Secondary Field Electives

 

Secondary field requirements include two MBB elective courses, selected from the list below. The list includes relevant courses from fields that comprise the core disciplines in the undergraduate student of mind/brain/behavior. This list, which varies each year, has been updated for 2024-2025.  Courses on elective lists from previous years will count toward the secondary field (see https://mbb.harvard.edu/secondary-field-electives-2023-2024 for 2023-2024 electives); check with Shawn Harriman if you have any questions about previous courses. If you take more than one course from the MBB interdisciplinary seminar list, you may count the additional one(s) toward this MBB elective requirement.

  • Biomedical Engineering 110. Physiological Systems Analysis
  • Biomedical Engineering 129. Introduction to Bioelectronics
  • Biomedical Engineering 131. Neuroengineering
  • Computer Science 96. System Design Projects: Machine Learning for Social Impact
  • Computer Science 1260. Fairness and Privacy: Perspectives from Law and Probability
  • Computer Science 1360. Economics and Computation
  • Computer Science 1780. Engineering Usable Interactive Systems
  • Computer Science 1810. Machine Learning
  • Computer Science 1840. Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
  • Computer Science 1870.Introduction to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
  • General Education 1025. Happiness
  • General Education 1038. Sleep
  • General Education 1046. Evolving Morality: From Primordial Soup to Superintelligent Machines
  • General Education 1056. Human Nature
  • General Education 1064. Brains, Identity, and Moral Agency
  • General Education 1102. Making Change when Change is Hard: The Law, Politics, and Policy of Social Change
  • General Education 1179. Psychotherapy and the Modern Self
  • General Education 1186. The Age of Anxiety: Histories, Theories, Remedies
  • General Education 1188. Rise of the Machines? Understanding and Using Generative AI
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1305. The Evolution of Friendship
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1310 Hormones and Behavior
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1317. Evolution, Anatomy, and Physiology of Sleep
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1324. Mammalian Business
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1330. Primate Social Behavior
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1332. Primate Development
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1339. The Human Brain in the Animal Kingdom
  • Linguistics 83. Language, Structure, and Cognition
  • Linguistics 101. The Science of Language: An Introduction
  • Linguistics 102. Sentence Structure
  • Linguistics 105 Sounds of Language
  • Linguistics 106. Knowledge of Meaning
  • Linguistics 112. Syntactic Theory I
  • Linguistics 115. Phonological Theory I
  • Linguistics 116. Semantic Theory I
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology 105 / Neuroscience 105. Systems Neuroscience
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology 115 / Neuroscience 115. Cellular Basis of Neuronal Function
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology 129 / Neuroscience 129. The Brain: Development, Plasticity, and Disease
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology 143 / Neuroscience 143. Neurobiology of Vision and Blindness
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology 170 / Neuroscience 170. Brain Invaders: Building and Breaking Barriers in the Nervous System
  • Neuroscience 105 / Molecular and Cellular Biology 105. Systems Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience 115 / Molecular and Cellular Biology 115. Cellular Basis of Neuronal Function
  • Neuroscience 120. Introductory Computational Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience 129 / Molecular and Cellular Biology 129. The Brain: Development, Plasticity, and Disease
  • Neuroscience 141 / Physics 141. The Physics of Sensory Systems
  • Neuroscience 143 / Molecular and Cellular Biology 143. Neurobiology of Vision and Blindness
  • Neuroscience 170 / Molecular and Cellular Biology 170. Brain Invaders: Building and Breaking Barriers in the Nervous System
  • Neuroscience 1202 / Psychology 1202. Modern Neuroanatomy
  • Neuroscience 1401 / Psychology 1401. Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Building Models of the Brain
  • Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 57 / Neuroscience 57. Animal Behavior
  • Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 104. The Mouse in Science and Society
  • Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 145. Genes and Behavior
  • Philosophy 129. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
  • Philosophy 156. Philosophy of Mind
  • Physics 141 / Neuroscience 141. The Physics of Sensory Systems
  • Psychology 11: Cognition: How the Mind Works
  • Psychology 14. Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology 15. Social Psychology
  • Psychology 16. Developmental Psychology
  • Psychology 18. Abnormal Psychology
  • Psychology 1005. Health: A Positive Psychology Perspective
  • Psychology 1009. Psychology of Women
  • Psychology 1018. The Science and Psychology of Music
  • Psychology 1021. Stress and Cognition: Implications for Empowered Learning
  • Psychology 1022. Fact or Fiction? Mythbusting Pseudoscience in Psychology
  • Psychology 1023. The Mind-Body Connection: Exploring the Intersection between Psychology and Physical Health
  • Psychology 1028. Sports Psychology
  • Psychology 1032. Psychology of Addiction
  • Psychology 1035. Cultural Psychology
  • Psychology 1060. The Science of Happiness
  • Psychology 1201. Your Brain on Drugs: Psychopharmacology
  • Psychology 1202 / Neuroscience 1202. Modern Neuroanatomy
  • Psychology 1311. Precision Cognitive Neuroscience: Opportunities Afforded by Deep, Intensive Study with Individuals
  • Psychology 1322. Decisions Big and Small: The Cognitive Science of Making Up Your Mind
  • Psychology 1401 / Neuroscience 1401. Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Building Models of the Brain
  • Psychology 1522. First Impressions
  • Psychology 1528. Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
  • Psychology 1612. Family, School, and Society: Shaping the Developing Child
  • Psychology 1615. First Love: The Psychology of Caregiver-Child Relationships
  • Psychology 1618. Developmental Disabilities and Neurodiversity
  • Psychology 1619. The Making of Moral Minds
  • Psychology 1620. Little Choices, Big Consequences: The Developmental Foundations of Choice
  • Psychology 1622. Emerging Adulthood: Challenges and Possibilities
  • Psychology 1651r. Language Development: Undergraduate Laboratory Course: Research Seminar
  • Psychology 1652r. Laboratory in Early Cognitive Development
  • Psychology 1702. The Emotional Mind
  • Psychology 1709. Psychology of Personality
  • Psychology 1750. Free Will, Responsibility, and Law
  • Psychology 1801. Anxiety Disorders
  • Psychology 1813. Technology and Mental Health
  • Psychology 1845. Stigma, Discrimination, and Health
  • Psychology 1857. Psychotherapy: Science and Practice
  • Psychology 1861. Developmental Psychopathology