Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard

Harvard Kennedy School of Government | Harvard University

Courses for the Secondary Field

Please refer to the course requirements of the Secondary Field in STS. For information about substituting courses or adding new courses to the list, please see the FAQ.

STS Courses for Secondary Field

(i) Framing Courses (offering foundational introduction to the field)

    Note: Students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences may not satisfy the framing course requirement with a course offered by their home department.

  • IGA-513. Science, Power and Politics
  • History of Science 100. Knowing the World: An Introduction to the History of Science
  • History of Science 157. Sociology of Science

(ii) Methods Courses (deepening specialist knowledge in a field)

  • Anthropology 1850. Ethnography as Practice and Genre
  • Anthropology 2660. The Anthropology of Knowledge: Seminar
  • History of Science 150. History of the Human Sciences
  • History of Science 152. Filming Science
  • SM 750.0. Introduction to Social Medicine and Global Health

(iii) Related Courses (FAS)

  • Anthropology 1655. Politics of Nature
  • Anthropology 2635. Image/Media/Publics: Seminar
  • Anthropology 2645. Reconfiguring Regimes: Power, Law and Governance
  • Anthropology 2740. Culture, Mental Illness, and the Body
  • Anthropology 2750. Local Biologies: Perspectives on the Interaction Between Culture and Biology
  • Anthropology 2840. Ethnography and Personhood
  • Anthropology 2876. New Ethnographies in the Anthropology of Social and Moral Experience
  • Comparative Literature 273. Approaches to Modernity: The Metropolis
  • Microbiology 213. Social Issues in Biology
  • Economics 1641 : Industrial Organization: Theory and Applications
  • Economics 2888r. Economics of Science and Engineering Workshop
  • Engineering Sciences 139. Innovation in Science and Engineering: Conference Course
  • Engineering Sciences 201. Decision Theory
  • Engineering Sciences 207. Communicating Science
  • Environmental Science and Public Policy 78. Environmental Politics
  • Environmental Science and Public Policy 10. Environmental Policy
  • Government 1093. Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature
  • Government 1521. Bureaucratic Politics: Government, Economic, Social and Military Organizations
  • Government 2034. Ethics, Economics, and Law
  • United States in the World 13: Medicine and Society in America
  • History of Science 134. Nature on Display: Conference Course
  • History of Science 138. Sex, Gender, and Evolution
  • History of Science 139. The Postgenomic Moment
  • History of Science 148. History of Global Health
  • History of Science 288. History and Philosophy of Technology
  • History of Science 259. History of the History of Science
  • Literature 116. Literature and Science
  • Psychology 1750. Free Will, Responsibility, and Law
  • Sociology 190. Life and Death in the US: Medicine and Disease in Social Context

(iv) Related Courses (HKS and GSD)

  • API-302: Analytic Frameworks for Policy
  • HIS 0432300: Constructing Vision
  • HIS 0411500: History and Theory of Urban Interventions

(v) Related Courses (Other Schools)

  • HBS 4425. PSY 2553r. Decision Making and Negotiation
  • HBS 1166. Managing International Trade and Investment
  • HDS 3256. The Shock of the New
  • HLS 2042. Copyright
  • HLS 2079. Evidence
  • HLS 2108. Health Law Policy Workshop
  • HLS 2151. Law and Psychology: The Emotions
  • HLS 2188. Moral Order and the Irrational: Freud and Nietzsche
  • HLS 2211. Psychiatry and the Law
  • MG722: Social Issues in Biology
  • SM715: Seminar in Global Health Equity
  • SM750: Introduction to Social Medicine and Global Health
  • HPM213-01. Public Health Law
  • ID250-01. Ethical Basis of Public Health

For more information about these courses, refer to the course registrars of the schools which offer them: