Academics
The heart of the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship is a roster of courses taught by outstanding faculty across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and the applied sciences and engineering.
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While no two Engaged Scholarship courses are alike in terms of topics or assignments, all Engaged Scholarship courses center community and civically engaged hands-on learning, challenge students to bring together intellectual content with community perspectives and expertise, and emphasize the impact students can have within and beyond Harvard.
All Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship courses are approved for the coursework requirement of the Certificate for Civic Engagement. For more information about past courses, see the Certificate’s approved course list.
Announcing the Engaged Scholarship course list for the 2025-26 academic year! For more information about an individual course, click on the links below to visit my.harvard. Check back as we continue to update this list for Fall 2025 and Spring 2026.
Fall 2025 Courses
- AFRAMER 146X: A Black History of Electronic Dance Music – george aumoithe
- ENG-SCI 105HFR: Humanitarian Design Projects – Chris Lombardo
- ESPP 171: Solid Waste in Developing Countries – Ken Thomas
- EXPOS 20: Does That Belong in a Museum? – Greg Given
- EXPOS 20: I Love That Dirty Water – Isabel Lane
- EXPOS 20: Make/Do: Why Craft Matters – Mande Zecca
- EXPOS 20: Dark Matter, Grey Matter, and Scientific Complexity – Emilie Raymer
- EXPOS 20: TBA
- GENED 1093: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Cares? Reimagining Global Health – Salmaan Keshavjee, Lindsey Zeve, Jason Silverstein
- GENED 1199: Learning and Unlearning – Liao Cheng
- GOV 1022: Community-Based Survey Research Practicum – Chase Harrison
- HEB 183: Science Writing – Bridget Alex
- HIST 160: Abolitionist Women and Their World – Tiya Miles
- HIST-LIT 93AG: Oral Histories and Archives – Andi Remoquillo
- HIST 23: Immigration Law – Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
- PORTUG 59: Portuguese and the Community – Cristiane Soares
- PSY 1018: The Science and Psychology of Music – Mayron Pereira Piccolo Ribeiro
- PSY 980T: Eating Disorders – Rebecca Shingleton
- SOCIOL 1263: Community Organizing and Action – Flavia Peréa
- SPANSH 49H: Languaging and the Latinx Identities – María Luisa Parra
- SPANSH 59: Spanish and the Community – María Luisa Parra
- TDM 141BD: Boston Goes Dancing – Laura Quinton
Spring 2026 Courses
- EDST 135: Education in the East and West – Liao Cheng
- ENG-SCI 105HFR: Humanitarian Design Projects – Chris Lombardo
- ESPP 173: Water Resources in Developing Countries – Ken Thomas
- EXPOS 20: Does That Belong in a Museum? – Greg Given
- EXPOS 20: Make/Do: Why Craft Matters – Mande Zecca
- EXPOS 20: Dark Matter, Grey Matter, and Scientific Complexity – Emilie Raymer
- EXPOS 20: I Love That Dirty Water – Isabel Lane
- EXPOS 20: TBA
- FOLKMYTH 97: Fieldwork and Ethnography in Folklore – Sarah Craycraft
- GENED 1189: US K-12 Schools: Assumptions, Binaries, Controversies – Elizabeth City
- GENED 1130: Power to the People: Black Power, Radical Feminism, and Gay Liberation – Michael Bronski
- GENED 1192: Philanthropy, Nonprofits, and the Social Good – Shai Dromi
- GOV 1010: Survey Research Methods – Chase Harrison
- GOV 1041: Justice by Means of Democracy – Danielle Allen
- HEB 162: Neanderthals and Other Extinct Humans – Bridget Alex
- HIST 123: Immigrant Justice Lab – Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
- HIST 1945: Slavery, the Environment and Public History – Tiya Miles
- HIST 1973: Re-wilding Harvard – Joyce Chaplin
- HIST-LIT 90GZ: Magic and Mythology in Latin America and the Caribbean – Cristina Garcia Navas
- HIST-LIT 93AA: Queer Histories – Lauren Kaminsky
- HIST-LIT 93AH: Music, Politics, and Protest – Caitlin Schmid
- MATH Q: Quantitative Analysis for Economics and the Social Sciences – Brendan Kelly
- PSY 1009: Psychology of Women – Nicole Noll
- PSY 1816: Mechanisms and Markers of Mental Illness – Mayron Pereira Piccolo Ribeiro
- SOC-STD 68LS: Land, Space, and Politics – Benjamin Mueser
- SOCIOL 1186: Refugees in Global Context – Danilo Mandic
- SOCIOL 1284: People and the Planet: How Societies Cause, Mitigate, and Adapt to Climate Change – Jason Beckfield
- SPANSH 59: Spanish and the Community – María Luisa Parra
- SPANSH 59H: Spanish for Latino Students II: Connecting with Communities – María Luisa Parra
- TDM 181M: Intersections: Theater and Democracy – Dayron Miles
- TDM 140DL: Dance Lineages – Laura Quinton