BA Psychology at Harvard University

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind, and as such, we investigate the minds of humans and other species. We try to understand the mind at many different levels of analysis, from taking measurements from the brain, through learning about the individual, all the way to understanding groups and organizations. Most of the research conducted in Harvard’s Department of Psychology concerns basic psychological processes such as attention, perception, memory, categorization, reasoning, decision-making, language, cognitive and social development, social cognition, intergroup relations, and morality.

Faculty: Harvard College: Social Sciences  |  Department: Psychology  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Cambridge, MA, United States

What you will study

The primary goal of the Psychology concentration is to provide students with a fundamental understanding of the human mind. In the process of doing so, other goals will also be achieved: the skill to critically assess quantitative evidence from experimental and correlational data, to learn to take difficult and previously unstudied problems of mind and society and bring them under experimental scrutiny, to learn to speak and write about questions of great theoretical and social importance that involve the mind. Gateway courses include Psychology requires course completion in the following order: First, take: PSY 1: Introduction to Psychological Science (formerly SLS 20, offered fall and spring) is a prerequisite for the majority of psychology courses and required for the concentration or.

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