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.

  • Anthropology 2735. The Anthropology of Science: Methods and Theory
  • IGA-313. Science, Power and Politics
  • History of Science 100. Knowing the World: An Introduction to the History of Science
  • History of Science 288. History and Philosophy of Technology: Proseminar
  • History of Science 157. Sociology of Science
  • Sociology 194. Knowledge Production & Evaluation in the Social Sciences

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

  • Anthropology 1850. Ethnography as Practice and Genre
  • Anthropology 2660. The Anthropology of Knowledge
  • Economics 2099. Topics in the History of Economic Thought
  • GSD 4355. Architecture, Science and Technology 18th-20th Centuries
  • History of Science 150. History of Social Science
  • History of Science 152. Filming Science
  • IGA 205. Science, Technology, Innovation, and Public Policy
  • IGA 317. Experts Politics and Public Policy
  • IGA 325. Bioethics, Law and the Life Sciences
  • Sociology 260. The Sociology of Global Health
  • SM 750.0. Introduction to Social Medicine and Global Health

(iii) Related Courses (FAS)

  • Anthropology 1655. Politics of Nature
  • Anthropology 1665. Humans and Animals
  • Anthropology 2635. Image/Media/Publics: Seminar
  • Anthropology 2645. Reconfiguring Regimes: Power, Law and Governance
  • Anthropology 2655. The Normal and the Abnormal
  • Anthropology 2736: Medical Anthropology of Contemporary Africa
  • Anthropology 2740. Culture and Mental Illness
  • 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 Experience
  • Anthropology 2985. Sociocultural Space and Time: Seminar
  • Comparative Literature 273. Approaches to Modernity: The Metropolis
  • Microbiology 213. Social Issues in Biology
  • Science B-29. Evolution of Human Nature
  • Economics 1480. Moral Perspectives on Economic Growth
  • Economics 1641 : Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice
  • Economics 2888r. Economics of Science and Engineering Workshop
  • Engineering Sciences 109. Science Fictions
  • Engineering Sciences 139. Innovation in Science and Engineering: Conference Course
  • Engineering Sciences 147. Idea Translation: Effecting Change through the Arts and Sciences
  • Engineering Sciences 167. Environmental Assessment
  • Engineering Sciences 201. Decision Theory
  • Engineering Sciences 207. Communicating Science
  • English 276. Space, Place, and Imagination: Graduate Seminar
  • Environmental Science and Public Policy 78. Environmental Politics
  • Environmental Science and Public Policy 10. Public Policy for Environmental Science
  • Government 1093. Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature
  • Government 1521. Bureaucratic Politics: Military, Government, Economic and Social Organizations
  • Government 2034. Ethics and Economics
  • Government 2090. Ethics and Biotechnology
  • Government 2332. The Political Economy of Government Regulation
  • United States in the World 13: Medicine and Society in America
  • History of Science 134. Nature on Display
  • History of Science 138. Sex, Gender, and Evolution
  • History of Science 139. The Postgenomic Moment
  • History of Science 141. Social Life of Pharmaceuticals
  • History of Science 145. Medicine and Deviance
  • History of Science 148. History of Global Health
  • History of Science 288. History and Philosophy of Technology: Proseminar
  • History of Science 259. History of the History of Science
  • Literature 147. Robots: Imagination, Fiction and Reality
  • Literature 116. Literature and Science
  • Philosophy 149z. Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy 152. Philosophy of Biology
  • Psychology 980v. The Insanity Defense
  • Psychology 1205. Brain, Drugs, and Society: From Neurobiology to Ethics
  • Psychology 1506. Social Neuroscience
  • Psychology 1509. Law and Mind
  • Psychology 2552. Moral Cognition
  • Psychology 2751. Free Will, Responsibility, and Law
  • Religion 1850. The Protocol of the Gaze: Seminar
  • Sociology 154. Culture, Power, and Inequality
  • Sociology 162. Medical Sociology
  • 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
  • DPI-318: Innovations in Democratic Governance: Solving Public Problems
  • IGA-104: Managing a Living Planet: How Interactions Among Population, Health, Resources & Environment Shape the Stage of Global Affairs
  • GSD 4130. Scale and Modernity: City, Object, Subject
  • GSD 3305: The Architectural Imaginary: Experimental Architecture of the 1970s
  • GSD 4323: Constructing Vision: History and Theory of Optical Applications in Design
  • GSD 4324: Green Modern: A History of Environmental Consciousness in Modern
  • GSD 4357: Alternative Constructions
  • Architecture and Planning from Patrick Geddes to the Present
  • GSD 5101: Histories and Theories of Urban Interventions

(v) Related Courses (Other Schools)

  • HBS 4420. PSY 2650. Behavioral Approaches to Decision Making and Negotiation
  • Managing International Trade and Investment
  • Business, Government, and the International Economy
  • HDS 2394. Christian Ethics, Persuasion, and Power II
  • HDS 3256. The Shock of the New
  • LAW-39371A. International Reproductive/Sexual Health Rights: Reading Group
  • LAW-33795A. Citizenship and Globalization
  • LAW-33525A. Contemporary Issues in Law and Politics: Reading Group
  • LAW-33800A. Copyright
  • LAW-33800A. Copyright and Other Intellectual Property
  • LAW-92464A. Critical Theory: Seminar
  • LAW-31451A. Ethics and Health Policy
  • LAW-36000A. Evidence
  • LAW-93040A. Evidence, Reason and Law: Seminar
  • LAW-96715A. Genetics and Reproductive Technology: Legal and Ethical Issues: Seminar
  • LAW-94530A. Health Law Policy Workshop
  • LAW-96440-A. Law and Psychology -- The Emotions: Seminar
  • LAW-97351A. Moral Order and the Irrational: Readings in Nietzsche and Freud: Seminar
  • LAW-44600A. Psychiatry and the Law
  • LAW-45560A. Risk
  • LAW-46310A. Sexual Orientation and the Law
  • LAW-98841A. Stem Cell Research: Seminar
  • HT930: Social Studies in Bioscience and Biotechnology
  • MA902.0: Narrative Ethics: Literary Texts and Moral Issues in Medicine
  • MG722.0: Social Issues in Biology
  • SM715.0: Seminar in Global Health Equity
  • SM750.0: Introduction to Social Medicine
  • HPM213. Public Health Law
  • ID250. Ethical Basis of the Practice of Public Health
  • PIH283. Pharmaceutical Policy and Global Health
  • PIH293. Individual and Social Responsibility for Health
  • SHH215. History, Politics & Public Health: Theories of Disease Distribution

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