The following courses in Harvard's new General Education Program count for credit in Government, as noted below:
SPRING 2020
| Course | Faculty | Gen Ed category* | Counts for Gov concentration elective credit? | Counts for Gov concentration subfield credit? | Counts for the secondary field in Government? |
| Gen Ed 1008: Power and Identity in the Middle East | Melani Cammett | HSI | Yes | Yes (Comparative subfield) | Yes |
| Gen Ed 1035: Dissent and Disobedience in Democracies | Arthur Applbaum | EC | Yes | No | No |
| Gen Ed 1052: Race in a Polarized America | Jennifer Hochschild | HSI | Yes | Yes (American subfield) | Yes |
| Gen Ed 1102: Making Change When Change is Hard: the Law, Politics, and Policy of Social Change | Samantha Power & Cass Sunstein |
EC or HSI |
Yes | No | No |
| Gen Ed 1119: Law, Politics, and Trade Policy: Lessons from East Asia | Christina Davis | HSI | Yes | Yes (IR subfield) | Yes |
| Gen Ed 1142: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Question of Conscientious Citizenship | Brandon Terry | EC | Yes | No | No |
FALL 2019
| Faculty | Gen Ed category* | Counts for Gov concentration elective credit? | Counts for Gov concentration subfield credit? | Counts for the secondary field in Government? | |
| Gen Ed 1058: Tech Ethics: AI, Biotech, and the Future of Human Nature | Michael Sandel & Douglas Melton | EC or STS | Yes | Yes (Political theory subfield) | Yes |
| Gen Ed 1123: Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East | Malika Zeghal | HSI | Yes | No | No |
*Gen Ed categories: EC = Ethics & Civics; HSI = History, Societies, Individuals; STS = Science & Technology in Society
Click here for information about Government Department courses that meet the College's new distribution requirement and quantitative reasoning with data (QRD) requirement.