Courses at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
All Government concentrators are allowed to meet up to 2 of their 3-4 elective requirements through courses at the Harvard Kennedy School, chosen from the list below. Please note that secondary-field requirements cannot be met through coursework at HKS. Enrollment in HKS courses is always at the discretion of the HKS professor; please refer to the HKS website for additional instructions.
Concentrators do not need to request permission to count the courses below for concentration credit. Concentrators may petition to count other HKS courses for concentration credit by completing the following form: https://bit.ly/Gov_Elective_Credit_Petition.
Please note that as of July 2024, no classes taken through cross-registration are counted toward a student’s official undergraduate GPA (unless a student receives a failing grade). See the FAS Registrar’s webpage on cross-registration for more information.
**Registering for Spring 2025 HKS courses: Undergraduates should keep in mind that HKS follows a different calendar for course registration than does FAS. See the HKS Academic Calendar for more details. **
Harvard Kennedy School Courses Preapproved for Government Concentration Credit, 2024-25
Business and Government Policy
| BGP 100 | The Business-Government Relationship in the United States | Roger Porter | Spring |
| BGP 610 | The Political Economy of Trade | Robert Lawrence | Spring |
| BGP 670 | Financial Crises: Concepts and Evidence | Carmen Reinhart | Spring |
Democracy, Politics and Institutions
| DPI 120 | The U.S. Congress and Law Making | David King | Spring |
| DPI 207 | Philosophy of Technology: From Marx and Heidegger to AI, Genome Editing, and Geoengineering | Mathias Risse | Spring |
| DPI 342 | Religion, Politics and Policy in America | Carleigh Beriont | Fall |
| DPI 413 | Democratic Backsliding | Pippa Norris | Fall |
| DPI 415 | Comparative Politics | Pippa Norris | Fall |
| DPI 450 | The Political Economy of Transition in China | Anthony Saich | Fall |
| DPI 543 | Corruption: Finding It and Fixing It | Jeeyang Rhee Baum | Fall |
| DPI 600 | The Politics of the Press | Nancy Gibbs | Fall |
| DPI 703 | Democracy: The Long View and the Bumpy History | Alex Keyssar | Fall |
Development and Economic Growth
| DEV 130 | Why Are So Many Countries Poor, Volatile, and Unequal? | Ricardo Hausmann | Fall |
| DEV 308 | Social Institutions and Economic Development | Michael Woodcock | Spring |
International and Global Affairs
| IGA 103 | Global Governance | Lotem Bassan-Nygate | Fall |
| IGA 105 | International Law and Global Justice | Kathryn Sikkink | Fall |
| IGA 229 | Gender, Sex, and Violence in Global Politics | Dara Cohen | Spring |
| IGA 236 | Cybersecurity: Technology, Policy, and Law | Bruce Schneier | Spring |
| IGA 513 | Science, Power, and Politics | Sheila Jasanoff | Fall |
| IGA 538 | Technology, Privacy, and the Trans-National Nature of the Internet | James Waldo | Fall |
| IGA 655 | Middle Eastern Politics and Policy | Tarek Masoud | Spring |
| IGA 662 | The Future of the European Union: Europe in the World | Senem Aydin Duzgit | Fall |
HKS Courses Cross-Listed or Jointly Offered with the Government Department
The following HKS courses are cross-listed or jointly offered with the Government Department and will show up in my.harvard with separate HKS and Government course numbers. College students should sign up for these courses under their Government course numbers, not the HKS ones. When taken under the Government course numbers, these courses are treated the same as any other Government Department courses for the purpose of concentration policies:
| DPI 115 / Gov 1540 | The American Presidency | Roger Porter | Fall |
| DPI 348 / Gov 1092 | Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Today | Roberto Unger | Spring |
| DPI 505 / Gov 1535 | The Supreme Court, Law, and Public Policy | Maya Sen | Fall |
| DPI 608 / Gov 1719 | Political Communication Breakdown: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions | Matthew Baum | Spring |
| DPI 610 / Gov 1003 | Data Science for Politics | Benjamin Schneer | Spring |
| DPI 640 / Gov 1433 | Technology and the Public Interest: From Democracy to Technocracy and Back | Latanya Sweeney | Fall |
| DPI 642 / Gov 1430 | Grand Challenges in Technology-Society Clashes | Latanya Sweeney & Leonie Beyrle | Spring |
| DEV 233 / Gov 1025 | Political Economy and its Future | Roberto Unger & Dani Rodrik | Spring |
| IGA 211 / Gov 1796 | Central Challenges of American National Security, Strategy, and the Press | Graham Allison, David Sanger, & Derek Reveron | Fall |
| IGA 232 / Gov 1735 | Controlling the World’s Most Dangerous Weapons | Matthew Bunn | Fall |
(Last updated 10/21/2024)