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, follow this link.
Announcing the Engaged Scholarship course list for the 2024-2025 academic year! For more information about an individual course, click on the links below to visit my.harvard.
Spring 2025 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
- 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 94WP: Women in Politics – Sparsha Saha
- GOV 1010: Survey Research Methods – Chase Harrison
- GOV 1041: Justice by Means of Democracy – Danielle Allen
- GOV 1318: The Great Food Transformation – Sparsha Saha
- GOV 1338: Governance in Native America – Daniel Carpenter
- HEB 183: Science Writing – Bridget Alex
- HIST 16A: Immigrant Justice Lab – Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
- HIST 1945: Slavery, the Environment and Public History – Tiya Miles
- 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: Broken Brains – Mayron Pereira Piccolo Ribeiro
- SOC-STD 68DE: Democracy in the Trenches: Journalism and Lawyering in India and the US – Vatsal Naresh
- SOC-STD 68LS: Land, Space, and Politics – Benjamin Mueser
- SOCIOL 1106: Humanitarian Activism and Civil Society – Shai Dromi
- SOCIOL 1186: Refugees in Global Context – Danilo Mandic
- 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
Fall 2024 Courses
- AFRAMER 146X: A Black History of Electronic Dance Music – George Aumoithe
- AFVS 154M: Social Justice Filmmaking – Julie Mallozzi
- ANTHRO 1906: Care in Critical Times – Andrea Wright
- CHEM 100R: Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Biology – Heidi Vollmer-Snarr
- EDST 132: What Education Should Be: Purposes, Dilemma, and Future Directions – Liao Cheng
- ENG 90LN: Harvard and Native Lands (cross-listed HIST-LIT 93AD) – Alan Niles
- ENG 90LS: Literacy Stories – Deidre Lynch
- ENG CACF: Get Real: The Art of Community-Based Film – Musa Syeed
- ENG-SCI 105HFR: Humanitarian Design Projects – Chris Lombardo
- ESPP 171: Solid Waste in Developing Countries – Ken Thomas
- EXPOS 20: Animals and Politics – Sparsha Saha
- 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: Visualizing and Communicating Science – Emilie Raymer
- FYSEMR 72Y: Radical Actors: The Role of Public Education in American Social Movements – Nicole Simon
- GENED 1122: Social Responsibility of Universities – Julie Reuben
- GOV 1022: Community-Based Survey Research Practicum – Chase Harrison
- GOV 94JUC: Global Education Politics – Julia Coyoli
- HIST 12M: Abolitionist Women and Their World – Tiya Miles
- HIST-LIT 93AB: Oral Histories – Lilly Havstad
- HIST-LIT 93AD: Harvard and Native Lands (cross-listed ENG 90LN) – Alan Niles
- HIST-LIT 93AE: Prison Abolition – Thomas Dichter
- PSY 1018: The Science and Psychology of Music – Mayron Pereira Piccolo Ribeiro
- PSY 980T: Eating Disorders – Rebecca Shingleton
- SLAVIC 189: The Other Russia: Twenty-First Century Films, Fictions, States of Mind – Stephanie Sandler
- SOC-STD 98WK: Comparative Education Politics: How Power Shapes Teaching and Learning Across the Globe – Julia Coyoli
- 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