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! Please continue to check back as we add courses to both the Fall and Spring lists. For more information about an individual course, click on the links below to visit my.harvard.
Fall 2024 Courses
- 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 CACF: Get Real: The Art of Community-Based Film – Musa Syeed
- ENG 90LN: Harvard and Native Lands (cross-listed HIST-LIT 93AD) – Alan Niles and Mandy Izadi
- ENG 90LS: Literacy Stories – Deidre Lynch
- ENG-SCI 105HFR: Humanitarian Design Projects – Chris Lombardo
- ESPP 171: Solid Waste in Developing Countries – Ken Thomas
- EXPOS 20: TBA
- FYSEMR 72Y: Radical Actors: The Role of Public Education in American Social Movements – Nicole Simon
- GENED 1122: Social Responsibility of Universities – Julie Reuben
- GOV 94JUC: Global Education Politics – Julia Coyoli
- GOV 1022: Community-Based Survey Research Practicum – Chase Harrison
- HEB 183: Science Writing – Bridget Alex
- 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 and Mandy Izadi
- HIST-LIT 93AE: Prison Abolition – Thomas Dichter
- PSY 980T: Eating Disorders – Rebecca Shingleton
- PSY 1018: The Science and Psychology of Music – Mayron Pereira Piccolo Ribeiro
- 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
Spring 2025
- COMPSCI 96: System Design Projects: Machine Learning for Social Good – Milind Tambe
- EDST 135: Education in the East and West – Liao Cheng
- EDST 137: Leading Change in City Schools: Urban Education Reform in Action (cross-listed SOC-STD 68UE) – Nicole Simon
- ENG-SCI 105HFR: Humanitarian Design Projects – Chris Lombardo
- ESPP 173: Water Resources in Developing Countries
- EXPOS 20: TBA
- 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
- 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 – Dan Carpenter
- HIST 16A: Immigrant Justice Lab – Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
- HIST-LIT 93AA: Queer Histories – Lauren Kaminsky
- MATH Q: Quantitative Analysis for Economics and the Social Sciences – Brendan Kelly
- PORTUG 59: Portuguese and the Community – Cristiane Soares
- PSY 1009: Psychology of Women – Nicole Noll
- PSY 1816: Broken Brains – Mayron Pereira Piccolo Ribeiro
- SOC-STD 68UE: Leading Change in City Schools: Urban Education Reform in Action (cross-listed EDST 137) – Nicole Simon
- 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 181: Intersections: Theater and Democracy – Dayron Miles