Undergraduate Program
Courses Approved as Gov Electives
Government Elective Courses
2009-2010
The following courses have been approved for elective concentration credit in Government. This list is comprehensive and contains any course that has been approved for department credit in the past, and as a result includes courses that are not currently being offered. If there is a course that you think should count toward the Government Department requirements and it is not on this list, please contact the Undergraduate Program. Courses expected to be offered in the 2009-2010 academic year are indicated in bold.
GOVERNMENT AS AN ELECTIVE -- All Government Department courses (except Gov 91r, Supervised Reading and Research) count for Government elective credit. In addition, the following cross-listed courses count for Gov elective credit. Only cross-listed classes taught by Government faculty may count for subfield credit.
African and African American Studies 128, 130, 191
East Asian Studies 98b, 98d
Economics 1370, 1430, 2020a, 2020b, 2054, 2080, 2328
Engineering Sciences 103
Environmental Science and Public Policy 78
Ethical Reasoning 11
General Education 103
Foreign Cultures 48
French 190, 242
Historical Studies A-12, A-51, A-71, B-34, B-60, B-61, B-64
History 73 a (formerly History 1474), 1281, 1322, 1465, 1466, 2472, 2782
Literature & Arts B-62
Moral Reasoning 17, 22, 28, 58, 64, 68, 74
Philosophy 171z
Quantitative Reasoning 38
Social Analysis 46, 52, 54
Social Studies 50, 53, 98lb, 98ln
Societies of the World 32 (formerly Historical Study A-73)
Sociology 212, 259
House Seminars: Dudley 111, Dunster 103, Leverett 113, Mather 102, Winthrop 108, 114
Freshmen Seminars (as P/F Govt. elective only): 40i, 42k, 42p, 42u, 43e , 43k , 45g, 46m, 48i, 48k, 49i, 49z
Cross-Registration at KSG, MIT, or other Harvard faculties: Courses by individual petition only; the DUS must sign cross-registration form.
