Secondary Field Electives 2025-2026
SECONDARY FIELD ELECTIVES, 2025-2026
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 2025-2026. Courses on elective lists from previous years will count toward the secondary field (see https://prod-mbb.drupalsites.harvard.edu/secondary-field-electives-2024-2025 for 2024-2025 electives and https://prod-mbb.drupalsites.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 128. Introduction to Biomedical Imaging and Systems
• Biomedical Engineering 129. Introduction to Bioelectronics
• Biomedical Engineering 131. Neuroengineering
• Computer Science 79. Design of Useful and Usable Interactive Systems
• Computer Science 1261. Privacy, Fairness, and Validity through the Lens of Theoretical CS
• Computer Science 1360. Economics and Computation
• Computer Science 1780. Engineering Usable Interactive Systems
• Computer Science 1810. Machine 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 1067. Creativity
• General Education 1080. How Music Works: Engineering the Acoustic World
• General Education 1102. Making Change when Change is Hard: The Law, Politics, and Policy of Social Change
• General Education 1186. The Age of Anxiety: Histories, Theories, Remedies
• General Education 1187. AI, Computing, and Thinking
• General Education 1188. Rise of the Machines? Understanding and Using Generative AI
• General Education 1199. Learning and Unlearning
• General Education 1202. Unity and Division
• History of Science 1171. Science and the Quest for Consciousness
• Human Evolutionary Biology 39. The Human Brain in the Animal Kingdom
• Human Evolutionary Biology 58. Evolutionary Medicine
• Human Evolutionary Biology 123. Dogs: Behavior, Evolution and Domestication
• Human Evolutionary Biology 130. Hormones and Behavior
• Human Evolutionary Biology 140. The Evolution of Friendship
• Human Evolutionary Biology 132. Mammalian Business
• Human Evolutionary Biology 152. Genetic Perspectives on Brain Evolution
• Linguistics 10. Language
• Linguistics 83. Language, Structure, and Cognition
• 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
• Linguistics 175. Structure of ASL
• Molecular and Cellular Biology 105 / Neuroscience 105. Systems Neuroscience
• Molecular and Cellular Biology 115 / Neuroscience 115. Cellular Basis of Neuronal Function
• 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 125. Molecular Basis of Behavior
• Neuroscience 141 / Physics 141. The Physics of Sensory Systems
• Neuroscience 146. Experience-Based Brain Development: Causes and Consequences
• Neuroscience 170 / Molecular and Cellular Biology 170. Brain Invaders: Building and Breaking Barriers in the Nervous System
• 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 114. Vertebrate Viviparity
• Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 145. Genes and Behavior
• Philosophy 125. Beyond Dualism: Descartes and His Critics
• 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. Psychopathology
• Psychology 1005. Health: A Positive Psychology Perspective
• Psychology 1009. Psychology of Women
• Psychology 1018. The Science and Psychology of Music
• Psychology 1022. Fact or Fiction? Mythbusting Pseudoscience in Psychology
• Psychology 1023. The Mind-Body Connection: Exploring the Intersection between Psychology and Physical Health
• Psychology 1024. Political Psychology
• Psychology 1026. Psychology of Communication
• Psychology 1060. The Science of Happiness
• Psychology 1201. Your Brain on Drugs: Psychopharmacology
• Psychology 1322. Decisions Big and Small: The Cognitive Science of Making Up Your Mind
• Psychology 1330. Maximizing Your Memory
• Psychology 1351. The Brain’s Conductor: The Psychology of Focus, Flexibility, and Control
• Psychology 1401 / Neuroscience 1401. Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Building Models of the Brain
• Psychology 1612. Family, School, and Society: Shaping the Developing Child
• Psychology 1618. Developmental Disabilities and Neurodiversity
• Psychology 1620. Little Choices, Big Consequences: The Developmental Foundations of Choice
• Psychology 1622. Emerging Adulthood: Challenges and Possibilities
• Psychology 1626. Language and the Mind
• Psychology 1641. Science of Play
• Psychology 1651r. Language Development: Undergraduate Laboratory Course: Research Seminar
• Psychology 1652r. Laboratory in Early Cognitive Development
• Psychology 1709. Psychology of Personality
• Psychology 1801. Anxiety Disorders
• Psychology 1841. Psychological Trauma and PTSD
• Psychology 1845. Stigma, Discrimination, and Health