(AAAS) explores the histories, societies, and cultures of African and African-descended people. It is highly interdisciplinary, comparative, and cross-cultural. Africans and people of African descent have developed cultural forms that have profoundly...
By the most common definition, anthropology is the study of human diversity in the distant past and the present and, as such, teaches us to recognize the remarkable array of circumstances in which human beings live their lives and make meaning from them.
We can characterize what applied mathematicians should learn by examining what they do. Mathematical scientists who identify themselves primarily as applied mathematicians function in complementary dual rolesin varying proportions.
The science of astrophysics involves the study of matter and radiation in the universe as understood through the laws of physics. Astronomical phenomena exhibit an extreme range of physical conditions, from superfluid neutrons in neutron stars, high-temperature nuclear reactions in supernovae, and strong gravitational fields...
Chemistry is both a basic science, fundamental to an understanding of the world we live in, and a practical science with an enormous number and variety of important applications. Knowledge of chemistry is fundamental to an understanding of biology and biochemistry and of certain aspects of geology, astronomy, physics, and engineering....
There is exciting science on the somewhat arbitrary and fluid boundary between chemistry and physics. Chemists and physicists often study the same phenomena in slightly different ways, and it is very useful, in the boundary area, to have training in both fields. Recognizing this, the physics department has for many...
The Department of the Classics offers its students the opportunity to explore the whole range of Greco-Roman civilization from the Bronze Age through Byzantium and medieval Europe to Modern Greece.
Comparative literature is the department for students who want to cross boundaries -- between languages, between cultures, between disciplines. We welcome students who are interested in studying literature in more than one national and linguistic tradition, students who want to explore literature in relation to other arts and media (e.g...
Economics is at once broad in its subject matter and unified in its approach to understanding the social world. The Harvard Economics Department aims to teach undergraduate students the basic principles of economics, to introduce them to various subfields within economics, and to give them a foundation in understanding and carrying out...
“We like books,” explains Professor Steph Burt, Director of Undergraduate Studies. “We also like collections of letters and manuscripts and recitations of poems and stage plays. We even like tweets and sometimes films and videos. We study all of those things in their contexts. We study what goes on inside them, and we...
Concentrators develop skills for understanding past and present societies and their sub-groups through the study of language, traditional expressive forms and ritualized behaviors, drawing on the methodologies of several humanities and social sciences disciplines.
Our program invites you to explore the languages, literatures, societies and cultures of the German-speaking and Scandinavian regions of Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein; and Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. We offer language courses in German and Swedish as well as tutorials in Danish,...
History & Literature is the study of ideas in context. A rigorous honors concentration built on student-centered tutorials and individualized advising, History and Literature balances structure and flexibility.Designed for students who want to take charge of their education, History & Literature trains students...
The History of Art & Architecture concentration offers training in the historical interpretation and critical analysis of the visual arts and architecture. It develops the skills of visual discrimination and verbal expression fundamental to art historical analysis. Art history is a multifaceted discipline...
Evolutionary theory provides a powerful framework for investigating questions about why humans are the way they are. Human evolutionary biologists seek to understand how evolutionary forces have shaped our anatomy, our biology, and our patterns of behavior. Examples of questions in which we are interested include:...
Evolution is the strand that ties together all of biology: from the adaptive specifics of a membrane pore to grand events in the history of life, such as the Cambrian Explosion, when, 540 million years ago, life went in a single bound from simple to complex. But adaptive evolution is a response to the demands of the... 
Mathematics is the science of order, and mathematicians seek to identify instances of order and to formulate and understand concepts that enable us to perceive order in complicated situations. Perhaps the most important concept of mathematics is that of function, which provides us with the means to study dependence and change. The study of...Filter by Academic Division
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