All Government concentrators are allowed to meet up to 2 of their 3-4 elective requirements through courses at the Harvard Kennedy School. The courses must be chosen from the ones on the list below; petitions to count other HKS courses will not be considered. 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, but they do need to fill out the appropriate paperwork so that the Government Department and FAS Registrar will know that these courses are being used for concentration credit. A Concentration Credit Petition for Cross-Registered Courses must be filed by the Fifth Monday of the semester in which the course is taken. Please contact Karen Kaletka for approval.
Please note that HKS or other cross-registered courses that do not count for concentration credit will not be included in the calculation of total GPA. See the Student Handbook for more information.
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL COURSES PRE-APPROVED FOR GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATION CREDIT
2021-22
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 | Fall |
Democracy, Politics and Institutions |
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DPI-115 (offered as Gov 1540) | The American Presidency | Roger Porter | Fall |
DPI-120* | The U.S. Congress and Law Making | David King | Spring |
DPI-122* | Politics and American Public Policy | David King | Fall |
DPI-132 | Presidents, Politics, and Economic Growth: From FDR to Donald Trump | Richard Parker | Fall |
DPI-227 | Religion in America’s Political Conscience and at the Ballot Box | Eugene J. Dionne | Fall |
DPI-342 | Religion, Politics and Public Policy | Richard Parker | Fall |
DPI-391 | Race, Inequality, and American Democracy | Khalil Muhammad | Spring |
DPI-415 | Comparative Politics and Policy | Pippa Norris | Fall |
DPI-418 | The Rise of Authoritarian Populism | Pippa Norris | Fall |
DPI-450 | The Political Economy of Transition in China | Antony Saich | Spring |
DPI-543 | Corruption: Finding It and Fixing It | Jeeyang Rhee Baum | Spring |
DPI-610 | Data Science for Politics | Benjamin Schneer | Spring |
DPI-703 | Democracy: The Long (and Bumpy) History | Alex Keyssar | Fall |
International and Global Affairs | |||
IGA-103 | Global Governance | Kathryn Sikkink | Fall |
IGA-105 | International Law and Global Justice | Kathryn Sikkink | Spring |
IGA-110 | Diplomacy: War and Peace Negotiations (1990-Today) | Nicholas Burns | Spring |
IGA-170 | Realism in International Relations | Stephen Walt | Fall |
IGA-217 | U.S. Foreign Policy in a Global Age | Fredrik Logevall | Spring |
IGA-227 | Insurgents, Rebels, and Terrorists: Causes and Consequences of Civil War | Dara Kay Cohen | Fall |
IGA-229 | Gender, Sex and Violence in Global Politics | Dara Kay Cohen | Spring |
IGA-236 | Cybersecurity: Technology, Policy, and Law | Bruce Schneier | Spring |
IGA-240 | Cyber and Information Operations: Technology, Policy, and the Law | Eric Rosenbach | Spring |
IGA-385 | Strategizing for Human Rights: Moving from Ideals to Practice | Douglas Johnson | Fall |
IGA-388 | Nonviolent Resistance in the Age of Authoritarians | Douglas Johnson | Spring |
IGA-412 | The Geopolitics of Energy | Meghan O'Sullivan | Spring |
IGA-507 | Science and Technology in Domestic and International Policy | John Holdren | 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-632 | Africa in Global Politics | Zoe Marks | Spring |
IGA-655 | Middle Eastern Politics and Policy | Tarek Masoud | Spring |
Social and Urban Policy | |||
SUP-448 (offered as Gov 2490) | The Political Economy of the School | Paul Peterson | Fall |
SUP-601 | Urban Politics, Planning, and Development | Quinton Mayne | Spring |
*Enrollment for this course is restricted to juniors and seniors.