How to Select Courses
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Review the Course Website in Canvas
- Review the course syllabus to look for additional information about the course including assignments (response papers, problem sets, readings, etc.) and assessments (midterms, exams, final papers, projects, etc.).
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Review Course Evaluations if available
- Ensure that the evaluation is for the same instructor as multiple faculty may teach the same course (e.g. Psychology 1 has three different faculty).
- Review the evaluation as subjective information - every student is different and may have a different experience in a course.
- Review the answers to the question, “What would you like to tell future students about this class?” which can give you a general sense about the course.
- Compare information from the evaluation to the current syllabus as the faculty may have changed the course in response to course evaluation feedback.
How to Enroll in Courses
- Step 1: Add courses to your Crimson Cart in my.harvard
- Step 2: Discuss course selection with your academic adviser who will lift the “advising hold”.
- Step 3: Validate courses and Enroll in my.harvard
General Information (Policies)
- Ordinarily, students may take 20 credits each term (five courses, 4 credits per course). Students wishing to take more than 20 credits in a term must obtain the approval of their Resident Dean.
- First-year students who wish to take more than 16 credits (four courses, 4 credits per course) in their first term must obtain the approval of their Resident Dean.
- Students may not enroll in more than 24 credits (six courses, 4 credits per course) in one term without Administrative Board approval.
- First-year students may not cross-register for courses at other Harvard schools in the first term so that they may fully engage with the curriculum in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.