Study Out of Residence and Cross-Registered Courses: Previously Approved Courses

Students must receive approval from the Undergraduate Office before they may count any courses taken abroad or cross-registered at other Harvard or local schools towards their concentration, including previously approved courses. The maximum number of courses that can be counted from study abroad, or via cross-registration, is two.

How to study out of residence as a Psychology concentrator, including required deadlines and procedures.

More information about counting cross-registered courses from other Harvard and local schools.

Please note that the list below only represents the courses that have been reviewed and approved for previous students, and are provided to give you a sense of what students in Psychology have taken. We are happy to review courses from any programs that offer psychology or related field coursework to see if credit can be granted.

Study out of Residence:

ARGENTINA

University of Buenos Aires (CIEE)
  • Psychology and Communication
  • Social Psychology (cannot count toward Foundational requirement) 

AUSTRALIA

University of Melbourne
  • 512-221: Developmental Psychology 2 (cannot count toward Foundational requirement)
  • 512-222: Behavioral Neuroscience 2 (cannot count toward Foundational requirement)
University of New South Wales
  • Gens 9002: Psychology of the Body and Mind
  • Lngs 1002: Language & Social Context (non-departmental advanced course)
  • Psyc 2101: Assessment and Personality
  • Psyc 3141: Behaviour in Organizations
  • Psyc 3211: Cognitive Science
University of Sydney
  • BACH 2142: Cognitive Neuropsychology
  • PSYC 2011: Brain and Behaviour
  • PSYC 2013: Cognitive and Social Psychology (cannot count toward Foundational requirement)
    PSYC 3016: Developmental Psychology
  • Abnormal Psychology (cannot count toward Foundational requirement)
  • Personality and Individual Differences

AUSTRIA

IES (Institute for the International Education of Students) Abroad: Vienna
  • PS 350: Vienna Project on Child Development
  • AN/SO 328: The Culture of Immigration 

DENMARK

Danish Institute for Studies, Copenhagen
  • CAS NS 330: Data Communication and Visualization
  • CAS NS 327: Cultural Landscapes and Seascapes
  • Developmental Disorders
  • European Clinical Psychology
  • Economics of Crime
  • Neuroscience of Fear
  • Social Brain: The Neuropsychology of Social Behaviors
  • Psychology of Adolescence: A Scandinavian Perspective
  • Psychology of Crisis
  • Psychopharmacology: Substances and the Brain

ENGLAND

King's College London
  • Ethics II: Contemporary Ethical Philosophy
Pembroke-King's Programme at Cambridge (Summer Only)
  • Behavioral Ecology of Animals and Humans
  • Contemporary Issues in Neuroscience
  • Evolution of Mind and Society on Musical Inheritance
Oxford University (incl. St. Catherine's College & St. Edmund's Hall)
  • Behavior and its Evolution
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Developmental Psychology (cannot count toward Foundational requirement)
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Personality Psychology
  • Philosophy of Cognitive Science
  • Psychology of Music
  • Psychology of Women
Oxford University (Harvard Summer School)
  • BIOL S-113: Darwin and Contemporary Evolutionary Biology
Queen Mary University of London
  • Consciousness and Casualty
  • Developmental Psychology (cannot count toward Foundational requirement)
  • PSZ211: Cognitive Psychology
  • PSZ216: Health Psychology
Study Abroad in London (Harvard Summer School)
  • HSCI S-119: Health and Illness in Victorian Culture
University College London (IFSA-Butler)
  • Applied Decision-Making
  • Perception, Attention and Awareness
  • PSYC 0004: Language and Cognition
  • PSYC 0009: Memory and Decision
  • PSYC 0220: Social Psychology (cannot count toward Foundational requirement)
  • PSYC 2086: Psychology of Climate Change
University of Sussex (International Summer School)
  • Anthropology of the Body
  • Health Psychology
  • Psychology and Social Issues

FRANCE

Sorbonne (CUPA)
  • Developmental Psychology (cannot count toward Foundational requirement)
University of Paris (CUPA or CIEE)
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Muslim Presence in Europe
  • Social Psychology (cannot count toward Foundational requirement)

ITALY

CIEE (The Council on International Educational Exchange) Rome
  • Psy 336: Psychology of Art
Syracuse University in Florence
  • QSX/HST 300.2: Sexual Identities in Modern Europe
  • PSY 375: Cross-Cultural Psychology
Umbra Institute in Perugia (Multicultural Psychology Program)
  • PSYC 450: The Science of Behavioral Change
  • PSYC/EDUC 430: Human Development in Culture
  • PSYC/COMM 290: Intercultural Communication
University of Bologna (Brown University in Bologna)
  • Psychology of Memory
University of Trento (Harvard Summer School)
  • MBB S-91: Study Abroad in Trento, Italy: Art, Mind and the Brain
  • MBB S-96: Study Abroad in Trento, Italy: The Social Brain
  • MBB S-101: Study Abroad in Trento, Italy: Windows into the Structure of the Mind and Brain 

JAPAN

RIKEN of Tokyo, Japan (Harvard Summer School)
  • BIOL S-141d: Disentangling Mental Disorders

KENYA

Study Abroad in Kisumu, Kenya (Harvard Summer School)
  • AAAS S-181s: Innovation Heath Transformations in Africa 

THE NETHERLANDS

CIEE (The Council on International Educational Exchange) Amsterdam
  • Contemporary Dutch Social Policy
  • Motivation
  • Perspectives on Home and Housing
  • Sociology of Dutch Culture and Lifestyle 

NEW ZEALAND

University of Otago
  • Psychology 202: Social and Applied Psychology
  • Psychology 314: Human Neuropsychology
  • Psychology 321: Ranking Race and Classes 

MEXICO

Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan
  • Psychology of Masses
  • Psychology of Perception 

SCOTLAND

University of Edinburgh
  • PSY L10109: Psychology of Language
  • PSY L10115: Individual Differences in Intelligence and Related Constructs
  • PSY U00464: Biological Psychology (cannot count toward Foundational requirement)
  • Cognitive and Social Development in Children
  • Human Personality
University of Glasgow
  • Psych 98EC: Comparative Learning and Cognition
University of Saint Andrews
  • Ps 3008: Brain, Behaviour and Health
  • Ps 3010: Social and Evolutionary Psychology 

SEMESTER AT SEA

SEA (Sea Education Association) at Woods Hole
  • Child Development in Scandinavia
  • Child Development in Scandinavia Practicum 

SINGAPORE

University of Singapore
  • PL 3233: Cognitive Psychology 

SOUTH AFRICA

University of Cape Town (CIEE)
  • Health Psychology
  • PSY 3005F: Critical Psychology 

SOUTH KOREA

Yonsei University
  • Media Psychology 

SPAIN

IES Abroad - Barcelona
  • AN/PS 340: Self and Identity in a Post-modern World
  • PS/IC 260: Cross Cultural Psychology
  • PS 343: Psychology, Health, and Well-Being
Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA) in Granada
  • Adult Psychopathology
University of Seville
  • PSY 3101: The Psychology of Learning a Second Language
  • Introduction to Anthropology 

TURKEY

Study Abroad in Istanbul, Turkey (Harvard Summer School)

  • HIST S-1874: Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey

     

Cross-Registered Courses at other Harvard and local schools:

Harvard Business School

  • HBSDOC 4038, Cognitive Economics (jointly offered with the Department of Economics as ECON 2038)

Harvard Chan School of Public Health

  • GHP 209, Early Childhood Development in Global Contexts (jointly offered with the Graduate School of Education as EDU A827)
  • SBS 299, Science-Driven Innovation in the Early Childhood Ecosystem (jointly offered with the Graduate School of Education as EDU AH125)

Harvard Graduate School of Education (EDU) 

  • EDU AH103, Educational Outcomes in Cross-National and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (jointly offered with the Department of Educational Studies as EDST 121)
  • EDU AH125, Science-Driven Innovation in the Early Childhood Ecosystem (jointly offered with the Chan School of Public Health as SBS 299)
  • EDU A827, Early Childhood Development in Global Contexts (jointly offered with the Chan School of Public Health as GHP 209)
  • EDU H128, Curiosity in Learning and Development
  • EDU H236, Adolescent Development (jointly offered with the Department of Educational Studies as EDST 133)
  • EDU H382, The Challenges Kids Face: Developmental, Cultural, and Contextual Perspectives on Risk and Resilience
  • EDU H450, Neuroscience and Education (jointly offered with the Department of Educational Studies as EDST 138)
  • EDU T006, Adult Development
  • EDU T250, Children with Learning and Developmental Differences (jointly offered with the Department of Educational Studies as EDST 125) (Cannot be counted if you have already taken PSY 1618 at Harvard College)
  • EDU T560, Universal Design for Learning: Theory, Practice, and Innovation (formerly Universal Design for Learning: Meeting the Challenges of Individual Differences)
  • [EDU H118, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition]
  • [EDU H392, Childhood Trauma: Dynamics, Interventions, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives]

Harvard Kennedy School of Government

  • Kennedy School API 303, Game Theory and Strategic Decisions
  • Kennedy School API 305, Behavioral Economics and Public Policy (jointly offered with the Department of Economics as ECON 2050)
  • Kennedy School DPI 535, Making Change When Change is Hard: the Law, Politics, and Policy of Social Change (jointly offered with the Harvard Law School as HLS 2578) (GENED 1102 is not eligible for concentration credit)
  • Kennedy School MLD 304A (formerly API 304), Science of Behavior Change
  • Kennedy School MLD 308, Leadership Decision Making: From Individuals to Institutions
  • Kennedy School SUP 135, Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems with Laboratory Component (jointly offered with the Department of Economics as ECON 50)