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General Education

The Program in General Education is at the core of our liberal arts education programme. Harvard believes firmly in its responsibility to turn out flexible, skilled and well-rounded individuals, and it therefore seeks to connect a student's education to life beyond college. In today's constantly changing jobs market, the development of wide ranging academic and life skills becomes a critical part of a graduate's success.

One-quarter of the 32 courses in the four-year programme will be in the eight General Education areas, taken in any of the eight semesters and offered in a broad range of interest areas. The areas of General Education are:

  • Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding
  • Culture and Belief
  • Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning
  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Science of Living Systems
  • Science of the Physical Universe
  • Societies of the World
  • United States in the World

For example, some of the course choices in Ethical Reasoning are:

  • Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe
  • The Contested Bible: The Sacred-Secular Dance
  • The Presence of the Past
  • Institutional Violence & Public Spectacle: The Case of the Roman Games
  • Continuing Oral Tradition in Native American Literature
  • Understanding Islam & Contemporary Muslim Societies
  • Childhood: Its History, Philosophy and Literature
  • Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World

More details and listings of courses in General Education can be found in the Advising Programs Office website.