description
Mathematical models are ubiquitous, providing a quantitative framework for understanding, prediction, and decision making in nearly every aspect of life, ranging from the timing of traffic lights, to the control of the spread of disease, resource management, and sports. They also play a fundamental role in all natural sciences and increasingly in the social sciences as well. This course provides an introduction to modeling through in-depth discussions of a series of examples, and hands-on exercises and projects that make use of a range of continuous and discrete mathematical tools.
Prerequisites: MATH S-21a and MATH S-21b or permission of instructor.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Pierce Hall 301
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
ARAB S-Aa
Elementary Arabic
Gregory D. Halaby PhD, Preceptor in Arabic, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35805 | Section 1
Description
The course introduces students to the phonology and script of classical and modern standard Arabic and covers the basic morphology and syntax of the written language. Emphasis is on the development of the four skills (reading, speaking, listening, and writing). Samples of modern (contemporary) and classical styles of writing are introduced, as well as audio-visual material from contemporary Arabic media.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 14 students
ASTR S-30
A Short Tour of the Universe Guided by Einstein and Others
Arvind Borde PhD, Senior Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33190 | Section 1
Description
This course discusses what we understand of the universe, guided by those who have shaped our understanding. Each week, we use as a springboard one or more key papers by Einstein, Penrose, Hawking, Guth, and others, and discuss the main ideas in them. All the background information needed to understand these ideas is provided in detail.
Prerequisites: High school algebra. An introductory physics course would be helpful.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm, Sever Hall 308
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. This course is a Summer Seminar. Learn more about Summer Seminars on this page. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
ASTR S-35
Fundamentals of Contemporary Astronomy: Frontiers of Current Research
Rosanne Di Stefano PhD, Lecturer on Astronomy, Harvard University and Senior Astrophysicist, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 31194 | Section 1
Description
Astronomers are making exciting discoveries every day. Some of these discoveries change the way we understand the universe. During the past twenty-five years, we have discovered roughly 5,000 exoplanets, or planets orbiting other stars. Just over twenty years ago, the systematic study of supernovae explosions led to the discovery of a new and still not understood component of the universe called dark energy. In 2016, gravitational radiation was detected for the first time, allowing us to detect the mergers of distant black holes. In this course we select five areas of current research and use these to introduce and study the basic concepts of astronomy. The course is designed to help students get a feel for what it is like to be an astronomer, using the new generation of ground- and space-based telescopes, combined with sophisticated theoretical techniques and computational facilities. As we study each aspect of the universe, we ask how we came to know what we know today and how astronomers are investigating still-unanswered questions.
Prerequisites: High school algebra; some physics background is useful but not necessary.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
ASTR S-41
The Life and Death of Stars and Their Planets
Jason Eastman PhD, Lecturer on Astronomy, Harvard University and Research Associate, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian
Allyson Bieryla ALM, Manager of the Astronomy Lab and Clay Telescope, Harvard University and Astronomer, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35166 | Section 1
Description
From old, humanity has wondered about the stars and what is out there in space. In the beginning, humans focused on visual ways to find and convey those answers, but in roughly the last century, astronomers have developed various techniques to explore, discover, and convey in-depth information about the mysteries of the universe. In this course students learn about the life and death of stars while focusing on how the death of a star is involved in the generation of more stellar wonders and even life in the universe. We use telescopes to obtain our own data and apply state-of-the-art computer code to model and characterize real stars and their planets. This is an interactive, in-depth astronomy course covering introductory themes.
Prerequisites: High school algebra and trigonometry. An introductory physics course would be helpful.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, Science Center 804
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
ASTR S-80
Planets, Moons, and Their Stars: The Search for Life in the Cosmos
Alessandro Massarotti PhD, Associate Professor of Physics, Stonehill College and Associate of the Department of Astronomy, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34550 | Section 1
Description
Astrobiology is a new discipline born out of the convergence of all scientific inquiry currently under way on the question of the origin and development of life here on Earth, and potentially elsewhere in the universe. Recent advances in planetary exploration, astronomy, geochemistry, and biochemistry are leading to a revolution in our ideas on the emergence of life on our own planet and the likelihood of finding life outside the Earth. In particular, much is being learned about Mars and Venus because of the many recent and ongoing space missions. Spectacular data from Jupiter’s and Saturn’s moons, like Titan, Europa, and Enceladus, show that these moons may become possible targets of future searches for life. Geochemists are finding more and more intriguing clues about the Earth’s past by analyzing rocks dating from the very first period after the Earth’s formation, thus providing a fundamentally new context for research on the transition between chemistry and primordial life. And the search for extra-solar planets is leading to the discovery of Earth-like planets around solar-type stars. In this course, students are introduced to current and planned telescopic space missions aimed at finding and characterizing exoplanets and robotic missions, such as the Mars rovers. The course also covers current ideas about the role of stars and their evolution in the habitability of planets and in the chemistry of galaxies.
Prerequisites: High school algebra. Some chemistry and physics background is useful but not required.
Class Meetings:
Online or On Campus
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, 1 Story Street 306
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Students can attend in person on campus, participate live online at the time the class meets via web conference, or watch the recorded video asynchronously. Recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
BIOS S-10
Introduction to Biochemistry
Alain Viel PhD, Senior Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32376 | Section 1
Description
This course is an integrated introduction to the structure of macromolecules and a biochemical approach to protein function. The organization of macromolecules is addressed through a discussion of their hierarchical structure and a study of their assembly into complexes responsible for specific biological processes. Topics addressing protein function include enzyme kinetics, the characterization of major metabolic pathways, and their interconnection into tightly regulated networks. Current laboratory techniques are discussed during lecture and examples showing the organization of protein networks and disease-linked protein profiles are drawn from proteomic studies. The laboratory portion of the course exposes students to a broad range of experimental approaches, including affinity purification, enzyme kinetics, analysis of protein folding, and stability. The laboratory exercises are designed to give students a direct experience of research conducted in a modern laboratory.
Prerequisites: BIOS S-1a or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Northwest Science Building B101
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 74 students
BIOS S-12
Principles and Techniques of Molecular Biology
Alain Viel PhD, Senior Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32378 | Section 1
Description
The course addresses both the fundamental principles and techniques of molecular biology. Students gain an in-depth knowledge of nucleic acid structure, molecular genetics, and the biochemistry of transcription and protein synthesis. Other topics include how mechanisms of gene regulation play a role in retroviral pathogenesis and embryonic development. Each lecture directly relates molecular biology to current laboratory techniques. Virtual laboratory sessions, using LabXchange, a free Harvard educational platform are included, These virtual laboratory sessions provide students with a broad exposure to several important techniques in molecular biology. Virtual experiments include current approaches to mutation analysis, protein interaction assays, and recombinant cDNA cloning by PCR.
Prerequisites: BIOS S-1a or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
BIOS S-129
Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Amie Holmes PhD, Lecturer on Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Lauren Sullivan PhD, Curriculum and Pedagogy Manager, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35359 | Section 1
Description
We are entering a new era in which a fundamental understanding of developmental biology and regeneration plays a critical role. In this course, embryonic and adult stem cells in different organisms are examined in terms of their molecular, cellular, and potential therapeutic properties. Genetic reprogramming and cloning of animals are critically evaluated. Ethical and political considerations are also considered.
Prerequisites: BIOS S-1a and BIOS S-1b, or the equivalent. Knowledge of cell, molecular, or developmental biology is recommended.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
BIOS S-14
Principles of Genetics
Steven Theroux PhD, Professor of Biology, Assumption University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32374 | Section 1
Description
This course focuses on transmission and molecular genetics. Topics include chromosome structure and replication, genetic linkage and mapping, regulation of gene expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, epigenetics, genetic mutation, genetics of cancer, and the principles of genetic engineering. The course makes use of bioinformatics to explore gene function, and pertinent applications of bioinformatics and genetics to modern biological problems are discussed.
Prerequisites: BIOS S-1a and BIOS S-1b, or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Sever Hall 209
Optional sections Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
BIOS S-140
An Introduction to Evolutionary Genetics in Epidemiology and Precision Medicine
Diddahally R. Govindaraju PhD, Visiting Professor, Institute for Aging, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35597 | Section 1
Description
Evolutionary processes provide the foundation for understanding the origins and distribution of inherited variation among populations and species of all organisms. Demographic (Malthusian) factors, evolutionary (Darwinian) forces, genetic (Mendelian) principles, and ecological (environmental) factors either collectively or independently influence differential survival and reproduction rates among individuals of diverse populations of organisms, including humans. We call these Darwinian processes. In parallel, epidemiology and public health deal with the distribution and determinants of human diseases and mortality. They investigate the origin, distribution, management, and control of agents that cause both communicable and non-communicable diseases within and between populations among a wide range of species. This course offers a comprehensive understanding of how the foundational principles of evolutionary genetics and public health intersect to shape human health and longevity. Through an interdisciplinary approach, we explore the nexus of evolutionary genetics and public health, contextualizing our discussions within the broader spheres of comparative medicine and environmental factors, such as global warming. This approach illuminates the collective influence of Darwinian processes on the evolution, maintenance, and spread of diseases. The ultimate aim is to showcase how evolutionary genetics and epidemiology can converge to pave the way for a more focused approach to healthcare, often promoted as precision medicine.
Prerequisites: Biology, genetics, basic algebra, and some understanding of ecology.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Sever Hall 102
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
BIOS S-150
The Biology of Cancer
Steven Theroux PhD, Professor of Biology, Assumption University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33128 | Section 1
Description
This course provides students with a basic understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms that lead to cancer. Lectures primarily focus on the role of growth factors, oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, angiogenesis, and signal transduction mechanisms in tumor formation. The fundamental principles behind cancer diagnosis, prevention, and therapeutic management are also discussed.
Prerequisites: BIOS S-1a and BIOS S-1b, or the equivalent, plus an additional college-level biology course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Optional sections Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:15-4:15 pm.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
Daniel Russell Green PhD, Lecturer on Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
BIOS S-1a
Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology
Monique Selina Jennifer Brewster PhD, Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Federica Calabrese PhD, Associate of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33926 | Section 1
Description
This course leverages problem-solving skills to explore the central principles of molecular and cellular biology, with a focus on structure function relationships, energy, metabolism, and genetics. The emphasis is on cells as systems for the capture and transformation of energy, the processing of molecular information, the relationship between form and function, and cell division. Required laboratory and discussion sections highlight experimental design and allow students to reinforce concepts covered in lecture and develop critical thinking. BIOS S-1a is part of an introductory biology series (BIOS S-1a and BIOS S-1b) that fulfills the medical school admission requirement of two semesters of biology. (Note: BIOS S-1a is not a prerequisite for BIOS S-1b. Students are welcome to take BIOS S-1b before BIOS S-1a).
Prerequisites: High school mathematics and biology, and college-level or AP chemistry highly recommended. Students are strongly advised to complete the General Chemistry Diagnostic, available on the course website in June for enrolled students. The diagnostic is intended to help students decide if they have the chemistry background required for success in the course.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, William James Hall B1
Required sections Tuesdays, 1:30-2:30 pm. Required labs Thursdays, 1:30-4:30 pm. Other times may be available pending enrollment. See syllabus for details.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 120 students
BIOS S-1b
Introduction to Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Casey Roehrig PhD, Manager of Instructional Development, Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33927 | Section 1
Description
This introductory series focuses on the principles of cellular (BIOS S-1a) and organismal (BIOS S-1b) biology. This course introduces fundamental concepts in animal anatomy and physiology, as well as the origin of life and principles of evolution and ecology. Laboratory sections allow students to reinforce concepts covered in lecture. BIOS S-1b is part of an introductory biology series that fulfills the medical school admission requirement of two semesters of biology.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of cell structure and function, algebra, and types of biological, organic, and inorganic molecules and ions. BIOS S-1a is not a prerequisite for BIOS S-1b. Students may choose to take BIOS S-1b first or concurrently with BIOS S-1a.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, William James Hall B1
Required labs and sections, Mondays and Wednesdays afternoons, to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 160 students
BIOS S-200
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biology
Emilie J. Raymer PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35643 | Section 1
Description
This proseminar is designed to teach students many of the writing and analytical skills that are required to succeed in graduate-level courses in the biological sciences. Through critical reading and presentation of research articles, students learn how to form questions that can be addressed experimentally and how to write a corresponding, testable hypothesis. The course also addresses the process of experimental design and current experimental methodologies in biology. Students are given multiple opportunities to hone their writing skills on several short writing assignments. Students are expected to participate in class discussions, present a paper to the class, and write a final research proposal due at the end of the semester. We focus our attention on innovations in genetics and genomics. Some background in these areas is beneficial but not required. Students learn to think scientifically while they gain knowledge of how recent advancements can be applied to agriculture, vaccine developments, personalized medicine, and other areas. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course; molecular biology (BIOS S-12 or the equivalent) and EXPO S-42c are highly recommended.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
BIOS S-208
Precision Medicine in Genomics
Arezou A. Ghazani PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35154 | Section 1
Description
This course focuses on the application of genomic science in precision medicine. It explores the path from big data to precision medicine by discussing the utility of novel approaches, methods, and systems in genomic science. Topics include technologies and platforms in genomics, analysis of large-scale data, methods for the interpretation of genomic alterations, data collection and privacy, data ownership, issues for data science applications, and clinical application of data in focused patient care.
Prerequisites: BIOS S-14 or BIOS E-45 or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students
BIOS S-50
Neurobiology
Egzona Morina PhD, Postdoctoral Associate in Biology and MITx Digital Learning Teaching Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ariel Hairston MA, Doctoral Candidate in Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35354 | Section 1
Description
This course explores the brain at the level of molecules, cells, circuits, and behavior. Topics include brain anatomy and function; sensory and motor systems; how the brain processes thoughts; how the brain regulates emotions; learning, memory, and attention; neurodiversity; and neurological disorders.
Prerequisites: A college-level introductory biology course or a strong background in biology is recommended for students to be successful in this course.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Sever Hall 113
Required sections Fridays, time to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students
BIOS S-61
Introduction to Immunology with Laboratory Techniques
Angie Schmider PhD, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34508 | Section 1
Description
Immunology is the study of the immune system, the body’s built-in defense system. This course covers an integrated introduction to immunology and uses techniques used in research and diagnostic laboratories. This is a hands-on course with an emphasis on laboratory approaches that illustrate concepts of how the immune system works. The immunological techniques used include identifying proteins in cells using fluorescence microscopy and western blot and analyzing why cells move towards certain chemicals. For example, when diagnosing certain autoimmune diseases, scientists use fluorescence microscopy to look at where proteins reside inside of cells. The laboratory component is a way to observe experiments, learn how to design experiments, and to analyze data. All laboratory exercises are demonstrated during class hours. The non-laboratory sessions cover the theoretical aspects of the practical laboratory approaches and the ways that research is performed to understand immunology. The course also covers how to critically discuss scientific literature and how to create and present scientific data.
Prerequisites: An introductory college biology course, AP biology, or permission from the instructor.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Northwest Science Building B137
Optional lab sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
BIOS S-74
Marine Life and Ecosystems of the Sea
Collin H. Johnson PhD, Lab Curriculum Coordinator III, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32373 | Section 1
Description
This course explores the life history and adaptations of marine life and the ecosystems of the sea. Emphasis is placed on understanding the fragility and resilience of marine systems in the face of anthropogenically driven perturbations such as habitat fragmentation, elevated sea surface temperature, non-native species, nonsustainable fishing practices, and increased global tourism.
Prerequisites: One year of secondary school biology.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm, Sever Hall 109
Required labs Wednesdays, 3:15-6:15 pm.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 16 students
BIOT S-200
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
Elizabeth Wiltrout Leary PhD, Senior Program Manager, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts Medical Center
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32666 | Section 1
Description
In this proseminar, we focus on science writing, data interpretation, and collaborative and independent experimental design. Students who successfully complete the course are those who demonstrate an ability to assess information from the primary scientific literature, a command of oral and written communication skills, and the ability to generate a logical progression of experiments to help validate or nullify their hypothesis. Reading materials include publications on scientific writing and experimental design. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone.
Prerequisites: The instructor assumes that students already have undergraduate degrees in an area of life, physical, or computer science, as well as professional scientific training. Scientists coming from a physical or computer science background should successfully complete BIOS S-1a and BIOS S-1b, and BIOS S-12, or their equivalents, before attempting to take BIOT S-200. EXPO S-42c is strongly recommended. Students must earn a satisfactory score on the test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
BIOT S-212
Vaccines and Clinical Trials
Mihaela G. Gadjeva PhD, Associate Director, Bacteriology, Moderna
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35629 | Section 1
Description
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we learned much about vaccine development, including nomination of candidate vaccine targets, analysis of immune responses, deployment, and distribution of vaccines. A major conclusion from those experiences is the conviction that we need to expand technologies that lead to effective vaccine nominations and development. This interactive, discussion-based course is designed to highlight the most recent advances in immunology, microbiology, and vaccinology regarding new vaccine developments. The focus of the course is to understand how vaccines against bacterial pathogens were developed in the past and what improvements can be implemented today. Using real-life clinical cases, we make connections between disease manifestations, cellular responses, immunity, and infection. We cover general principles of vaccinology and discuss examples of successful vaccines that were produced using reverse vaccinology approaches. For example, we discuss how a serogroup B meningococcal (MenB) vaccine against Neisseria meningitidis was discovered and why it is efficacious. We also talk about one of the oldest vaccines in the world, bacille Calmette-Gu rin (BCG), and define its protective efficacy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and cross-protection offered against SARS-CoV-2. We discuss why there are no currently available vaccines against pathogens such as Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, or E. coli. Students learn to understand results from past and ongoing clinical trials where vaccines targeting difficult-to-handle pathogens are evaluated. We talk about the importance of machine learning and artificial intelligence approaches to developing new vaccines. Finally, we discuss how advancements in sciences are translated in the budding of new biotech start-ups and spin-offs, which offer new approaches for vaccine development. Students may not take both BIOT S-212 and BIOT S-215 (offered previously) for degree or certificate credit.
Prerequisites: This course is designed for graduate students with prior knowledge of molecular biology and/or immunology.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
BIOT S-225
Biomedical Product Development
Sujata K. Bhatia PhD, MD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35555 | Section 1
Description
This course examines the design and development of new therapeutic products. Students learn through case-based studies of product development for pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices, and combination therapies. The course describes the steps of biomedical product development, from conceptualization to design, manufacturing, regulatory approval, and commercialization. The course discusses both technical and business factors that contribute to the success or failure of new biomedical products. Appropriate design of preclinical and clinical trials is also included. Students gain an appreciation for emerging technologies in stem cells, gene therapy, tissue regeneration, personalized medicine, and targeted therapies. Additionally, students learn about the special challenges presented by emerging biomedical technologies. By the end of the course, each student completes a project to propose a new biomedical device and identify the regulatory strategy, technical milestones, and business milestones for the new device.
Prerequisites: Background in introductory biology and chemistry.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
CELT S-110
Introduction to Irish Myth, Folklore, and Music
Kate Chadbourne PhD, Affiliate of the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35771 | Section 1
Description
Ireland from its earliest times to the present boasts a rich and complex mythic tradition that serves as an energizing source for literature, folk and fairylore, and even music. Students consider medieval and more recent sources for mythological study, and examine such topics as Ireland’s sacred geography, deities, fairies, heroes, folk ritual, and traditional songs and tunes.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
CHEM S-101
Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Heidi Vollmer-Snarr PhD, Senior Preceptor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Director of Advanced Undergraduate Laboratories, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34861 | Section 1
Description
This is a project-based course in which groups of 2-4 students engage in synthetic organic or bioanalytical chemistry research. Students are introduced to experimental problems encountered in the synthesis, isolation, purification, characterization, and identification of potentially therapeutic organic compounds. Students also learn to design and create ion-selective electrode systems to detect medical biomarkers and environmental toxins. Throughout the research process, students gain technical proficiency and develop an understanding of both the theory and practice of organic synthesis, spectroscopy, and bioanalytical analysis. Students use electronic notebooks to keep track of their research findings, which they present in group meetings and write up for publication.
Prerequisites: CHEM S-20ab, Harvard College Chemistry 20/30 or equivalent organic chemistry background, or permission of the instructor. This course is suitable for students with or without extensive laboratory experience. Students must submit a petition (maximum 3,000 characters) to enroll when adding this course to their cart. This petition will serve as a statement of interest, explaining the student’s relevant experience and reasons for wanting to take this courses. Petitions should detail how the student has fulfilled the prerequisites for the course. Petitions are reviewed by the instructor. Once a decision has been made, students will see in their carts whether the petition has been approved or denied. Secondary School Program students will also need to submit a petition to the Secondary School Program.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-5:00pm, Northwest Science Building 158
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 10 students
CHEM S-17
Principles of Organic Chemistry
Timothy J. Brunker DPhil, Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, Tufts University
Sirinya Matchacheep PhD, Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Director of Instructional Laboratory Programs, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33668 | Section 1
Description
This course is a one-semester (4-credit) introduction to organic chemistry, with an emphasis on structure and bonding, reaction mechanisms, and chemical reactivity. It covers all of the important functional groups and reactivity needed for applications in medicine and biochemistry, including aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, and amides. Students who succeed in in this course are well prepared for the organic chemistry portion of medical school entrance exams and other similar exams. Students who need a full year of organic chemistry (8 credits) should take CHEM S-20ab, which goes into greater depth with extensive coverage of laboratory organic synthesis, spectroscopy, and other topics needed for more advanced study of the subject.
Prerequisites: One year of general chemistry (equivalent to CHEM S-1ab) with a grade of C or better, or equivalent preparation (for example, an AP Chemistry course).
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, Northwest Science Building B103
Required labs Mondays and Wednesdays, 1-5 pm or Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1-5 pm. Required discussion sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. Beginning in Summer 2024, Harvard College students who take CHEM S-17 may only be exempted from the lab component of Chem 17. They will be required to complete the lab component of Chem 27.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 150 students
CHEM S-1ab
General Chemistry
Gregg Tucci PhD, Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Justin McCarty MM, Head Teaching Fellow in General Chemistry, Harvard Division of Continuing Education
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30877 | Section 1
Description
This course is a comprehensive survey of chemistry for the general student that emphasizes the principles underlying the formation and interaction of chemical substances: stoichiometry, states of matter, thermochemistry, atomic and molecular structure, intermolecular forces, solutions, thermodynamics, kinetics, chemical equilibrium, acids and bases, electrochemistry, and environmental chemistry. This course fulfills the requirement of two semesters of inorganic chemistry for entrance to medical school.
Prerequisites: High school algebra and chemistry. Students must have access to a printer.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, Mallinckrodt Laboratory PFIZER
Three required two-hour laboratories, three one-hour discussion sections, and one two-and-a-half-hour review sessions per week to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. Students in this section and section 2 of CHEM S-1ab may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students
CHEM S-1ab
General Chemistry
Gregg Tucci PhD, Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Justin McCarty MM, Head Teaching Fellow in General Chemistry, Harvard Division of Continuing Education
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35644 | Section 2
Description
This course is a comprehensive survey of chemistry for the general student that emphasizes the principles underlying the formation and interaction of chemical substances: stoichiometry, states of matter, thermochemistry, atomic and molecular structure, intermolecular forces, solutions, thermodynamics, kinetics, chemical equilibrium, acids and bases, electrochemistry, and environmental chemistry. This course fulfills the requirement of two semesters of inorganic chemistry for entrance to medical school.
Prerequisites: High school algebra and chemistry. Students must have access to a printer.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Three required two-hour laboratories, three one-hour discussion sections, and one two-and-a-half-hour review sessions per week to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. Students in this section and section 1 of CHEM S-1ab may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students
CHEM S-20ab
Intensive Organic Chemistry
Sirinya Matchacheep PhD, Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Director of Instructional Laboratory Programs, Harvard University
Peter B. Hamel MA, Chemistry Teacher, Newton North High School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30609 | Section 1
Description
This course is an intensive, comprehensive introduction to the chemistry of carbon and its importance to living systems. Topics include current ideas of bonding and structure, major reaction mechanisms and pathways, a discussion of the analytical tools used to determine the structure and stereochemistry of organic molecules (such as infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance [NMR] spectroscopy), and some of the chemistry of enzymes and cofactors. This course fulfills the requirement of two semesters of organic chemistry with lab for entrance to medical school.
Prerequisites: One year of college general chemistry with a grade of B- or higher. Students without adequate background may not be able to keep up with the course. Not recommended for high school students.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:45am, Northwest Science Building B101
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:00am, Northwest Science Building B101
Required labs Mondays and Wednesdays, 1-5 pm. Required sections Tuesdays-Fridays, 12:30-2:30 pm and Wednesdays 12-1 pm.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students
CHEM S-A
Chemistry in Context
Lu Wang PhD, Senior Preceptor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Wyatt Hurt MA, Curriculum and Pedagogy Manager, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35581 | Section 1
Description
This course is an integrated introduction to general chemistry, taught in a contextual framework of social, environmental, technological, and health issues. It is intended for students with little to no background in chemistry, as well as those who desire to expand their basic understanding of chemistry. The topics covered include atomic structures and properties, stoichiometry, solutions, chemical bonding, energy, thermochemistry, nuclear chemistry, electrochemistry, polymers, chemical equilibrium, basic acids and bases, and an introductory exploration to the wonders and weirdness of the quantum world that shapes our world.
Prerequisites: No prior background in chemistry is required. Basic knowledge of algebra is helpful.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Required synchronous sections Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30-8 pm. Required synchronous labs Fridays, 6:30-9:30 pm. If enrollment permits, additional sections may be added Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30-2 pm and labs Fridays 12:30-3:30 pm. See course syllabus for details.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
CHEM S-B
The Molecules of Life, Nature, and Industry
Heidi Vollmer-Snarr PhD, Senior Preceptor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Director of Advanced Undergraduate Laboratories, Harvard University
Khaled Abdelazim PhD, Preceptor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34797 | Section 1
Description
This introductory course teaches students the fundamentals of organic chemistry through its applications in our everyday lives, exploring topics ranging from materials, energy, and the environment to the human biome, medicine, disease, and the ways molecules influence how we think and feel. Students learn to relate the three-dimensional structure of organic molecules to their chemical and physical properties; to identify functional groups exhibiting patterns of reactivity; to predict products of a reaction in the context of thermodynamics and kinetics; and to hypothesize how molecules will react in different environmental contexts. They learn how to think like scientists and be effective problem solvers skills that are transferable to any future field of study. The course culminates in a final project presentation on a topic of a student’s choice.
Prerequisites: High school general chemistry.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 8:30am-11:00am, Northwest Science Building B108
Required sections Monday-Thursday, 12-1:15 pm.
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
Yuxiao Du EdM, Preceptor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Fangzheng Zhang EdM, Perceptor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Ying-Chieh Wang MA, Language Instructor in Chinese, Harvard University
Minglei Lin BA, Language Instructor in Chinese, Harvard University
CHIN S-Ba
Elementary Chinese I
Bin Yang MA, Preceptor in Chinese, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32809 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to basic Chinese grammar, vocabulary, usage, and the writing system for students with little or no background in the language. The course seeks to help students acquire the rudimentary knowledge of Chinese and develop basic skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the language. By the end of the course, students are expected to have a good command of the pronunciation system and basic grammar, to be able to conduct daily conversation in simple Chinese, and to read and write short passages. Through learning the language, students gain an initial understanding of some Chinese social and cultural phenomena.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Required drill sections Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9-10:30 am or 10:45 am-12:15 pm.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
CLAS S-97a
Introduction to the Ancient Greek World
Paul J. Kosmin PhD, Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35023 | Section 1
Description
This course covers the history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean palace civilizations to the Roman conquest of the east Mediterranean. Attention is paid to the major political, social, economic, and cultural transformations, all set within their Mediterranean and west Asian environments. Students explore the wide variety of textual sources (in translation) and archaeological evidence out of which historians seek to understand ancient Greece.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Sever Hall 106
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. Harvard University’s Classics department is offering scholarships for high school or college students taking introductory Greek or Latin, or CLAS S-97a. See the department’s website for more information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
Dimiter G. Angelov PhD, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History, Harvard University
Yota Batsaki PhD, Executive Director of Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University
Emma Dench DPhil, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of Classics and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Eurydice Georganteli PhD, Lecturer in Art History and Numismatics, Harvard University
Dimitri Kastritsis PhD, Associate Librarian for Global Studies and Development, University of Virginia
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi PhD, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University
Gregory Nagy PhD, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Michael Puett PhD, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Jake Charles Ransohoff PhD, Mary Seeger O’Boyle Postdoctoral Fellow, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
David F. Elmer PhD, Professor of the Classics, Harvard University
Bonnie Talbert PhD, Lecturer on Social Studies and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies for Freshmen and Sophomores in Social Studies, Harvard University
Petra Belkovic Taylor PhD, Executive Director and Professor of Literature and Culture, European Center for the Study of War and Peace
Petra Belkovic Taylor PhD, Executive Director and Professor of Literature and Culture, European Center for the Study of War and Peace
COMP S-120
Disease, Illness, and Health through Literature
Karen Thornber PhD, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35838 | Section 1
Description
At some point in our lives, most of us will develop a serious health condition that requires extensive medical care. We also are likely to be called on to provide care for loved ones. Moreover, as COVID-19 has made glaringly apparent, racial, economic, social, and other inequalities mean many members of society are especially and disproportionately vulnerable to serious health conditions. Engaging with a diverse range of films, fiction, memoirs, creative non-fiction, life writing, and drama globally by physicians and other health professionals, patients, activists, and concerned citizens, this course helps us interrogate what it means to promote healing and well-being in our personal and professional lives. The materials with which we engage Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, Jeremy Nobel’s Project UnLonely, Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, Monique Rainford’s Pregnant While Black, Uche Blackstock’s Legacy, Mai Neng Moua’s The Bride Price, and Anne Fadiman’s When the Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down on health crises such as loneliness, cancer, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, and end-of-life decisions and care help us reflect on different ways to become strong advocates for practices that reduce suffering and promote healing.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. Harvard College students: this course counts for the Aesthetics and Culture Gen Ed requirement and is equivalent to Gen Ed 1078. It does not count for the College’s divisional distribution requirement.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 72 students
CREA S-1
Beginning Creative Writing
Janet Sylvester PhD
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35808 | Section 1
Description
This course offers an introduction to creative writing in several forms. Students try their hands at writing short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction essays as well as additional in-class creative exercises. We also read well-known authors, study their aesthetic strategies, and draw inspiration from them. Creative writing can be challenging and require hard work: it requires a flexibility of mind, leaps of imagination, the patience to revise, and noticing when your subconscious is tugging very lightly at your sleeve, trying to get your attention while you’re busy with something else. But it also can be deeply fulfilling and offer a kind of pleasure available nowhere else. The poet Louise Gl ck writes that “[F]or me, always,/ the delight is the surprise,” and in this course we explore the many surprising delights that creative writing has to offer.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-100r
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Short Story
Leah De Forest MFA, Writer
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35175 | Section 1
Description
This is an intensive workshop in the craft of writing short fiction. It is for writers who love to read short stories and want to make their own short stories come alive on the page. Students should arrive having read widely among past and contemporary practitioners of the short story form. We build on that foundation through close reading and discussion of exceptional short stories. We also consider practicalities, such as how to organize a collection in progress, how to submit stories to literary journals, and how to stay connected to your vision. Much of our time together is spent in workshop. Students carefully read and thoughtfully respond to one another’s writing and we work together to determine how best to filter and synthesize the feedback offered in a workshop setting. The skills honed via peer feedback are crucial in editing one’s own work, and students conclude the term having written and revised two new short stories (10 to 20 pages each).
Prerequisites: A beginning- or intermediate-level fiction writing course or permission of the instructor. Students should bring a 10-page sample of their work to the first class.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-100r
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Short Story
Lindsay Mitchell MFA, Senior Editor, Harvard Magazine
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35579 | Section 2
Description
This is an intensive workshop in the craft of writing short fiction. It is for writers who love to read short stories and want to make their own short stories come alive on the page. Students should arrive having read widely among past and contemporary practitioners of the short story form. We build on that foundation through close reading and discussion of exceptional short stories. We also consider practicalities, such as how to organize a collection in progress, how to submit stories to literary journals, and how to stay connected to your vision. Much of our time together is spent in workshop. Students carefully read and thoughtfully respond to one another’s writing and we work together to determine how best to filter and synthesize the feedback offered in a workshop setting. The skills honed via peer feedback are crucial in editing one’s own work, and students conclude the term having written and revised two new short stories (10 to 20 pages each).
Prerequisites: A beginning- or intermediate-level fiction writing course or permission of the instructor.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-105r
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Novel
Thomas Wisniewski PhD, Lecturer on Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35626 | Section 1
Description
This is an advanced fiction-writing course. Class meetings run mainly as workshops: students respond to one another’s novel excerpts. We also discuss process, as well as elements of fiction that relate to the novel. Students are expected to produce two new chapters (10 to 20 pages each) and to revise them during the term.
Prerequisites: A beginning-level creative writing course or permission of the instructor.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-105r
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Novel
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta PhD, Writer
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35804 | Section 2
Description
This is an intensive course in the craft of writing a novel. In an anthology called Writers on Writing, Doris Lessing wrote: “There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.” Though each novel creates a world all its own for readers to live in, the novelist can work toward mastering a set of reliable skills for the novel to be a satisfying, believable world, one that sustains the reader’s interest from first page to last. The focus of this advanced fiction course is to teach novelists these skills through class discussion, close-reading, writing exercises, and workshop sessions. In the beginning of the course, students complete and share with the class a series of exercises to frame and set their novel’s vision; then we move into workshopping excerpts of each novel in small groups, polishing the excerpts through revision. At the end of the course, students present a reading of their work and turn in a final, polished draft of one chapter of their novel-in-progress.
Prerequisites: A beginning-level creative writing course or permission of the instructor.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students. Final paper due Monday, July 29.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-114
Advanced Fiction: Writing Suspense Fiction
Chris Mooney MA, Author
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35821 | Section 1
Description
Learn how techniques used in suspense fiction structure, pace, tension, and plot can be applied to your own writing. In addition to studying the bestselling works of both commercial and literary writers of suspense, students complete weekly writing assignments and participate in writing workshops. Writing samples are read and critiqued by a literary agent.
Prerequisites: An introductory and/or intermediate fiction course or permission of the instructor.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-115r
Advanced Memoir
Brian Pietras PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35778 | Section 1
Description
This workshop course is intended for experienced writers of memoir who want to produce publishable work. A perennially popular genre, memoir transforms real-life experiences into art. In the first half of the course, we study the work of great memoirists, ranging from canonical favorites (such as Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, E.B. White, and Annie Dillard) to emerging and experimental voices (including Alex Marzano-Lesnevich and Carmen Maria Machado). In the second half, we use what we have learned about scene, exposition, character, point of view, and voice to produce new work. Students may write chapters from a memoir project or standalone personal essays.
Prerequisites: A beginning creative writing course in memoir or personal essays, or permission of the instructor. Students should come to the first class with either a memoir in progress or a well-developed idea for a 5,000-word memoir chapter or personal essay.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-118r
Advanced Creative Nonfiction
Steve Almond MA, Visiting Writer, Wesleyan University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35814 | Section 1
Description
This workshop course is intended for experienced writers of creative nonfiction who want to produce publishable work. Sometimes referred to as true stories, well told, creative nonfiction is a capacious genre. In the first half of the course we study writing by masters of the craft, including James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Cathy Park Hong, Audre Lorde, and Jo Ann Beard. In the second half, we use what we have learned about scene, plot, character, point of view, and voice to produce new work. Students may write memoirs, personal or lyric essays, profiles, and literary nonfiction. Toward the end of the course, we focus on strategies for getting published, including how to identify likely publication venues and how to effectively pitch editors.
Prerequisites: An introductory course in creative nonfiction or permission of the instructor.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-141
Advanced TV Writing: Comedy Sketch Writing
Hugh Fink BFA, Writer and Producer
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35468 | Section 1
Description
In this course, students develop comedy sketch-writing skills by studying the work of masters of the genre and by drafting and revising the components of a professional submission packet: evergreen topical jokes, fake commercials, conceptual pieces, and original comedic characters. We analyze the comedic structure and use of escalation in classic sketch templates (television and film parodies, political satire, and digital shorts), as well as sketches written for iconic productions, including Saturday Night Live, Key and Peele, and The Chappelle Show. In workshop, students experience the professional pitching and rewriting process as they refine their comedic voice.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-25
Beginning Fiction
Mary Sullivan Walsh BA, Author and Freelance Editor
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33954 | Section 1
Description
Students learn and practice the fundamentals of writing fiction character, plot, dialogue, description, style in a workshop setting. By discussing and analyzing published short fiction (our list may include such writers as James Baldwin, Junot Diaz, and Jhumpa Lahiri), students learn the narrative techniques and strategies of creative writers. This course is intended for those who write regularly and wish to develop their skills, talents, and voices.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 12:00pm-2:30pm, Sever Hall 112
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes:
Enrollment limit: Limited to 12 students
CREA S-30
Poetry Writing
Stephanie Burt PhD, Professor of English, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34505 | Section 1
Description
Students refine their mastery of the essential techniques of writing poetry, including rhythm and meter, diction, voice, sonic devices, lineation, imagery, and mode. They also study technical concerns in forms they identify as of particular interest to them, such as blank verse, sestinas, ghazals, sonnets, and free verse. Classes are divided between discussions of work by contemporary and historical poets and workshops of student writing.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Barker Center 218
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-45a
Beginning Screenwriting
Susan Steinberg PhD, Filmmaker, Writer
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35363 | Section 1
Description
This is a workshop for those who wish to learn the foundations and processes for writing feature-length motion picture screenplays. Adaptations, documentary, and television scripts may be written with the instructor’s permission. Topics covered include concept and theme development, dramatic structure, plot, character arc, dialogue writing, the use of visual language, and writing in format. By the semester’s end, students produce a full feature film treatment and complete act one of their film in script format. Class meetings consist of presentation and discussion of work, writing exercises, brief lectures, film, and script analyses. At the semester’s end, actors do readings of script segments.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Robinson Hall 107
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes:
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-490a
Writers’ Residency: Fiction
Rachel Kadish MA, MFA in Creative Writing Faculty, Lesley University
Jane A. Rosenzweig MFA, Director of the Writing Center and Head Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Christina Thompson PhD, Editor, Harvard Review, Harvard College Library
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35633 | Section 1
Description
This section of the writers’ residency is for writers of fiction. The writers’ residency is for advanced creative writers who have been admitted to the Harvard Extension School Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), creative writing and literature. In the first week, participants explore fundamentals of the writer’s craft in a workshop setting and prepare for and participate in a student reading. This master class is followed by an agents and editors weekend, consisting of two days of panels, workshops, and small group meetings designed to teach students how to bring their creative work to the marketplace. Weeks two and three of the residency feature a series of follow-up sessions focused on the craft and business of writing.
Prerequisites: Students must be officially admitted degree candidates in good academic standing in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), creative writing and literature. Prospective candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must have successfully completed at least 28 degree-applicable credits with required grades. Pre-arrival requirements: by July 1, two weeks prior to the start of the Writers’ Residency, candidates must post to Canvas an original manuscript of no more than 3,500 words. Manuscript requirements vary by section, so consult the syllabus for your section. All participants are required to read and critique their classmates’ work in advance of the first meeting on July 15. Candidates who do not meet the degree requirements or fail to submit the manuscript by the deadline and complete their critiques in advance of the first class meeting will be dropped from the course. Final course work is due August 1.
Class Meetings:
See course description
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, July 15-19, 10:00am-5:00pm, Robinson Hall 105
Saturday, Sunday, July 20-21, 10:00am-5:00pm, Room TBA
Mondays, Wednesdays, July 22-August 1, 3:15pm-6:15pm, 1 Story Street 304
Final work is due August 1. See syllabus for further details.
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Students attending on F-1 visas must attend all course meetings on campus. Harvard Summer School housing is available for the full three weeks for students who wish to remain on campus while they work on their writing projects (one-week housing is not available on campus). Students in this section, other sections of CREA S-490A, and sections of CREA S-490B and CREA S-490D may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-490a
Writers’ Residency: Fiction
Daphne Kalotay PhD, Lecturer in Creative Writing, Princeton University
Jane A. Rosenzweig MFA, Director of the Writing Center and Head Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Christina Thompson PhD, Editor, Harvard Review, Harvard College Library
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35632 | Section 2
Description
This section of the writers’ residency is for writers of fiction and creative nonfiction. The writers’ residency is for advanced creative writers who have been admitted to the Harvard Extension School Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), creative writing and literature. In the first week, participants explore fundamentals of the writer’s craft in a workshop setting and prepare for and participate in a student reading. This master class is followed by an agents and editors weekend, consisting of two days of panels, workshops, and small group meetings designed to teach students how to bring their creative work to the marketplace. Weeks two and three of the residency feature a series of follow-up sessions focused on the craft and business of writing.
Prerequisites: Students must be officially admitted degree candidates in good academic standing in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), creative writing and literature. Prospective candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must have successfully completed at least 28 degree-applicable credits with required grades. Pre-arrival requirements: by July 1, two weeks prior to the start of the writers’ residency, candidates must post to Canvas an original manuscript of no more than 3,500 words. Manuscript requirements vary by section, so consult the syllabus for your section. All participants are required to read and critique their classmates’ work in advance of the first meeting on July 15. Candidates who do not meet the degree requirements or fail to submit the manuscript by the deadline and complete their critiques in advance of the first class meeting will be dropped from the course. Final course work is due August 1.
Class Meetings:
See course description
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, July 15-19, 10:00am-5:00pm, CGIS Knafel K108
Saturday, Sunday, July 20-21, 10:00am-5:00pm, Room TBA
Mondays, Wednesdays, July 22-August 1, 3:15pm-6:15pm, 1 Story Street 304
Final work is due August 1. See syllabus for further details.
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Students attending on F-1 visas must attend all course meetings on campus. Harvard Summer School housing is available for the full three weeks for students who wish to remain on campus while they work on their writing projects (one-week housing is not available on campus). Students in this section, other sections of CREA S-490A, and sections of CREA S-490B and CREA S-490D may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-490a
Writers’ Residency: Fiction
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta PhD, Writer
Jane A. Rosenzweig MFA, Director of the Writing Center and Head Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Christina Thompson PhD, Editor, Harvard Review, Harvard College Library
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35634 | Section 3
Description
This section of the writers’ residency is for writers of fiction. The writers’ residency is for advanced creative writers who have been admitted to the Harvard Extension School Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), creative writing and literature. In the first week, participants explore fundamentals of the writer’s craft in a workshop setting and prepare for and participate in a student reading. This master class is followed by an agents and editors weekend, consisting of two days of panels, workshops, and small group meetings designed to teach students how to bring their creative work to the marketplace. Weeks two and three of the residency feature a series of follow-up sessions focused on the craft and business of writing.
Prerequisites: Students must be officially admitted degree candidates in good academic standing in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), creative writing and literature. Prospective candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must have successfully completed at least 28 degree-applicable credits with required grades. Pre-arrival requirements: by July 1, two weeks prior to the start of the writers’ residency, candidates must post to Canvas an original manuscript of no more than 3,500 words. Manuscript requirements vary by section, so consult the syllabus for your section. All participants are required to read and critique their classmates’ work in advance of the first meeting on July 15. Candidates who do not meet the degree requirements or fail to submit the manuscript by the deadline and complete their critiques in advance of the first class meeting will be dropped from the course. Final course work is due August 1.
Class Meetings:
See course description
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, July 15-19, 10:00am-5:00pm, Barker Center 114
Saturday, Sunday, July 20-21, 10:00am-5:00pm, Room TBA
Mondays, Wednesdays, July 22-August 1, 3:15pm-6:15pm, 1 Story Street 304
Final work is due August 1. See syllabus for further details.
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Students attending on F-1 visas must attend all course meetings on campus. Harvard Summer School housing is available for the full three weeks for students who wish to remain on campus while they work on their writing projects (one-week housing is not available on campus). Students in this section, other sections of CREA S-490A, and sections of CREA S-490B and CREA S-490D may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-490a
Writers’ Residency: Fiction
Nick White PhD, Associate Professor of English, The Ohio State University
Jane A. Rosenzweig MFA, Director of the Writing Center and Head Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Christina Thompson PhD, Editor, Harvard Review, Harvard College Library
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35846 | Section 4
Description
This section of the writers’ residency is for writers of fiction. The writers’ residency is for advanced creative writers who have been admitted to the Harvard Extension School Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), creative writing and literature. In the first week, participants explore fundamentals of the writer’s craft in a workshop setting and prepare for and participate in a student reading. This master class is followed by an agents and editors weekend, consisting of two days of panels, workshops, and small group meetings designed to teach students how to bring their creative work to the marketplace. Weeks two and three of the residency feature a series of follow-up sessions focused on the craft and business of writing.
Prerequisites: Students must be officially admitted degree candidates in good academic standing in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), creative writing and literature. Prospective candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must have successfully completed at least 28 degree-applicable credits with required grades. Pre-arrival requirements: by July 1, two weeks prior to the start of the writers’ residency, candidates must post to Canvas an original manuscript of no more than 3,500 words. Manuscript requirements vary by section, so consult the syllabus for your section. All participants are required to read and critique their classmates’ work in advance of the first meeting on July 15. Candidates who do not meet the degree requirements or fail to submit the manuscript by the deadline and complete their critiques in advance of the first class meeting will be dropped from the course. Final course work is due August 1.
Class Meetings:
See course description
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, July 15-19, 10:00am-5:00pm, CGIS South S003
Saturday, Sunday, July 20-21, 10:00am-5:00pm, Room TBA
Mondays, Wednesdays, July 22-August 1, 3:15pm-6:15pm, 1 Story Street 304
Final work is due August 1. See syllabus for further details.
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Students attending on F-1 visas must attend all course meetings on campus. Harvard Summer School housing is available for the full three weeks for students who wish to remain on campus while they work on their writing projects (one-week housing is not available on campus). Students in this section, other sections of CREA S-490A, and sections of CREA S-490B and CREA S-490D may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-490b
Writers’ Residency: Dramatic Writing
Bryan Delaney MA, Playwright and Screenwriter
Shelley Evans MFA, Screenwriter
Jane A. Rosenzweig MFA, Director of the Writing Center and Head Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Christina Thompson PhD, Editor, Harvard Review, Harvard College Library
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35631 | Section 1
Description
This section of the writers’ residency is for writers interested in writing drama, as well as for fiction and creative nonfiction writers interested in studying elements of dramatic writing. Students interested in exploring dramatic writing for the first time or who would like to expand their skill set are welcome to register. The writers’ residency is for advanced creative writers who have been admitted to the Harvard Extension School Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), creative writing and literature. In the first week, participants explore fundamentals of the dramatic writer’s craft in a workshop setting and prepare for and participate in a simulated television writers room. This master class is followed by an agents and editors weekend, consisting of two days of panels, workshops, and small group meetings designed to teach students how to bring their creative work to the marketplace. Weeks two and three of the residency feature a series of follow-up sessions focused on the craft and business of writing.
Prerequisites: Students must be officially admitted degree candidates in good academic standing in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), creative writing and literature. Prospective candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must have successfully completed at least 28 degree-applicable credits with required grades. Pre-arrival requirements: by July 1, two weeks prior to the start of the writers’ residency, candidates must post to Canvas an original manuscript of no more than 3,500 words. Manuscript requirements vary by section, so consult the syllabus for your section. All participants are required to read and critique their classmates’ work in advance of the first meeting on July 15. Candidates who do not meet the degree requirements or fail to submit the manuscript by the deadline and complete their critiques in advance of the first class meeting will be dropped from the course. Final course work is due August 1.
Class Meetings:
See course description
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, July 15-19, 10:00am-5:00pm, Barker Center 211
Saturday, Sunday, July 20-21, 10:00am-5:00pm, Room TBA
Mondays, Wednesdays, July 22-August 1, 3:15pm-6:15pm, 1 Story Street 304
Final work is due August 1. See syllabus for further details.
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Students attending on F-1 visas must attend all course meetings on campus. Harvard Summer School housing is available for the full three weeks for students who wish to remain on campus while they work on their writing projects (one-week housing is not available on campus). Students in this section and sections of CREA S-490A and CREA S-490D may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-490d
Writers’ Residency: Speculative Fiction
Emily X.R. Pan MFA, Author
Jane A. Rosenzweig MFA, Director of the Writing Center and Head Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Christina Thompson PhD, Editor, Harvard Review, Harvard College Library
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35845 | Section 1
Description
This section of the writers’ residency is for writers working in genres that take a departure from our known reality, including but not limited to: fantasy, science fiction, dystopian, alternate history, horror, and fabulism. Students interested in exploring speculative fiction for the first time or who would like to expand their skill set are welcome to register. The writers’ residency is for advanced creative writers who have been admitted to the Harvard Extension School Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), creative writing and literature. In the first week, participants explore fundamentals of the writer’s craft in a workshop setting and prepare for and participate in a student reading. This master class is followed by an agents and editors weekend, consisting of two days of panels, workshops, and small group meetings designed to teach students how to bring their creative work to the marketplace. Weeks two and three of the residency feature a series of follow-up sessions focused on the craft and business of writing.
Prerequisites: Students must be officially admitted degree candidates in good academic standing in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), creative writing and literature. Prospective candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must have successfully completed at least 28 degree-applicable credits with required grades. Pre-arrival requirements: by July 1, two weeks prior to the start of the writers’ residency, candidates must post to Canvas an original manuscript of no more than 3,500 words. Manuscript requirements vary by section, so consult the syllabus for your section. All participants are required to read and critique their classmates’ work in advance of the first meeting on July 15. Candidates who do not meet the degree requirements or fail to submit the manuscript by the deadline and complete their critiques in advance of the first class meeting will be dropped from the course. Final course work is due August 1.
Class Meetings:
See course description
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, July 15-19, 10:00am-5:00pm, Emerson Hall 106
Saturday, Sunday, July 20-21, 10:00am-5:00pm, Room TBA
Mondays, Wednesdays, July 22-August 1, 3:15pm-6:15pm, 1 Story Street 304
Final work is due August 1. See syllabus for further details.
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Students attending on F-1 visas must attend all course meetings on campus. Harvard Summer School housing is available for the full three weeks for students who wish to remain on campus while they work on their writing projects (one-week housing is not available on campus). Students in this section and sections of CREA S-490A and CREA S-490B may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CREA S-72
Writing the Short Personal Essay
Tracy L. Strauss MFA, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35562 | Section 1
Description
The personal essay inspires both readers and writers to discover new perspectives for looking at the world, to understand their own lives, and to discover meaning. Personal essays educate and illuminate readers through stories of overcoming obstacles, facing challenges, and forging new paths. They can appear in a variety of styles from application essays to highly journalistic forms, to everything in between depending on their intended audience. In this course, students read and analyze a variety of short personal essays with the aim of collecting a palette of craft tools (particularly for works under 1,500 words), as well as write their own piece, engaging in writing exercises, including drafts, revisions, and peer workshop. Students write one shorter essay (600 words), one longer essay (1,500 words), and a revision of the longer essay into a 900-word piece (sometimes an editor will accept an essay on the contingency that the word count be drastically cut). We also address pitching editors and discovering markets for submission, along with how to manage audience response post-publication.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
CSCI S-101
Foundations of Data Science and Engineering
Bruce Huang EdD, PhD, Director of Master’s Degree Program in Information Technology, Harvard Extension School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35160 | Section 1
Description
Most data scientists spend 20 percent of their time building data models and analyzing model results. What do they do with the remaining 80 percent of their time? The answer is data engineering. Data engineering is a subdiscipline of software engineering that focuses on the transportation, transformation, and management of data. This course takes a comprehensive approach to explore data science, which includes data engineering concepts and techniques. Key topics include data management and transformation, exploratory data analysis and visualization, statistical thinking and machine learning, natural language processing, and storytelling with data, emphasizing the integration of Python, MySQL, Tableau, development, and big data analytics platforms. Students cannot earn Harvard Extension School degree credit for CSCI S-101 if it is taken after CSCI E-29.
Prerequisites: CSCI S-7, CSCI S-50, or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Online
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
CSCI S-108
Data Mining, Discovery, and Exploration
Stephen Elston PhD, Principal Consultant, Quantia Analytics LLC
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35576 | Section 1
Description
Extracting actionable insights and relationships from massive complex data sets is the domain of data mining. Data mining has wide-ranging applications in science and technology. These include web search, interactions in social networks, recommender systems, processing signals in large internet-of-things (IoT) sensor networks, image search, genetic analysis, and discovery of interactions between drugs. This course surveys a range of unsupervised learning algorithms for data mining. The emphasis is on graph algorithms and scaling for massive datasets. The course comprises readings and lectures on theory along with hands-on exercises and projects where students apply the theory through Python coding. For the hands-on component of the course a variety of libraries in the Python language, including possibly Scikit-Learn, NetworkX, Neo4J, Scikit-Learn-Extra, Mlextend, and Surprise are used. Students enrolled for graduate credit are required to perform, present, and report on an independent project. This project must demonstrate a mastery of methods covered in the course as applied to a suitable real-world data set.
Prerequisites: Students enrolling in this course are expected to have some background in Python programming equivalent to CSCI S-7 or CSCI S-29 and exposure to basic machine learning and data science methods, equivalent to CSCI S-101. For those with limited Python programming experience, some experience programming, in any language, such as R, Matlab, or ++, is essential. Knowledge of basic linear algebra, including eigenvalue-eigenvector decomposition and some differential and integral calculus, equivalent to MATH S-21a, is essential.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition.
CSCI S-111
Intensive Introduction to Computer Science and Data Structures
David G. Sullivan PhD, Master Lecturer on Computer Science, Boston University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32344 | Section 1
Description
This course is a fast-paced and rigorous introduction to computer science. The first half of the course covers foundational programming concepts such as data types, conditional execution, iteration, and recursion. It also explores the key features of object-oriented programming, as well as the manipulation of data stored in files and arrays. The second half of the course provides a survey of fundamental data structures including lists, stacks, queues, trees, and graphs. It explores the implementation of these data structures using both array-based and linked representations, and it examines classic algorithms that use these structures for tasks such as sorting, searching, and text compression. Techniques for analyzing the efficiency of algorithms are also covered. Problem sets require a minimum of twenty hours of work each week, including both written problems and programming exercises using the Java programming language. Graduate-credit students are expected to complete additional work. The course includes coverage of the key topics needed for the AP Computer Science A examination, but it also includes a substantial amount of additional material on data structures and algorithm analysis that would ordinarily be covered in the second or third semester of a college-level CS curriculum. Students who have completed the Harvard Extension School courses CSCI E-10a, CSCI E-10b, CSCI E-22, or CSCI E-50 cannot earn degree credit for CSCI S-111.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with precalculus.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, Sever Hall 102
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
CSCI S-147a
Fundamentals of the Law and Cybersecurity
Daniel Garrie JD, Founder and Managing Director, Law and Forensics, LLC and JAMS Neutral Mediator
David Cass MBA, Vice President, Cyber and IT Risk, Supervision Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35408 | Section 1
Description
In a world with almost limitless data collection capability, where cyberattacks can propagate instantaneously and where the identity or location of an adversary may not be known, individuals and institutions are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks that disrupt productivity, jeopardize privacy, and threaten national security. This course examines legal, business, and policy challenges stemming from rapidly evolving cybersecurity threats. It begins with an introduction to privacy, cybersecurity, cybercrime, and cyberwarfare. It explores the national and international legal frameworks that govern cyberspace, including laws related to cybercrime, espionage, and war. The course also discusses how current laws affect corporations and provides detailed case studies regarding the state of cybersecurity in various countries. It looks at the limits of current law and the need for further policy evolution, as well as the real-world impact of different legal, business, and policy options.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
CSCI S-151
Introduction to Databases with SQL
Carter Zenke EdM, Senior Preceptor, Harvard Extension School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35696 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to databases using a language called SQL. Students learn how to create, read, update, and delete data with relational databases, which store data in rows and columns, and how to model real-world entities and relationships among them using tables with appropriate types, triggers, and constraints. The course covers how to normalize data to eliminate redundancies and reduce potential for errors and how to join tables together using primary and foreign keys. Students learn how to automate searches with views and expedite searches with indexes, as well as how to connect SQL with other languages like Python and Java. The course begins with SQLite for portability’s sake and ends with introductions to PostgreSQL and MySQL for scalability’s sake. Assignments are inspired by real-world datasets.
Class Meetings:
Online
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes:
CSCI S-159
Cybersecurity: Intrusion, Hacking, and Detection
David J. Malan PhD, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35695 | Section 1
Description
The course is an introduction to cybersecurity for technical and non-technical audiences alike. Students learn how to secure their accounts, data, systems, and software against today’s threats and how to recognize and evaluate tomorrow’s as well, both at home and at work. Students learn how to preserve their own privacy. Students learn to view cybersecurity not in absolute terms but relative, a function of risks and rewards (for an adversary) and costs and benefits (for them), and to recognize cybersecurity as a trade-off with usability itself. The course presents both high-level and low-level examples of threats, providing students with all they need to know technically to understand both. Assignments are inspired by real-world events.
Class Meetings:
Online
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
CSCI S-176
Advanced Cloud Technology Management: Strategies for Enterprise Deployment
Jeremy Wei EdD, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, iDox.ai
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35692 | Section 1
Description
In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI), organizations are confronted with an urgent and critical demand for competent technology leaders to align technologies with internal and external business needs. This course is designed to address this pressing need, equipping professionals with the essential skills necessary for effective enterprise technology deployment and management. Through a comprehensive curriculum encompassing lectures, readings, discussions, and assignments, students can actively explore and evaluate various aspects of enterprise technology deployment, business-technology alignment, and organizational change decisions and implementations. By engaging in these learning activities, students gain valuable insights and practical knowledge that enable them to drive successful technology strategies within their organizations.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 8:30am-11:30am, 1 Story Street 306
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
CSCI S-184
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Governance, and Laws
Bruce Huang EdD, PhD, Director of Master’s Degree Program in Information Technology, Harvard Extension School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35565 | Section 1
Description
Data science and artificial intelligence (AI) are creating new opportunities to improve businesses’ decision making, productivity, and competitiveness. However, data science and AI also create ethical and privacy concerns. For example, a classification algorithm can harm a sub-category of the population due to bias in the data used to develop and train the model. Data scientists and AI engineers often learn the concepts, tools, and techniques and then start to collect data and develop machine learning algorithms without realizing the unintended consequences of their data products. What obligation do data scientists and AI engineers have to be guardians of the data they collect and analyze? How do we ensure data and AI products’ fairness, interpretability, privacy, and security? This course focuses on ethics, governance, and laws specifically related to data science and AI. This course aims to provide a framework to help students understand the value tradeoffs at stake as they collect data, develop algorithms, and deal with some of the consequences. We use case studies, examples, and simulations to facilitate learning, critical thinking, debates, decision making, and problem solving in the context of data science, AI ethics, and governance.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 54 students
CSCI S-1b
Computer Science for Business Professionals
David J. Malan PhD, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34827 | Section 1
Description
This course is a variant of Harvard College’s introduction to computer science, CS50, designed especially for business professionals. Whereas CS50 itself takes a bottom-up approach, emphasizing mastery of low-level concepts and implementation details thereof, this course takes a top-down approach, emphasizing mastery of high-level concepts and design decisions related thereto. Ultimately, this course empowers students to make technological decisions even if they are not technologists themselves. Topics include cloud computing, networking, privacy, scalability, security, and more, with an emphasis on web and mobile technologies. Students emerge from this course with first-hand appreciation of how it all works and all the more confident in the factors that should guide their decision making. This course is designed for managers, product managers, founders, and decision makers more generally.
Class Meetings:
Online
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
CSCI S-20
Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
Rebecca Nesson PhD, Associate Senior Lecturer on Computer Science, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34851 | Section 1
Description
This course teaches all the math not taught in the traditional calculus/linear algebra sequence that is needed to take more advanced courses in theory of computation and/or algorithms. That is, it teaches discrete mathematics, logic, and basic probability, but does not teach calculus or linear algebra. It also gives a good introduction to reading mathematical notation and writing formal proofs. A principal objective of the course is to not just teach a set of mathematical topics, but also to prepare students to think mathematically and to read and write mathematics.
Prerequisites: MATH S-Ar or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. The pre-recorded lectures are the same as those used in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Computer Science 20.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students
CSCI S-22
Data Structures
David G. Sullivan PhD, Master Lecturer on Computer Science, Boston University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35727 | Section 1
Description
This course is a survey of fundamental data structures for information processing, including lists, stacks, queues, trees, and graphs. It explores the implementation of these data structures (both array-based and linked representations) and examines classic algorithms that use these structures for tasks such as sorting, searching, and text compression. The Java programming language is used to demonstrate the topics discussed; and key notions of object-oriented programming, including encapsulation and abstract data types, are emphasized.
Prerequisites: A good working knowledge of Java (CSCI E-10b or the equivalent).
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition.
CSCI S-23a
Introduction to Game Development
Colton T. Ogden Chief Technology Officer, From Zero LLC
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35364 | Section 1
Description
This course focuses on the development of 2D games. Students explore the design of such childhood titles as Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda, and Pok mon in a quest to understand how video games themselves are implemented. Via lectures and hands-on projects, the course explores principles of 2D graphics, animation, sound, and collision detection using Lua, a dynamic scripting language, and L VE, a lightweight 2D game development framework. By course’s end, students have programmed several of their own games and gained a thorough understanding of the basics of game design and development.
Prerequisites: CSCI S-50, CS50x, or prior programming experience in any language.
Class Meetings:
Online
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition.
CSCI S-278
Applied Quantitative Finance and Machine Learning
MarcAntonio PhD, Head of Research and Data Science, Digital Data Design Institute, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35736 | Section 1
Description
This course is about how to lift the veil of an insider’s industry. Students learn how quantitative finance is applied in practice and utilized by the world’s largest investment banks, asset management firms, hedge funds, pension plans, and insurance companies. All these repeatedly and consistently generate billions in profits. This course covers the four major pillars of quantitative finance: data management and analytics, quantitative investment strategies, portfolio management, and risk management. We address cutting-edge machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in quantitative finance and describe essential industry domain knowledge and techniques which help students to enter the field of quantitative finance or advance in their current role.
Prerequisites: CSCI S-101 and the ability to code in Python and/or R.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
CSCI S-3
Introduction to Web Programming Using JavaScript
Larry Bouthillier MS, Executive Director, University of British Columbia Extended Learning
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35564 | Section 1
Description
This course provides an introduction to web development by way of the essential language and runtime environment that powers modern web interfaces. Through a series of examples and projects, students learn basic programming concepts while building an understanding of the power and complexities of JavaScript, which can perplex even experienced web developers. The course provides a solid foundation in computer programming in JavaScript: syntax and data structures, conditionals, objects, scope and closures, Ajax, the DOM, and event handling. Other topics include form handling and validation, writing and extending web video players, and animations and drawing on the canvas. Students gain an understanding of the popular libraries and frameworks that power rich web applications such as jQuery, VueJS, and others. Upon completion, students are prepared to use JavaScript and JS libraries in their projects, write their own or extend existing JavaScript libraries, and build rich web applications using these powerful tools.
Prerequisites: Prior experience with basic HTML and CSS is important. Students with no prior exposure to programming may find the summer session very challenging and should plan on a significant time commitment, or may want to consider taking the course during a full semester offering at the Harvard Extension School.
Class Meetings:
Online
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition.
CSCI S-33a
Web Programming with Python and JavaScript
Brian Paul Yu EdM, Preceptor in Computer Science, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34139 | Section 1
Description
This course examines the design and implementation of web applications with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap. Topics include database design, scalability, security, and user experience. Through hands-on projects, students learn to write and use APIs, create interactive user interfaces (UIs), and leverage cloud services like GitHub and Heroku. By semester’s end, students emerge with knowledge and experience in the principles, languages, and tools that empower them to design and deploy applications on the internet.
Prerequisites: CSCI S-50, CS50x, or at least one year of experience with Python.
Class Meetings:
Online
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition.
CSCI S-38
Introduction to C++ for Programmers
Lisa DiOrio MS, Owner and Lead Developer, Fembot Creative
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33956 | Section 1
Description
An understanding of C++ helps to solidify programming concepts and skills, and also provides a strong foundation for learning other programming languages. This hands-on course teaches practical programming skills while creating creating text-based games. The course examines how common programming constructs are implemented in C++, including elements of C++ 11. Emphasis is placed on the use of C++ for memory management, file input/output (I/O), pointers, references, exceptions, and object-oriented programming. Basic data structures such as linked lists, stacks, and queues are covered in terms of their use and implementation using C++. Each module in the course is accompanied by a mini-project to teach the associated programming concepts as well as to hone problem-solving skills and good coding practices. For the final project, students create a text-based game of their choice. This project helps the student pull together all of the course concepts and leave the course with enhanced confidence in their programming abilities.
Prerequisites: A practical understanding of a structured programming language such as C, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or permission of the instructor. Students are expected to understand basic programming constructs such as conditionals, loops, and procedures.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition.
CSCI S-40
Communication Protocols and Internet Architecture
Len Evenchik SM, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35748 | Section 1
Description
This course provides a structured approach to the design, analysis, and implementation of networks and protocols. We study various protocols, including TCP/IP, WWW/HTTP, email/SMTP, domain name system (DNS), multimedia protocols for voice and video, routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, and BGP), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802 LAN protocol suite. In each case, the protocol’s functions and the underlying reference model are discussed. LAN architecture and design, network security and encryption, and the design and analysis of both private networks and the internet are presented. The course discusses new areas of work, including real-time voice and video on the internet, quality of service (QoS), gigabit wireless networks, internet of things (IoT), software-defined networks (SDN), and network functions virtualization (NFV).
Prerequisites: Programming or networking experience; a basic understanding of the principles of communication protocols.
Class Meetings:
Online
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Extension School course CSCI E-40.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
CSCI S-50
Intensive Introduction to Computer Science
David J. Malan PhD, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34745 | Section 1
Description
This course is an intensive introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming. This course teaches students how to think algorithmically and solve problems efficiently. Topics include abstraction, algorithms, data structures, encapsulation, resource management, security, and software engineering. Languages include C, Python, and SQL, plus HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Problem sets are inspired by the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. This course is intensive and fast-moving, and demands a substantial commitment of time and effort for students to be successful. Students can count two of the following three courses CSCI E-10a, CSCI E-10b, and CSCI S-50 toward a degree. They cannot count all three toward a Harvard Extension School degree.
Class Meetings:
Online
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. The recorded lectures are from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Computer Science 50 (CS50).
CSCI S-597
Data Science Precapstone
Bruce Huang EdD, PhD, Director of Master’s Degree Program in Information Technology, Harvard Extension School
Stephen Elston PhD, Principal Consultant, Quantia Analytics LLC
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34439 | Section 1
Description
This course helps students develop an academically strong capstone proposal. It is mandatory for candidates in the Harvard Extension School Master of Liberal Arts, data science, who wish to register for CSCI E-599a in the upcoming fall term. It prepares students to explore interdisciplinary research topics from a variety of industries and areas. Through workshops and collaborating with experts from different disciplines, students identify research topics, apply the appropriate data science methods, and use data to advance innovative solutions. Students receive guidance and advising to work effectively in teams, refine project proposals, and build the domain knowledge necessary in their selected area. By the end of the course, each team submits a detailed research proposal, including project rationale, methods, and expected outcomes, which they intend to execute during CSCI E-599a. Students in this course join the students in CSCI S-597b as one cohort and may work together on precapstone projects.
Prerequisites: Students must be officially admitted candidates in Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), data science and in their penultimate semester. Prospective candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must be in good academic standing and in the process of successfully completing all degree requirements except the Harvard Extension School capstone, CSCI E-599a, which they must enroll in for the upcoming fall term as their final, one-and-only course. Registration in the Harvard Extension School course, CSCI E-599a, immediately following the Harvard Summer School course CSCI S-597 is a mandatory degree requirement. Candidates who do not meet these degree requirements are dropped from the course.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Harvard Hall 201
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Students in this section and CSCI S-597B may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 58 students
CSCI S-597b
Cybersecurity Precapstone
Bruce Huang EdD, PhD, Director of Master’s Degree Program in Information Technology, Harvard Extension School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35645 | Section 1
Description
This intensive summer session course helps students develop an academically strong capstone proposal. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, cybersecurity, who wish to register for CSCI E-599b in the upcoming fall term. It prepares students to explore interdisciplinary research topics from a variety of industries and areas. Through workshops and collaborating with experts from different disciplines, students identify research topics, apply the appropriate cybersecurity methods, and use data to advance innovative solutions. Students receive guidance and advising to work effectively in teams, refine project proposals, and build the domain knowledge necessary in their selected area. By the end of the course, each team submits a detailed research proposal, including project rationale, methods, and expected outcomes, which they intend to execute during CSCI E-599b. Students in this course join the students in CSCI S-597 as one cohort and may work together on precapstone projects.
Prerequisites: Students must be officially admitted candidates in Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), cybersecurity, and in their penultimate semester. Prospective candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must be in good academic standing and in the process of successfully completing all degree requirements except the Harvard Extension School capstone, CSCI E-599b, which they must enroll in for the upcoming fall term as their final, one-and-only course. Registration in the Harvard Extension School course, CSCI E-599b, immediately following the Harvard Summer School course CSCI S-597b is a mandatory degree requirement. Candidates who do not meet these degree requirements are dropped from the course.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Harvard Hall 201
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Students in this section and CSCI S-597 may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students
CSCI S-597c
Systems Engineering Precapstone
Richard E. Joltes ALM, Senior Content Analytics Architect, US Department of Transportation
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35872 | Section 1
Description
This course helps students develop academically strong, team-based capstone proposals. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, systems engineering, who wish to register for CSCI E-599c in the coming fall term. Students develop a capstone proposal through workshops, collaboration, research, and working with industry partners. They receive guidance on refining project proposals, building the domain knowledge necessary in their selected area, and conducting user research. By the end of the course, each team submits a detailed research proposal, including project rationale, methods, and expected outcomes, which they intend to execute during the capstone course.
Prerequisites: Students must officially admitted degree candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), systems engineering and in their penultimate semester. Prospective candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must be in good academic standing and in the process of successfully completing all degree requirements, except the capstone, which they must enroll in the upcoming fall term as their final, one-and-only course. Registration in the Harvard Extension School course, CSCI E-599c, immediately following this course is a mandatory degree requirement. Candidates who do not meet these degree requirements are dropped from the course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
CSCI S-5a
Introduction to Programming with R
Carter Zenke EdM, Senior Preceptor, Harvard Extension School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35729 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to using R, a popular programming language for statistical computing and graphics in data science and other domains. Learn to use RStudio, a popular integrated development environment (IDE). Students learn to represent real-world data with vectors, matrices, arrays, lists, and data frames, and filter data with conditions via which they can analyze subsets of data. We apply functions and loops, which allow us to manipulate and summarize data sets. Students learn to write functions to modularize code and raise exceptions when something goes wrong. The course covers how to tidy data with R’s tidyverse and create colorful visualizations with R’s grammar of graphics. By the end of the course, students learn to package, test, and share R code for others to use. Assignments are inspired by real-world data sets.
Prerequisites: High school algebra and geometry. Prior experience with another high-level programming language is helpful but not required.
Class Meetings:
Online
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes:
CSCI S-63c
Elements of Data Science and Statistical Learning with R
Andrey Sivachenko PhD, Scientist IV, Head of Bioinformatics, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Lab
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34799 | Section 1
Description
One of the broad goals of data science is examining raw data with the purpose of identifying their structure and trends, and deriving conclusions and hypotheses from the latter. In the modern world awash with data, data analytics is more important than ever to fields ranging from biomedical research, space and weather science, finance, business operations, and production, through marketing and social media applications. This course provides an intensive introduction into various statistical learning methods; the R programming language, a very popular and powerful platform for scientific and statistical analysis and visualization, is also introduced and used throughout the course. We discuss the fundamentals of statistical testing and learning, and cover topics of linear and non-linear regression, regularization, unsupervised methods (principle component analysis [PCA] and clustering), and supervised classification, including support vector machines, random forests, and neural nets, using datasets drawn from diverse domains. This course is geared less toward theory (although some is presented, mostly qualitatively), and more toward developing intuition and the right way of thinking about statistical problems, as well as building practical skills through multiple, incremental assignments and extensive experimentation.
Prerequisites: Good programming skills, preferably in R or solid experience in other languages; good understanding of probability and statistics at the level of CSCI E-106 or STAT E-109. See the syllabus for the recommended pretest.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
CSCI S-7
Introduction to Computer Science with Python
Henry H. Leitner PhD, Senior Lecturer on Computer Science, Harvard University
Dimitri Kountourogianni MA, Software Engineer
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34533 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to computer science for students without prior programming experience. We explore problem-solving methods and algorithm development using the high-level programming language Python after a brief introduction to computational concepts using Scratch. Python is a language with a simple syntax, and a powerful set of libraries. While Python is easy for beginners to learn, it is widely used in many scientific areas for data exploration. We cover basic data types and collections (lists, dictionaries, tuples, and sets), control flow, recursion, information hiding and encapsulation using classes and objects, and introduce the analysis of program performance. The examples and problems used in this course are drawn from diverse areas such as text processing and simple graphics creation. We also examine theoretical and practical limitations related to unsolvable and intractable computational problems.
Prerequisites: High school algebra.
Class Meetings:
Online or On Campus
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm, Harvard Hall 101
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Students can attend in person on campus, participate live online at the time the class meets via web conference, or watch the recorded video asynchronously. Recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
CSCI S-71
Agile Software Development
Richard Kasperowski ALB, Chief Technology Officer, Thrivelution
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33524 | Section 1
Description
This course is an immersive experience in agile software development. We study the technical, cultural, and social aspects of agile, including agility in software product development; business agility, including scrum, agile product inception, user stories, product backlog construction, definition of done and definition of ready, estimating, agile forecasting, project management, sprint planning, and retrospectives; technical agility, including pair programming, mob programming, test-driven development, working with legacy code, refactoring for clean code, behavior-driven development, continuous integration, continuous delivery, DevOps; and advanced agility, including high-performance teams, core protocols for psychological safety and emotional intelligence, agile at large scale, and introducing and sustaining agile in your organization.
Prerequisites: CSCI E-22 or equivalent. Students should have a computer suitable for software development.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 3:15pm-6:15pm, 53 Church Street 203
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
CSCI S-80
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python
Brian Paul Yu EdM, Preceptor in Computer Science, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34744 | Section 1
Description
This course explores the concepts and algorithms at the foundation of modern artificial intelligence, diving into the ideas that give rise to technologies like game-playing engines, handwriting recognition, and machine translation. Through hands-on projects, students gain exposure to the theory behind graph search algorithms, classification, optimization, reinforcement learning, and other topics in artificial intelligence and machine learning as they incorporate them into their own Python programs. By course’s end, students emerge with experience in libraries for machine learning as well as knowledge of artificial intelligence principles that enable them to design intelligent systems of their own.
Prerequisites: CSCI S-50, CS50x, or at least one year of experience with Python.
Class Meetings:
Online
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition.
CSCI S-89
Introduction to Deep Learning
Dmitry V. Kurochkin PhD, Senior Research Analyst, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Office for Faculty Affairs, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34723 | Section 1
Description
In this course students are introduced to the architecture of deep neural networks, algorithms that are developed to extract high-level feature representations of data. In addition to theoretical foundations of neural networks, including backpropagation and stochastic gradient descent, students get hands-on experience building deep neural network models with Python. Topics covered in the course include image classification, time series forecasting, text vectorization (tf-idf and word2vec), natural language translation, speech recognition, and deep reinforcement learning. Students learn how to use application program interfaces (APIs), such as TensorFlow and Keras, for building a variety of deep neural networks: convolutional neural network (CNN), recurrent neural network (RNN), self-organizing maps (SOM), generative adversarial network (GANs), and long short-term memory (LSTM). Some of the models require the use of graphics processing unit (GPU) enabled Amazon Machine Images (AMI) in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
Prerequisites: Proficiency in Python programming equivalent to CSCI S-7. Basic knowledge of calculus, probability, and statistics is expected. Familiarity with linear algebra is helpful but not required. Students are expected to have access to a computer with a 64-bit operating system and at least 8 GB of RAM. GPU is highly recommended. No familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) is assumed.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Veronika Tuckerova PhD, Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
DEVP S-173
The Promise of Sustainable Development
Laurence Simon PhD, Professor of International Development, Brandeis University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35749 | Section 1
Description
The world has made progress in reducing extreme poverty and non-communicable disease. Yet the dominant economic growth model in rich and poor nations has created a global climate crisis. The course explores the promise of sustainable development that integrates natural and social science concerns, and reviews failures of sustainability that have at times increased landlessness, disease, hunger, pollution, and social disintegration. We examine principles and best practices in development and learn underlying concepts in population dynamics, poverty reduction, public health, and technology innovation to meet critical needs in energy and food security. Case studies help us learn the importance of methods for planning, monitoring, and evaluation. Students are introduced to the institutional landscape for development assistance including multilateral agencies such as the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the New Development Bank; bilateral agencies as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA); nongovernmental organizations as Oxfam, the Aga Khan Development Network, BRAC; and social movements for development and peace such as Sarvodaya Shramadana. The course aims to benefit students seeking a foundation in development as well as those wishing to enhance skills in policy advocacy. Overall, we consider the ethics of development practice that must guide us in challenging development models that marginalize and exclude rather than build equity and opportunity for all the world’s people. Students may not take both ENVR S-173 (offered previously) and DEVP S-173 for degree or certificate credit.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students
DEVP S-599
Global Development Practice Capstone
Judith Irene Rodriguez MA, Senior Research Associate, Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Research Specialist, Healthy Cities Lab, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35007 | Section 1
Description
This course is a capstone designed for students earning a Master of Liberal Arts, global development practice. The course approach is learner-centered, whereby students create a development plan for a client by applying skills and knowledge gained from their graduate school experience. This course builds upon the student’s guided prework completed in DEVP E-598. The course deliverables include a detailed actionable and measurable plan, as well as a presentation to be given to the class and to client stakeholders. Appropriate clients may include communities, corporations, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), governmental agencies, schools, universities, and hospitals. Students work with a client with one or more stakeholders to develop and deliver a customized development plan focused on one or more of these areas: community development, human rights, labor practices, education, environmental sustainability, and fair operating practices. Listings of prior projects may be viewed at the global development practice capstone website.
Prerequisites: This course is only for officially admitted candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), global development practice. Candidates must be in good academic standing, have successfully completed the precapstone tutorial, DEVP E-598, in the prior Harvard Extension School spring term, and be ready to graduate in November with only the capstone degree requirement remaining (no other course registration is allowed simultaneously with the capstone). Candidates who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 6:30pm-9:30pm, One Brattle Square 203
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Final paper/project due Friday, August 23.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
DGMD S-1
Digital Media: From Ideas to Designs and Prototypes
Bakhtiar Mikhak PhD, Co-Founder, Media Modifications, Ltd.
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34801 | Section 1
Description
This is a practical design course on perspectives, tools, and methods for going from an idea for a product or service powered by a mobile and/or web application to an interactive design prototype ready for handoff to a development team. We begin with creating detailed personas and stories that capture why and for whom the product or service is developed. We then translate those personas and stories into storyboards that illustrate the application’s experiential flow in real-world contexts in terms of concrete visual and interaction design elements. We develop a component-based design system for creating interactive prototypes with live data. Our focus is on designing novel user experiences and leveraging third-party user interface kits to give our prototypes a professional look and feel. We create prototypes with a visual design tool that also allows creating and enhancing components with code for imagining and realizing even richer interactions and experience flows. Technologies used in this course include Framer, Notion, Milanote, React, and Visual Studio Code.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Harvard Hall 201
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
DGMD S-14
Wearable Devices and Computer Vision
Nabib Ahmed AM, Artificial Intelligence Researcher, Meta
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34484 | Section 1
Description
This course explores the field of wearable devices and computer vision, and exposes students to hands-on practical exercises based on real-life situations and industry problems. Wearable technologies is currently a $50 billion industry, with estimated annual growth of 10% year over year. It is experiencing explosive growth with exciting applications in many fields, from medicine to sports to fitness to entertainment, empowering people to interact, communicate, and experience the environment around them in new, innovative ways. Some prominent examples are smart watches, medical trackers, and augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets. Underlying these advances in wearable devices is computer vision, which is an exciting field of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning enabling computers to derive information from images, videos, and other inputs. In this course we explore advances in wearable devices and utilize computer vision to tackle emerging problems (for example, assistive devices, educational applications, and health monitoring). Students learn about sensors, signal processing, data analytics, AI, machine learning, computational optical analysis, simultaneous localization and mapping, lighting and material estimation, and robust algorithms for modeling.
Prerequisites: CSCI S-7, CSCI S-50, or equivalent. Experience with programming, technical and code documentation, and data (any programming language will do; some examples are Python, R, Java, or C/C++). Familiarity with algebra and geometry. No background needed in machine learning, computer vision, or wearable devices.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition.
DGMD S-17
Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, and Artificial Intelligence
Nabib Ahmed AM, Artificial Intelligence Researcher, Meta
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34560 | Section 1
Description
This course explores the field of robotics, autonomous vehicles, and drones, and exposes students to their core technologies and systems through practical exercises and simulation. These are all exciting fields with tremendous growth and opportunities in the next 10-50 years billions of dollars are being invested and the market size is expected to grow 10-15% annually. The impact of these technologies can fundamentally revolutionize a multitude of industries and transform our society, from self-driving cars to same-day drone delivery to robotic assistants and laborers. This course explores the theories, tools, and processes that enable these technologies and exposes students to the challenges, limitations, and capabilities of modern robotics, autonomous vehicles, and drone technologies. Students learn about sensor technologies for automation, autonomy from a systems perspective, vision-based perception and techniques, modern machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms, mathematical modeling and abstraction, and engineering design. The goal is to develop a fundamental toolkit to advance the next generation within the field.
Prerequisites: CSCI S-7, CSCI S-50, or equivalent. Experience with programming, technical and code documentation, and data (any programming language will do; some examples are Python, R, Java, or C/C++). Familiarity with algebra and geometry. No background needed in machine learning, computer vision, or wearable devices.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition.
DGMD S-30
Introduction to Media Production
Nicholas J. Manley MFA, Co-Founder, The Ebiz Institute
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33105 | Section 1
Description
Building skills from the ground up, we demystify the technology and techniques, giving students everything they need to make professional-level video content in their fields. Cinematography, audio recording, editing, production management, and lighting for documentary and narrative film are all covered in a project-based approach. Students learn how to light an interview like a pro, make the most of their equipment in the field, conduct interviews, break down scenes, storyboard, plan, and produce video projects. We screen and critique students’ work as it evolves and refine methods for strengthening stories by looking at successful movies that have cracked the code. This course is designed for anyone who wants a crash course in producing quality video on a shoestring budget and for storytellers who want to translate their ideas into compelling videos of any kind.
Prerequisites: Students can use DSLRs, video cameras, smartphones, or tablets to shoot and record media content. A tripod or camera stabilizer will also be needed. An audio recorder is beneficial but not required. The instructor will share different gear options prior to the course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
DGMD S-35
Video Editing and Digital Design
Allyson Sherlock MFA, Senior Affiliated Faculty in Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33286 | Section 1
Description
The ability of the film editor to shape a story is one of the most exciting and rewarding parts of the filmmaking process. This course serves as an introduction to the art of video post-production. We explore the theory and practice of various editing styles in order to gain a better understanding of how stories are most effectively constructed in the editing room. Through demonstrations and hands-on experience, students learn advanced editing techniques with an in-depth examination of Adobe Premiere. To further enhance projects, students create animated motion graphics using Adobe After Effects and learn how to enhance their audio recordings with Adobe Audition. Strong emphasis is placed on post-production techniques that improve the sound and image quality of the videos. Footage is provided for all exercises and projects, and students are given the option to shoot new material for their final projects if desired.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
DGMD S-42
Making the Short Film: Innovations and Practices for the Digital Age
Allyson Sherlock MFA, Senior Affiliated Faculty in Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35031 | Section 1
Description
Short films are an exciting and ever-evolving form of storytelling. This course explores the strong tradition short films have in our culture, as well as the new and innovative techniques filmmakers are currently using to tell and distribute their stories. In this course, students devote the entire semester to the creation and completion of one short film narrative, documentary, or animation with the intent of festival submission and/or online release. Students work in a collaborative atmosphere with classmates and the instructor to refine scripts and treatments, plan productions, and create the final film. Students may work individually or partner in a collaborative team. Either way, the course serves as a support system for each student, offering advice, critiques, and resources so that each member is an integral part of a fully realized short. In addition to supporting traditional filmmaking approaches, innovative storytelling techniques are strongly welcomed and supported. These can include interactive online documentaries, hybrid approaches (blending fiction and nonfiction), webisode pilots, and experimental techniques. Additionally, the course demystifies the online distribution process and the film festival circuit, exploring the many avenues filmmakers can take to get their work shown to a wider audience.
Prerequisites: Prior editing experience (Adobe Premiere or Final Cut) and access to a camera (iPhone, Android, DSLR, or professional video camera).
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
DGMD S-58
Design of Computational Media for Formal and Informal Learning
Bakhtiar Mikhak PhD, Co-Founder, Media Modifications, Ltd.
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35704 | Section 1
Description
Through hands-on activities and extended case studies, this course explores the principles underlying the design of technologies for supporting critical and creative thinking in mathematics, science, and engineering education. Special projects provide participants with opportunities to design and implement new learning experiences with computational media. Teachers in particular develop concrete starting points for integrating technology in their own classroom practice in a hands-on way. Technologies introduced include Framer, Processing, D3, Wolfram, LLMs, and optionally Cylon.js, and a variety of physical computing toolkits.
Prerequisites: Comfort with Javascript and familiarity with React are helpful but not required.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
DGMD S-597
Digital Media Design Precapstone
Karina Lin-Murphy EdM, Associate Director of Course Design and Pedagogical Innovation, Roland C. Christensen Center for Teaching Learning, Harvard Business School
Bakhtiar Mikhak PhD, Co-Founder, Media Modifications, Ltd.
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35868 | Section 1
Description
This course helps students develop academically strong, individual or team-based capstone proposals. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, digital media design, who wish to register for the DGMD E-599 in the coming fall term. Students develop a capstone proposal through workshopping, collaboration, research, and working with industry partners. They receive guidance on refining project proposals, building the domain knowledge necessary in their selected area, and conducting user research. By the end of the course, each team submits a detailed capstone proposal, including project rationale, literature reviews, scope, target audience/user journeys, timeline, and competitor analysis.
Prerequisites: Students must officially admitted degree candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), digital media design and in their penultimate semester. Prospective candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must be in good academic standing and in the process of successfully completing all degree requirements, except the capstone, which they must enroll in the upcoming fall term as their final, one-and-only course. Registration in the Harvard Extension School course, DGMD E-599, immediately following the Harvard Summer School course DGMD S-598a is a mandatory degree requirement. Candidates who do not meet these degree requirements are dropped from the precapstone course.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit credit $0, graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
DGMD S-9
Introduction to Digital Photography
Leonie Marinovich BA, Documentary Photographer
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34478 | Section 1
Description
This course is aimed at students wishing to master the fundamentals of photography. It gives students the opportunity to learn photography using their digital camera (DSLR or mirrorless) and acquire the skills to use manual settings and use the different shooting modes available on their cameras. Topics covered in this course include the fundamentals of exposure, composition, lighting, editing techniques, color correction, delivery for print and digital media, metadata creation, and digital workflow management. We reference classical art that has heavily influenced photography in the way that images are composed and lighted. The course is helpful to students who wish to explore digital photography as a way to document their field work and other work in progress and enhance their visual literacy, enabling them to assess images and other visual media. Students are taught Lightroom to manage their digital archives and learn to use editing techniques to enhance their images. Coursework is structured along two main components: technical mastery and aesthetic development. During the semester students are first taught the technical skills which they then apply in practical exercises to consolidate those skills. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to have mastered their camera and their images should look more polished. Students have the option to create a learning portfolio to present their work.
Prerequisites: Students need to have a digital camera (DSLR or mirrorless) with the ability to manually control aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. A point-and-shoot camera is not sufficient in fulfilling all the criteria required in the assignments. A tripod is required. Students need a computer with Lightroom Classic CC installed. Photoshop is not required. Along with a computer, students need an external hard drive and memory cards for their camera.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Northwest Science Building B104
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
DRAM S-10
Introduction to Acting
John Kuntz MA, Lecturer on Theater, Dance, and Media, Harvard University and Associate Professor of Theater, Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30038 | Section 1
Description
This course concentrates on the development of imagination, observation, focus of attention, and the effective use of materials drawn from life. Students work on acting scenes, which include an approach to textual analysis, as well as practice in communication, personal involvements, and the accomplishment of stage tasks. Class work includes extensive individual coaching and ensemble work.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, Farkas Hall STUDIO
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
DRAM S-140
Public Speaking
Remo Airaldi AB, Lecturer on Theater, Dance, and Media, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33708 | Section 1
Description
This course aims to introduce students to a practical, hands-on approach to effective public speaking. Our focus is on developing a personal style of speaking that is confident, spontaneous, energetic, and vocally and physically expressive. Through exercises, speech presentations, and individual coaching, students learn how to present and develop a persuasive argument while maintaining an audience’s interest. The course is aimed at anyone who would like to improve their ability to speak in front of small or large groups, regardless of experience.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, Farkas Hall 203
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 16 students
DRAM S-140
Public Speaking
Terry Gipson MFA, Preceptor in Public Speaking, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35660 | Section 2
Description
This course aims to introduce students to a practical, hands-on approach to effective public speaking. Our focus is on developing a personal style of speaking that is confident, spontaneous, energetic, and vocally and physically expressive. Through exercises, speech presentations, and individual coaching, students learn how to present and develop a persuasive argument while maintaining an audience’s interest. The course is aimed at anyone who would like to improve their ability to speak in front of small or large groups, regardless of experience.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, Farkas Hall 203
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 16 students
DRAM S-140
Public Speaking
Remo Airaldi AB, Lecturer on Theater, Dance, and Media, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32763 | Section 3
Description
This course aims to introduce students to a practical, hands-on approach to effective public speaking. Our focus is on developing a personal style of speaking that is confident, spontaneous, energetic, and vocally and physically expressive. Through exercises, speech presentations, and individual coaching, students learn how to present and develop a persuasive argument while maintaining an audience’s interest. The course is aimed at anyone who would like to improve their ability to speak in front of small or large groups, regardless of experience.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 16 students
DRAM S-140
Public Speaking
Remo Airaldi AB, Lecturer on Theater, Dance, and Media, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32727 | Section 4
Description
This course aims to introduce students to a practical, hands-on approach to effective public speaking. Our focus is on developing a personal style of speaking that is confident, spontaneous, energetic, and vocally and physically expressive. Through exercises, speech presentations, and individual coaching, students learn how to present and develop a persuasive argument while maintaining an audience’s interest. The course is aimed at anyone who would like to improve their ability to speak in front of small or large groups, regardless of experience.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Farkas Hall 203
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 16 students
DRAM S-145
Voice and Speech: Breath, Presence, and Connection
Meredith Eib MFA
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35378 | Section 1
Description
This is a practical, experiential, and studio-based course designed for students who wish to explore voice, speech, and text analysis for theater, film, television, or public speaking. Actors, business professionals, singers, or anyone desiring greater mastery of the voice benefit from the course. Emphasis is placed on helping each speaker find his or her own voice through developing personal specificity, precision, and storytelling ability. Students develop a deeper awareness of their physical and vocal habits; learn how to healthfully and sustainably use their voice; and learn tools to create variety and dynamics when speaking. Class activities include solo and partner exercises to enhance awareness of the body and muscles used for voice and speech, one-on-one in-class coaching of text and song, and discussion of assigned readings on voice, speech, and performance. Prior singing, acting, or speech experience is not required.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Farkas Hall 203
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
DRAM S-21
Improvisational Acting
John Kuntz MA, Lecturer on Theater, Dance, and Media, Harvard University and Associate Professor of Theater, Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32212 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed not only for students of the theater, but also for those with an interest in politics and debate, public speaking, trial law, and education, as well as a broad range of other careers. Students explore various improvisational techniques that fuse intellect, imagination, voice, and body.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, Farkas Hall STUDIO
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
DRAM S-39
Broadway: The Musicals of 2010 and Beyond
Pamela J. Murray MusM, Performance Faculty, Voice, Musical Theater Cabaret Ensemble, Boston College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35826 | Section 1
Description
In this performance course for all levels, each student learns and performs a song from the Broadway repertoire of the last 14 years. From Hamilton, to Fun Home, to Hadestown, the recent years have been packed with wonderful and diverse original musicals. Throughout the term we work in depth on vocal and theatrical aspects of performance, sometimes incorporating dialogue and scene partners in order to create a complete scene. We also discuss in class the way that musical theater has evolved and the topics that are covered now versus those of earlier shows, as well as the way in which musical styles may have evolved or in some cases recall older genres. The final consists of a performance of each song and an oral presentation outlining the song, show, and composer/lyricist.
Prerequisites: Willingness to sing in front of the class.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm, Music Building PH9
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
EALC S-160
Is Taiwan Chinese? History, Identity, and Nationalism
Melissa J. Brown PhD, Associate of the Department of Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35462 | Section 1
Description
Why is Taiwan, with a stable, democratic government and a strong economy, considered a threat to world peace? The People’s Republic of China disputes Taiwan’s de facto sovereignty for reasons that derive from Han ethnic identity, Chinese national identity, and the relation of both to Taiwanese identity. Taiwan’s history from approximately 1600 to the present shows its cosmopolitan resilience to earlier waves of imperialism, colonialism, and nationalism. What can Taiwan and the world do in the face of China’s nationalistic threats of invasion? Lectures, discussions, readings, and videos examine the interactions of identity and nationalism with gender and kinship, community, culture, economics, politics, and war. By the end of the course, students should be able to critically analyze historical and contemporary events to understand their sociocultural context, historical contingencies, and political implications.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
James Robson PhD, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Harvard College Professor, Harvard University
Daniel Koss PhD, Associate Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Jie Li PhD, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
ECON S-1012
Macroeconomic Theory
Thomas H. Baranga PhD, Lecturer and Concentration Advisor in Economics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35547 | Section 1
Description
This course provides an overview of macroeconomic theory and the role and effects of governmental macroeconomic policy. We apply these ideas to understand some of the current debates about the US macroeconomy, such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the causes of and possible policy responses to inflation. We discuss different and competing theories, try to understand what is at stake in the debate between rival schools of thought, and examine data to evaluate their relative merits. The first half of the course studies the long-run behavior of the macroeconomy (such as gross domestic product [GDP] and its growth, inflation, the role of labor and capital markets, and the open economy). The second half of the course studies business cycle fluctuations in general and the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and high inflation in particular.
Prerequisites: ECON S-10a, ECON S-10b, and MATH S-1a, or equivalent courses; students must also pass the proficiency examination.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Required sections Fridays, time to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-1016
Labor Economics
Gregory Bruich PhD, Concentration Advisor in Economics, Harvard University and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33880 | Section 1
Description
This course introduces students to the field of labor economics, with an emphasis on current policy issues and new research. Issues discussed include the effects of minimum wages, mandated benefits, immigration, taxes, and transfer programs on wages and employment; human capital and the labor market returns to education; measurement of the value added of teachers and colleges; the effect of unemployment insurance on unemployment durations; the effect of disability insurance on labor force participation; new evidence on income, wage, and wealth inequality and intergenerational mobility. Students learn current econometric and theoretical methods used in applied microeconomics and how to write about and apply these methods in their own research.
Prerequisites: ECON S-10a or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-1040
Strategy, Conflict, and Cooperation
Robert Neugeboren PhD, Lecturer on Economics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35790 | Section 1
Description
Game theory is a set of tools designed to study multiple strategic agents in many different environments. The scenarios involve interactions where the payoff of one agent, Agent A, depends on both Agent A’s actions and the actions taken by other agents in the game. The objective in this course is to introduce students to the basic game theory concepts and apply these tools to more fully understand economic interactions. This course explores game theoretic topics such as pure- and mixed-strategy Nash equilibria of strategic-form games with perfect information, Nash and subgame-perfect equilibria for extensive-form games with perfect information, perfect Bayesian equilibria for games with imperfect information, Nash equilibrium of extensive-form games with imperfect information, equilibria concepts of finitely and infinitely repeated games, and bargaining games.
Prerequisites: ECON S-10ab, MATH S-1a, and MATH E-8, or the equivalent. Placement test recommended.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm, Sever Hall 102
Required sections Thursdays, 4:15-6:15 pm.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-10a
Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
Joshua Abel PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor in Economics, Northeastern University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30056 | Section 1
Description
The course offers an introduction to the market system, emphasizing economic interactions among individuals, firms, and the government. Topics include economic decision making, supply-and-demand, perfect and imperfect competition, economic efficiency, and market failures. Policies such as those around the environment, healthcare, and income distribution are discussed. This course is equivalent to the first half of ECON S-10ab.
Prerequisites: Elementary algebra and geometry.
Class Meetings:
Online or On Campus
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Harvard Hall 101
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Students can attend in person on campus, participate live online at the time the class meets via web conference, or watch the recorded video asynchronously. Recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-10ab
Principles of Economics
Bruce D. Watson MA, Master Lecturer on Economics, Boston University and Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
David Laibson PhD, Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics, Harvard University
John List PhD, Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, University of Chicago
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30057 | Section 1
Description
This course covers both micro- and macroeconomics. The microeconomic subjects studied include the workings of the market mechanisms how supply and demand determine the quantities and prices of goods and factors of production and international trade, and how quantities and prices are affected by government intervention. The macroeconomic subjects include the determinants of economic growth, financial institutions, short-run fluctuations in output and employment, inflation, macroeconomics of the open economy, and the role of government policy.
Prerequisites: High school algebra.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-10b
Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Tanseli Savaser PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, Vassar College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30058 | Section 1
Description
This introduction to macroeconomic theory and policy emphasizes the overall performance of the national economy. Topics include economic growth, financial markets, and the causes and consequences of short-term movements in gross domestic product, unemployment, interest rates, inflation, the budget deficit, and the trade deficit. The course also covers key policy-making institutions, such as the Federal Reserve, and controversies over the proper role of government in stabilizing the economy.
Prerequisites: High school algebra and geometry.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Sever Hall 113
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-110
Quantitative Methods in Economics and Business
Sacha Gelfer PhD, Associate Professor of Economics, Bentley University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33002 | Section 1
Description
This course covers the main mathematical tools used in economics, finance, and quantitative business decision making. The course focuses on teaching and solving optimization problems faced in modern economics, finance, and business studies. Topics include constrained and unconstrained optimization, contemporary and practical techniques of calculus and probability in economic evaluation, and business decision making. All topics in this course are taught using currently available, efficient tools and packages of economics and management sciences.
Prerequisites: MATH S-1a or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
ECON S-1123
Introduction to Econometrics
Gustavo Vicentini PhD, Teaching Professor of Economics, Northeastern University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 31837 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to multiple regression methods for analyzing data in economics and related fields. Students learn how to conduct empirical studies, as well as how to analyze and interpret results from other empirical works. The emphasis is on gaining an intuitive understanding of the principles of econometric analysis and applying them to actual data. We start with the basics of statistics, including some probability theory and basic concepts in sampling, estimation, and hypothesis testing. Topics such as multiple regression techniques as well as issues related to departures from the standard assumptions on the error structure comprise the main subjects to be discussed. Aside from model specification and data problems, the use of additional methods such as instrumental variables, probit/logit, panel data models, and basic time series methods are also part of the course agenda.
Prerequisites: STAT S-100 or the equivalent; students must also pass the proficiency examination.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
ECON S-1297
International Trade
Arhan S Ertan PhD, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of International Trade, Bogazici University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35458 | Section 1
Description
The purpose of this course is to provide an analytical framework that can be utilized to study international trade. The course is designed to help students understand the nature and determinants of international good and factor movements, and the economic impacts of international trade patterns and trade policy around the world. We develop theories of international trade in order to explain the factors that affect international flow of trade and to analyze the effects of trade on economic welfare and growth. The incentives for countries and international organizations to free and/or restrict trade are analyzed drawing welfare consequences.
Prerequisites: ECON S-10a and ECON S-10b or the equivalents.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm, Sever Hall 210
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-1317
The Economics of Emerging Markets: Asia and Eastern Europe
Bruno S. Sergi PhD, Professor of International Economics, University of Messina and Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33001 | Section 1
Description
Today’s global economic landscape is fraught with shifting international geo-economic realms. The potentials of booming economies, fast-developing consumer markets, and the rising middle class represent the characteristics of many emerging market economies. This course covers the promises and the realities of the economies in Asia and Eastern Europe, two vast areas of contrasting development trackways. This course highlights the most appealing economic growth stories, including China, India, Russia, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia, as well as the recent cases of Ukraine and Sri Lanka. This course relies thoroughly on the case study method and probes into the role of institutions, infrastructure, high-tech, innovation, human capital, international trade, and the other macro variables in the sustainable development of these regions. The learning aim of the course is for students to understand the current dynamic and the past development stories of emerging market nations. Students independently research, write, and present up-to-date economic analyses and are involved in up-to-the-minute talks and debates to catch up with these countries’ economic policy strategies.
Prerequisites: ECON S-10ab or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm, Sever Hall 213
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-1320
Economics in Practice: Understanding and Writing about Inequality
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher PhD, Associate Professor of the Practice in Economics, Boston College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35025 | Section 1
Description
This course investigates the causes and consequences of inequality from the perspective of economics. The course begins with the presentation of empirical facts on the last four decades of inequality in the US, leading up to the present day. It then presents economic theories that can help explain these facts, with a focus on middle-class stagnation, gender inequality, racial injustice, the increasing concentration of wealth at the top, and the issue of inequality of opportunity. The course asks students to use publicly-available economic data to communicate issues around inequality to a lay audience.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 8:30am-11:00am, Sever Hall 206
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
ECON S-1452
Money, Financial Institutions, and Markets
Bruce D. Watson MA, Master Lecturer on Economics, Boston University and Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 31138 | Section 1
Description
This course presents a moderately advanced overview of concepts and techniques in the fields of money, banking, and finance. It examines the agents, instruments, and institutions that make up the financial system of the modern economy, such as bonds, the stock market, derivatives, and the money market, including the role of banks in deposit and credit creation. Along the way, standard concepts and tools of financial analysis are covered, including the risk-return tradeoff (Sharpe ratio), the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), option pricing theory, and the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) and its alternatives.
Prerequisites: College-level algebra and basic statistics.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-1476
International Corporate Governance: Economic Theory in Practice
Erich Schumann MBA, Chief Executive Officer, Global Atlantic Partners LLC
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35548 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed for students interested in the challenges and controversies for corporate governance as it attempts to focus on global problems such as climate change; political uncertainties; environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations; and the economic and technological disruptions of supply chains, pandemics, and inequalities in the workforce (such as economic development groups, artificial intelligence, and stakeholder rights). Integrating theory, historical developments, current practices, and proposals for change, we examine international corporate governance topics that are collectively termed agency theory in modern finance. The collaborative efforts, as well as the potential conflicts of interests, of stakeholders are analyzed in the context of a changing legislative and regulatory environment. This enablers us to evaluate the effectiveness of how corporate objectives are determined and achieved in the United States and globally. Selected cases and readings illustrate research findings and highlight critical issues. In-class discussions include the practical challenges of corporate decision making and costs of failures of regulation and oversight.
Prerequisites: ECON S-10ab or the equivalent, or permission of the instructor; ECON S-190 desirable.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Sever Hall 213
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
Paolo Pellizzari PhD, Professsor of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
ECON S-1615
Managerial Economics
Aleksandar Tomic PhD, Associate Dean for Strategy, Innovation, and Technology and Director of Master of Science in Applied Analytics and Applied Economics, Woods College of Advancing Studies, Boston College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34161 | Section 1
Description
This course provides an overview of economic tools and analytic approaches available to the manager for business decision making. It includes such topics as pricing, forecasting, demand analysis, production and cost analysis, and macroeconomic policy as it affects the business environment. The purpose of this course is to develop an economic perspective that is appropriate for students aspiring to manage business units or entire companies in a wide variety of industries. Students may not take both ECON E-1600 and ECON S-1615 for degree or certificate credit.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. ECON S-10a or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students
ECON S-1814
Urban Economics
Daniel W. Shoag PhD, Associate Professor in Economics, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35556 | Section 1
Description
Why are some cities richer than others? What factors determine where people and companies decide to locate? This course reviews the economic forces that matter at the local level and the impact they have on state and urban policy makers.
Prerequisites: ECON S-10a is helpful, but motivated students should be able to succeed without prior preparation.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-1816
Economics of Innovation
Ashley Nunes PhD, Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School and Associate of the Department of Economics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35844 | Section 1
Description
The goal of this course is to give broad insight into the economic effects of invention and innovation. Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman once noted that while productivity isn’t everything, it is in the long run, almost everything. A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker. Doing so increasingly demands leveraging the power of invention and innovation to boost workforce productivity across industries like energy, medicine, and transportation. Innovations in each of these sectors have produced drills that can bore deeper, drugs that have a longer shelf life, and airplanes that can fly further than in decades prior. These innovations, and others like them, have over time fundamentally altered the economic status quo. This course explores the consequences both good and bad that invention and innovation has on consumers, firms, and governments.
Prerequisites: ECON S-10ab or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Sever Hall 105
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-1816
Economics of Innovation
Daniel Johnson PhD, Professor of Economics and Business, Colorado College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34568 | Section 2
Description
This course focuses on one key nexus of questions about technological change: how and why innovation occurs, what policies and other factors encourage or discourage innovation, and how technologies develop and evolve in their early life. Using case studies and journal articles as a springboard, we learn the relevant economic concepts as they apply to the topics we cover. We are not limited to events of the computerized age, but discuss technological change from the Industrial Revolution to the present. The course brings in guest speakers (practitioners in Boston) and also teaches professional presentation skills.
Prerequisites: ECON S-10ab or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 8:30am-11:30am, 1 Story Street 306
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
ECON S-190
Introduction to Financial and Managerial Economics
James E. Owers PhD, Professor of Finance, Emeritus, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
Yunus Semih Coskun MA, Doctoral Candidate in Economics, Boston College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30298 | Section 1
Description
This course integrates financial economics concepts and their application in making financial decisions for organizations. Students examine the practices and perspectives of financial management, with reference to the foundations of modern finance: economics, managerial organization, and accounting. The course builds conceptual, analytical, and quantitative skills in several topic areas: financial condition and performance, financial planning and control, working capital management, long-term asset decisions based on the critical concept of net present value (NPV), and financial and capital structure. It introduces the concepts and processes of behavioral economics, financial engineering, innovation, and restructuring. The roles of economic value added (EVA) and the balanced scorecard concept in developing managerial strategies and incentive structures are also discussed. While it is not a course in personal finance, many of the concepts and techniques lend themselves to both the management of formal organizations, and the lifetime management of personal finances.
Prerequisites: ECON S-10ab or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Sever Hall 106
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-1900
Financial Accounting
Lloyd Tanlu DBA, Associate Professor of Accounting, The Williams School of Commerce, Economics and Politics, Washington and Lee University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30071 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to financial accounting, its concepts, and the techniques of recording, summarizing, and reporting the flow of financial information through the entity concerned. The course offers an understanding of the information flow process and the necessary techniques for analysis and evaluation of a firm’s potential in light of historical data. Students can count either ECON S-1900 or MGMT S-1000 toward an Extension School degree or certificate, but not both.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
ECON S-1900
Financial Accounting
Michael F. Ruff PhD, Associate Teaching Professsor, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30072 | Section 2
Description
This course introduces financial accounting, which is the language of business, and the process of analyzing, recording, compiling, and reporting financial information through key financial statements. The course also analyzes key financial statement accounts and how financial statement information can inform decision making. Students can count either ECON S-1900 or MGMT S-1000 toward an Extension School degree or certificate, but not both.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Sever Hall 214
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-1901
Managerial Accounting
Lloyd Tanlu DBA, Associate Professor of Accounting, The Williams School of Commerce, Economics and Politics, Washington and Lee University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30073 | Section 1
Description
This course introduces the principles and methods of data collection and presentation for planning and control, performance evaluation, and management decision making. It emphasizes product costing (both traditional and activity-based), cost-volume-profit analysis, operating and capital budgeting, evaluation of business operating segments, transfer pricing, and relevant costs for decision making. Students can count ECON S-1901 or the Harvard Extension School course MGMT E-1600, but not both, toward an Extension School degree or certificate.
Prerequisites: ECON S-1900 or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
ECON S-1915
Neuroinvesting: Neuroscience and Financial Decision Making
Duccio Martelli PhD, Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Perugia
John M. Burkhardt PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Capita Solutions
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34468 | Section 1
Description
The study of decision making has a long tradition, particularly in economics, where the choices of economic agents have been analyzed with the aid of a number of methodologies and theoretical models. Many academic researches and empirical evidence show how institutional and retail investors are inclined to make mistakes when making financial decisions; moreover, people do not have stable preferences, but make choices that are influenced by the context and the feelings in which individuals are asked to make a decision. Neuroscience methodologies applied to investments (so-called neuroinvesting) help to explain these anomalies, highlighting how investors’ brains and bodies react to different stimuli and situations. In-depth knowledge of neuroinvesting foundations is then crucial for making informed decisions and therefore better choices, which are consistent with investors’ needs and expectations. This course aims to help participants to understand practical impacts and benefits that neuroscience applied to investments has on investors’ decision-making processes. Starting from an overview about what neuroscience is and how brain activity can be measured, the course describes the underlying mechanisms related to motivations and to judgments under risk and uncertainty. The course focuses on the role of emotions and on investors’ risk perception and risk tolerance. The course ends by introducing pathological choices, ethics, and trust.
Prerequisites: ECON S-10ab or the equivalent; ECON S-190, ECON S-192, or permission of the instructor.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Sever Hall 214
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
ECON S-70
Personal Finance and Financial Well-Being
Duccio Martelli PhD, Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Perugia
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35466 | Section 1
Description
The need to develop personal finance literacy is an increasingly important issue worldwide, especially in the wake of the latest financial shocks and the current pandemic crisis. The large majority of households do not possess the basic knowledge of financial concepts necessary to effectively manage personal finances and achieve a lifetime of financial wellbeing. This course aims to bridge this gap by providing students a grounding in the fundamental principles and skills of financial planning. It focuses on the analysis of the major topics of personal finance and stresses the importance of behavioral biases that households confront every day in trying to reach their financial goals. The course is structured to meet the needs and expectations of different types of students, from high school and undergraduates to graduate students and adult learners.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 3:15pm-5:45pm, Sever Hall 208
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
EDUC S-113
Applied Learning Design
Stacie Cassat Green MEd, Principal, 64 Crayons
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35461 | Section 1
Description
In this course, students use a design thinking methodology to design and develop an authentic learning product or experience. Each student prepares a product, such as a course or workshop, social learning community, website, or software application. Using rapid prototyping, students present several iterations of their designs to the class, participate in peer critiques, and continually improve their products over the term. Students also explore case examples of learning products and the learning theories that undergird them.
Prerequisites: DGMD E-55, EDUC E-103, EDUC E-111, or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students
ENGL S-141
The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self
Leo Damrosch PhD, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35768 | Section 1
Description
This course is a study of major eighteenth-century autobiographical, fictional, and philosophical texts that explore the paradoxes of the modern self at a time when traditional religious and philosophical explanations were breaking down. Writers to be read include Madame de Lafayette, James Boswell, Voltaire, Edward Gibbon, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Benjamin Franklin, and William Blake. Due to the condensed summer schedule, the longer works, such as Rousseau’s Confessions and Laclos’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, are read in abridged form.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students
ENGL S-182a
Poetry in America: From the Mayflower to Emerson
Elisa New PhD, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
Jesse Benjamin Raber PhD, Writer
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35681 | Section 1
Description
This course covers American poetry in cultural context through the year 1850. The course begins with Puritan poets, some orthodox, some rebel spirits, who wrote and lived in early New England. Focusing on Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Michael Wigglesworth, among others, we explore the interplay between mortal and immortal, Europe and wilderness, solitude and sociality in English North America. The second part of the course spans the poetry of America’s early years, directly before and after the creation of the Republic. We examine the creation of a national identity through the lens of an emerging national literature, focusing on such poets as Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allen Poe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, among others. Distinguished guest discussants in this course include writer Michael Pollan, economist Larry Summers, Vice President Al Gore, Mayor Tom Menino, and others.
Class Meetings:
Online
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course is offered in partnership with the Poetry in America (PiA) initiative. Harvard College students: this course counts for the Aesthetics and Culture Gen Ed requirement and is equivalent to Gen Ed 1172. It does not count for the College’s divisional distribution requirement.
ENGL S-185
Wit, Irony, and Comedy
Thomas Wisniewski PhD, Lecturer on Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35783 | Section 1
Description
In literature, as in life, humor often takes us by surprise. Why? Laughter, in many ways, is a mystery, and literary criticism has always been more comfortable dealing with tragedy than comedy. Taking comedy seriously, this course provides a broad investigation into the myriad functions of humor (psychological, sociological, philosophical, and dramatic) and explores why what we find funny changes in relation to shifting social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics include wit and wordplay; the differences between verbal wit and visual humor; the phenomenon of laughing; satire and irony; jokes and joking; sexual humor and the taboo; humor in performance; the roles of ethnicity, race, religion, and gender in humor. Readings include literary works from Shakespeare to the present day, as well as theater history, performance, film, television, stand-up, and cartoons.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
ENGL S-207
The Culture of Capitalism
Martin Puchner PhD, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33124 | Section 1
Description
The course asks how literature, theater, and film have captured the spirit of capitalism fueling its fantasies, contemplating its effects, and chronicling its crises. More than just an economic system, capitalism created new habits of life and mind; it also created new values, forged and distilled by new forms of art. Core readings by Franklin, O’Neill, Rand, Miller, and Mamet, films by Chaplin and Lang, and background readings by Smith, Marx, Taylor, Weber, and Schumpeter.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. Please note: In addition to the scheduled class time, this course has required recorded lectures and activities that students complete on demand. Please see course syllabus for details. The overall amount of time students spend on this course is equivalent to other 4-credit courses.
ENGL S-238
Indigenous Literatures
Rebecca H. Hogue PhD, Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35355 | Section 1
Description
This course introduces fiction and poetry in a small sampling of the over 1,000 native nations across North America and Oceania. Thematically, we consider a variety of contemporary issues that impact indigenous story-telling today: environmental and social justice, gender and sexuality, land rights and city life, war and extractive capitalism, and the law and tribal recognition. In our readings, we ask how do the oral, visual, sonic, cosmological, environmental, or political contexts influence contemporary indigenous authors and their writing? Course texts include poetry by Joy Harjo (Muscogee), Haunani Kay Trask (Kanaka Maoli), Craig Santos Perez (Chamoru), Deborah Miranda (Esselen and Chumash), Linda Hogan (Chickasaw), and Natalie Diaz (Mojave), as well as fiction by Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo), Patricia Grace (M ori), Tommy Orange (Cheyenne), and Darcy Little Badger (Lipan Apache). With attention to specific histories and traditions, while also considering shared experiences, we explore how literature plays a role in expressing contemporary indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students
ENGL S-239
American Literature in the Gilded Age
Collier Brown PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35793 | Section 1
Description
The Gilded Age (approximately 1877-1900) was a period marked by rapid industrialization, obscene oppression, and extraordinary wealth. Mark Twain described it as a “time of greed, corruption, and material excess.” Industrial monopolies, like the railroad and oil, wielded their power unchecked, while a booming immigrant labor force, seeking the American dream, found themselves in a desperate struggle to survive. Students in this course read Gilded Age authors like Mark Twain, Edward Bellamy, Sutton Griggs, Frank Norris, and Edith Wharton as they examine the turbulent cultural and historical forces that ushered in the twentieth century.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students
ENGL S-300
Poetry in America for Teachers: The City from Whitman to Hip Hop
Elisa New PhD, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
Jesse Benjamin Raber PhD, Writer
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35682 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed specifically for secondary school educators interested in developing their expertise as readers and teachers of literature. In this course, we consider those American poets whose themes, forms, and voices have given expression to visions of the city since 1850. Beginning with Walt Whitman, the great poet of nineteenth-century New York, we explore the diverse and ever-changing environment of the modern city from Chicago to London, from San Francisco to Detroit through the eyes of such poets as Carl Sandburg, Emma Lazarus, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Frank O’Hara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hayden, and Robert Pinsky, as well as contemporary hip hop and spoken word artists. Deep study of the poems and poets on our syllabus provides an opportunity to develop expertise as classroom educators. As we master advanced strategies for studying American poetry ourselves, we also gain rich new resources for the classroom. This course introduces content and techniques intended to help educators teach their students how to read texts of increasing complexity. Students gain teaching expertise relevant to the Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) standards in grades six through 12.
Class Meetings:
Online
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $1,000.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. This course is offered in partnership with the Poetry in America (PiA) initiative. The course is also offered in partnership with the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Teachers enrolled for noncredit who are interested in professional development can earn certificates of participation for 90 professional development hours from HGSE’s Professional Education. Teachers may apply for Poetry in America scholarships.
Gordon Teskey PhD, Professor of English, Harvard University
ENSC S-106
Problem Solving and Project Design
Kelly Miller PhD, Senior Lecturer on Applied Physics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35463 | Section 1
Description
In this course, students work on real-world problems that do not have obvious solutions. As part of a project team, students are matched with a client that has a difficult challenge. The project team analyzes the challenge in the context of broader systems and designs a solution to present to the client at the end of the course. The course provides students with the ability to understand how an entire system works; how an action, change, or malfunction in one part of the system affects the rest of the system; and how a big-picture perspective can be adopted to assist in problem solving.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 12 students
ENSC S-135
Biochemical Engineering and Synthetic Life
Sujata K. Bhatia PhD, MD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35403 | Section 1
Description
Biochemical engineering harnesses living cells as miniature chemical reactors, enabling the production of designer molecules ranging from pharmaceuticals to plastics to biofuels. Live cells possess unique capabilities to manufacture complex chemical entities, yet living cells also introduce unique challenges and tradeoffs. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of biochemical engineering, including its biological underpinnings, the flow of genetic information within biological systems, the building blocks of living cells, and cellular pathways and control mechanisms. The course then describes the sub-disciplines of genetic engineering and metabolic engineering, along with applications in specialty chemicals, nutrition, global health, environmental remediation, and sustainability. Finally, the course describes emerging areas of biochemical engineering, including synthetic biology, which enables engineers to create entirely new cells from scratch. The visionary J. Craig Venter has called DNA the software of life, and has proposed that synthetic cells will be part of the solution to meeting global demands. The course discusses the potential and pitfalls of synthetic life.
Prerequisites: Background in biology and chemistry is necessary.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
ENSC S-138
Introduction to Probability for Engineering and Data Science
Yue Lu PhD, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34796 | Section 1
Description
This course introduces students to probability theory and statistics, and their applications in engineering and data science. Topics include random variables, distributions and densities, conditional expectations, statistical sampling, limit theorems, and Markov chains. The goal of this course is to prepare students with knowledge of probability theory and statistical methods that are widely used in several engineering disciplines and modern data science.
Prerequisites: Mathematical knowledge at the level of MATH S-1a and MATH S-1b (set theory, Venn diagrams, basic algebra, basic differential and integral calculus, and matrices). Basic programming skills (in languages like Python or R) are optional but can be useful.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
ENVR S-100
Introduction to Environmental Problems and Solutions
Michaela J. Thompson PhD, Lecturer in Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35391 | Section 1
Description
This course introduces some of the critical environmental problems with which various groups, including scientists and policy makers, have struggled, including climate change, industrial pollution, waste management, and species decline. The purpose of the course is to introduce key disciplines in environmental science, along with their methodologies and approaches to knowledge production; to examine the relationship between environmental science and policy, both historically and in the present day; and to encourage critical analysis and evaluation of potential approaches to environmental problem solving, with an emphasis on systems thinking. Each class session is divided between lectures and discussions, and often includes break-out group activities. Further, each topical session is also connected to a local case study some historical, some contemporary. By examining these cases and the larger environmental issues that they represent, students gain critical understanding of the scientific, social, political, and economic dimensions of environmental problems.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 12:00pm-2:30pm, Sever Hall 203
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
ENVR S-111
Marine Policy and Ocean Resource Management
Andrew Tirrell PhD, Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations and Associate Professor of Law, University of San Diego
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33867 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to marine policy and ocean resource management. Students engage with material focused on fisheries management, whaling, marine protected areas, off-shore drilling, and other topics of contemporary relevance, and also consider the cultural and social ties of coastal communities to ocean resources. The course both introduces students to the field of marine resources policy and the environmental and social implications of that policy domestically and internationally, and develops research skills that are broadly applicable to other policy areas. An interactive marine policy negotiation simulation is a highlight of the course.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
ENVR S-117
Sustainability Leadership for the Twenty-First Century
Leith Sharp MEd, Director, Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Jack Spengler PhD, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33019 | Section 1
Description
To inspire and enable people to lead effective change towards environmental sustainability, we have created a course to enhance individual change agency skills as applied to a variety of organizational contexts (education, business, government, nonprofit, church, community). The course explores what change leadership for sustainability is, and guides students to advance their related capabilities, competencies, and strategies. The personal, interpersonal, organizational, and technical dimensions of change leadership for sustainability are addressed. A variety of specific case studies and examples of sustainability in practice, including everything from green building design and renewable energy to environmental purchasing are explored. Interdependencies between finance, politics, relationships, capacity building, technology, and more are discussed. Students leave with an experiential knowledge of change management because they are required to complete a project involving a real life change leadership project of their choice. Students typically find this project to be both deeply rewarding and central to the development of their knowledge and confidence as change managers.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
ENVR S-147
International Environmental Governance, Policy, and Social Justice
Andrew Tirrell PhD, Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations and Associate Professor of Law, University of San Diego
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33398 | Section 1
Description
This course examines both the policy decisions and social justice issues that drive human actions and responses to environmental challenges. We begin by exploring three foundational topics: environmental governance, the global commons, and natural resource valuation. Core concepts from these sessions will continue to arise as we progress into classes focused on particular sectors of environmental policy, such as climate change, sustainable development, energy, and conservation. Upon completion of the course, students are prepared to engage with issues from a wide range of environmental policy areas that touch upon a number of social justice dilemmas. In addition, they further develop the analytic, rhetorical, written, and negotiation skills that are essential to environmental policy and advocacy careers.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students
ENVR S-148
Environmental Crises and Systems Collapse
James J. Truncer PhD
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33511 | Section 1
Description
Present-day environmental crises are examined from an historical and analytical perspective investigating the contexts of these developing crises by exploring how past societies adapted, or failed to adapt, to changing environmental conditions. Only certain aspects of these developing environmental crises are completely under human control. As we begin to understand how the components of these crises arise, function, and interact, our control over them is likely to increase. Part of this understanding must come from a consideration of the origin and development of these crises. Studying how earlier societies grappled with environmental crises of their own provides important developmental contexts for our problems and useful lessons on the importance of resilience and adaptation. Students may not count both ANTH S-1060 (offered previously) and ENVR S-148 for degree or certificate credit.
Class Meetings:
Online or On Campus
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, 1 Story Street 302
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Students can attend in person on campus, participate live online at the time the class meets via web conference, or watch the recorded video asynchronously. Recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students
ENVR S-158d
Waste Management Practices
Nihar Mohanty PhD, Environmental Analyst, Office of Research and Standards, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35751 | Section 1
Description
Waste materials are often unavoidable by-products of most human activity and are defined as something to be discarded as unusable or unwanted. Rapid economic growth, urbanization, and increasing population have resulted in an increase in resource consumption and the consequent generation of large amounts of waste. This generation of waste reflects a loss of materials and energy and imposes economic and environmental costs on society for its collection, management, and disposal. Of the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations, four are directly or partially related to waste management such as food waste, recycling, global carbon emissions, and the use of plastics. Traditional waste management options are chosen based on affordability, technical feasibility, and aesthetics. These options lack a holistic approach covering the whole chain of product design, raw material extraction, production, consumption, recycling, and waste management. Further, current waste management practices do not fully evaluate the ancillary human health and environmental impacts and the environmental equity of the chosen options. The recent detection of forever chemicals (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS) in waste threatens to disrupt most of the current waste management options. Although zero waste is an ambitious goal for many communities, currently, there is little evidence of decoupling of affluence and waste generation.
Prerequisites: High school science and mathematics is helpful.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students
ENVR S-183
Water in the Twenty-First Century
Sonaar Luthra MPS, Chief Executive Officer, Water Canary
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35559 | Section 1
Description
The past five years have signaled a massive transformation in the world’s understanding of the connections between climate change and our planet’s water cycle. A single volcanic eruption off Tonga increased global atmospheric water vapor (our most abundant greenhouse gas) by five percent. Water became a weapon in the Ukrainian war. Insurance companies began pulling out of covering wildfire insurance as forests dried in the western United States, while updated flood insurance premiums skyrocketed nationally. All rainwater was discovered to contain dangerous levels of forever chemicals. Devastating floods submerged one-third of Pakistan underwater. And the United States, for the first time, declared water a national security priority. This course examines how rapid transformations in earth’s hydrological cycle will transform humanity’s relationship to its most precious resource in the decades to come. We start with an overview of the centrality of water to climate change, the orphaned status of water in climate policy and climate talks, the systemic problems that have produced this disconnect, the incentives that sustain it, and the conflicts that result. We then spend each class looking at a specific water development from the past five years that serve as the context for shaping our understanding of the social, political, environmental, and security dimensions of our changing water cycle. In the final stage of the course, students critique or devise novel interventions to emerging water problems using systems thinking, scenario planning, and stakeholder-centered design.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
ENVR S-184
Economy, Environment, and Sustainable Development
Zinnia Mukherjee PhD, Associate Professor of Economics, Simmons University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35600 | Section 1
Description
The primary focus of this course is to understand the various aspects of economic growth, environmental protection, human development, sustainability, and their interrelationships. What does sustainable development mean? What is the difference between strong sustainability and weak sustainability? What is the relationship between economic efficiency, equity, and sustainability? What role can governments play to ensure economic growth leads to equitable distribution of social wealth? How do human activities affect the sustainability of global resources such as land, forests, and oceans? What roles can communities play in natural resource management and sustainable development? What is the role of international trade patterns and sustainable development? What role do international organizations such as the World Bank and United Nations have in promoting sustainable management of global resources and economic growth? We explore these questions through a series of readings, exams, group discussions, case studies (both contemporary and historical), and by writing a research paper on a course-related topic of choice. Students may not take both ENVR S-184 and ECON S-1665 for degree or certificate credit.
Prerequisites: Some microeconomics (principles level) is helpful. Students must be comfortable with plotting linear functions and solving linear equations.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students
ENVR S-186
Enabling a Sustainable Digital Transformation
Ahmad Antar PhD, Software Engineering Director, Digital Banking, US Bank
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35616 | Section 1
Description
The digital age has arrived. The fourth industrial revolution, a fusion of cutting-edge technologies (for example, blockchain, artificial intelligence [AI], metaverse, internet-of-things, hyper-automation, digital twins, and big data) is blurring the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds. Thanks to the great accelerator of the COVID-19 pandemic, digitalization is increasingly ubiquitous in our daily life, defining how we work and radically disrupting how we do business. But such digital transformation carries its own risks and opportunities. The World Economic Forum estimates that digital technologies have the potential to save up to 20 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. Yet, the rapid proliferation of digitalization has far-reaching negative impacts on the environment and society. The ever-growing carbon footprint of the digital sector (for example, hardware, software, networks, and data centers) is now larger than that of the aviation one. Similarly, the digital era has introduced a new wave of societal and ethical concerns arising from the adoption of such technologies. Further understanding of such risks is imperative to make digitalization sustainable in the future. This course introduces students to the sustainability challenges associated with digital technologies. We explore the environmentally and socially responsible use of digital technologies. Course topics include the evaluation of digital carbon footprints, the promise of clean AI, the need for energy-aware computing, the unsustainable role of digital assets (for example, cryptocurrency), the deepening of the digital divide, and the rising tide of climate change disinformation. The course also examines the taxonomy of digital justice, with a focus on ethical issues of emerging technologies. The course draws on case studies and contributions from active practitioners. Throughout the course, students take part in a live learning experience with peer learning opportunities in addition to individual activities.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students
ENVR S-188
Ventures in Sustainability
Dinesh Gurdas C ALM, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ADAPT Mobility, Inc.
Anthony George Keslinke Jr. ALM, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Veritel Energy, LLC
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35691 | Section 1
Description
While a near consensus has been reached on the existence and impact of climate change, the question now turns to what can be done to address the problem. Sustainability challenges increasingly offer unparalleled opportunities for innovative solutions. This course guides students through the intricate process of transforming sustainability challenges into actionable projects or business opportunities. Through this journey, students craft sustainable ventures that prioritize environmental responsibility, financial sustainability, and meaningful global impact. This is a project-based course that melds entrepreneurial leadership with practical strategies tailored for sustainability. Students explore entrepreneurial leadership and mindset to understand the characteristics, motivations, and behaviors of entrepreneurs who emphasize sustainability. We cover marketing strategies for sustainability, which allow students to master market and consumer research, trend forecasting, and develop compelling marketing plans and messages tailored for sustainable ventures. Students learn to understand business structures in order to navigate the spectrum from for-profit corporations to social enterprises and charitable organizations, emphasizing the role of social entrepreneurship. We introduce the topic of impact measurement, so students recognize the importance of quantifying the social and environmental impact of ventures using industry-specific sustainability metrics. Emphasis is placed on vision, values, and high-performing teams, including how to establish a robust organizational vision, appreciate the role of values in guiding business actions, and learn the intricacies of building and engaging high-performing teams. Finally, we also cover financing and delve into the triple bottom line concept, exploring financing strategies that concurrently measure social, environmental, and financial impacts. This course is designed to amplify passion and knowledge, presenting students with a comprehensive framework that turns ideas into high-impact solutions. By the end, students are well-equipped to recognize, quantify, and seize opportunities, ensuring their ventures thrive and contribute positively to the global landscape.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students
ENVR S-191
Community-Based Responses to Disaster
Eric J. Cesal MA, Director of Educational Initiatives, Curry Stone Foundation
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35612 | Section 1
Description
In the disaster response industry, there is an adage: there’s no such thing as a natural disaster. We increasingly understand natural disasters as social phenomena, enabled by poor urban policies and set off by physical events like earthquakes and hurricanes. In a future of climate-driven disasters, there is an even stronger imperative to consider the social, economic, and political frameworks that give rise to the conditions which presage disaster. Given that climate-driven disasters will invariably fall harder on the global south, we also face a rising moral imperative to consider how disaster prevention and response can either perpetuate or ameliorate longstanding issues of climate justice. The course begins with an overview of traditional top-down international disaster response frameworks beginning in the mid-twentieth century and charts the evolution of more grassroots, community-driven models. Students are asked to identify an issue of resilience or potential disaster from within their own communities and develop a speculative approach for its resolution. Students are asked to interview and liaise with individuals, groups, and businesses local to their community; diagram community dynamics; and crowd-source ideas for a more livable future. Students then work either on their own or in teams and extrapolate lessons learned in their own communities into a wider proposal for a new model for global disaster response, rooted in community-based practice.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
ENVR S-192
Food Systems and Social Justice
Garrett Broad PhD, Associate Professor, Rowan University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35614 | Section 1
Description
There is widespread agreement that global and local food systems must be improved in order to promote long-term sustainability, but there is widespread disagreement about exactly what those changes should be. This course provides an overview of key approaches and debates in the study and practice of food system change. Students explore the strengths, limits, and tensions of movements for food system reform, food justice, and food sovereignty, as well as examine trade-offs across the domains of environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Further attention is granted to modes of organizing and advocacy, including the role of policy, media, philanthropy, and grassroots activism.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students
ENVR S-194
Resilient Communities from the Ground Up
Alison Sant MA, Co-Founder and Partner, Studio for Urban Projects
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35613 | Section 1
Description
For decades, American cities have experimented with ways to remake themselves in response to climate change. These efforts, often driven by grassroots activism, offer valuable lessons for transforming the places we live. This course focuses on the unique ways in which US cities are working to mitigate and adapt to climate change while creating equitable and livable communities in the process. Four main themes and twelve case studies show how US cities are reclaiming their streets from cars, restoring watersheds, growing forests, and adapting shorelines to improve people’s lives while addressing our changing climate. The course relates national models to field study in Boston and Cambridge, where we meet with local advocates, community groups, government officials, scientists, and urban designers. Students walk the Rose Kennedy Greenway and visit the site of the Big Dig to learn how Boston buried an interstate highway and built a world-class park over it. We ride the region’s evolving bike network, featuring paths that are among the best in the country, and meet with city transportation planners to better understand how bike and scooter shares are complimenting public transit. Tours focus on the ways in which Boston’s efforts to make its streets safer are also a part of its green infrastructure plans to manage stormwater. We examine Boston’s tree canopy, observing how disparities in urban trees correlate to race and income and, subsequently, inequities in exposure to air pollution and extreme heat. We paddle the Charles River and learn about how the Resilient Boston Harbor Plan aims to protect the city from sea-level rise and storm surge by creating green spaces along the city’s 75 kilometer shoreline. Class assignments engage students in researching, measuring, and engaging in individual and group projects related to the themes of the course. Students examine how they can take action in their daily lives and careers to support efforts in their own communities for emboldening solutions.
Prerequisites: Students should be prepared for field study and be comfortable with moderate physical activity. Field trips include taking public transit, walking, and biking. The course also includes an optional paddling trip appropriate for beginners. This course is open to people of all abilities. Reasonable accommodations can be made for anyone unable or unwilling to take public transit, walk, bike, or paddle. The course includes field work where students measure heat and assess tree canopy cover, requiring time outdoors in the summer months. Students should be prepared for temperatures averaging 82 F/28 C.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 8:30am-11:30am, Emerson Hall 101
Field trips may occasionally run later than 11:30 am. See course syllabus for details.
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
Daniel Russell Green PhD, Lecturer on Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
ENVR S-215
Environmental Science
Scot T. Martin PhD, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35392 | Section 1
Description
This course offers a comprehensive overview of gaseous and particulate air pollutants in the atmosphere. It emphasizes pollutant sources, physical and chemical properties, sampling and analysis, chemical transformation, atmospheric transport, fate, and potential for adverse health and environmental impact. Furthermore, it presents a review of chemicals in the environment and their bioaccumulation in the aquatic system as well as emerging contaminants in personal care products.
Prerequisites: High school chemistry, physics, and biology.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
ENVR S-496
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Sustainability
Mark Leighton PhD, Associate Director and Senior Research Advisor, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34137 | Section 1
Description
This course helps students develop critical thinking, scholarly writing skills, and research abilities while developing their individual thesis proposals. Class meetings feature lectures and discussions on different scientific approaches, group discussions, and intensive, constructive discussion of proposed student thesis research projects and proposals, from definition of research goals and hypotheses through research design and expected data analysis and presentation. Students are encouraged to contact their research advisor well before prework is due to discuss possible thesis topics and should not register for this course unless they are ready to engage in the entire thesis process. They should consider if this is the right time to start independent research, as the goal of the course is to move from crafting the thesis proposal to thesis registration with no extended breaks. Students should begin the thesis project during the next semester after completing this course.
Prerequisites: Students must be officially admitted degree candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability, thesis track. Prospective candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must be in good academic standing, have completed at least eight degree-applicable courses with required grades and earned B-minus or higher in a research methods course. Candidates submit their mandatory prework between January 1 and February 1 to thesis_prework@extension.harvard.edu. Prework requires revisions and must be approved by the research advisor. Candidates who do not meet the these degree requirements or do not have their prework approved are dropped from the course.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Northwest Science Building B104
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Final paper due Monday, August 5.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students
ENVR S-599
Independent Research Capstone
Michaela J. Thompson PhD, Lecturer in Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35750 | Section 1
Description
This course offers students the overview, direction, and support for completing an individual capstone project, creatively engaging their professional and personal interests. Lectures and discussions explore challenges and opportunities in project scoping, boundary delineation, stakeholder inclusion, impact assessment, and sampling design; logical consistency, lateral thinking, and case study analysis; prototyping, benchmarking, and bet hedging; effective writing, editing, graphic presentation, and information search; and public presentation and network building. Students are asked to prepare a poster of their work to present to the wider graduate community at the end of the semester. Listings of prior projects may be viewed at the Independent Research Capstone website.
Prerequisites: Registration is limited to officially admitted degree candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability, capstone track. Candidates must be in good academic standing, ready to graduate in November with only the capstone left to complete (no other course registration is allowed simultaneously with the capstone), and have successfully completed the precapstone tutorial, ENVR E-598, in the previous term. Candidates who do not meet these degree requirements are dropped from the course.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Sever Hall 203
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Final paper/project due Friday, August 23.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
ENVR S-599a
Consulting for Sustainability Solutions Capstone
Brad Allen PhD, Professor of Marketing, School of Business, Plymouth State University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35693 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed for Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), sustainability, capstone track candidates. Course deliverables include a detailed, actionable, and measurable sustainability action plan (SAP), as well as a presentation to be given to the class and to client stakeholders. Appropriate clients may include communities, corporations, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), governmental agencies, schools, universities, and hospitals. Students work with a client to develop and deliver a customized SAP focused on reduction of operating costs, minimization of the environmental footprint, brand differentiation, and improvement of environmental sustainability practices. Class time is devoted to addressing client requirements and developing actionable solutions.
Prerequisites: Registration is limited to officially admitted degree candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability, consulting track. Candidates must be in good academic standing, have successfully completed the Harvard Extension School precapstone tutorial ENVR E-598a in the prior spring term, and be ready to graduate in November with only the capstone left to complete (no other course registration is allowed simultaneously with the capstone). Candidates who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Harvard Hall 202
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Final paper/project due Friday, August 23.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
EXPO S-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing
Ben Parson MFA, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35754 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed for students seeking preparation for EXPO E-25, which is a course required for admission to the undergraduate program at the Harvard Extension School. Students review such basics of academic argument as thesis, claims, evidence, and structure. Students complete short writing assignments that help develop the skills essential for producing persuasive academic essays. Students also learn strategies for reading and analyzing complex texts.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $1,000.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing
Taleen Mardirossian MFA, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35663 | Section 3
Description
This course is designed for students seeking preparation for EXPO E-25, which is a course required for admission to the undergraduate program at the Harvard Extension School. Students review such basics of academic argument as thesis, claims, evidence, and structure. Students complete short writing assignments that help develop the skills essential for producing persuasive academic essays. Students also learn strategies for reading and analyzing complex texts.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $1,000.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing
Allyson K. Boggess MFA, Writer
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34580 | Section 4
Description
This course is designed for students seeking preparation for EXPO E-25, which is a course required for admission to the undergraduate program at the Harvard Extension School. Students review such basics of academic argument as thesis, claims, evidence, and structure. Students complete short writing assignments that help develop the skills essential for producing persuasive academic essays. Students also learn strategies for reading and analyzing complex texts.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $1,000.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing
Steven Wandler PhD, Director of Writing Programs and Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, St. Catherine University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34902 | Section 5
Description
This course is designed for students seeking preparation for EXPO E-25, which is a course required for admission to the undergraduate program at the Harvard Extension School. Students review such basics of academic argument as thesis, claims, evidence, and structure. Students complete short writing assignments that help develop the skills essential for producing persuasive academic essays. Students also learn strategies for reading and analyzing complex texts.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $1,000.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing
Thomas A. Underwood PhD
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35870 | Section 6
Description
This course is designed for students seeking preparation for EXPO E-25, which is a course required for admission to the undergraduate program at the Harvard Extension School. Students review such basics of academic argument as thesis, claims, evidence, and structure. Students complete short writing assignments that help develop the skills essential for producing persuasive academic essays. Students also learn strategies for reading and analyzing complex texts.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $1,000.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-20a
Writing and Literature
Jodi Johnson PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35724 | Section 1
Description
Students read literary works and write focused, persuasive essays on literary topics. Discussions encourage students to read closely and think clearly in order to write more effectively. Students learn to write essays that demonstrate their competence as critics.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, Sever Hall 101
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes:
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading
Tran Nguyen PhD, Assistant Professor, Bucknell University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35662 | Section 1
Description
This course introduces students to the demands and conventions of academic reading and writing. It focuses on analyzing texts, building effective arguments, and using evidence and secondary source material. Instruction on the stages of the writing process, from prewriting exercises through rough drafts and revisions, forms a key part of the curriculum. Students applying to the undergraduate program at the Harvard Extension School must complete this course, but it is open to any student interested in gaining an understanding of academic writing.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $1,000.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading
Matthew T. Levay PhD, Associate Professor of English, Idaho State University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35019 | Section 2
Description
This course introduces students to the demands and conventions of academic reading and writing. It focuses on analyzing texts, building effective arguments, and using evidence and secondary source material. Instruction on the stages of the writing process, from prewriting exercises through rough drafts and revisions, forms a key part of the curriculum. Students applying to the undergraduate program at the Harvard Extension School must complete this course, but it is open to any student interested in gaining an understanding of academic writing.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $1,000.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading
Sheza Alqera MTS, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35679 | Section 3
Description
This course introduces students to the demands and conventions of academic reading and writing. It focuses on analyzing texts, building effective arguments, and using evidence and secondary source material. Instruction on the stages of the writing process, from prewriting exercises through rough drafts and revisions, forms a key part of the curriculum. Students applying to the undergraduate program at the Harvard Extension School must complete this course, but it is open to any student interested in gaining an understanding of academic writing.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $1,000.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading
Emilie J. Raymer PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34582 | Section 4
Description
This course introduces students to the demands and conventions of academic reading and writing. It focuses on analyzing texts, building effective arguments, and using evidence and secondary source material. Instruction on the stages of the writing process, from prewriting exercises through rough drafts and revisions, forms a key part of the curriculum. Students applying to the undergraduate program at the Harvard Extension School must complete this course, but it is open to any student interested in gaining an understanding of academic writing.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $1,000.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students. Final paper due Monday, July 29.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-34
Business Rhetoric
Franklin J. Schwarzer JD, Attorney, Schlesinger and Buchbinder, LLP
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35015 | Section 1
Description
This course helps business professionals improve their writing so they are better equipped to accomplish their educational and professional goals. Students consider how essential forms of business writing memos, cover letters, proposals, presentations, and reports address an audience, make claims, invoke prior claims, use key terms, and engage quantitative and visual evidence. The course fosters skills in drafting, revising, peer review, and using sources responsibly. It also offers sustained practice in constructing clear and precise sentences, coherent paragraphs, and well-ordered documents.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $2,040, graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-34
Business Rhetoric
Randy Rosenthal MTS, Editor
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32927 | Section 3
Description
This course helps business professionals improve their writing so they are better equipped to accomplish their educational and professional goals. Students consider how essential forms of business writing memos, cover letters, proposals, presentations, and reports address an audience, make claims, invoke prior claims, use key terms, and engage quantitative and visual evidence. The course fosters skills in drafting, revising, peer review, and using sources responsibly. It also offers sustained practice in constructing clear and precise sentences, coherent paragraphs, and well-ordered documents.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $2,040, graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-34
Business Rhetoric
Cynthia F. C. Hill PhD, Science Teacher, The Lawrenceville School
Geoffrey Hill PhD, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, The Graduate School, Princeton University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34573 | Section 5
Description
This course helps business professionals improve their writing so they are better equipped to accomplish their educational and professional goals. Students consider how essential forms of business writing memos, cover letters, proposals, presentations, and reports address an audience, make claims, invoke prior claims, use key terms, and engage quantitative and visual evidence. The course fosters skills in drafting, revising, peer review, and using sources responsibly. It also offers sustained practice in constructing clear and precise sentences, coherent paragraphs, and well-ordered documents.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $2,040, graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-34
Business Rhetoric
Thomas Akbari MA, Lecturer in English, Northeastern University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35835 | Section 7
Description
This course helps business professionals improve their writing so they are better equipped to accomplish their educational and professional goals. Students consider how essential forms of business writing memos, cover letters, proposals, presentations, and reports address an audience, make claims, invoke prior claims, use key terms, and engage quantitative and visual evidence. The course fosters skills in drafting, revising, peer review, and using sources responsibly. It also offers sustained practice in constructing clear and precise sentences, coherent paragraphs, and well-ordered documents.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $2,040, graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-42a
Writing in the Humanities
Patricia Bellanca PhD, Head Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35021 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed for students who wish to build upon the skills developed in EXPO S-25 in order to produce more advanced research and writing in the humanities. The course is also appropriate for students who wish to review their research and writing skills before embarking on a proseminar at the Harvard Extension School or graduate study elsewhere. Students are introduced to the work of reading, writing about, and conducting research on literary texts.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $2,040, graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-42b
Writing in the Social Sciences
Ross Martin PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35174 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed for students who wish to build upon the skills developed in EXPO S-25 in order to produce more advanced research and writing in the social sciences. The course is also appropriate for students who wish to review their research and writing skills before embarking on a proseminar at the Extension or Summer School or graduate study elsewhere. Students are introduced to the various social science disciplines and their approaches, while also learning how to become critical consumers of social science research. Students develop their own independent research project in the social science field of their choosing. This project lasts the entire semester and involves developing a viable research question; learning how to find, analyze, and interpret resources appropriately; and, finally, developing and refining an original argument in a final paper.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $2,040, graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-42b
Writing in the Social Sciences
Nicholas Coburn-Palo PhD, Preceptor in Public Speaking, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35773 | Section 2
Description
This course is designed for students who wish to build upon the skills developed in EXPO S-25 in order to produce more advanced research and writing in the social sciences. The course is also appropriate for students who wish to review their research and writing skills before embarking on a proseminar at the Extension or Summer School or graduate study elsewhere. Students are introduced to the various social science disciplines and their approaches, while also learning how to become critical consumers of social science research. Students develop their own independent research project in the social science field of their choosing. This project lasts the entire semester and involves developing a viable research question; learning how to find, analyze, and interpret resources appropriately; and, finally, developing and refining an original argument in a final paper.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $2,040, graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-42c
Writing in the Sciences
Kristen Starkowski PhD, Lecturer in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35711 | Section 1
Description
This course provides instruction in writing for students considering careers or advanced study in the natural, computational, or applied sciences. Through critical reading of key examples of the genres of scientific literature, students study how scientific texts address an audience, make claims, invoke prior claims, deploy key terms, and engage quantitative and visual evidence. The course’s workshop approach fosters skills in revision, peer review, and research into the scientific literature. The course offers writing strategies for successful communication in the field, including concise sentences, coherent paragraphs, and well-ordered documents. Projects include an academic research paper on a topic of a student’s choice in a form common to most scientific disciplines. The course is also appropriate for students who wish to review their research and writing skills before embarking on a proseminar at the Harvard Extension School or graduate study elsewhere.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $2,040, graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
EXPO S-49
Introduction to Strategic Communication and Public Relations
Terry Gipson MFA, Preceptor in Public Speaking, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35605 | Section 1
Description
A theoretical and practical introduction to the role of strategic communication and public relations in corporate, nonprofit, and political spheres. Includes analysis and practical application of the skills involved in building strategic communication relationships with various publics and core audiences.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
FREN S-Aa
Beginning French I
Yan Zhao MA, Doctoral Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33550 | Section 1
Description
This beginning French course provides an introduction to French with emphasis on interpersonal communication and the interpretation and production of language in written and oral forms. Students engage in interactive communicative activities that provide rich exposure to the French language and francophone cultures. Students engage in the discussion and interpretation of various French-language media sources including video, images, music, and film. Note: this course is the equivalent of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course French 10.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 9:30am-11:30am, Sever Hall 212
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 14 students
FREN S-C
Intermediate French: Francophone Culture in Local Communities
Matthew Elbert Rodriguez PhD, Lecturer on Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35045 | Section 1
Description
This intermediate-level language course explores cultural topics such as music, dance, and cuisine in France and other French-speaking countries. We in turn expand our discovery of Francophone cultures through conversations with language partners, interactive discussions with French-speaking guests, and virtual exploration of French-speaking communities. Themes such as family life in West Africa, sustainability in the French-speaking Pacific, and First Nation dancers in Quebec are broached through communicative activities in order to build on oral, written, and intercultural competences. Using various texts, films, and multimedia resources as a basis for discussion, we also build vocabulary and review and refine various grammatical structures. Note: this course is the equivalent of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences French 20.
Prerequisites: Beginning-level college French courses or permission of the instructor.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Lamont Library 240
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 14 students
GERM S-Bab
Beginning German
Bastian Lasse MA, Doctoral Candidate in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 31838 | Section 1
Description
This intensive beginning course introduces the fundamentals of the German language typically taught over two semesters. The main goal is functional competence in German, including the vocabulary, grammar, and cultural knowledge to be able to interpret oral and written input, and to communicate in speaking and writing in everyday situations. The curriculum is designed to highlight comparisons of German, Swiss, and Austrian culture with students’ own cultural backgrounds. In addition, students are guided through reading strategies that enable them to interpret and compose different types of texts.
Prerequisites: This course is designed for students without prior knowledge of German. Students who have taken three years or more of German at the high school level are not eligible to take this course. For more information please contact the instructor.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 9:30am-1:00pm, Harvard Hall 102
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 14 students
GERM S-R
German for Reading Knowledge
Anne C. Dymek PhD, PhD, College Fellow in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Sina Hoche PhD, Senior Resident Tutor in Quincy House and Teaching Assistant in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35867 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed for students who wish to acquire a precise reading knowledge of sophisticated German prose for research, study, and/or career purposes. The course focuses on grammar topics, parsing, and translation, for which texts from a variety of fields are employed. Starting the course with no knowledge of German, students are able to decipher and translate Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud and read scholarship in their field of specialization by the end of the course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-August 9, 10:00am-1:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 16 students
GOVT S-10
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Andrew F. March DPhil, Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30154 | Section 1
Description
This course investigates the central problems of political theory that concern the justification and operation of democratic forms of government. What is democracy? What is the proper purpose and scope of political life? How can we judge between different political systems and assess their relative merits and virtues? What are the various ends of political life and how do they conflict? What is the relationship between democracy and other values or goods, like rights, justice, equality, and solidarity? What is the purpose of democracy and the strongest defense of it? Given the purposes of democracy, how is it attained and preserved? What are some of the most urgent contemporary debates and controversies in democratic theory and practice? We take up these questions by reading a combination of classical works of modern political philosophy from Machiavelli to Marx, along with contemporary work in political theory.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, CGIS South S010
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
GOVT S-1045
Justice: Ethics in an Age of Pandemic and Racial Reckoning
Sergio Imparato PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35084 | Section 1
Description
What is a just society? What do we owe one another as citizens? What is a good life? These questions, long debated by philosophers, arise with special urgency at a time of pandemic and racial reckoning. The course explores these questions by considering how philosophers have tried to answer them, and by debating contemporary issues in politics and everyday life that prompt us to ask questions such as, what is the right thing to do? Topics include controversies about equality and inequality, individual rights and the common good, the role of government and markets, and competing conceptions of identity and community. Cases include ethical questions arising from the pandemic and recent debates about racial justice.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
GOVT S-1073
Science, Technology, and Political Theory
Andrew F. March DPhil, Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35766 | Section 1
Description
This course aims to introduce student to normative, ethical, and philosophical debates around the place of science and technology in human societies. Political theory brings a specific set of questions, problems, approaches, and conceptual tools for thinking about power, authority, human nature, the human good, and justice, all of which bear on the centrality of science and technology in social life. Political theory also approaches these questions through a wide variety of forms and genres of thought: historical analysis, normative philosophy, critical approaches to power, and even literature. The range of topics that could be explored in a course about the political theory of science and technology are vast and more than could be covered in any one semester. But course topics include the following: the history of anxiety around the place of technology in human life; technological determinist theories of history such as Marxism; techno-utopian and techno-dystopian ideologies; theories of the proper political and legislative authority of scientists and other experts; visions of freedom from labor and drudgery through technology; science as the supreme authority in modern secularism; philosophical discussions of the boundary between human nature and technology; considerations of the ethical limits of technological process (weapons, artificial intelligence, and environmental harm); techno-authoritarian political ideologies; surveillance and politics; the place of big data in governing populations; the ethics of modifying human nature and transhumanist visions; the effect of digital technologies on democracy and the public sphere; and artificial intelligence and its discontents.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, CGIS South S010
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
GOVT S-1111
Political Corruption
Jeeyang Rhee Baum PhD, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35839 | Section 1
Description
This course provides a comparative analysis of political corruption in rich and poor countries around the world. Why do countries vary in the extent of corruption they experience and with what consequences? This course explores this question using empirical data, as well as related issues. For example, how and why do public officials abuse the public trust and engage in illegal actions while in office? Why is corruption so prevalent in poor countries? Does political corruption decline with economic development? What do politicians gain from political corruption? Under what conditions do countries adopt anti-corruption strategies and how effective have they been? In addition, we examine case studies, including Brazil, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Taiwan, Uganda, and the United States.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
GOVT S-1116
Populism and the Erosion of Democracy
Jeeyang Rhee Baum PhD, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35566 | Section 1
Description
What is populism, and how much of a threat is it to democracy? The recent rise of authoritarian-populism, across both long-established and developing democracies, has posed new challenges for good governance. This course explores the conditions for the rise of populism, evaluates how much of a threat it poses for democracy, and examines the different forms it takes. Topics include: the role of economic grievances, immigration trends, civic culture, electoral rules, and party competition. We examine these topics through a range of comparative country cases including the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Hungary, Turkey, the Philippines, and India.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students
GOVT S-1242
Power and Politics in Greater China
David A. Rezvani DPhil, Lecturer in Writing, Dartmouth College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35380 | Section 1
Description
This course introduces students to key concepts, actors, and events in the politics of greater China. Does democracy or China’s current system of rule have bigger advantages? What are the key sources of China’s remarkable economic growth? What is the nature of accountability and informal institutions within the Middle Kingdom? In light of China’s policies toward Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea, is China a status quo or revisionist power? Students confront these and a wide range of other pivotal economic, security, and global controversies. Students debate and assess the merits of China’s policies on issues such as the China model, economic growth, authoritarian resilience, decentralization, informal institutions, and media censorship, as well as the relations of China’s government with domestic, regional, and international actors. The course includes independent research, intensive writing, and debates on the conditions both within and beyond greater China.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 8:30am-11:30am, CGIS Knafel K108
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
GOVT S-1315
Race and US Politics
Tess Wise PhD, Assistant Professor, Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35134 | Section 1
Description
This course elucidates American racial politics through a combination of theoretical and historical approaches. Theoretical issues include race as a social construct, political friendship theory, and racial contract theory. Historical material includes settler colonialism, Harvard University’s racial history, enslavement, civil rights, and migration. Politics in practice covers dog-whistle politics, representation, social movements, policing, mass incarceration, and reparations. Students learn to think critically and have informed conversations about race, connecting course content to current events.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
GOVT S-1550
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy
Matthew A. Baum PhD, Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications and Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33308 | Section 1
Description
This seminar surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the influence of domestic politics on foreign policy and international politics, with a primary, though not exclusive, emphasis on American foreign policy. Scholars have long recognized that domestic politics influences states’ decision making in international trade and finance. Yet, in recent years we have witnessed an explosion of interest in understanding the linkage between domestic politics and international relations more broadly, including the decidedly high politics arena of war and peace. We review a variety of theoretical perspectives concerning both international economics and international security, ranging from the role of individuals and individual psychology, to the influence of interest groups, political institutions, the mass media, and public opinion. The goal is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of domestic political explanations for policy outcomes in foreign policy and international affairs.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 16 students
GOVT S-1723
Propaganda, Past and Present
George Soroka PhD, Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35572 | Section 1
Description
Propaganda has been a factor in politics since antiquity, but in an age when social media has made disseminating ideas easier than ever and the terms fake news and alternative facts have entered the popular lexicon, it appears particularly pernicious. Studying what political propaganda is, as well as by whom (and how) it is disseminated and what its goals are, is therefore particularly relevant today. 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 (for example, advertising, op-eds, and polemics) and obvious misinformation. Next, we examine various examples of propaganda and their manifestations, both historical as well as more contemporaneous (for example, World War I and World War II, Russian and Chinese troll farms, and the 2021 US Capitol riot). The course concludes by considering the normative implications of political propaganda for the societies we live in.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm, Harvard Hall 101
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
GOVT S-1726
Intelligence and International Security
Michael David Miner PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34823 | Section 1
Description
This course explores the opaque world of intelligence and international security. The course begins with a survey of disciplines and methods of analysis before reviewing intelligence requirements as a component in policy processes that drive and inform decision making within the national security system. We consider various intelligence related topics including espionage, covert action, politicization, counterintelligence, public oversight, intelligence failure, and reform. The course strikes a balance between contemporary issues and the storied histories of intelligence systems around the world. Though predominantly focused on the United States, the course also considers intelligence activities in the United Kingdom, Russia, China, and elsewhere. Students grapple with historical and hypothetical problem sets based on real-world scenarios to develop assessment capabilities. Required readings and assignments draw on classic and influential work in addition to declassified documents which illuminate the historical narrative in a tangible way. The course concludes with reflections on how past experience informs current perspectives and might elucidate future intelligence requirements to better anticipate and understand the changing world.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students
GOVT S-1729
Debates in International Politics
David A. Rezvani DPhil, Lecturer in Writing, Dartmouth College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33627 | Section 1
Description
This course critically examines arguments, analytical frameworks, and potential solutions for major controversies in international politics. What causes terrorism? What should countries do to solve global warming? Should economic distributive justice only exist within nation states or should it apply globally? What are the sources of state failure? Students confront these and a wide range of other key economic, security, and global controversies. The first part of the course critically examines sources of international conflict such as insurgency, guerilla warfare, corruption, and imperialism. The course then investigates questions of international order and cooperation with regard to international injustice, sovereignty, market-preserving federalism, environmental degradation, and problems of global governance.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 8:30am-11:30am, CGIS Knafel K050
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
GOVT S-1744
Women, Peace, and Security
Joan Johnson-Freese PhD, Senior Fellow, Women in International Security
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34443 | Section 1
Description
This course examines the increasingly recognized role of women in global peace and security affairs, as demonstrated by the groundbreaking UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) that over 80 countries have National Action Plans to implement, the lifting of bans on women in combat roles in many countries, and the bipartisan 2017 passage of the first of its kind Women, Peace and Security Act in the US. From politics to the military, education, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and grass roots organizations, women are involved in conflict prevention and peace building. The course examines various perspectives on empowering women to play positive, active roles in these areas.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference with Required On-Campus Weekend
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Saturday, Sunday, June 29-30, 9:00am-5:00pm, One Brattle Square 203
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Along with the web-conference meetings, this course also includes an intensive—and mandatory—weekend residency. Students must be present for the entire on-campus weekend session to earn credit for the course. The course begins via web conference during the first week of the term and continues to meet throughout the term. Please see the syllabus for the specific course meeting dates. Tuition does not include hotel accommodations, transportation, or meals for the on-campus weekend session. International Students see important visa information. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
GOVT S-1749
The Political Economy of Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities
Thomas Gift PhD, Associate Professor of Political Science, University College London
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33666 | Section 1
Description
Even as new resistance has emerged to the internationalist agenda, globalization and the flattening of the world mean that countries and individuals are intertwined like never before in history. Against this backdrop, standards of living in many countries have skyrocketed, millions of people have escaped poverty, and countless others have capitalized on new opportunities in work and life. At the same time, serious problems have emerged that threaten sustained peace and prosperity across the globe. In this course, we explore the nature of these challenges and opportunities, why they have arisen, and what they portend for the future political and economic trajectory of citizens and societies. Particular attention is paid to topics such as global governance, technology and artificial intelligence, democracy and human rights, migration, and climate change. By the end of the course, students better understand what globalization is, what aspects of modern political and economic systems are due to globalization, the key advantages and disadvantages of globalization, and how globalization influences an array of exigent policy issues.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 3:15pm-6:15pm, Harvard Hall 202
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
GOVT S-1754
International Relations, Global Governance, and the United Nations
Stefan Tschauko PhD, Doctoral Candidate in International Relations, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Larry Dean Johnson JD, Professorial Lecturer, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35837 | Section 1
Description
Humankind faces tremendous challenges. Lives and livelihoods of civilians around the world are threatened by conflict such as the one in Ukraine, the health of individuals everywhere is at risk due to infectious diseases such as COVID-19, and our planet is threatened by the consequences of climate change. How can the international community address these global challenges? One solution is called global governance, a central part of which is the United Nations (UN) and its many related organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). In this course, students learn about major challenges facing humankind, how the UN addresses them, and the UN’s successes and limitations. We focus on the UN’s key issues of maintaining peace and security, protecting human rights, and promoting sustainable development and climate action. Students engage with theories of international relations that explain state behavior and foundations of international law that constrain state actions. Students independently study an issue of their interest and develop insights as to how global governance may contribute to a solution. In short, this is a course on how the UN tries to save the planet and the challenges it faces in doing so.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 3:15pm-5:45pm, CGIS Knafel K050
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 27 students
GOVT S-1786
Globalization and the Nation-State: Theories and Case Studies
Nicolas Prevelakis PhD, Associate Senior Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35405 | Section 1
Description
Despite globalization, the United States is still a major actor in today’s world. This course tries to understand why this is so by examining the role that nationalism plays in peoples’ identities and the effects of globalization on nations and nation-states. Has globalization undermined national sovereignty? What are its effects on global poverty, inequalities, and democracy? And to what extent are nation-states useful in addressing global issues? The course looks at theories as well as case studies from the recent rise of populism and authoritarianism, the role of supranational entities such as the European Union, and the urgency of global issues such as artificial intelligence, climate change, inequality, migration, and security. Examples are drawn from the United States, Europe, Latin America, China, and the Middle East.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
GOVT S-1865
US-Mexico Politics
Viridiana Rios PhD
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34494 | Section 1
Description
Mexico is one of the most important political and strategic allies of the United States. The history of both nations is inherently intertwined, bearing a unique combination of characteristics unseen in other neighboring countries. In this course, students discover the fascinating complexities of the US-Mexico relationship on five policy areas: trade, migration, security, energy, and public health. By the end of the summer, students have a sharp understanding of the main challenges US-Mexico relations face and of possible ways to address them.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
GOVT S-1886
The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century
Francesca Giovannini DPhil, Executive Director of Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School and Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Security, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35787 | Section 1
Description
This course examines the role of nuclear weapons in US and international security. In addition to familiarizing students with the types and effects of nuclear arms, the course considers the history and future of nuclear strategy, the control and reduction of nuclear weapons, and the dilemmas of nuclear proliferation. The course is about the politics of nuclear weapons and does not require any specialized technical background.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
GOVT S-20
Foundations of Comparative Politics
George Soroka PhD, Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32003 | Section 1
Description
This course provides an introduction to concepts, theories, and evidence in the field of comparative politics. Topics include origins of nation-states, democracy and authoritarianism, social revolutions, politics of economic development, ethnicity and ethnic violence, modernization, political culture, institutions, and civil society. The empirical evidence is drawn from cases in Africa (Nigeria and Rwanda), the Americas (Mexico and the United States), Asia (China, India, and South Korea), Europe (Britain and Germany), post-communist areas (Russia and former Yugoslavia), and the Middle East (Iran).
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students
GOVT S-40
International Conflict and Cooperation
Dustin Tingley PhD, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30155 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to the analysis of the causes and character of international conflict and cooperation. Theories of international relations are presented and then applied to contemporary and historical cases. The course begins with a foundational review of the different levels at which states interact and the primary theoretical paradigms in the field. It then addresses how states achieve cooperation in the face of international anarchy, a question that has attracted the attention of scholars since Thucydides. The course next addresses basic bargaining theory, which uses insights from economics to explore how bargaining breakdowns, commitment problems, and incomplete information can lead to war. Thereafter we examine three popular topics in contemporary international relations research: the roles that psychology, leaders, and domestic politics play in explaining international conflict and cooperation. We also explore the sources and effects of international institutions such as the United Nations and World Trade Organization. We spend a week studying terrorism, a problem of particular significance in the modern world. We also look at trade, foreign aid, international development, and climate change. We conclude with international law and an exploration of the future of international relations.
Class Meetings:
Online
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes:
Enrollment limit: Limited to 72 students
GREK S-Aa
Beginning Greek
Philip Wilson AM, Doctoral Candidate in the Classics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35831 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to ancient Greek. Students learn the fundamental rules of morphology and syntax while acquiring a basic vocabulary in the language. Additionally, students develop an appreciation for the literature, history, and culture of classical Athens through readings inspired by the works of literary figures such as Aristophanes, Plato, and Herodotus. Students who successfully complete the course are suitably prepared to continue their ancient Greek journey into more advanced courses.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. Harvard University’s Classics department is offering scholarships for high school or college students taking introductory Greek or Latin, or CLAS S-97a. See the department’s website for more information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
GREK S-Aab
Intensive Beginning Greek
Nate Herter AM, Doctoral Candidate in the Classics, Harvard University
Emily Mitchell AM, Doctoral Candidate in Classical Philology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35794 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed for students with little or no prior instruction in ancient Greek who are committed to learning the language at rapid speed. Equivalent to the first two semesters of college-level instruction, it covers all basic grammar and vocabulary while offering considerable practice in reading.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 10:00am-12:00pm, Sever Hall 207
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 1:00pm-3:00pm, Sever Hall 207
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. Harvard University’s Classics department is offering scholarships for high school or college students taking introductory Greek or Latin, or CLAS S-97a. See the department’s website for more information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
HARC S-183
The Architecture of Boston
Alexander von Hoffman PhD, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35455 | Section 1
Description
Boston is among the most admired cities in the world. This course surveys the city’s architecture and urban design from its founding to the present. Through lectures and walking tours, we trace how the social and economic context shaped Boston and how the city in turn interpreted and contributed to European and American architecture. In particular, we examine the work of major Boston designers such as Charles Bulfinch, H. H. Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Walter Gropius, I. M. Pei, Philip Johnson, Frank Gehry, and Machado and Silvetti.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Sever Hall 202
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
HARC S-197
Contemporary Photography: War and Conflict
Makeda Best PhD, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs, Oakland Museum of California
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34739 | Section 1
Description
This course examines how photographs of contemporary conflict have had an impact on the history of photography and the role of the photographic documentarian in society. Contemporary war photographs circulate in various forms from social media outlets to photobooks to museum walls. The so-called forever wars of our present era have taken place alongside a burgeoning field of photographic image production, and writing and theorizing about photography as an art form, instrumental tool, and cultural and political force. Through these works and texts, we explore how contemporary war photographs challenge notions of photographic truth, have an impact on the role of photography in the museum, drive political discourse and transform the meanings of contemporary conflicts, disrupt ideas about art and warfare, and raise new ethical dilemmas around issues of privacy and public policy.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
HIST S-1156
The Birth of Europe: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Tiphaine Guillabert PhD, Associate of the Department of History, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35627 | Section 1
Description
This course covers the origins of Europe from a political perspective. We observe how Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, and France competed against each other to increase their power over Europe in a real-life game of thrones. Topics include key aspects of government models from absolutism to republicanism, economic systems related to capitalism, war and diplomacy, artistic politics from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and social control from court elites to Jewish ghettos.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Harvard Hall 104
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Giulia Delogu PhD, Assistant Professor of Early Modern History, Ca’ Foscari University
HIST S-1225
The Rise of the Far Right in Europe
John R. Boonstra PhD, Teaching Assistant Professor, College of General Studies and the Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35365 | Section 1
Description
Far-right movements have, in recent years, gained striking momentum across Europe. From France’s anti-immigrant National Front and neo-Nazis in Germany to efforts to rehabilitate Francisco Franco and Benito Mussolini in Spain and Italy, forces of extreme nationalism, xenophobia, and imperial nostalgia have increased in prominence as well as popularity. The current moment is not, of course, the first time that the continent has experienced a rise in right-wing extremism. Fascism, from the 1920s onward, likewise offered violent, totalitarian solutions to the tensions of mass politics and populist resentment in polarized societies. How, precisely, do today’s reactionary political formations relate to their fascistic forebears? What social and cultural dynamics is each responding to and, perhaps just as significantly, what historical legacies are they drawing on? In this course, we ask how has the present wave of far-right parties in western and central Europe tapped into notions of national decline, instability, and changing demographics? What can we learn about these movements by studying histories of European fascism in France, Germany, Spain, and Italy? And finally, how have these histories been obscured and rehabilitated in different ways in each of these countries? By moving from contemporary cases of resurgent nationalist sentiment to their interwar predecessors and back again, and through a consideration of novels, films, historical documents, speeches, and monuments, the course seeks to uncover how anxieties of migration, race, and empire as well as changing roles of religion, gender, and nationhood shaped political animosities and allegiances within the European far right both a century ago and today.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
HIST S-1827
The United States and China: Opium War to the Present
Erez Manela PhD, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35006 | Section 1
Description
This course focuses on the history of Sino-American relations and interactions since the Opium War (1840s). It examines these relations through the lens of major events such as the Boxer intervention, the first and second world wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Mao-Nixon rapprochement, and the post-Mao transformations. Central themes include trade, diplomacy, conflict, mutual perceptions, cultural influences, and migration.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students
Shigehisa Kuriyama PhD, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Harvard University
HSCI S-202
Deadly Diseases: Epidemics throughout History
Sean Tath O’Donnell PhD
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35078 | Section 1
Description
Outbreaks of epidemic disease have played a role in shaping human societies from the beginning of recorded history, transforming demographic patterns, social practices, and cultural expectations. Although they take fewer lives than the diseases we encounter every day, epidemics possess an extraordinary hold over our collective imagination; this course seeks to understand why. Through an analysis of the Black Death to COVID-19, we explore the place of epidemic disease in human history, taking into account how those living in different times and places have responded when epidemics have appeared.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Robinson Hall 105
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
HUMA S-100
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Dramatic Arts, English, and Religion
Collier Brown PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33838 | Section 1
Description
In this proseminar, students develop the skills necessary to produce graduate-level research on a topic relevant to a humanities-related field. This course focuses on magical realism in global modern fiction. During the first part of the course, we read Guinean author Camara Laye’s The Radiance of the King, a classic in the genre of magical realism, early twentieth-century modernism, and African and world literature. In the second part, students write a ten-page research paper, analyzing a work of magical realism and engaging in the existing scholarship about it. Apart from expository writing prerequisites, this is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree. While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO S-42a is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and capacity for coherent logical argument.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students
HUMA S-101
Proseminar: Elements of the Writer’s Craft
Anne Elliott MFA, MFA, Workshop Leader, A Public Space
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34857 | Section 1
Description
This is an intensive course in the craft and analysis of prose from a writer’s perspective. The focus of this course is to teach prose writers how to read well. Students explore the potential and possibilities of different approaches to writing, and, by the end of the course, apply their close reading to their own fiction and nonfiction. The goal of this course is to build a deep understanding of key elements of craft through close reading and textual analysis of the work of master prose writers. We analyze the work of these writers, discussing how they employ structure, character, setting, dialogue, point of view, and other aspects of craft. Students write critically and creatively, both in class and out of class, about the works under discussion and about possible applications to their own creative writing. Students examine the conscious choices about craft that published writers make in order to fully realize a piece of writing.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO S-42a is strongly recommended. Students in this course are expected to have a firm command of grammar, syntax, and prose composition, and to have read widely.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
HUMA S-101
Proseminar: Elements of the Writer’s Craft
Mande Zecca PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35779 | Section 2
Description
This is an intensive course in the craft and analysis of prose from a writer’s perspective. The focus of this course is to teach prose writers how to read well. Students explore the potential and possibilities of different approaches to writing, and, by the end of the course, apply their close reading to their own fiction and nonfiction. The goal of this course is to build a deep understanding of key elements of craft through close reading and textual analysis of the work of master prose writers. We analyze the work of these writers, discussing how they employ structure, character, setting, dialogue, point of view, and other aspects of craft. Students write critically and creatively, both in class and out of class, about the works under discussion and about possible applications to their own creative writing. Students examine the conscious choices about craft that published writers make in order to fully realize a piece of writing.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO S-42a is strongly recommended. Students in this course are expected to have a firm command of grammar, syntax, and prose composition, and to have read widely.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
HUMA S-110
Masterpieces of World Literature
Martin Puchner PhD, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University
David Damrosch PhD, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33501 | Section 1
Description
This course surveys world literature from The Epic of Gilgamesh to the present, with an emphasis on different cultures and writing traditions. Produced by HarvardX, the course is based not on lectures but on a more vivid dialogue format between instructors Martin Puchner and David Damrosch. The course also includes travel footage from Istanbul and Troy to Jaipur and Weimar, and interviews with authors such as Orhan Pamuk and other experts.
Class Meetings:
Online
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: The recorded lectures are from the HarvardX course Masterpieces of World Literature.
Jay M. Harris PhD, Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard University
HUMA S-185
Global Gender Justice
Karen Thornber PhD, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35401 | Section 1
Description
With gender inequities and biases pervasive within and across cultures worldwide, and the global pandemics of gender-based violence and structural violence further intensified by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, how have individuals, groups, communities, and nations globally fought for (and against) gender justice? How have struggles against gender injustice intersected and conflicted with struggles against racial, ethnic, environmental, health, LGBTQIA+, and other forms of injustice? Gender justice, as is true of justice more broadly, is often discussed in the abstract or as a matter of law, political history, protest movements, enfranchisement, and similar phenomena. Yet at its core, justice involves individuals and their experiences both their suffering and their triumphs most directly accessed through stories. In this course we explore a range of stories and different forms of storytelling on gender justice, from novels and films to memoirs and personal histories, histories, and creative nonfiction. Some narratives with which we engage are Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Ito Shiori’s Black Box: The Memoir that Sparked Japan’s #MeToo Movement, Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals, Cynthia Enloe’s The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy, Cho Nam-joo’s Kim Ji-young, Born 1982, and Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzald a’s This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Students are also encouraged to write their own stories on gender and justice.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
HUMA S-300
Engaging in the Scholarly Conversation
Stephen Spencer PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35828 | Section 1
Description
This course trains students in the skills of critically engaging the scholarly literature in their field of study. They learn how to assess the presuppositions, argumentation, methodology, evidence, and conclusions of scholarly writing in their discipline. After building that foundational skill set, the second portion of the course focuses on how to identify patterns, debates, and schools of thought in the larger body of existing scholarship relevant to the students’ interests, which is an essential precursor of the final goal: identifying gaps or opportunities for future scholarly contributions.
Prerequisites: Students must have completed HUMA S-100 or SSCI S-100a with a grade of B or higher in order to take this course. HUMA S-300 must be completed before registering in the Crafting the Thesis Proposal tutorial for thesis-track students and prior to precapstone course for capstone-track students.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 8:30am-11:30am, Emerson Hall 104
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Students in HUMA S-300, PSYC S-300, and SSCI S-300 may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
IORP S-1501
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Adam Smith PhD, Consultant, Kincentric
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35825 | Section 1
Description
How would you choose the ideal worker out of 400 applicants? Is it possible to predict employee motivation? Are virtual teams more effective than in-person teams? Questions like these can be answered through the help of industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology, which is the application of psychological theories and principles to the workplace. Examining decades of research from psychology, sociology, management, and statistics, we discuss a wide range of theories and practices which have had an impact on I/O psychology applications. We also focus on how organizations currently use I/O principles in everyday scenarios and evaluate practical examples of how the field continues to influence talent management. Examined through the scientist-practitioner lens, course material covers both theoretical and real-world applications and addresses the gap between the two. Course topics include job/worker analysis, organizational research methods, employee selection, motivation, attitudes, health and stress, leadership, and a variety of other content areas. Students may not take both IORP S-1501 and PSYC E-1501 (offered previously) for degree or certificate credit.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 75 students
IORP S-1502
Psychometric Theory and Assessment
Leanne Tortez PhD, Supervising Research Specialist, Department of Public Social Services, County of Riverside
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35775 | Section 1
Description
This course exposes the student to the basic principles of test construction and interpretation, including issues related to reliability and validity. Additionally, issues related to test administration, scoring, and reporting are explored, with emphasis given to the ethical uses of tests. Attention is also given to emerging trends in the practical uses and applications of tests. Students may not take both IORP S-1502 and PSYC E-1502 (offered previously) for degree or certificate credit.
Prerequisites: PSYC S-1 or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
ISMT S-161
Computational Bayesian Inference
Dmitry V. Kurochkin PhD, Senior Research Analyst, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Office for Faculty Affairs, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35702 | Section 1
Description
The techniques of statistical inference for studying properties of data generating processes include method of moments, maximum likelihood estimation, Bayesian inference, and nonparametric statistics. Bayesian inference is an important approach to data analysis in which unknown parameters are treated as random variables whose probability distributions can be updated in light of new information. Bayesian inference is particularly advantageous for sequential data analysis and hypothesis testing when data are being collected sequentially. In this course, students learn foundations of Bayesian inference, including contemporary computational methods such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and get hands-on experience using R. Topics covered in the course include Bayes’ rule, prior and posterior distributions, Markov Chain (MC), MCMC methods, the celebrated Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, and the Gibbs sampler.
Prerequisites: Introductory probability and statistics and Calculus equivalent to MATH S-1a. Prior programming experience, preferably in R, is helpful but not required.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
ISMT S-599
Capstone Seminar in Digital Enterprise
Zoya Kinstler PhD
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33285 | Section 1
Description
This interactive, fast-paced seminar focuses on digital technologies as tools for achieving business goals. A digital enterprise is defined as an organization whose business model and operating platform are driven by information technology (IT). Through readings and case studies, we learn how companies transform their processes and systems by implementing digital technologies: cloud services, mobile and social platforms, data analytics, and machine-to-machine communications. Then we roll up our sleeves and build a capstone project, architecting an IT solution for a realistic business scenario. Concepts covered include enterprise architecture, software systems, business processes, service orientation, system integration, and project implementation framework. Our seminar offers an intense learning experience via engaging lectures, case studies, demanding research and reading requirements, and stimulating teamwork.
Prerequisites: Students must be officially admitted degree candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), information management systems. Prospective candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must be in good academic standing and have successfully completed all seven specific degree requirements and at least two electives with required grades. Candidates who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Science Center 309A
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
Francesco Erspamer Laurea, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
ITAL S-Aa
Beginning Italian
Amelia K. Linsky PhD, Teaching Assistant in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35813 | Section 1
Description
Intended and designed for students with little, if any formal knowledge of Italian, this course enables beginning students to develop the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing Italian in a cultural context. Activities include listening comprehension, grammar exercises, conversation, and role-playing, with a strong emphasis on oral communication.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 25-August 9, 9:30am-11:30am, Sever Hall 310
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 14 students
JAPA S-120
Intermediate Japanese
Yuki Sakomura MA, Preceptor in Japanese, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33130 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed for students with a solid background in basic grammar, equivalent to one year of college study. Students are expected to have basic speaking and listening comprehension skills as well as reading and writing ability in hiragana, katakana and approximately 180 kanji in context. The course covers the second half of Genki 2 and some authentic materials. The goal is the simultaneous progression of four skills speaking, listening, reading, and writing enabling students to advance beyond beginning-level Japanese, further develop conversation strategies to improve daily communication, and become familiar with aspects of Japanese culture necessary for language competency.
Prerequisites: JAPA S-Bab or the equivalent of one year of college-level Japanese. Students must pass a placement test given the first day of class.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-12:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
JAPA S-Bab
Elementary Japanese I and II
Naomi Asakura MA, Preceptor in Japanese, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35789 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed for people with little or no background in Japanese. We cover lessons 1-12 of the Genki 1 textbook and lessons 13-16 of Genki 2. This fast-track introductory course aims to develop a basic foundation in the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. This course introduces basic sentence patterns, vocabulary, and common expressions, which allow students to speak and write about themselves, topics of personal relevance, and some aspects of Japanese culture. After this course, students have survival-level communication skills to communicate solely in Japanese in everyday situations of daily life. This course also introduces the hiragana, katakana, and about 209 kanji (Chinese characters).
Prerequisites: It is recommended that students study both Japanese hiragana and katakana prior to beginning the course. Since this is a summer-term course, it is faster-paced than the equivalent semester-long course, so it helps to get an advance start.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-12:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
JAPA S-C
Basic Japanese
Asako Higurashi MA, Language Instructor in Japanese, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35834 | Section 1
Description
This course is for people with little or no background in Japanese. The course aims to develop a basic foundation in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. This course also introduces the Japanese writing systems, hiragana, katakana, and approximately 60 kanji (Chinese characters). Upon satisfactory completion of the course, students have survival-level communication skills in common daily life situations in Japanese.
Prerequisites: Although the Japanese writing systems are introduced in this course, having knowledge of hiragana and katakana is helpful.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Northwest Science Building B109
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
JOUR S-137
Feature Writing
Denise Hruby BA, Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35764 | Section 1
Description
In this course, students learn to find and research stories that make good features, conceptualize narratives and plan reporting trips including identifying compelling characters and approaching and interviewing them, whether they are everyday people, politicians, or experts. By workshopping their stories, students learn to structure engaging narratives, distill key information from their research and interviews, and vividly describe scenes and characters in their writing. While readings and classroom discussions focus on innovative and best practice examples, guest lecturers by both feature writers and editors share insights into their work and the process of creating award-winning features. The course also addresses strategies for getting work published, including successfully communicating with editors and crafting a pitch that draws their attention.
Prerequisites: A beginning-level journalism course, some journalism experience, or permission of the instructor.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
JOUR S-140a
News Reporting and Writing
Sarah Varney BA, Special Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35765 | Section 1
Description
This course explores structures of news writing across platforms including print, digital, television, and radio. Students learn how to discern what constitutes news, how to gather reporting elements and interview sources in the field and over the phone, and how to write concise news stories and enterprise reports. In journalism, demand is high for new information but also for thoughtful, unique pieces that display the writer’s knowledge of a subject. The course stresses accuracy and fact-checking as well as ethical considerations in journalism and the importance of reporting a balanced story. The course also brings in guest speakers to discuss reporting on specific news events and macro beats.
Prerequisites: An introductory journalism course, some journalism experience, or permission of the instructor.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
JOUR S-161
Podcasting
Julia Barton MFA, Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35713 | Section 1
Description
More and more people are learning by listening to podcasts. But effective spoken-word audio requires a complex set of skills. How do professional podcasters write for the ear, shape interview and narratives to hold listener attention, and use the technical tools of the trade? In this course, students first learn by listening and discussing examples from a wide array of podcasts. They learn how to plan and pitch a single story or audio series, and then learn skills such as interviewing, recording, and mixing in order to craft a portfolio piece of audio. They also study various audio production and financing models in order to better understand this rapidly evolving field. Students study narrative podcast selections from the audiobook collection The Best Audio Storytelling 2022, as well as recent essays on audio craft.
Prerequisites: An introductory journalism course, some journalism experience, or permission of the instructor.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
JOUR S-187
Video Journalism: The Short Documentary
Andrea Patino Contreras MA, Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35728 | Section 1
Description
This course on video journalism pays special attention to the short documentary form. Students select a story to follow, develop a production plan, and film and edit a three- to five-minute documentary on their subject. The course considers storytelling and technical skills, and the ethical questions that arise when documenting a story through video. Throughout the course, we also look at examples of how other video journalists have approached their work, considering short documentaries on topics such as immigration, culture and arts, and personal family stories. By the end of the course, students have produced one finished short documentary and developed their understanding of how to tell a compelling story through video.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 12:00pm-3:00pm, 53 Church Street 202
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Final work due Monday, July 29.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
JOUR S-50
Basic Journalism in the Digital Age
Austin Bogues MA, Assistant Washington Editor, USA Today
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32314 | Section 1
Description
This course equips students with an understanding of the principles and practices of journalism: how to recognize good stories, gather facts through skillful interviewing and research, develop sources, craft welcoming leads and satisfying endings, and create news and feature articles that inform and engage readers. The course emphasizes the time-honored skills of reporting and writing, which provide the foundation of journalism in any age, and which are of particular value in an era when journalism’s ability to uncover and convey the truth is under assault.
Prerequisites: A college-level writing course.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Sever Hall 104
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes:
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
JOUR S-599
Journalism Capstone Project
June Carolyn Erlick MSJ, Publications Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and Editor-in-Chief, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33945 | Section 1
Description
The capstone is the culmination of the student’s work in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), journalism program and consists of a series of substantial stories completed in one semester. The capstone generally consists of three to five related pieces, text or multimedia based, in different styles. Text-based projects are generally about 5,000 words; the parameters of projects in other media are determined by the student and the project director together and are based on the requirements of the story. Past capstone directors have included Boston Globe editors and reporters, former fellows from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, and other professionals in the field.
Prerequisites: Students must be officially admitted candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), journalism. Prospective degree candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must be in good academic standing with a minimum of 36 degree-applicable credits completed with required grades. Candidates submit capstone proposals by March 1. Proposals require revisions and must be approved by the capstone advisor by April 1. Candidates who do not meet these degree requirements or do not have their capstone proposals approved by the deadline are dropped from the course. See the journalism capstone website for proposal details and approval deadlines.
Class Meetings:
Online
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Ahsil Noh MA, Preceptor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Hi-Sun Helen Kim PhD, Director of the Korean Language Program and Senior Preceptor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Hi-Sun Helen Kim PhD, Director of the Korean Language Program and Senior Preceptor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Hi-Sun Helen Kim PhD, Director of the Korean Language Program and Senior Preceptor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
LATI S-Aa
Beginning Latin
Allison T. Resnick AM, Doctoral Candidate in the Classics, Harvard University
Justin S. Miller MA, Doctoral Candidate in Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35169 | Section 1
Description
This beginning Latin course is designed for those who have had no previous instruction in classical Latin. The course covers the equivalent of one semester of college-level Latin and focuses on the acquisition of fundamental grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. By the end of the course, students are able to read, with the help of a dictionary, short continuous passages from such authors as Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, and Ovid. Students who successfully complete the course are equipped to enter into the equivalent of a second-semester sequence of college-level Latin in the following fall semester.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. Harvard University’s Classics department is offering scholarships for high school or college students taking introductory Greek or Latin, or CLAS S-97a. See the department’s website for more information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
LATI S-Aab
Intensive Beginning Latin
Connor North AM, Doctoral Candidate in Ancient History, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Nadav Asraf PhD, Teaching Assistant in the Classics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35809 | Section 1
Description
This intensive beginning Latin course is designed for those who have had little or no previous instruction in classical Latin and are highly motivated to make accelerated progress in the language. The course covers the equivalent of the first two semesters of college-level Latin. It focuses on the acquisition of fundamental grammar, syntax, and vocabulary so that by the end of the course students should be able to read, with the help of a dictionary, continuous passages from such authors writing in classical Latin as Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, and Ovid. Those who successfully complete this course should be equipped to enter into the equivalent of a second-year sequence of college-level Latin in the following fall semester.
Prerequisites: Previous experience of language learning (whether ancient or modern languages) is not required, but may be helpful.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 10:00am-12:00pm, Sever Hall 109
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 1:00pm-3:00pm, Sever Hall 109
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. Harvard University’s Classics department is offering scholarships for high school or college students taking introductory Greek or Latin, or CLAS S-97a. See the department’s website for more information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
LING S-101
The Science of Language: An Introduction
Yuhan Zhang BA, Doctoral Candidate in Linguistics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35810 | Section 1
Description
This course introduces the core components of language that make it an intelligent tool for human communication. By laying out the fascinating inner workings of sound, structure, and meaning, this course introduces how these components interact with each other and the general cognitive sciences to make communication effortless, rational, and versatile. This course is also an introduction to linguistics as a scientific discipline. Students who are interested in natural language processing and/or language and the brain can expect to learn the basics of language that form the foundation for language-related fields.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Science Center 309A
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
LING S-120
Introduction to Historical Linguistics
Jeremy Rau PhD, Professor of Linguistics and of the Classics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35518 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to historical linguistics, the study of language change over time. It covers the fundamental aspects of language change (semantic, phonological, morphological, and syntactic), as well as the techniques and procedures involved in investigating these changes. Students study the comparative method, learn how to demonstrate or refute genetic relationships between languages, and try their hand at reconstruction of prehistoric phases of languages. The course further addresses the issues of long-range comparisons, externally (socially) and internally (structurally) motivated language change, and language contact. More culturally oriented topics, such as evolution of writing, decipherment of forgotten writing systems, and language and prehistory (linguistic paleontology) are likewise explored.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
LING S-73
American Sign Language I
Andrew Bottoms MA, Preceptor in Linguistics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35792 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to the language and linguistic structure of American Sign Language (ASL) and to Deaf culture for students with no prior experience. Focus is on gaining a foundation for later fluency and understanding the role of ASL in Deaf history, current culture, education, bilingualism, and research.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
LSTU S-121
Global Law, Global History: A Comparative Perspective
Liliana Obregón PhD, Professor of Law, University of Los Andes Law School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35371 | Section 1
Description
In this course, students discuss texts and videos on normative views of global history from the colonization of the Americas to the end of the cold war. In the process, they develop insight into the relation between the disciplines of law and history. This course allows students to discuss a variety of perspectives on state-building, nationalism, revolutions, empire, religion, and their relation to our contemporary world. This course also questions concepts such as civilization and progress and their impact in the history of global order. By introducing questions, themes, and approaches to the study of global law and history, this course provides a conceptual toolbox that may further students’ interest in international relations, political science, international law, or global studies. Students may not count both HIST S-1022 (offered previously) and LSTU S-121 for degree or certificate credit.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, CGIS Knafel K050
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes:
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
LSTU S-124
The History of Law in Europe
Tamar Herzog PhD, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American History, Harvard University and Affiliated Faculty Member, Harvard Law School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35155 | Section 1
Description
This course examines the history of law in Europe (including both England and the continent, as well as Europe’s overseas domains) from the fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century to the present day European Union. During the course, we observe how European legal systems changed over time and what legacies they left in the present. We read and discuss historical texts that highlight the particularities of distinct moments, as well as debate some of the main dilemmas facing European law today.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students
LSTU S-131
Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of Business and Intellectual Property Law
Tiffany Nichols PhD, JD, Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of History, Princeton University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35780 | Section 1
Description
This course covers the intersection of start-ups, entrepreneurship, and intellectual property (IP) law. Students gain skills with navigation of major tenants of intellectual property law including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trades secrets as these concepts relate to start-ups and entrepreneurship. Students also gain experience in constructing and presenting formal product and funding pitches that incorporate references to the IP holdings of start-ups or small businesses. Further, students receive an introduction to the basics of contract instruments which allow for sharing of IP with entities outside of a start-up while protecting the IP of the start-up. Students are also exposed to the IP litigation landscape that start-ups face using actual litigation matters. Lastly, students engage in a mock intellectual property trial where they present opening arguments in support of the plaintiff or the defendant. Upon completing the course, students are able to perform basic legal research, understand basic case law, and interpret basic legal documents, such as patent applications and simple confidentiality agreements, which are relevant to start-ups during their funding and growth periods. This course is designed to provide a theoretical and pragmatic engagement with business, corporate, and IP law. In addition, students gain experience with key components of legal transactions and litigation including pitch development for funding, deposition, court arguments, copyright registration, trademark registration, patent application drafting, agreement drafting (such as non-disclosure agreements, non-compete agreements), and forms of trade secret, likeness, and fashion protection. Topics include a diverse set of technologies and exploration of key and recent court decisions to not only provide familiarity with reading and understanding case law, but to also allow for potential skills to make informed business decisions.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
LSTU S-133
Global Digital Law and Politics
Roxana Vatanparast PhD, Fellow, Transatlantic Technology Law Forum, Stanford Law School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35571 | Section 1
Description
This course aims to provide students with an overview of issues relating to the relationships between digital technologies, politics, and law. It also introduces students to theoretical frameworks for examining the mutually interactive relationships between technology, law, and social order, where technology is both an object and source of governance. The course covers contemporary issues such as cyberlaw, digital infrastructures, surveillance, platforms and informational capitalism, datafication, privacy, data protection, the role of platforms in the governance of online speech, intermediary liability, blockchain, financial technologies, and the relationship between technology and inequality.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Harvard Hall 202
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students
LSTU S-136
Law in War
Franklin J. Schwarzer JD, Attorney, Schlesinger and Buchbinder, LLP
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35777 | Section 1
Description
This course examines how domestic and international legal institutions regulate the law of war, crimes against humanity, torture, and genocide, and the main legal theories that lawyers and judges use to address their violation. Students are introduced to the key statutes, treaties, and cases that govern these topics. While historical case studies, such as accusations of war crimes against US troops in Haditha, Iraq, in 2008; the international trial of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg; and the 1968 massacre at My Lai in Vietnam are addressed, a focus is on the practice and procedure of the International Criminal Court and other judicial organs. Students are also asked to apply legal theories on individual accountability and command responsibility to emerging technological developments in warfare, such as the use of artificial intelligence.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day.
MATH S-101
Spaces, Mappings, and Mathematical Structures, with an Introduction to Proof
Mario Stipcic PhD, Preceptor in Mathematics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35860 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to abstract mathematical thought and proof techniques, via topics including set theory, group theory, analysis, and topology.
Prerequisites: An interest in mathematical reasoning. Acquaintance with algebra, geometry, and/or calculus is desirable. Placement test recommended.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm, Science Center 309
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students
MATH S-139
Reading Euclid’s Elements in Greek
Paul G. Bamberg DPhil, Senior Lecturer on Mathematics, Harvard University
Graeme D. Bird PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35848 | Section 1
Description
Using the online Perseus database of classical texts, students learn a subset of ancient Greek that is sufficient to read the theorems and proofs in Euclid’s Elements, Books 1-4. The course also explores, in English, non-Euclidean geometry and modern alternatives to Euclid’s five postulates. Class time is divided roughly equally between mathematics and language.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of high school geometry and elementary trigonmetry. Desirable background: some familiarity with axiomatic mathematics and acquaintance with an inflected Indo-European language (for example, Latin, German, Russian, French, or Spanish). No knowledge of Greek is assumed.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 16 students
MATH S-151
Classic Mathematics with a Modern Interface
Paul G. Bamberg DPhil, Senior Lecturer on Mathematics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35836 | Section 1
Description
The course presents a variety of topics from linear algebra, abstract algebra, and geometry that lend themselves to an interesting visual display: for example, groups, finite fields, graph theory, finite, Euclidean, and spherical geometry. Students implement key mathematical ideas in R, build an application in R Shiny Dashboard that can be deployed to the internet, and use their software to devise conjectures that they can then prove as theorems.
Prerequisites: Solid command of precalculus mathematics. A course in linear algebra is useful but not required. Programming ability in some language (Python, Java, or C/C++) is essential, but no prior knowledge of R, HTML, or client-server programming is assumed.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students
MATH S-1a
Calculus I
Carolyn Gardner-Thomas PhD, Director, Mathematics for Teaching Program, Harvard Extension School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30391 | Section 1
Description
This course covers differential and integral calculus in one variable, with applications. We aim to develop conceptual understanding, computational skills, and the students’ ability to apply the material to science. The topics covered overlap with the advanced placement calculus curriculum to a large extent. A graphing calculator can occasionally be useful. Students enrolling for graduate credit participate in weekly pedagogical seminars investigating current research in mathematics education.
Prerequisites: A good working knowledge of algebra, functions, logarithms, trigonometry, and analytic geometry as demonstrated by the placement test. The graduate-credit option is available only to students participating in the Harvard Extension School’s mathematics for teaching program.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 9:30am-11:30am
Required sections to be arranged. Required seminar for graduate-credit students to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students
MATH S-1b
Calculus II
Robin Gottlieb MSc, Professor of the Practice in the Teaching of Mathematics, Harvard University
Shanelle Davis AB, Teaching Assistant in Mathematics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35795 | Section 1
Description
Speaking the language of modern mathematics requires fluency with the topics of this course: infinite series, integration, and differential equations. We model practical situations using integrals and differential equations. Students learn how to represent interesting functions using infinite series, and develop both conceptual understanding and the ability to apply it.
Prerequisites: First-semester calculus or AB calculus.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Science Center 309
Optional sections to be arranged. Required seminar for graduate-credit students to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students
MATH S-21a
Multivariable Calculus
Oliver Knill PhD, Lecturer on Mathematics, Harvard University, Preceptor in Mathematics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30189 | Section 1
Description
This course covers the following topics: calculus of functions of several variables; vectors and vector-valued functions; parameterized curves and surfaces; vector fields; partial derivatives and gradients; optimization; method of Lagrange multipliers; integration over regions in R2 and R3; integration over curves and surfaces; Green’s theorem, Stokes’s theorem, Divergence theorem.
Prerequisites: Two semesters of calculus. Placement test recommended.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, Harvard Hall 101
Optional sections Wednesdays and Thursdays, time to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
MATH S-21b
Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
Robert Winters PhD
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30190 | Section 1
Description
Matrices provide the algebraic structure for solving myriad problems across the sciences. We study matrices and solutions to systems of linear equations as part of understanding linear transformations and general linear spaces. Using the notions of orthogonality, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors, we find least-squares solutions, solve discrete and continuous dynamical systems using exact methods and phase-plane analysis, introduce the Spectral Theorem and Fourier series, and analyze different types of differential equations.
Prerequisites: MATH S-1B. Knowledge of partial derivatives is helpful. Placement test recommended.
Class Meetings:
Online or On Campus
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 9:30am-11:30am, Harvard Hall 101
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: On-campus meetings are recorded. A live stream is available at the time the class meets. Recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. See minimum technology requirements. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
MATH S-3
Quantitative Reasoning: Practical Math
Graeme D. Bird PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34186 | Section 1
Description
This course reviews basic arithmetical procedures and their use in everyday mathematics. It also includes an introduction to basic statistics covering such topics as the interpretation of numerical data, graph reading, hypothesis testing, and simple linear regression. No previous knowledge of these tools is assumed. Recommendations for calculators are made during the first class.
Prerequisites: A willingness to (re)discover math, appreciate its practical uses, and enjoy its patterns and beauty. Placement test recommended.
Class Meetings:
Online or On Campus
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-8:30pm, Harvard Hall 101
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $1,000.
Credits: 4
Notes: Students can attend in person on campus, participate live online at the time the class meets via web conference, or watch the recorded video asynchronously. Recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
MATH S-302
Math for Teaching Geometry
Andrew Engelward PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35840 | Section 1
Description
Geometry is all about symmetry, shape, and space. We begin our exploration by going back to the classic work on geometry, Euclid’s The Elements; studying straightedge and compass constructions; and then working our way to more modern topics such as tessellations and Pick’s theorem. Along the way we also investigate golden rectangles, constructible numbers, and geometry in higher dimensions. We emphasize mathematical reasoning, and communication mathematics plays an important role in the course.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with high school mathematics.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
MATH S-329
Appraising and Reimagining Middle and High School Mathematics Education
Robin Gottlieb MSc, Professor of the Practice in the Teaching of Mathematics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35389 | Section 1
Description
This course examines critical issues in middle and high school mathematics education in the United States from a variety of perspectives. Questions addressed include: what are the goals of mathematics education at the middle and high school level? Why does math education in middle school and high school matter? What societal structures (historic, economic, political, and cultural) impact mathematics education and how does math education impact those structures in turn? As the world changes, in what way do the goals of mathematics education change? Given goals and what we know about learning, how can we improve practice in the classroom? We sharpen the lens through which we view math education in the US by looking at some international case studies, as well as case studies from different classrooms in the US. This is a discussion-based course. Students are expected not only to be active participants in discussions but also to take a lead in conducting discussions.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 8:30am-11:30am, Science Center 309
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
MATH S-Ar
Precalculus Mathematics
Justin Hancock EdM
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35832 | Section 1
Description
In this course, we study the foundational mathematics needed for calculus and for the sciences with a goal of developing deep understanding as well as computational fluency. Topics include a review of algebra, functions, logarithms, trigonometry, and analytic geometry. The course is taught in small sections, emphasizing applications, problem-solving, and mathematical habits of mind.
Prerequisites: A good working knowledge of algebra, as demonstrated by a satisfactory score on the math placement test. The graduate-credit option is available only to students participating in the Harvard Extension School graduate program in mathematics for teaching.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, Science Center 309A
Required seminar for graduate-credit students to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes:
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
MBB S-102
Becoming a Brain Scientist: Neuroscience and Psychology Research
Garth Coombs PhD, Preceptor in Psychology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33663 | Section 1
Description
How do scientists study the brain, behavior, cognition, and learning? This course is an introduction to how psychologists and neuroscientists formulate hypotheses, design experiments, and collect and analyze data to learn about nervous system and brain functioning, brain disorders and disease, learning, and behavior. Each student is matched with a research mentor in a Harvard laboratory. Students spend approximately ten hours per week on a project related to the lab’s research. In addition, all students meet weekly as a group to explore topics of interest to researchers in biological science, neuroscience, and psychology, including research ethics and human subjects’ protection, clinical trials, and science communication. Students read both literature specific to their lab experience as well as more general material on research methods and experimental design. Host laboratories conduct research in a wide variety of areas, which may include neuroscience, cognition, brain disorders and disease, mental disorders, and animal behavior.
Prerequisites: Students must have completed their junior year in high school. Students must submit a petition (maximum 3,000 characters) to enroll when adding this course to their cart. This petition will serve as a statement of interest, explaining the student’s relevant experience and reasons for wanting to take this courses. Please include the following information in your petition: your current year in school or the highest level of schooling you have completed if not currently a student; why you are interested in taking this course and what you hope to learn from it; what topics in psychology and/or neuroscience excite you the most; and a brief summary of any relevant coursework or other experiences you have had, if any. Students also need to upload a transcript via MyDCE (choose Document Uploader and MBB S-102 Transcript Upload) before their application can be considered. Students should submit all materials by March 30 for the best chance of admission to the course. Applications are reviewed by lab personnel and the instructor. Once a decision had been made on the application, students will see in their carts whether the petition has been approved or denied. Please contact brainscience@summer.harvard.edu if you have questions about this course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-2:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
MBB S-110
Neurodiversity
Julie Sarmiento Ponce PhD, Associate of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35791 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed to foster a deep understanding of neurodiversity and equip students with the knowledge and skills to create inclusive and supportive environments for individuals with diverse neurological profiles. In this course, students embark on a multifaceted journey that explores the intricate tapestry of human neurodiversity. They gain insight into the broad spectrum of neurological differences, encompassing conditions such as autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and dyslexia. By delving into the scientific, social, and cultural aspects of neurodiversity, students acquire a solid foundation in the subject matter.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 12:00pm-2:30pm, Sever Hall 210
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 27 students
MGMT S-10
HBS CORe: Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33543 | Section 1
Description
CORe stands for Credential of Readiness and is offered through Harvard Business School (HBS) Online. CORe is a primer on the fundamentals of business and is designed for students just getting started in the business world. Developed and taught by Harvard Business School faculty, this course covers business analytics, economics for managers, and financial accounting. The business analytics portion is taught by Janice Hammond and introduces quantitative methods used to analyze data and make better management decisions. The economics for managers portion is taught by Bharat Anand and includes the topics of customer demand, supplier cost, markets and competition, pricing, production, and differentiation. The financial accounting portion is taught by V.G. Narayanan and covers concepts such as profit and revenue, and assets and liabilities, and how to prepare and analyze financial statements. All learning materials and instructor and participant interaction take place within the HBS Online learning environment. Although the professors do not have direct real-time interaction with students, they have developed short video lectures, cases, exercises, and other interactive learning elements to create a highly engaging educational experience. Participants typically learn as much (if not more) from thoughtful participation and from peers in this active learning ecosystem as they do from faculty content. For more information see HBS Online’s CORe.
Prerequisites: To register for this course, students must apply to and be admitted by HBS Online for the May cohort. Apply now. If accepted, registration transactions must all be done on the HBS Online website. For more information, contact hbsonlinesupport@hbs.edu. After registering with HBS Online, students receiving financial aid or any other type of financial assistance (for example, consortium agreements) should contact the Summer School Student Financial Services office at studentfinance@extension.harvard.edu.
Class Meetings:
Online
Term Start Date: May 21, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $4,080.
Credits: 8
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
This course is graded pass/fail with grades of high honors, honors, pass, or fail. Extension of time (EXT) grades are not available. Harvard University’s Tuition Assistance Plan (TAP) cannot be used. Certain other tuition discounts and scholarships are also excluded. Students registered for MGMT S-10 are considered full time and may not take other Harvard Summer School courses, are not eligible for on-campus housing, and are not eligible for health insurance. Admission, registration, refund, make-up exam, and grading policies are determined by the HBS Online CORe administration and have precedence over corresponding Harvard Summer School policies.
- Start date: May 21
- Last day to apply: May 13
- Last day to register: May 16
- Last day to drop for 100% tuition refund, minus the HBS Online $100 enrollment fee: May 22
MGMT S-2000
Principles of Finance
Gregory Sabin DBA
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35680 | Section 1
Description
This course provides an introductory survey of the field of finance. It examines the agents, instruments, and institutions that make up the financial system of the modern economy, such as bonds, the stock market, derivatives, and the money market. Along the way, standard concepts and tools of financial analysis are introduced: present discounted value, option value, and the efficient markets hypothesis. Recent developments in the field in particular, the application of psychology to financial markets (called behavioral finance) are also discussed. The course is designed to equip students with the tools they need to make their own financial decisions with greater skill and confidence. Specifically, we see how insights from academic finance can inform and improve students’ own investing decisions.
Prerequisites: High school algebra.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $2,040, graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
MGMT S-2000
Principles of Finance
Bruce D. Watson MA, Master Lecturer on Economics, Boston University and Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32611 | Section 2
Description
This course provides an introductory survey of the field of finance. It examines the agents, instruments, and institutions that make up the financial system of the modern economy, such as bonds, the stock market, derivatives, and the money market. Along the way, standard concepts and tools of financial analysis are introduced: present discounted value, option value, and the efficient markets hypothesis. Recent developments in the field in particular, the application of psychology to financial markets (called behavioral finance) are also discussed. The course is designed to equip students with the tools they need to make their own financial decisions with greater skill and confidence. Specifically, we see how insights from academic finance can inform and improve students’ own investing decisions.
Prerequisites: High school algebra.
Class Meetings:
Online
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $2,040, graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
MGMT S-2035
Principles of Real Estate
Teo Nicolais MS, President, Nicolais, LLC
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33385 | Section 1
Description
This course offers practical, real-world knowledge for investing in real estate. It’s designed both for those pursuing an active career in the industry as well as individuals interested in building wealth through passive real estate holdings. Students learn what really drives land values, and explore how market forces shape their city and where to look for future growth. Students practice spotting investment opportunities in the lifecycles of properties, neighborhoods, and cities. They study the four phases of the eighteen-year cycle which shape the real estate investment landscape. In the second half of the course, students receive hands-on training building financial models, analyzing cash flows, and measuring investment returns. Finally, they learn how entrepreneurs raise capital through debt and equity partnerships and explore strategies for successful investing. No prior real estate background is required.
Class Meetings:
Online
In addition to the pre-produced lectures, each week features optional live online sessions with the instructor on Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:30-7 pm. These optional online sessions give students the opportunity to interact live with the instructor and peers. All live sessions are recorded and posted for students who are unable to attend.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
MGMT S-2037
Real Estate Finance and Investment
Teo Nicolais MS, President, Nicolais, LLC
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33506 | Section 1
Description
This course presents a toolkit for maximizing risk-adjusted investment returns. Students closely examine the four sources of real estate returns (cash flow, appreciation, loan amortization, and tax advantages) which have an impact on their investment strategy. They develop an investment scorecard for scrutinizing new investment opportunities. They practice a rigorous, rational approach to deciding when to hold, sell, refinance, or renovate a property. They study strategies for raising capital from investors and work through examples of successful partnership structures. Finally, students learn how to efficiently manage a growing portfolio of cash-flowing assets.
Prerequisites: MGMT S-2035 is strongly recommended but not required.
Class Meetings:
Online
In addition to the pre-produced lectures, each week features optional live online sessions with the instructor Mondays and Wednesdays, 7-9:30 pm. These optional online sessions give students the opportunity to interact live with the instructor and peers. All live sessions are recorded and posted for students who are unable to attend.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
MGMT S-2600
Financial Statement Analysis
James F. White MBA, Assistant Vice President for Finance and Controller, Berklee College of Music
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32615 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed to prepare students to interpret and analyze financial statements for tasks such as credit and security analyses, lending and investment decisions, and other decisions that rely on financial data. This course explores in greater depth financial reporting from the perspective of financial statement users. Students develop a sufficient understanding of the concepts and recording procedures and therefore are able to interpret various disclosures in an informed manner. Students learn to compare companies financially, understand cash flow, and grasp basic profitability issues and risk analysis concepts. Ultimately, students who complete this course develop a more efficient and effective approach to researching, interpreting, and analyzing financial statements.
Prerequisites: MGMT S-1000 and MGMT S-2000 or the equivalent required; MGMT S-1600 and MGMT S-2020 helpful.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 80 students
MGMT S-2700
Corporate Finance
James F. White MBA, Assistant Vice President for Finance and Controller, Berklee College of Music
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35684 | Section 1
Description
The goal of this course is to develop skills for making corporate investment decisions and for analyzing risk. Topics include discounted cash flow and other valuation techniques; risk and return; capital asset pricing model; corporate capital structure and financial policy; capital budgeting; mergers and acquisitions; and investment and financing decisions in the international context, including exchange rate/interest rate risk analysis.
Prerequisites: ECON S-1900, MGMT S-2000, or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students
MGMT S-2790
Private Equity
Viney Sawhney MS, President, Boston National Capital Partners
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33375 | Section 1
Description
This course is the study of private equity money invested in companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange or invested in as part of buyouts of publicly traded companies. The main objective of the course is to provide students with the necessary theoretical and conceptual tools used in private equity deals. The course provides the intellectual framework used in the private equity process, valuation in private equity settings, creating term sheets, the process of due diligence, and deal structuring. Other learning objectives include building an understanding of harvesting through initial public offerings or mergers and acquisitions, public-private partnerships, and sovereign wealth funds. The final objective of this course is to show how corporate governance, ethics, and legal considerations factor into private equity deals.
Prerequisites: MGMT S-2000, MGMT S-2700, or an introductory accounting course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
MGMT S-3012
The Art of Communication
Mimi Goss PhD, President, Mimi Goss Communications
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33039 | Section 1
Description
Today’s leaders must convey their messages concisely, confidently, and memorably. This course is for students who want to strengthen their public speaking and writing skills, and develop their authentic voices as professionals. We explore speechwriting, public speaking in victory and crisis, communicating from values, and working with social media and the news media. How can you make every communication a dialogue? How can you advance your goals and those of your listeners? How does speaking from the best of yourself give you confidence? How do you distill a message into one memorable sentence that captures your listeners’ attention, moves your ideas forward, focuses the problem, and helps you achieve your goals?
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Sever Hall 110
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
MGMT S-4000
Organizational Behavior
Carmine P. Gibaldi EdD, Professor of Management and Organizational Psychology, St. John’s University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33055 | Section 1
Description
This course deals with issues related to human behavior in a variety of organizational settings. Conceptual frameworks, case discussion, and skills-based activities are applied to each topic/issue. Topics include communications, motivation, group dynamics, leadership, power and politics, influence of technology, corporate social responsibility and ethics, conflict resolution, and workplace culture. Class sessions and assignments are intended to help participants acquire the skills managers need to improve organizational and individual performance.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-4000
Organizational Behavior
Tonya Echols MA, Managing Principal, Vigere and Adjunct Faculty, Leadership and Organizational Behavior, William Mary
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35776 | Section 2
Description
This course deals with issues related to human behavior in a variety of organizational settings. Conceptual frameworks, case discussion, and skills-based activities are applied to each topic/issue. Topics include communications, motivation, group dynamics, leadership, power and politics, influence of technology, corporate social responsibility and ethics, conflict resolution, and workplace culture. Class sessions and assignments are intended to help participants acquire the skills managers need to improve organizational and individual performance.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-4000
Organizational Behavior
Laura M. Downing MBA, Founder, CLIR Coaching
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35769 | Section 3
Description
This course deals with issues related to human behavior in a variety of organizational settings. Conceptual frameworks, case discussion, and skills-based activities are applied to each topic/issue. Topics include communications, motivation, group dynamics, leadership, power and politics, influence of technology, corporate social responsibility and ethics, conflict resolution, and workplace culture. Class sessions and assignments are intended to help participants acquire the skills managers need to improve organizational and individual performance.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 38 students
MGMT S-4105
Cultivating Authentic Leadership
John F. Korn PhD
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35788 | Section 1
Description
Self-awareness is essential on your path to authentic leadership. This course uses a variety of self-assessment tools, readings, and discussions to help us understand work styles and preferences, strengths and goals, and how those factors contribute to the type of leader we want to be. It is increasingly important for people to have a clear idea of who they are and their purpose in life in order to navigate their work-life and become confident and inspiring leaders. Authenticity is about the true self; having clarity about and acting based on one’s deepest interests, values, and motivations, and most importantly how we can bring our authentic selves into all corners of our lives. Students apply what they have learned from the course to their personal development through in-depth self-exploration. Students also use peer coaching which allows them to explore areas of growth, as well as to develop this important skill set. The course aims to promote skills for students to understand and develop authenticity in themselves.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 3:15pm-5:45pm, Emerson Hall 108
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes:
Enrollment limit: Limited to 27 students
MGMT S-4150
Leadership
John Paul Rollert PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor of Behavioral Science, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33824 | Section 1
Description
How do you become a leader? How do you maintain a successful claim to leadership? This course aims to answer these questions with lessons drawn from history, literature, politics, and business. The course is highly interactive, and students are expected to discuss and debate the qualities of strong leadership and followership in class and online. Throughout the course, we welcome guest speakers from business, government, politics, and the Harvard faculty to talk about their perspectives on leadership.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Northwest Science Building B103
Required sections Wednesdays, 4-5 pm.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
MGMT S-4185
Leadership Perspectives
John F. Korn PhD
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34531 | Section 1
Description
This course explores various models of leadership that have been developed from both a theoretical and practical perspective. The learning objectives of this course are primarily twofold: first, students gain an understanding of the major leadership theories. For each model studied, students are expected to understand the theoretical basis of the model, the strengths and weaknesses of said model, and how to apply the model to practical situations in business and other settings. Second, students explore their personal leadership style through a series of written assignments and classroom activities. These activities enable the student to reflect on how they view leadership as both a subordinate and as a leader. As a result of enrolling in this course, students develop a well-rounded understanding of leadership concepts for use in their own leadership opportunities. Students may not count both GOVT E-1354 (offered previously) and MGMT S-4185 for degree or certificate credit.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 8:30am-11:30am, CGIS South S020
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-4189
Non-Profit Leadership and Community Engagement
Harry Harding ALM, Owner and Lead Instructor, LeaderFULL Life Works, LLC
Madeline Dupre McNeely MEd, Principal and Founder, Conditioning Leaders
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35785 | Section 1
Description
Non-profit leadership and community engagement ideas and practices are needed now more than ever given increasing inequities. This course creates a container to develop twenty-first century leadership skills, values, and habits. A collaborative, inclusive, and equitable approach is essential for sustainable, meaningful leadership and community engagement in local and global contexts. The core of this course is grappling with the complexities of community engagement projects rooted in belonging, equity, inclusion, and diversity principles and practices. This course also relies on facilitated dialogues, reflections, small group conversations, writing assignments, and student presentations. We create space for experiential, collaborative learning anchored by David Ehrlichman’s Impact Networks, and articles and videos from the leadership and non-profit fields. At the heart of the course is a commitment to supporting students to become leaders of belonging, equity, inclusion, and diversity wherever they go and whomever they influence.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-4225
Negotiation and Organizational Conflict Resolution
Katri Nousiainen LLM, Visiting Researcher, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35807 | Section 1
Description
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept and types of negotiation. It is designed for students who wish to manage individual and organizational conflict and negotiations more effectively based on the premise that those in management positions engage in some form of negotiation daily. Students discuss the meaning, types, and different strategies of negotiation with an emphasis on an integrative, collaborative, win-win negotiation approach. A variety of topics are discussed including, but not limited to, workplace conflict, strategies for diagnosing, emotional elements in approaching negotiation and conflict resolution, psychological subprocesses, social contexts, individual and cultural differences, multiparty situations, and dealing with impasses. Students learn theories of interpersonal and organizational conflict and its resolution as applied to personal, corporate, historical, and political contexts. Students engage in topic driven discussions, deep case study analysis, mediation training, and a capstone simulation exercise. The course emphasizes the significance of leadership in approaching and managing a negotiation situation and organizational conflict resolution.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 8:30am-11:30am, Northwest Science Building B108
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-4225
Negotiation and Organizational Conflict Resolution
Nicholas Coburn-Palo PhD, Preceptor in Public Speaking, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35171 | Section 2
Description
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept and types of negotiation. It is designed for students who wish to manage individual and organizational conflict and negotiations more effectively based on the premise that those in management positions engage in some form of negotiation daily. Students discuss the meaning, types, and different strategies of negotiation with an emphasis on an integrative, collaborative, win-win negotiation approach. A variety of topics are discussed including, but not limited to, workplace conflict, strategies for diagnosing, emotional elements in approaching negotiation and conflict resolution, psychological subprocesses, social contexts, individual and cultural differences, multiparty situations, and dealing with impasses. Students learn theories of interpersonal and organizational conflict and its resolution as applied to personal, corporate, historical, and political contexts. Students engage in topic driven discussions, deep case study analysis, mediation training, and a capstone simulation exercise. The course emphasizes the significance of leadership in approaching and managing a negotiation situation and organizational conflict resolution.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 6:30pm-9:30pm, One Brattle Square 205
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-4225
Negotiation and Organizational Conflict Resolution
Katri Nousiainen LLM, Visiting Researcher, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35861 | Section 3
Description
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept and types of negotiation. It is designed for students who wish to manage individual and organizational conflict and negotiations more effectively based on the premise that those in management positions engage in some form of negotiation daily. Students discuss the meaning, types, and different strategies of negotiation with an emphasis on an integrative, collaborative, win-win negotiation approach. A variety of topics are discussed including, but not limited to, workplace conflict, strategies for diagnosing, emotional elements in approaching negotiation and conflict resolution, psychological subprocesses, social contexts, individual and cultural differences, multiparty situations, and dealing with impasses. Students learn theories of interpersonal and organizational conflict and its resolution as applied to personal, corporate, historical, and political contexts. Students engage in topic driven discussions, deep case study analysis, mediation training, and a capstone simulation exercise. The course emphasizes the significance of leadership in approaching and managing a negotiation situation and organizational conflict resolution.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 8:30am-11:30am, Emerson Hall 108
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-4310
Creativity and Innovation
Margaret Andrews MS, Managing Director, Higher Ed Associates and Founder, The MYLO Center
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35767 | Section 1
Description
Creativity is not just for artists. In fact, it is a fundamental requirement for success regardless of functional role, place in the organizational hierarchy, or industry sector. In the world of business, creativity manifests as innovation. According to a recent survey of 1,500 C-level executives by IBM, creativity is the number one leadership competency required to effectively navigate our increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. Given this, creativity has become as important as literacy. Whether operating in the corporate, startup, social entrepreneurship, not-for-profit, or public sectors, organizations increasingly need people who understand the creative process; know how to manage, motivate, and engage creative professionals; and can develop an organizational culture that encourages experimentation, considers the inevitable failures as learning opportunities, and enables innovative outcomes. This course focuses on best practices in creativity and innovation, exploring the interplay between creativity, organizational processes and systems, and successful innovation. Throughout the course we explore tools and techniques for fostering individual and group creativity, management practices that foster (or inhibit) innovation, methods for developing and evaluating ideas for new products and services, the business models to execute these ideas, and principles and practices for leading innovation. Using a variety of readings, case examples, discussions, experiential exercises, and a team project, students explore and apply the principles of creativity and innovation.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 8:30am-11:30am, Harvard Hall 201
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-4520
The Science of Happiness and Well-Being
Mukul Kumar PhD, Chief Innovation Officer, Hult International Business School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35781 | Section 1
Description
The course translates findings from academic research, particularly in positive psychology and behavior change, into attitudes, behaviors, and practices that students can adopt to have happy, fulfilling, and meaningful lives. We explore the foundation of happiness and what makes us happy, set goals, and chart a path for achieving a greater sense of happiness. The course goes beyond knowledge acquisition and requires hands-on student engagement with weekly reflections and practices for behavior change. We also survey the growing range of happiness technology tools and technologies that support individuals in their quest for a more fulfilling life and explore entrepreneurial ideation for creating new happiness technology ventures.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 3:15pm-6:15pm, 1 Story Street 306
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-5000
Strategic Management
Kenneth M. Baylor DBA, Principal, Advanced Leadership Solutions, LLC
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33845 | Section 2
Description
To succeed in the future, managers must develop the resources and capabilities needed to gain and sustain advantage in competitive markets traditional and emerging. The way in which organizations attempt to develop such competitive advantage constitutes the essence of their strategy. This course introduces the concept of strategic management through case analyses, and considers the basic direction and goals of an organization, the environment (social, political, technological, economic, and global factors), industry and market structure, and organizational strengths and weaknesses. The emphasis is on the development and successful implementation of strategy in different types of firms across industries.
Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas recommended.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
MGMT S-5000
Strategic Management
Mohsin Habib PhD, Associate Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32578 | Section 3
Description
To succeed in the future, managers must develop the resources and capabilities needed to gain and sustain advantage in competitive markets traditional and emerging. The way in which organizations attempt to develop such competitive advantage constitutes the essence of their strategy. This course introduces the concept of strategic management through case analyses, and considers the basic direction and goals of an organization, the environment (social, political, technological, economic, and global factors), industry and market structure, and organizational strengths and weaknesses. The emphasis is on the development and successful implementation of strategy in different types of firms across industries.
Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas recommended.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-5015
Applied Corporate Responsibility
Brad Allen PhD, Professor of Marketing, School of Business, Plymouth State University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32870 | Section 1
Description
This course examines the role of corporate responsibility as a strategy to improve products, profits, and brand equity. The idea of corporations as simply wealth-creating organizations with no obligations to the environment is no longer acceptable. Globalization and increased transparency of corporate operations have revealed significant variations in how organizations attempt to balance the pursuit of profits and good corporate citizenship. Expectations for measurable progress of corporate environmental programs addressing natural resources, pollution controls, monitoring ethical supply chains, and expanded training of employees are growing globally. Stakeholder expectations have accelerated the need to monetize these initiatives. However, the lack of standardized methodology and metrics has resulted in confusion within many industries, hindering progress. Tracking sustainability progress within organizations has often revealed tremendous opportunities for growth.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 3:15pm-6:15pm, Harvard Hall 202
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
MGMT S-5027
Emerging Markets in the Global Economy
Mohsin Habib PhD, Associate Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34435 | Section 1
Description
This course examines emerging countries in the global economy. Globalization offers these countries the opportunity for economic development. By participating in the international marketplace, emerging countries increase their chances of raising wages and income, accumulating wealth, and reducing poverty. These countries also provide opportunities for companies, mostly from developed countries, to extend their markets. Many emerging countries lack the necessary resources, capacities, and institutions to manage globalization effectively. In this course, students study the institutions in emerging markets that are relevant for managers; explore the differences in the contexts and roles of various actors, such as the government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs); analyze market opportunities and risks; and examine the strategies of firms dealing with emerging markets.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 3:15pm-6:15pm, William James Hall 105
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-5030
Project Management
Tim Mills MS, Member, Board of Directors, 3HO Foundation and Project Management Consultant
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35652 | Section 1
Description
This course guides students through the fundamental project management concepts, practices, and behavioral characteristics needed to successfully launch, lead, and realize benefits from projects in profit and nonprofit organizations. Effective project managers possess the skills necessary to manage teams, schedules, risks, budgets, scope, and stakeholders to produce a desired outcome. Students analyze the impact of organizational change management theory and explore project management with a practical, hands-on approach through case studies, team assignments, and individual contributions. A key and often overlooked challenge for project managers is the ability to manage without direct influence, gaining the support of stakeholders and access to resources not directly under their control. Special attention is given to critical success factors required to overcoming resistance to change. The course simulates a project in its project team framework, group accountability, and schedule deadlines.
Prerequisites: Experience working in a company or nonprofit is advisable.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-5030
Project Management
Deb Cote MA, Senior Director, Strategic Planning and Performance, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Mass General Brigham
David A. Shore PhD, Adjunct Professor of Organizational Development, Business School, University of Monterrey, Mexico
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35181 | Section 2
Description
This course guides students through the fundamental project management concepts, practices, and behavioral characteristics needed to successfully launch, lead, and realize benefits from projects in profit and nonprofit organizations. Effective project managers possess the skills necessary to manage teams, schedules, risks, budgets, scope, and stakeholders to produce a desired outcome. Students analyze the impact of organizational change management theory and explore project management with a practical, hands-on approach through case studies, team assignments, and individual contributions. A key and often overlooked challenge for project managers is the ability to manage without direct influence, gaining the support of stakeholders and access to resources not directly under their control. Special attention is given to critical success factors required to overcoming resistance to change. The course simulates a project in its project team framework, group accountability, and schedule deadlines.
Prerequisites: Experience working in a company or nonprofit is advisable.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-5033
Supply Chain Management
Zal Phiroz PhD, President, Pier Consulting Group
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33018 | Section 1
Description
From corporate giants to small businesses, the optimization of supply chain techniques and operations practices plays a critical factor in establishing a competitive advantage. This course introduces the concept of supply chain management and identifies industry innovation, methods of cost reduction, and operations optimization techniques. In addition to hosting industry leading guest speakers, the course follows a case study approach to identify the relationship between domestic and foreign goods supply and logistical efficiency, while examining a number of areas including strategic positioning, environmental factors, and effective supply chain growth and development.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
MGMT S-5042
Agile Project Management
Shannon Pettiford MS, Senior Information Technology Program Manager, Boston Consulting Group
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35552 | Section 1
Description
Change is the new norm, and global organizations must adapt to dynamic and varied environments and challenges. A thorough review of agile techniques and methodologies helps address such concerns, providing the skills, knowledge, and techniques to ensure projects deliver benefit realization, deliver on time, and improve team efficiency. In this course, students learn to differentiate between agile and waterfall project management methodologies, exploring when each is most beneficial to use and assessing how the agile methodology is leveraged to address stakeholders’ changing requirements. Students learn project management skills and best practices to lead agile project teams and provide effective delivery solutions. Agile project management practices and principles are discussed in detail, including self-organizing teams, project management roles, adaptive planning, value-driven delivery, stakeholder engagement, problem detection and resolution, print execution, and retrospective analysis. Current trends and best practices are also explored, using case studies to discover best practices and techniques in the field. In team settings, students use the scrum approach to understand better what executing an agile methodology of a project feels like. Regardless of project management experience, this course is designed to bring agile principles to life by practicing the skills and facilitation techniques in a team-based environment.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
MGMT S-5100
Essentials of Management
Carmine P. Gibaldi EdD, Professor of Management and Organizational Psychology, St. John’s University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34434 | Section 1
Description
This course introduces the important aspects of managing a business in a global environment. It addresses decision making in connection with communications, marketing, human relations, managing people, corporate social responsibility, and managerial ethics, as well as issues affecting efficiency, and it provides the framework for making sound decisions among competing strategic priorities and objectives. Students weigh the risks and rewards of different types of management decisions while acquiring varied business skills.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-540
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Mike Grandinetti MBA, Adjunct Professor, School of Engineering and Faculty Lead, School of Professional Studies, Brown University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35857 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed to teach fundamental principles and best practices and methodologies for creating and scaling a successful, high-impact entrepreneurial venture. The course is highly experiential and action-based. Human-centric design and highly iterative lean/agile methodologies serve as cornerstones for this course. Students are grouped into teams around common interests and the venture creation process is walked through step by step, culminating in a pitch to angel investors and venture capitalists. Students may not take both MGMT S-540 and MGMT S-5400 for degree or certificate credit.
Prerequisites: Very strong communication skills as this is an intensely team-focused course. Students work on real ventures and there is a workshop component to each class.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 3:15pm-5:45pm, Harvard Hall 201
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes:
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
MGMT S-5400
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Mike Grandinetti MBA, Adjunct Professor, School of Engineering and Faculty Lead, School of Professional Studies, Brown University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35856 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed to teach fundamental principles and best practices and methodologies for creating and scaling a successful, high-impact entrepreneurial venture. The course is highly experiential and action-based. Human-centric design and highly iterative lean/agile methodologies serve as cornerstones for this course. Students are grouped into teams around common interests and the venture creation process is walked through step by step, culminating in a pitch to angel investors and venture capitalists. Students may not take both MGMT S-540 and MGMT S-5400 for degree or certificate credit.
Prerequisites: Very strong communication skills as this is an intensely team-focused course. Students work on real ventures and there is a workshop component to each class.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 3:15pm-6:15pm, Harvard Hall 201
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-5460
Next Generation Business Models: Creating the Next Airbnb
Ted Ladd PhD, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Hult International Business School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33906 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed to help students build better business models. The course identifies and explores the discreet steps involved in developing business models. It explores ways in which companies create and capture value. This course is designed to help students develop a new business model for a new or existing venture.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
MGMT S-5700
Management Consulting
Mukul Kumar PhD, Chief Innovation Officer, Hult International Business School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35782 | Section 1
Description
This course offers an in-depth overview of the management consulting industry. Topics include the structure, conduct, and performance of the management consulting industry; firms in the industry and their competitive strategies; key strategic and organizational issues facing these firms; ideas, tools, and frameworks that these firms have put into practice; problem-solving, communication, and client relation skills that are necessary for success in the industry; management consulting careers; and ethical issues facing management consultants. This is not a traditional lecture-based course. Conceptual material is illustrated and applied to the real world through rigorous class discussion of business cases, examples, group and individual exercises, and students’ own business and consulting experiences. The course emphasizes hands-on practice and real-time feedback simulating an actual consulting engagement.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 6:30pm-9:30pm, 1 Story Street 306
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
MGMT S-599
Capstone: Entrepreneurship in Action
Henrik Totterman DSc, Professor of Practice, Entrepreneurship and Management, Hult International Business School and Chief Executive Officer, Lead X3M, LLC
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34791 | Section 1
Description
This course is intended as the capstone course for the Harvard Extension School’s Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), management, integrating coursework in functional areas such as marketing, finance, accounting, human resource management, and operations management. It introduces the concept of strategic management through case analyses involving the basic direction and goals of a real-world challenge, organization, or capstone client; the social, political, technological, economic, and global environment; the industry and market structure; and the organization’s strengths and weaknesses. The emphasis is on the development and successful implementation of strategy in different types of firms.
Prerequisites: This course is only for officially admitted capstone track candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), management. Candidates must be in good academic standing and have successfully completed the seven core degree-applicable courses and the precapstone course, MGMT E-597, in the previous Harvard Extension School spring term with a grade of B-minus or higher. Registration in the Harvard Summer School course, MGMT S-599, immediately following the Harvard Extension School course MGMT E-597 is a mandatory degree requirement. Candidates who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 8:30am-11:30am, Harvard Hall 201
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students
MGMT S-6000
Marketing Management
Susan Hughes-Isley PhD, Associate Professor of Speech Communication/Journalism, Perimeter College, Georgia State University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34220 | Section 1
Description
In this comprehensive and practical introduction to marketing management, students improve their ability to make effective marketing decisions, including assessing marketing opportunities and developing marketing strategies and implementation plans. Course topics include market-oriented strategic planning, marketing research and information systems, buyer behavior, target market selection, competitive positioning, product and service planning and management, pricing, distribution, and integrated communications including advertising, public relations, internet marketing, social media, direct marketing, and sales promotions. Through a combination of interactive discussions, cases, practical examples, individual assignments, and a group project, the course applies marketing topics to consumer and business-to-business products, services, and nonprofit organizations. Students gain significant experience in communicating and defending their marketing recommendations and building on the ideas of others.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
MGMT S-6000
Marketing Management
Shawn P. O’Connor MBA, JD, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mazzy Health
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34570 | Section 2
Description
In this comprehensive and practical introduction to marketing management, students improve their ability to make effective marketing decisions, including assessing marketing opportunities and developing marketing strategies and implementation plans. Course topics include market-oriented strategic planning, marketing research and information systems, buyer behavior, target market selection, competitive positioning, product and service planning and management, pricing, distribution, and integrated communications including advertising, public relations, internet marketing, social media, direct marketing, and sales promotions. Through a combination of interactive discussions, cases, practical examples, individual assignments, and a group project, the course applies marketing topics to consumer and business-to-business products, services, and nonprofit organizations. Students gain significant experience in communicating and defending their marketing recommendations and building on the ideas of others.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students
MGMT S-6100
Branding Strategy
Thomas Murphy MBA, Associate Professor of Practice, Graduate School of Management, Clark University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33505 | Section 1
Description
This course covers the principles and practices of brand management. The course content focuses on applied strategies and tactics used by marketers to build and reinforce successful global brands for products, services, and corporate social responsibility.
Prerequisites: An introductory marketing management course or one year of experience in a management, marketing, or consulting role in a company or nonprofit organization.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-6615
Digital Marketing: Foundations and Framework for Success
Andrew M. Blum MBA, Instructor of the Practice, Business Communications, Charles F. Dolan School of Business, Fairfield University and Lecturer of Marketing, Columbia University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34731 | Section 1
Description
Marketing has become digital marketing, with digital advertising (as a function of all advertising spending) growing at roughly 15-20 percent annually, and recently having taken over traditional advertising (broadcast television and radio) when measured by ad spend. This course teaches students the foundation elements of digital marketing and advertising from media mix and channels to techniques, economics, and measurement. We review key performance metrics for digital marketing channels including paid search, organic search, email, social, and display. We review techniques and tools for optimizing digital marketing spend across various channels and products including Mimic Pro and Mimic SEO.
Prerequisites: MGMT S-6000 or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-6630
Sustainability Marketing
Thomas Murphy MBA, Associate Professor of Practice, Graduate School of Management, Clark University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33345 | Section 1
Description
This course develops the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully market sustainable products and services. At the end of the course students are able to understand the key elements of developing a successful marketing strategy and branding approach for a sustainable market offering. The course also reviews global trends and issues that influence sustainable product success.
Prerequisites: Working knowledge of marketing or customer engagement.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-6655
Social Media Management
Jemalyn A. Griffin MA, Assistant Professor of Practice, Advertising and Public Relations, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33507 | Section 1
Description
This course offers an in-depth exploration of social media theories and management practices. Students start with understanding prominent theories applied in social media practice and then apply these theories in conducting social media research, executing a social media content analysis, and developing a strategic social media management plan for a real-world organization. They have the opportunity to scrutinize a wide variety of social media tactics, paying particular attention to the unique managerial functions of each. More importantly, students learn the mechanism of social influence and how social media trends are changing the way information flows in our society so that they can comfortably use and effectively leverage emerging social media in the future. In this course, students are able to apply social media management skills and knowledge of social media channels to conduct a social media analysis. In addition, students discuss the use of social media in crises, gain an understanding of setting social media policy, and review ethical and privacy issues surrounding social media marketing. Due to the ever evolving nature of social media, real-time case studies, current trends, and relevant articles are integrated throughout the course and in some cases, supplement or change course assignments.
Prerequisites: MGMT S-6000 or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
MGMT S-8010
Microeconomics of Business
Shahruz Mohtadi PhD, Associate Professor, Economics, Suffolk University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35830 | Section 1
Description
This course presents the basic analytical tools of microeconomics. We start by looking at the basic operation of a market where price and quantity of a product are determined. Then we focus on the decision making of individual consumers and ask how these decisions can be optimized or improved. Next, we look at the ways firms make and coordinate their decisions under varying market structures, including perfect competition and monopoly. Then we look at strategic behavior in imperfectly competitive markets, such as monopolistic competition and oligopoly, making use of concepts from game theory. Finally, we take up topics including information economics, environmental externalities, and public goods. Students may not take both ECON S-1010 and MGMT S-8010 for degree or certificate credit.
Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of algebra. A satisfactory score on the test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students
MUSE S-100
Introduction to Museum Studies
Katherine Burton Jones MA, Director, Museum Studies, Harvard Extension School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33278 | Section 1
Description
This course provides a behind-the-scenes view of museums from the people who are actively involved in their operations. Students learn about the history and objectives of various types of museums (art, natural history, science, historical, zoological) through panel discussions that involve museum directors, curators, conservators, collection managers, and exhibit designers. The focus is the rich and diverse resources of Harvard University’s museums, but there are also guest lecturers from other local museums. The course is required for students planning to apply to the Harvard Extension School’s graduate program in museum studies, but is also appropriate for the avid museum-goer who desires a more comprehensive understanding of how museums function.
Class Meetings:
Online
Optional sections Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 pm.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. The recorded lectures are from the fall 2022 Harvard Extension School course MUSE E-100.
MUSE S-102
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Research in Museum Studies
Jeffrey Robert Wilson PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33935 | Section 1
Description
In this proseminar, students develop the skills necessary to engage in graduate-level research in the field of museum studies. Students read classic scholarly texts in museum studies and complete short assignments designed to hone their academic writing skills including critical reading, textual analysis, and argument development. Students also write a 10-page research essay that reflects a particular area of interest within the field of museum studies. Throughout the semester we consider the theory that informs museum practice. In particular, we examine how museums can powerfully mediate encounters with the collective past and reflect the politics of race, class, and gender as well as individual, communal, and national identities. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the capstone.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course, EXPO S-42a. MUSE S-100 is also recommended.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students
MUSE S-131
Museum Informatics: Leveraging Information to Make Data-Driven Decisions
Katherine Burton Jones MA, Director, Museum Studies, Harvard Extension School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33529 | Section 1
Description
Museums have managed large amounts of information for over forty years primarily through disparate systems in siloed departments. It is, therefore, hard to see the connections that would logically be present in managing information about people or objects. This course looks at the data systems in use in museums to explore the relationships that may be present. We include the obvious connections between fundraising and membership to attendance and social media. We also take a deep look at collections management systems to see patterns of giving that may be leveraged if connections were made to other data. We look at this information from the perspective of the museum educator. Assembling information on programs offered, attendance, and evaluations informs current and future programs and ensures their success. However, big data goes beyond bringing information about constituents and visitors together. Digitizing historical collections allows researchers to analyze the information in field notes, specimen records, and the scientific analysis conducted during the field work. Trends can be measured and compared to current data, giving scientists access to information that may be hidden in the paper records. Topics covered include museum data systems, developing an information policy, systems integration, metadata and tagging, and information storage and retrieval.
Prerequisites: MUSE S-100 preferred. The Harvard Extension School course MUSE E-130 is recommended.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Harvard Art Museums 0600
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students
MUSE S-132
Environmental Sustainability and Climate Action in Museums
Jerry Foust PhD, Museum Collections Consultant
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33582 | Section 1
Description
Seen as some of the most trusted institutions in American public life, museums are uniquely positioned to facilitate public discussion of the environment and climate change within their communities. There is also an opportunity to protect and strengthen these institutions. Surveying the evolution of sustainability in museums over the last fifteen years, this course examines the practical aspects of collections care, interpretation and public programming, operational changes, building construction, and community engagement to examine how changes in museum work can deepen museums’ connections to their communities and increase their charitable value. Students discuss and share ideas frequently in class, developing graded projects with feedback from classmates and the instructor. Topics include human behavior (the challenge of change, whether in daily practice or major projects, and how museums are so well-suited to support staff, visitors, and communities in making change); mitigation (why and how museums and communities are reducing their negative effects on the environment and what difference can it make to the environment, the climate, and to social and financial stability); and resilience (why and how museums are creatively helping their communities become more environmentally, financially, and socially adaptable in the face of a changing climate and increased impacts from weather events; how museums can share with the public the scientific and social discoveries enabling widespread change).
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
MUSI S-10
Fundamentals of Music
Andy Friedman PhD, Tutor, Signet Education
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32243 | Section 1
Description
An intensive introduction to basic music theory and musicianship, covering notation, keys, rhythm, meter, intervals, counterpoint, melody, chords, harmonic progressions, and small forms. Assignments include workbook exercises, music analysis, composition, ear training, and sight singing. Repertoire includes classical, jazz, blues, pop, rock, funk, indie, and various world musics. No previous knowledge required.
Prerequisites: Students should have access to a keyboard, piano, or a midi keyboard with at least 49 keys. See course syllabus for details.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Music Building PH9
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
MUSI S-190r
Technomusicology
Wayne G. Marshall PhD, Assistant Professor of Music History, Berklee College of Music
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33876 | Section 1
Description
In this course we make audio and video art that examines the interplay between music and technology since the dawn of sound reproduction and especially in the digital age. Embracing new technologies ourselves, we use the popular, powerful music software Ableton Live to explore new techniques and idioms for storytelling by composing a series of etudes, or studies, in particular media forms. These etudes can accommodate novice experimentation or virtuoso programming while offering shared conceptual ground to all. Students develop a familiarity with the history of sound media while cultivating competencies in audio and video editing, sampling and arranging, mixing and remixing, as well as in critical listening, writing, and discussion.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PHIL S-109
Buddhist Philosophy
Parimal G. Patil PhD, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35522 | Section 1
Description
Indian Buddhism has inspired philosophers for almost 2500 years. Yet, relative to Euro-American philosophy, Buddhist philosophy has received little attention. In this course, we explore the rich traditions of Indian Buddhist philosophy. More specifically, we discuss topics in Buddhist epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of mind. We pay particular attention to the arguments that Buddhist philosophers used to defend their views and respond to their critics. In addition to understanding these arguments in their historical contexts, we ask what we can learn from them today and, when relevant, investigate how they are being used in contemporary philosophy.
Prerequisites: Previous coursework in philosophy would be helpful.
Class Meetings:
Online or On Campus
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, 1 Story Street 304
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Students can attend in person on campus, participate live online at the time the class meets via web conference, or watch the recorded video asynchronously. Recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PHIL S-12
Deductive Logic
James Pearson PhD, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bridgewater State University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33526 | Section 1
Description
Logic is the study of valid argumentation. A valid argument is one whose conclusion is implied by its premises. By learning to paraphrase English arguments in a formal symbolic language, we clarify this relationship between premises and conclusion, and refine our ability to distinguish good reasoning from bad reasoning. Students in this course learn how to analyze argumentative structure, construct counter-examples, and formally deduce one statement from another. It is expected that students work in groups on weekly problem sets. These problem sets are designed to challenge students’ communication and critical thinking skills.
Prerequisites: A strong background in mathematics is recommended.
Class Meetings:
Online or On Campus
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, 1 Story Street 304
Optional sections Thursdays, time to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Students can attend in person on campus, participate live online at the time the class meets via web conference, or watch the recorded video asynchronously. Recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PHIL S-150
Philosophy, Ethics, and Technology
Jordan Kokot PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Brandeis University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35833 | Section 1
Description
From TikTok to Meta and from CRISPR to digital gamification, extended reality, and the struggle against climate change, dramatic advances in technology are shaping our world and our lives like never before. This course investigates the moral, social, and political implications of these and other new technologies. How should we understand privacy and surveillance in the age of metadata? Will emerging biotechnologies and life-tracking metrics allow us to re-engineer humanity? Should we edit our genes or those of our children to extend human lives and enhance human abilities? Can geo-engineering resolve the climate crisis? How will artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics change the work world? Can machines be conscious and what would it mean if they can? Will AI help us reduce bias and combat bigotry or make things worse? What does the explosion of social media mean for human agency? How can we live an act in meaningful ways in a world increasingly dominated by technological and capital forces? This course explores how technology and our attitudes toward it are transforming who we are, what we do, how we make friends, care for our health, and conduct our social and political lives. In doing so, we also investigate fundamental philosophical and ethical questions about agency, integrity, virtue, the good, and what it means to be human in an uncertain and shifting world.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 12:00pm-2:30pm, Sever Hall 208
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 27 students
PHIL S-159
Biotechnology and the Human Good
Timothy Furlan PhD, Burnett Family Distinguished Chair in Ethics, University of St. Thomas, Director, Center for Ethical Leadership, and Senior Editor, Pediatric Ethicscope
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34553 | Section 1
Description
Biotechnology offers exciting and promising prospects for healing the sick and relieving suffering. But exactly because of their impressive powers to alter the workings of body and mind, the dual uses of the same technologies make them attractive also to people who are not sick but who would use them to look younger, perform better, feel happier, or become more perfect. These applications of biotechnology are already presenting us with some unfamiliar and very difficult challenges. In this course, we consider such possible beyond therapy uses, and explore both their scientific basis and the ethical and social issues they are likely to raise. We consider how pursuing the goals of better children, superior performance, ageless bodies, or happy souls might be aided or hindered, elevated or degraded, by seeking them through a wide variety of technological means. Among the biotechnological techniques considered are techniques for screening genes and testing embryos, choosing sex of children, modifying the behavior of children, augmenting muscle size and strength, enhancing athletic performance, slowing senescence, blunting painful memories, brightening mood, and altering basic temperaments. Toward the end of the course, we begin to ask what kinds of human beings and what sort of society we might be creating in the coming age of biotechnology.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PHIL S-164
Facing Evil and Suffering in the Modern World
David C. Lamberth PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Harvard Divinity School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33659 | Section 1
Description
We frequently look upon the modern world and characterize it in naturalistic and secular terms. But at the extremities of human behavior and human suffering, whether individual or social, we find ourselves calling people, groups, and situations evil. What do we mean by this? What is the difference between something being evil, or just wrong? What typifies actions we deem evil and what should we do about them? What does our appeal to evil say about our sense of humanity, religion, and God? And how do we cope with suffering? This course takes up these questions through a variety of lenses drawn from Western thought: religious, philosophical, theological, and ethical. Readings include Jewish and Christian scriptures (the books of Genesis, Job, and Paul), classic theologians and philosophers (St. Augustine, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Immanuel Kant), novelists (Fyodor Dostoevsky and Annie Dillard), and contemporary critics (Susan Neiman, Hannah Arendt, and Haim Gouri). The last portion of the course turns from ideas to situations, looking at cases such as the Adolf Eichmann trial, the use of evil in contemporary American political discourse, our location relative to nature, and a parent’s reaction to the murder of a child to query our contemporary thinking about evil and suffering.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 3:15pm-5:45pm, Sever Hall 107
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 27 students
PHIL S-167
Introduction to Biomedical Ethics
Eli Hirsch PhD, Charles Goldman Professor of Philosophy, Brandeis University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30201 | Section 1
Description
This course introduces the basic concepts and theories of ethics and applies them to some of the most widely discussed issues of the day. Students examine ethical issues that arise in a biomedical context, such as euthanasia, eugenics, reproductive control, lying to patients, and the right to health care.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PHIL S-18
Human Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy
Seth Robertson PhD, Lecturer on Philosophy, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35011 | Section 1
Description
Does might make right? Should a person focus on achieving immortality or on living a simple, happy, mortal life? Is morality simply a matter of convention? Why be moral when being immoral could provide access to wealth, fame, and power? What do people owe a society that has failed in its obligations to its people? How can we identify and resist oppression, marginalization, and injustice? Human beings have been thinking about and debating questions like these for thousands of years. This course explores the history of ethics and moral philosophy from a genuinely inclusive perspective by focusing on ethical thought from all over the world, with special emphasis on marginalized groups that have typically received little attention in academic philosophy.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Sever Hall 102
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PHYS S-11
Introduction to Relativity: From Cosmic Rays to Black Holes
Nicholas A. Agia PhD, Doctoral Candidate in Physics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35798 | Section 1
Description
This course provides an introduction to basic notions in special relativity and general relativity. After discussing the older Galilean relativity of Newtonian mechanics, the Lorentz transformations of special relativity are derived and their consequences (including length contraction, time dilation, simultaneity, causality, and relativistic kinematics) are explored. The larger framework of Einstein’s general relativity is then introduced, focusing on the underlying equivalence principle and how spacetime is properly described by a metric. Toward the end of the course, Einstein’s field equations are introduced and applications to gravitational wave interferometry and black holes are briefly discussed.
Prerequisites: MATH S-1a or the equivalent. Students should have familiarity with single-variable calculus, vectors and matrices, and Newtonian mechanics.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm, Jefferson Building 256
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PHYS S-1a
Principles of Physics: Mechanics
Olivia C. Miller PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Learning Incubator, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35715 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to Newtonian mechanics. Topics include Newton’s laws, kinematics, statics, conservation of energy and momentum, the simple harmonic oscillator, and rotations. This course fulfills one of two semesters of physics for entrance to medical school. May be taken concurrently with PHYS S-1b.
Prerequisites: This course presumes that students have taken precalculus and are comfortable with trigonometry and algebra. Exposure to the concepts of mechanics is helpful.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Jefferson Building 250
Required labs and sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PHYS S-1b
Principles of Physics: Electromagnetism, Circuits, Waves, and Ray Optics
Timothy W. Milbourne PhD, Preceptor in Physics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35735 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to electromagnetism, wave optics, and ray optics. Topics covered include electrostatics, circuits, magnetism, diffraction, interference, and image formation via reflection and refraction. This course has a laboratory component and fulfills one of two semesters of physics for entrance to medical school. It may be taken concurrently with PHYS S-1a.
Prerequisites: Strong knowledge of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry is required. This is not a calculus-based course; familiarity with differential calculus is helpful but not necessary. Background in mechanics at the level of PHYS S-1a is also helpful but not necessary.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Jefferson Building 250
Required labs and optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Cristiane Soares PhD, Senior Preceptor in Portuguese, Harvard University
Caroline Cotta de Mello Freitas PhD, Professor in Sociology and Politics, Foundation School of Sociology and Politics of S o Paulo
PSYC S-1
Introduction to Psychology
Elizabeth Phelps PhD, Pershing Square Professor of Neuroscience, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30204 | Section 1
Description
This course provides an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of psychology and the results of classic studies and current research in the major areas of this discipline: physiological psychology, learning and motivation, sensation and perception, cognition, emotion, development, social psychology, personality, and clinical psychology. Students gain an understanding of major issues addressed in psychological research today, including the complex interactions between nature and nurture and the neural bases of human behavior.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, William James Hall B1
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PSYC S-1022
The Psychology of Happiness
Matthew O. Kimble PhD, Professor of Psychology, Middlebury College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35849 | Section 1
Description
What can psychology contribute to the discussion of happiness and meaning in life? That is the central question for this course. The overall purpose is to provide an appreciation for how psychology approaches this question and how psychology, both through theory and research, has provided knowledge and guidance around this issue. What have the major thinkers in the field said about happiness? What does contemporary research add to the discussion? In the process, the course explores the limitations, strategies, and possibilities with respect to how humans can change their sense of well-being.
Prerequisites: PSYC S-1 or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
PSYC S-1027
Psychophysiology of Stress and Resilience
Vladimir Ivkovic PhD, Instructor in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35815 | Section 1
Description
This course explores the concepts of stress and resilience in relation to the underlying psychophysiologic mechanisms that regulate them. Shaped by evolutionary forces, human psychophysiologic, emotional, behavioral, and social performance continuously adapts to intrinsic and extrinsic stressors with the aim of improving fitness. The traditional topics are supplemented with current stress-related research in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. These core topics and processes are discussed in the broader context of (mental) health and understanding of the etiology of stress-related psychopathologies, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Contemporary findings from research studies conducted in laboratory (for example, neuroimaging), occupational and extreme (for example, spaceflight), and clinical (for example, mental health clinic) environments are discussed in the context of history, systems, and research paradigms used to study psychophysiology of stress. Theoretical concepts and research findings are evaluated relative to their utility in developing prevention and mitigation strategies for stress-related psychopathologies, and translational implementation in clinical treatments. This course may feature expert guest lecturers (occupational health experts, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] and Antarctic researchers) and demonstrations of state-of-the-art experimental methodologies used in psychophysiologic research on stress and resilience.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students
PSYC S-1072
The Psychology of Emotional, Behavioral, and Motivational Self-Regulation
Richard J. McNally PhD, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33432 | Section 1
Description
This course covers cutting-edge research on how people acquire self-regulatory skills to bolster their willpower, enabling them to achieve personal, academic, and professional goals. Topics include acquiring expertise, combating procrastination, increasing desirable habits, and overcoming smoking, overeating, and emotional problems.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, William James Hall 401
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. Students in this section and section 2 of PSYC S-1072 may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
PSYC S-1072
The Psychology of Emotional, Behavioral, and Motivational Self-Regulation
Richard J. McNally PhD, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33216 | Section 2
Description
This course covers cutting-edge research on how people acquire self-regulatory skills to bolster their willpower, enabling them to achieve personal, academic, and professional goals. Topics include acquiring expertise, combating procrastination, increasing desirable habits, and overcoming smoking, overeating, and emotional problems.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm, William James Hall 401
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. Students in this section and section 1 of PSYC S-1072 may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
PSYC S-1240
Psychopathology
Shelley Carson PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33784 | Section 1
Description
This course is an introduction to the study of psychopathology. It focuses on theoretical models of abnormal behavior as they relate to the definition, etiology, and treatment of mental disorders. Diagnostic classification, and behavioral and biological features of the major syndromes of psychopathology are emphasized.
Prerequisites: PSYC S-1 or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PSYC S-1242
Introduction to Research in Psychopathology
Mayron Piccolo PhD, Lecturer on Psychology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35801 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed to make students familiar with the fundamental concepts, methods, and ethics of conducting research in the field of psychopathology. Students gain an understanding of the research process, starting from the development of a research question to the articulation of hypotheses, methods, and data analysis. During the course, students engage with both classic and contemporary studies, critically evaluating methods and findings in the domain of psychopathology research. A cornerstone of the course is the development of a group research proposal on a topic related to psychopathology, aimed at offering students hands-on experience in conceptualizing and planning a research study.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 12:00pm-2:30pm, Sever Hall 110
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students
PSYC S-1410
Introduction to Psychopharmacology
Steven Raymond Boomhower PhD, Senior Toxicologist, Gradient
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34864 | Section 1
Description
Human interaction with drugs permeates our society. Alcohol, cigarettes and electronic cigarettes, heroin, and marijuana all of these chemicals act on the brain and alter an individual’s behavior. Psychopharmacology is the study of drugs’ effects on behavior and is a growing interdisciplinary field in psychology. This course is designed as an introduction to the methods of psychopharmacology, both in humans and nonhumans. We survey a wide variety of drug classes, select drugs, basic concepts in pharmacology, behavioral methodology, clinical applications, and drug effects on the nervous system. This course is meant to emphasize both historical and classical studies in the field of psychopharmacology, as well as topical developments relevant to present-day issues related to drugs, addiction, and human behavior.
Prerequisites: PSYC S-1, or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PSYC S-1415
Dopamine
Simon Barak Caine PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35567 | Section 1
Description
A Parkinson’s victim regains control of her body with l-dopa. A schizophrenic man paralyzed by fear and hallucinations is freed from a mental institution by clozapine. A meth addict lies, cheats, and steals, ending up emaciated and dead. Miracles and monstrosities, all related to a single molecule dopamine. The overall goal of this course is to focus on a single subject, a single chemical neurotransmitter, and remain on that topic to proceed through three phases of study. First, to orient students to tools from multiple traditional disciplines: synaptic mechanisms of neurotransmission, neuropharmacology, behavioral pharmacology, neuroanatomy, and psychiatry. Second, to elicit interest and curiosity through examples of specific and important disease states: Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, and drug addiction. Third, to gain a historical perspective by reviewing articles of recent years. The main discipline presented in this course is pharmacology, specifically, in vivo pharmacology and more specifically, behavioral pharmacology in humans. Pharmacology has played and continues to play a key role in the history of neuroscience, in many applications of clinical medicine, and in the relationships among mind, brain, and behavior.
Prerequisites: No science background is necessary; however, an inclination for scientific material, and prior introductory coursework in neurobiology, neurosciences, physiological psychology, medical sciences, systems physiology, or biology would be helpful.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students
PSYC S-1440
Sleep and Mental Health
Edward Franz Pace-Schott PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34537 | Section 1
Description
The scientific study of sleep is an area of research that is both highly diverse and among the most interdisciplinary and unifying of topics in psychology and neuroscience. In the past several decades, exciting new discoveries on the neurobiology of sleep have been facilitated by technologies such as functional neuroimaging and molecular genetics. Nonetheless, sleep remains mysterious and controversial and, remarkably, there still is no generally agreed upon function for this behavioral state that occupies one third of our lives. Importantly, sleep science exemplifies the translational approach in biomedical science whereby human and animal research together continually advance the field of sleep medicine. Following an overview on the physiology and behavioral neuroscience of sleep, students choose a topic related to the effects of sleep on mental health to research in depth, to present to the class, and to discuss in a term paper. Topics might include the characteristic abnormalities in sleep occurring in mood, anxiety, psychotic, addictive, autism spectrum, or neurodegenerative disorders. Such changes are increasingly seen as bidirectional, with sleep disturbances contributing to the waking symptoms of these mental disorders. Other topics might focus on the contribution of primary sleep disorders to psychiatric and neurological illness such as the linkage between sleep apnea and depression, circadian rhythm disorders in bipolar illness, insomnia as a risk factor for mood and anxiety disorders, or contribution of nocturnal seizures to neurodevelopmental disorders. Still other topics may focus on the contribution of normal sleep to emotional regulation, memory consolidation, and human performance factors. For those with more neuroscientific interests, topics might include neuroimaging of cognitive functioning following sleep deprivation or the growing interest in trafficking and disposal of abnormal proteins during sleep having a potential role in neurodegenerative illness.
Prerequisites: PSYC S-1 or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students
PSYC S-1470
The Psychology of Eating
Adam J. Wenzel PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, St. Anselm College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34534 | Section 1
Description
This course explores the manifold physiological, nutritional, behavioral, and sociocultural factors mediating why we eat, what we eat, and how we eat. Topics covered in the course include sensory systems and eating experience, biological mechanisms of hunger and satiety, social influence over food consumption, stress and comfort foods, eating and health, and maladaptive eating behaviors. Section meetings provide opportunities for in-depth discussion of contemporary material as well as participation in individual and group projects.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
PSYC S-1503
The Psychology of Close Relationships
Holly Parker PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34497 | Section 1
Description
This course is an exploration of the psychology of close human relationships. We learn about intimate (romantic) relationships and friendships, and the ways in which these two kinds of relationships interact. Other kinds of close relationships (family and work relationships, for example) are integrated into the course, and although they are extremely valuable relationships in their own right, they are addressed secondarily to romantic relationships and friendships for the purposes of this course. Examples of topics include the biological bases of attraction and love, relationship formation and dissolution, relational interaction patterns, relationship satisfaction, and the social context of relationships (the influence of others). Students have an opportunity to explore relationships through readings in the popular press, but ultimately a scholarly, critical examination of the scientific literature serves as the foundation of our learning throughout the course. Students find that the literature contains unexpected findings that can change the way they look at relationships, both from academic and applied, real-life perspectives.
Prerequisites: PSYC S-1 or the equivalent.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PSYC S-1507
Psychology of Diversity
Mona Sue Weissmark PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32397 | Section 1
Description
The United States is becoming increasingly diverse and the world increasingly globalized. The central focus of the course is on the links between diversity and psychological processes at individual, interpersonal, and international levels. We consider several basic questions, including: what is diversity? How do race, nationality, and religion influence individuals? What impact does diversity have on cross-group relationships? How is diversity related to people’s perceptions of fairness and justice? What is the relevance of people’s perceptions of fairness and justice to social problems and social change? Does respect for diversity promote peace and positive change? Much research has addressed these questions, and we closely examine the evidence that has emerged so far.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
PSYC S-1609
Neuroscience of Learning: An Introduction to Mind, Brain, Health, and Education
Tracey Noel Tokuhama-Espinosa PhD, Educational Researcher
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35800 | Section 1
Description
This course provides an overview of the neuroscience of learning through mind, brain, health, and education science (MBHE), or the intersection of psychology, cognitive neuroscience, health, and education. Fundamental biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors are introduced with an emphasis on critical functions related to learning and achievement across settings, age groups, and concepts, such as epigenetics, sensitive periods, and neuroplasticity. In addition, factors that facilitate and roadblocks that inhibit optimization of learning are explored as we discuss key cognitive constructs (language, attention, memory, executive functions, and affect/emotions) with special attention to comparative cultural influences on neurocognitive processes. These studies are directly applied by students who complete the transdisciplinary research project, which is conducted in an area of personal interest.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am, Harvard Hall 202
Required sections for graduate-credit students to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PSYC S-1812
Explaining Beauty: The Hidden Functions behind Aesthetics
Bethany Burum PhD, Associate of the Department of Psychology and Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35784 | Section 1
Description
Why do people from some cultures find body modifications attractive that others find ugly? What makes a Picasso beautiful? Why are fashion trends constantly changing? This course delves into the hidden functions that explain our aesthetic tastes, including what we find beautiful in the physical body, art, and fashion. Drawing on classic evolutionary theory, theories of cultural evolution, and game theory, we seek to explain both aesthetic tastes that remain relatively constant and those that differ dramatically across time and culture. We begin the course by building a toolkit for generating hypotheses about the hidden function behind what we find beautiful and then apply these tools to a series of diverse case studies.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, William James Hall 401
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
PSYC S-1872
Power and Privilege in the Criminal Justice System
Lindsey Davis PhD, Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology, William James College
Emily E. Crain PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35153 | Section 1
Description
This course looks at a variety of intersections between psychology and the criminal justice system, with a particular eye on issues related to power and privilege. Students are introduced to the stages and processes of the criminal justice system and explore the psychosocial risk factors that contribute to engagement in juvenile delinquency and criminal behavior. The differential treatment of individuals at the various stages of criminal justice involvement is discussed, and pertinent case examples are explored through a social-cognitive lens. Students review key pieces of literature in the fields of juvenile justice, risk assessment, hate crime, law enforcement practices, and coercion of false confessions.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
PSYC S-1877
The Psychology of Cults
Bethany Burum PhD, Associate of the Department of Psychology and Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35619 | Section 1
Description
In November of 1978, 909 members of the People’s Temple perished in Jonestown, Guyana. In March of 1997, 39 followers of the Heaven’s Gate cult died in a mass suicide, believing that their souls would join a spacecraft following the comet Hale-Bopp. In the 1960s and ’70s, David Berg of the Children of God convinced his followers to abandon their monogamous marriages, encourage pedophilia, and allow their children to be sex trafficked. How do these things happen? This course explores the psychological mechanisms that enable cults to form and to take things to such extremes. What do cults share with other groups (mainstream religions, nations, and everyday social interactions), and what makes them stand apart? In what ways are cults an environment in which many of our psychological tendencies (toward ingroup conformity, heuristic decision making, and rationalization) are magnified? And what do cults reveal about the profound power of our social environment?
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course is a Summer Seminar. Learn more about Summer Seminars on this page. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
PSYC S-1880
Clinical Psychology
Cynthia A. Meyersburg PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33667 | Section 1
Description
Clinical psychology is a diverse and compelling field. Clinical psychologists research, assess, and treat mental illness. They work with people to help them adjust to challenges and heal after losses. They can develop and use empirically validated treatments to alleviate suffering and to improve functioning. They also can assess human abilities and personality traits. This course introduces students to clinical psychology, including topics such as the history of treatment, the role of science in clinical psychology, and the main paradigms that inform treatment and research. The course also explores some of the most common mental illnesses. We consider challenges and controversies in the field. In addition, we learn about preparing for graduate school in clinical psychology or related fields.
Prerequisites: PSYC S-1 or permission of the instructor.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 1, 6:30pm-9:30pm, One Brattle Square 203
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students.
PSYC S-300
Engaging in the Scholarly Conversation
Mayron Piccolo PhD, Lecturer on Psychology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35843 | Section 1
Description
This course trains students in the skills of critically engaging the scholarly literature in their field of study. They learn how to assess the presuppositions, argumentation, methodology, evidence, and conclusions of scholarly writing in their discipline. After building that foundational skill set, the second portion of the course focuses on how to identify patterns, debates, and schools of thought in the larger body of existing scholarship relevant to the students’ interests, which is an essential precursor of the final goal: identifying gaps or opportunities for future scholarly contributions.
Prerequisites: Students must have completed SSCI S-100a with a grade of B or higher to take this course. PSYC S-300 must be completed before registering in the Crafting the Thesis Proposal tutorial for thesis-track students and prior to precapstone course for capstone-track students.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 8:30am-11:30am, Emerson Hall 108
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Students in HUMA S-300, PSYC S-300, and SSCI S-300 may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 32 students
RELI S-1509
Controversies in Science, Technology, and Religion
Christopher Glen White PhD, Professor of Religion, Vassar College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35824 | Section 1
Description
Though popular discourses about science and religion often talk about warfare or conflict, most interactions between scientists and religious people are more subtle and complex. In this overview of science, technology, religion, and spirituality we highlight the less understood forms of exchange, interaction, co-creation, and adjustment. We examine how these two different parts of culture shape and influence one another. How have new sciences and technologies challenged and altered religious beliefs and practices? How have religious or spiritual people in turn shaped new scientific ideas and technologies? We investigate these questions by looking at specific topics such as ecology, faith healing, the reasonableness of belief, artificial intelligence, science fiction, unidentified flying objects, transhumanism and emerging technologies.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 3:15pm-5:45pm, Sever Hall 207
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 12 students
RELI S-1510
Ballots and Bibles: Why and How Americans Bring Scriptures into Their Politics
David Holland PhD, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, Harvard Divinity School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34764 | Section 1
Description
In 2018, the US attorney general used a scriptural passage to defend tougher implementation of immigration laws. His reference bewildered observers who were unaware of a long tradition of citing Romans 13 in American political controversies and conflicts, including the American Revolution and the crisis over slavery. This course introduces students to a complex history of political invocations of scripture. Students engage thoughtfully with primary sources (campaign speeches, Congressional debates, and civil rights slogans) and scholarly literature, such as the wealth of research on the history of biblical justifications for war, biblically inflected calls for social justice, and scripturally resonant theories of Constitutional interpretation. The objective of the course is to equip students to recognize the historical legacies that contemporary political conversations carry, to engage critically the modes of textual interpretation that inform political rhetoric, and to write cogently about the complex implications of political appeals to scriptural authority.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. This course counts for the Histories, Societies, Individuals Gen Ed requirement and is equivalent to Gen Ed 1062. It does not count for the College’s divisional distribution requirement.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students
RELI S-1805
Islam: Fundamentals of Thought and Practice
Aaron Spevack PhD, Senior Research Associate and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University and Associate of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35654 | Section 1
Description
This course seeks to introduce students to the core beliefs and practices of Islam, with special focus on how Islam has manifested in diverse cultures throughout its vast history (China, Spain, the United States, and the Middle East). Students obtain a comprehensive literacy in the subject of Islam, enabling them to better interpret the various literary, cultural, artistic, religious, or political expressions of Islam in history and the modern world. Topics explored include theology, ritual, art, music, law, politics, and Sufism. Students have opportunities to relate course material to their own interests through research papers and presentations.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Sarah Grace Chin
Kate Penner EdM, Undergraduate Science Research Advisor, Harvard University
Matthew Cavallo PhD, Preceptor in Mathematics, Harvard University
Tad Davies PhD
Margaret Deli PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
John Robert Sampson PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
RUSS S-Aab
Intensive Elementary Russian
Steven Clancy PhD, Senior Lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 30222 | Section 1
Description
This intensive course provides a comprehensive introduction to modern Russian language and culture for those who would like to speak Russian or use the language for reading and research. Designed for students without any previous knowledge of Russian, the course stresses all four major communicative skills (speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing). Students are introduced to Russian culture through readings, screenings, and class discussions. This course prepares students to continue in Russian at the intermediate level or for study or travel abroad in Russian-speaking countries.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 9:00am-12:00pm
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-August 9, 1:00pm-2:45pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 12 students
Veronika Egorova PhD, Senior Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Stephen A. Mitchell PhD, Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore, Harvard University
Pernille Hermann PhD, Associate Professor in Scandinavian Studies, Aarhus University
SOCI S-11
Introduction to Sociology
Danilo Mandic PhD, Associate Senior Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34720 | Section 1
Description
What is society? What is the role of the individual in society? How does the way society is organized affect the behaviors and beliefs of people who live in it? How can we change our societies? This course introduces students to the field of sociology. By surveying social theory as well as empirical studies, students acquire what C. Wright Mills calls the “sociological imagination:” the ability to think beyond our personal lives and to connect the experiences of individuals with large social structures. Readings include prominent empirical investigations into family dynamics, class inequalities, gender roles, organizations, religions, the nation-state, capitalism, democracy, and globalization. We examine common-sense assumptions about culture, politics, history, and psychology, and empower students to replace them with evidence-based reasoning. By emphasizing reading, writing, and critical thinking skills, this course helps students build the foundation for a deeper understanding of theory and methods in the social sciences. Students may not take both SOCI S-11 and SOCI E-10 for degree or certificate credit.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
SOCI S-110
Popular Culture and Social Theory
Shai M. Dromi PhD, Associate Senior Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35683 | Section 1
Description
Popular culture is one of the strongest tools we have for thinking through social phenomena outside of the conventions of academic writing. Television series such as Black Mirror can provoke our thinking on topics like alienation and racism; popular novels by authors like Stephen King can unpack issues like social isolation and role conflict; and stand-up comedians like Chris Rock can deliver some of the fiercest critiques of economic and social inequality. In this course, we use the insights that popular culture provides to gain proficiency in key current sociological theories. Each week, we pair reading items from one contemporary theorist with one piece of popular culture, such as a movie, a sitcom, a short story, or a stand-up comedy routine. Course assignments move from analyzing popular culture items to applying current sociological theory to real-world phenomena. Through these activities, students familiarize themselves with theoretical frameworks such as field analysis, critical race theory, economic sociology, and feminist sociology.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 6:30pm-9:00pm, William James Hall B4
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 12 students
SOCI S-126
Organized Crime: Mafias in Theory, in Film, and in Reality
Danilo Mandic PhD, Associate Senior Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35841 | Section 1
Description
This course explores organized crime as interrelated social phenomena. Students read sociologists, historians, and other social scientists addressing the nature, causes and consequences of mafias in different national and historical contexts. The phenomenon of organized crime is further scrutinized through its representation (and misrepresentation) in classic and modern cinematic works. Throughout the course, students develop an increased awareness of the inter-connectedness of organized crime with war, capitalism, ghettoization, patrimonialism, the modern nation-state, and globalization.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
SOCI S-162
Sociology of Big Data: Algorithms, Robots, and Digital Societies
Alvaro Agustin Santana Acuna PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology, Whitman College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35386 | Section 1
Description
In recent decades, most societies around the world have experienced an explosion in the production, circulation, and consumption of data. This ongoing revolution, often associated with the rise of digital technologies and the term big data, is having unprecedented social, economic, and cultural consequences. This course explores some of these consequences by looking at technological tools and social groups that interact with such data, including algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, biotechnology, robots, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, the metaverse, social media, and digital influencers. Areas that are examined include the body, the environment, labor markets, the platform economy, social inequality and mobility, and political policies. Guest speakers (who are practitioners) discuss their professional experiences with big data. Students conclude this course with a better understanding of the current relationship between society and technology, and especially the social implications surrounding the use of big data.
Class Meetings:
Online or On Campus
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, 1 Story Street 302
Required sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Students can attend in person on campus, participate live online at the time the class meets via web conference, or watch the recorded video asynchronously. Recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
SOCI S-192
Globalization and Global Justice
Thomas Ponniah PhD, Affiliate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University and Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, George Brown College
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32788 | Section 1
Description
This course provides an opportunity to discuss diverse theories of globalization and global justice via perspectives from sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, geography, history, and the emerging literature from civil society. The course considers research on issues such as democracy, trade, technology, poverty, ecology, culture, diversity, and the search for identity.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 8:30am-11:00am, CGIS South S050
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 27 students
SPAN S-27
Oral Expression: El español hablado
Adriana Gutierrez PhD, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 31128 | Section 1
Description
This is an intermediate language course designed for students familiar with Spanish grammar who need to improve their oral expression. It emphasizes consolidation and expansion of the skills of oral fluency, writing, and reading comprehension. In addition to focusing on spoken Spanish, the course uses short movies and readings to develop vocabulary and to practice discussing topics of interest in the Hispanic world. At the end of the course, students are expected to speak more accurately and fluently on topics that interest them; have a clearer idea of their strengths and difficulties in spoken Spanish; feel more comfortable using fundamental structures of Spanish grammar; and have a basic knowledge of some of the current cultural issues in the Hispanic world. Note: this course is the equivalent of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Spanish 20.
Prerequisites: Three years of secondary school Spanish or three semesters of college-level Spanish.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Sever Hall 209
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 14 students
SPAN S-Aa
Beginning Spanish
Laura Perez-Munoz AM, Doctoral Candidate in General Education, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35829 | Section 1
Description
This course, conducted mostly in Spanish, is for students with little or no previous knowledge of Spanish. It provides the linguistic, communicative, and cultural foundations to engage in basic daily life interactions in oral and written Spanish. Students gain an overview of the history of the Spanish language and the different ways it blends European and indigenous cultures in art, music, clothing, and family traditions. Through music, visual arts, videos, and short readings of authentic texts, students gain a new perspective of Spanish-speaking cultures. By the end of the course, students have the linguistic elements to describe and narrate in the present, future, and past tenses, and engage in different types of basic interactions and conversations about everyday topics. They learn strategies to work through texts, unknown vocabulary, and grammar, and are able to identify informal from formal discourse and learn its importance in Spanish-speaking culture. Moreover, given the prominent place of technology in our lives, students also gain vocabulary for technology and learn what happens to English technical words when adopted or borrowed by the Spanish speaking world. Note: this course is the equivalent of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Spanish 10.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-2:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 14 students
SPAN S-Aa
Beginning Spanish
Xiomara H. Feliberty-Casiano PhD, Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35812 | Section 2
Description
This course, conducted mostly in Spanish, is for students with little or no previous knowledge of Spanish. It provides the linguistic, communicative, and cultural foundations to engage in basic daily life interactions in oral and written Spanish. Students gain an overview of the history of the Spanish language and the different ways it blends European and indigenous cultures in art, music, clothing, and family traditions. Through music, visual arts, videos, and short readings of authentic texts, students gain a new perspective of Spanish-speaking cultures. By the end of the course, students have the linguistic elements to describe and narrate in the present, future, and past tenses, and engage in different types of basic interactions and conversations about everyday topics. They learn strategies to work through texts, unknown vocabulary, and grammar, and are able to identify informal from formal discourse and learn its importance in Spanish-speaking culture. Moreover, given the prominent place of technology in our lives, students also gain vocabulary for technology and learn what happens to English technical words when adopted or borrowed by the Spanish speaking world. Note: this course is the equivalent of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Spanish 10.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-2:00pm, Lamont Library 240
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 14 students
Johanna Damgaard Liander PhD, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
SPCH S-100
Fundamentals of Public Speaking
Jill A. Slye ALB, Associate in the MMSc in Dental Education Program, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34732 | Section 1
Description
This course covers the basic principles of public speaking. Students learn how to handle nerves, organize and deliver a formal presentation, and use verbal and non-verbal communication to connect with their audience. During class, students learn to use their own communication style while adapting their message for a variety of audiences. Students present several speeches in a safe and comfortable environment. Throughout the semester lectures focus on use of language, narratives, vocal variation, basic techniques for public speaking, and effective methods to overcome the fear of speaking in front of a large audience or small group of people.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students
SSCI S-100a
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology
Cynthia A. Meyersburg PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35666 | Section 1
Description
This proseminar introduces students to basic behavioral science research methods in psychology and anthropology. It teaches them how to read and evaluate research papers and translate their ideas into viable research projects. Topics include library and archival research, scholarly writing and argumentation, descriptive research methods, quasi-experimental and experimental design, ethical issues, and analytical methods. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone.
Prerequisites: Undergraduate statistics and research methods courses are recommended, computer literacy (skills and experience with the internet, Word, and Excel) required. A satisfactory score on the test of critical reading and writing skills or a grade of B or higher in the alternate expository writing course; an undergraduate statistics course and EXPO S-42b are strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
SSCI S-100a
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology
Richard Joseph Martin PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34247 | Section 2
Description
This proseminar introduces students to basic behavioral science research methods in psychology and anthropology. It teaches them how to read and evaluate research papers and translate their ideas into viable research projects. Topics include library and archival research, scholarly writing and argumentation, descriptive research methods, quasi-experimental and experimental design, ethical issues, and analytical methods. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone.
Prerequisites: Undergraduate statistics and research methods courses are recommended, computer literacy (skills and experience with the internet, Word, and Excel) required. A satisfactory score on the test of critical reading and writing skills or a grade of B or higher in the alternate expository writing course; an undergraduate statistics course and EXPO S-42b are strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
SSCI S-100a
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology
Kelsey Quigley PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35797 | Section 3
Description
This proseminar introduces students to basic behavioral science research methods in psychology and anthropology. It teaches them how to read and evaluate research papers and translate their ideas into viable research projects. Topics include library and archival research, scholarly writing and argumentation, descriptive research methods, quasi-experimental and experimental design, ethical issues, and analytical methods. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone.
Prerequisites: Undergraduate statistics and research methods courses are recommended, computer literacy (skills and experience with the internet, Word, and Excel) required. A satisfactory score on the test of critical reading and writing skills or a grade of B or higher in the alternate expository writing course; an undergraduate statistics course and EXPO S-42b are strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
SSCI S-100b
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations
Asher Orkaby PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34234 | Section 1
Description
This proseminar addresses problems and methods related to the study of government, history, and international relations. It stresses the critical analysis of sources, constructing explanatory models, standards of logical demonstration, and organizing and presenting research results. Emphasis is on developing both writing and research skills. Students study essential categories of analysis used in history and political science. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO S-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
SSCI S-100b
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations
Doug Bond PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 33943 | Section 2
Description
This proseminar addresses problems and methods related to the study of government, history, and international relations. It stresses the critical analysis of sources, constructing explanatory models, standards of logical demonstration, and organizing and presenting research results. Emphasis is on developing both writing and research skills. Students study essential categories of analysis used in history and political science. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone.
Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO S-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
SSCI S-172
Storytelling and Global Justice
Michael Patrick MacDonald BA, Professor of the Practice and Honors Writer in Residence, University Honors Program, Northeastern University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35738 | Section 1
Description
This course is about the use of storytelling in advancing restorative and transformative justice endeavors and practices. In Greater Boston, a powerful restorative justice movement has been growing at the intersection of justice and healing. Restorative justice practices are holistic, community-focused, and usually involve dialogue among victim, offender, and their families and communities. It is a reparative rather than punitive approach to justice. On the global stage transitional or transformational justice efforts in post-conflict, post-colonial societies have included truth commissions and reparative processes. This course looks at the role of storytelling as a tool for the transformation of individual lives and communities. Students read and write on the topic of restorative justice at the local, criminal justice level or transitional/transformational justice on the global stage, such as in South Africa, Rwanda, and Northern Ireland. Readings begin with memoir in order to experience the role of empathy in telling one’s story and listening to others’. From there, we work outward to other nonfiction approaches: straight journalism and research, personal journalism, and opinion/advocacy essay. Students’ writings come from personal reflection, observation of local and global peace and justice movements, including visits to their local community, as well as assigned reading and research.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference with Required On-Campus Weekend
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Saturday, Sunday, August 3-4, 9:00am-5:00pm, One Brattle Square 203
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Along with the web-conference meetings, this course also includes an intensive—and mandatory—weekend residency. Students must be present for the entire on-campus weekend session to earn credit for the course. The course begins via web conference during the first week of the term and continues to meet throughout the term. Please see the syllabus for the specific course meeting dates. Tuition does not include hotel accommodations, transportation, or meals for the on-campus weekend session. International Students see important visa information. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students
SSCI S-173
Self, Society, and Politics
Nicolas Prevelakis PhD, Associate Senior Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35406 | Section 1
Description
This course examines the main ways in which the relationship between self, society, and politics has been conceptualized in major sociological and philosophical texts. What are the political implications of different ways of understanding the self? Is it fair to talk about a western individualistic tradition? And how do recent technological changes affect our understanding of who we are and how we interact? The course relies on readings of classical texts, from sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and history. It includes primary texts (Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, mile Durkheim, W.E.B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler), as well as recent sociological studies. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways in which social and political theorists have used conceptions of the self as foundation for their views of society and politics.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
SSCI S-300
Engaging in the Scholarly Conversation
Doug Bond PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Ariane Liazos PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35847 | Section 1
Description
This course trains students in the skills of critically engaging the scholarly literature in their field of study. They learn how to assess the presuppositions, argumentation, methodology, evidence, and conclusions of scholarly writing in their discipline. After building that foundational skill set, the second portion of the course focuses on how to identify patterns, debates, and schools of thought in the larger body of existing scholarship relevant to the students’ interests, which is an essential precursor of the final goal: identifying gaps or opportunities for future scholarly contributions.
Prerequisites: Students must have completed SSCI S-100b with a grade of B or higher to take this course. SSCI S-300 must be completed before registering in the Crafting the Thesis Proposal tutorial for thesis-track students and prior to precapstone course for capstone-track students.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, June 24-July 11, 8:30am-11:30am, Emerson Hall 101
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Students in HUMA S-300, PSYC S-300, and SSCI S-300 may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students
STAT S-100
Introduction to Statistics and Applied Data Analysis
Julie Phuong Vu MS, Preceptor in Statistics, Harvard University
Kevin A. Rader PhD, Senior Preceptor in Statistics, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32188 | Section 1
Description
This course is an intensive introduction to the fundamental concepts of probability, statistical inference, and statistical computing necessary for a working knowledge of applied statistics. The course moves at an accelerated pace and requires a substantial commitment in time and effort. The primary goal of this course is to prepare students for conducting research in an applied field, which requires being comfortable with the technical details of analysis, statistical computing, and the scientific process as a whole, from determining appropriate methods for addressing a research question to clearly communicating findings in the context of the question. The course explores applications within biostatistics, among other fields. Harvard Extension School students may count one of the following courses toward a degree or certificate, but not more than one: MGMT E-104, STAT S-100, STAT E-101 (offered previously), STAT E-102, or STAT E-104.
Prerequisites: No prior knowledge of statistics is required; students with prior exposure to introductory statistics (such as through an AP statistics course) will encounter some overlapping material but gain a better understanding of the statistical thinking and principles behind commonly used methods, in addition to learning practical skills for visualizing and analyzing data. This course uses the statistical programming language R. No prior experience with a programming language is required, but expect to devote the first 1-2 weeks to acquiring fluency with R (using materials provided in the course). Precalculus is the only mathematical prerequisite.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Open to admitted Secondary School Program students by petition. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 200 students
STAT S-103
Introduction to Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Amy Tsurumi PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34177 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed to introduce students to basic concepts of epidemiology and biostatistics. Selected sections from textbooks and recent primary literature are used. Students learn how to critically read published epidemiological studies and understand the study design, analyses, and conclusions drawn from the studies. There is a substantial hands-on component in which students learn basic R statistical programming, using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) dataset primarily, to make discoveries.
Prerequisites: Basic algebra skills are expected. Students are required to have access to a computer with R and RStudio installed. No prior experience in R is expected. We start the course by showing students how to install R and RStudio.
Class Meetings:
Online or On Campus
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 6:30pm-9:30pm, One Brattle Square 204
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Students can attend in person on campus, participate live online at the time the class meets via web conference, or watch the recorded video asynchronously. Recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
STAT S-115
Data Science: An Artificial Ecosystem
Xiao-Li Meng PhD, Whipple V.N. Jones Professor of Statistics, Harvard University and Founding Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Data Science Review
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35611 | Section 1
Description
This course aims to introduce students to the world of the data science via articles published in the Harvard Data Science Review, a global forum disseminating everything data science and data science for everyone. The course emphasizes the evolutionary nature of the data science enterprise as an artificial ecosystem, where the phrase artificial shares a similar connotation as it is in the phrase artificial intelligence (AI). However, unlike the common algorithmic or robotic depictions of AI, this course espouses a panoramic view of data science, from philosophical conceptualization of data to interpretation and policy implications of statistical findings and to the re-use of data for addressing scientific replicability and reliability. Topics such as generative AI and data privacy are explored in depth to demonstrate the necessity of the panoramic approach. Questions such as what is intelligence or what is privacy require philosophical contemplation, while assessing the impact of generative AI or means to protect individual privacy demand careful sociological, computational, and statistical thinking. Furthermore, determining how to ensure effective and safe human-computer interaction requires advanced data science theory and methods. Throughout the course, students engage with and critique a broad range of data science articles that incorporate perspectives from computer science, statistics, philosophy, social sciences, and other fields of study. During course meetings, there are opportunities to discuss some of these articles with the authors themselves.
Prerequisites: Students are not required to have any prior experience in computer science, statistics, or data science. The course assignments will assess students’ ability to think critically and communicate effectively, rather than their computational or mathematical skills.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students
STAT S-150
Intermediate Statistics: Methods and Modeling
Carolyn Gardner-Thomas PhD, Director, Mathematics for Teaching Program, Harvard Extension School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34213 | Section 1
Description
This intermediate statistics course is intended to give students familiarity with statistical tools used to analyze data in a variety of disciplines, including psychology, and provides experience reading and understanding studies based on data analysis. The focus is on understanding underlying concepts rather than on memorizing mathematical formulas. The course covers linear regression, various types of analysis of variance (ANOVA), including factorial, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), and repeated measures, as well as effect sizes and power analyses. These topics are explored using the statistical package R, with a focus on understanding how to interpret R output.
Prerequisites: STAT S-100, STAT E-101, STAT E-102, STAT E-104, or the equivalent; understanding of univariate statistics, correlation, univariate regression, t-tests, and one-way ANOVA is assumed.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Graduate credit $3,220.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Not open to Secondary School Program students.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 150 students
SWGS S-1232
Race, Gender, and Medicine
Roberto Sirvent PhD, Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Part-time, Harvard Medical School
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35819 | Section 1
Description
Why is racism so prevalent in hospitals and other health care settings? What unique challenges do trans and gender-diverse youth face in seeking medical care as a result of recent transphobic laws and policies? How are community organizers advocating for the end of medical neglect, abuse, and torture in prisons and migrant detention facilities? In this largely discussion-based course we explore these questions and many others. Social approaches to medicine and public health challenge and expand contemporary debates in the medical humanities by centering issues of gender, race, and sexuality. This course provides an overview of the theoretical landscape and social movements that ground recent developments in the field. In particular, the course engages feminist theory, disability justice movements, critical race theory, queer theory, anti-colonial thought, and trans liberation movements. Special attention is paid to the structuring force of anti-Blackness in various clinical and research settings, the development and racialization of transgender medicine, and what it means to view state violence as an issue in public health and the medical humanities.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 8:30am-11:00am, Emerson Hall 104
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students
SWGS S-1235
Contraception and Culture: Birth Control Politics in the United States
Keridwen N. Luis PhD, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35823 | Section 1
Description
The US Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization has engendered (pun intended) a wave of political discourse in this new post-Roe environment. Taking as our starting point that “all politics are reproductive politics” (Laura Briggs), we look at the history of reproductive technologies through the lens of colonialism and then examine how issues of bodily autonomy, citizenship, identity, gender, and power are connected through these polarizing debates. The course examines some case studies of reproductive issues (not limited to the United States, as our politics reach well beyond our borders). We also consider the demands of reproductive justice and how reproductive issues are intertwined not only with gender and sexuality, but also with race, dis/ability, class, immigration status, and culture.
Prerequisites: One year of undergraduate experience or highly advanced high school training in critical thinking and essay writing.
Class Meetings:
Flexible Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions asynchronously. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
SWGS S-1242
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Jocelyn Viterna PhD, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35601 | Section 1
Description
Male and female, masculine and feminine, and straight and gay. Where do these consequential categories come from? How do they generate inequalities? Why are they so easily reproduced? Why are they so frequently politicized? And what, if anything, should we do about it? Combining real-world applications with academic analyses, this course encourages students to think about how sexuality and gender shape the social world, as well as their place within it.
Class Meetings:
Online or On Campus
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm, 1 Story Street 304
Optional sections to be arranged.
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Students can attend in person on campus, participate live online at the time the class meets via web conference, or watch the recorded video asynchronously. Recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
UKRN S-128
Ukraine in the World: Exploring Contemporary Ukraine
Emily Sarah Channell-Justice PhD, Program Director for the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35376 | Section 1
Description
This course provides students with a framework for understanding Russia’s war in Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022. Starting from the fall of the Soviet Union, the course delves into the relationship between Ukraine, Russia, and the west in order to understand the geopolitical situation that preceded war. It explores Soviet legacies in Ukraine on language, cultural practice, and ethnic and national identifications and considers the importance of mass protest and civic organizing in Ukraine’s political culture. The course further considers the role of information in the current war and provides students with tools for seeking out and verifying information in the fast-moving context of war.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Sever Hall 307
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.
UKRN S-132
Tradition and Modernity in Ukraine, 19th and 20th Centuries
Serhiy Bilenky PhD, Research Associate, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34502 | Section 1
Description
The main focus of this course is on the cities and complex relations between tradition and modernity in Ukraine in a wider imperial and transnational context. The course introduces students to the most important social, political, and cultural issues facing modern Ukraine, from the imperial to Soviet and post-Soviet times, primarily in urban settings. We consider major cities such as Kyiv, Odessa, Lviv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro, as well as Jewish shtetls and monuments of Soviet industrial sublime, such as the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station. We explore such topics as the reactionary responses to modernity ranging from anti-semitism to religious conservatism; the central role of the city and urbanization; making and unmaking of nationalities; public hygiene and the limits of control; revolutionary culture and artistic avant-garde; the long-lasting effects of wars and extreme violence on society; the curse of resources; and the rise of mass culture and sport, among others. Students learn why studying Ukraine is essential for our understanding of the modern world.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Sever Hall 107
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.
UKRN S-Aab
Intensive Elementary Ukrainian
Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed PhD, Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35708 | Section 1
Description
This intensive course provides a comprehensive introduction to modern Ukrainian language and culture for those who would like to speak Ukrainian or use the language for reading and research. Designed for students without any previous knowledge of Ukrainian, the course stresses all four major communicative skills (speaking, listening and viewing comprehension, reading, and writing). Students are introduced to Ukrainian culture through readings, screenings, and class discussions. This course prepares students to continue in Ukrainian at the intermediate level or for future study or travel abroad.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 8:30am-11:30am
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 12 students
UKRN S-G
Ukrainian for Reading Knowledge
Volodymyr Dibrova PhD
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 32718 | Section 1
Description
This course is designed primarily for graduate students of humanities who wish to acquire a reading knowledge of Ukrainian for research purposes. A variety of texts from different fields are used to allow students to learn about Ukrainian culture and history and explore the social, cultural, and historical context of the Ukrainian language.
Prerequisites: Some previous background in Ukrainian, Russian, or other Slavic language.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, June 24-August 9, 10:00am-1:00pm, Lamont Library 230
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $7,400.
Credits: 8
Notes: Not open to Secondary School Program students. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information. For more information about the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), see the HUSI website.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 12 students
VISU S-14
Drawing and the Digital Age
Helen Miller MFA, Visiting Lecturer, Curator, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 34825 | Section 1
Description
Our world has been shaped by drawing: the buildings we work in, the films we enjoy, the dances we perform. As a contemporary tool, drawing can guide us more gracefully into the digital age by serving as a reference for software used in art, design, and other fields, such as computer-aided design (CAD) programs, the Adobe Creative Cloud, and numerous mobile applications. Much that we learn in drawing on paper about material and time, receptivity and rhythm, organization and composition is the analog, if not the source, for digital media. In this course, we develop our facility with drawing and digital media in tandem, leveraging life drawing in particular to embody seemingly abstract or disconnected aspects of the digital realm.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
VISU S-149
Introduction to Film
Jessica Sarah Rinland MFA, Teacher, El as Querejeta Zine Eskola, Associate of the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University and Teacher, El as Querejeta Zine Eskola
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35588 | Section 1
Description
This introductory filmmaking course utilizes the beginning of cinema in 1895, when the Lumi re brothers filmed the departure of workers from their factories, to introduce students to the production and examination of film. The course is a primer to the technical and conceptual aspects of film production including its potential as a political and social tool, historical context, and technical and critical discourse. Students learn about image and sound creation, both technical and conceptual, while sparking curiosity and experimentation through various assignments. Through screenings, readings, in-class discussions, and critique, we explore the ongoing possibilities within filmmaking, as well as contemporary issues within the form, while developing individual skills. Practical knowledge is integrated through editing and sound workshops.
Prerequisites: Students should have a laptop that can download software (Premiere Pro) and they need to have basic software and computer hardware knowledge. Students should also have a hard drive of 500GB minimum capacity. If students do not have this equipment, they should be in touch with the instructor.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, July 15-August 8, 12:00pm-2:30pm, 53 Church Street 202
Term Start Date: July 15, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 12 students
Fabio Pittarello PhD, Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University
VISU S-35
Book Making
Jessica Sarah Rinland MFA, Teacher, El as Querejeta Zine Eskola, Associate of the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University and Teacher, El as Querejeta Zine Eskola
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35796 | Section 1
Description
This course focuses on the making of an artists’ book and the ongoing possibilities within this form. Working with the Fine Arts Library and Straus Center for Conservation, students are introduced to diverse artist’s book-making techniques and conceptual approaches. The course covers digital imaging techniques including Photoshop and InDesign, digital printing and scanning, and physical bookmaking, while focusing closely on students’ projects with regular work-in-progress presentations and crit presentations. Students work individually and in groups to develop skills in media literacy and communication.
Prerequisites: Students should have a laptop that can download software (Adobe Suite) and they need to have basic software and computer hardware knowledge. Students should also have a hard drive of 500GB minimum capacity. If students do not have this equipment, they should be in touch with the instructor.
Class Meetings:
On campus only
Mondays, Wednesdays, June 24-August 9, 3:15pm-6:15pm, 53 Church Street 202
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
VISU S-52
Creating Comics and Graphic Novels
Peter A. Kuper BA, Cartoonist and Illustrator
Summer Term 2024 | CRN 35822 | Section 1
Description
This course examines the history of the form, including graphic novels and comic strips, and explores the building blocks necessary to create effective comics based upon personal experiences and research. Students are taught ways to access their writing and artistic abilities and apply them to sequential narratives. There is an emphasis on capturing ideas through regular sketchbook exercises that draw from students’ daily encounters in their environment. Students are encouraged to explore an array of visual approaches and techniques in the creation of weekly assignments within the confines of a single black-and-white page.
Prerequisites: Students should have basic drawing skills, an interest in the form, and a desire to write and draw sequential narratives.
Class Meetings:
Live Attendance Web Conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, June 25-August 9, 12:00pm-3:00pm
Term Start Date: June 24, 2024
Tuition:
Noncredit, undergraduate, graduate credit $3,700.
Credits: 4
Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Harvard College students: This course is eligible for degree credit, but see important policy information.
Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students
