Short Session Courses
Harvard Summer School’s intensive short session courses are designed to meet the needs of students interested in a brief but challenging educational experience this summer. Instead of the traditional eight-week term, the rigorous short session courses span four weeks or fewer, covering a semester's worth of material in classes that meet daily.
Taught by the Summer School’s esteemed faculty, short session courses cover a variety of topics. SSP students take one short session course for 4 undergraduate credits, which is considered a full courseload.
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Short Session I, June 23–July 20
- ANTH S-1741 Anthropology and Education
- CELT S-110 Introduction to Irish Myth and Folklore
- CSCI S-111a Intensive Introduction to Computer Science Using Java
- ENGL S-10a English Literature: The First 900 Years
- ENGL S-128a Shakespeare After All: The Early Plays
- ENGL S-128b Shakespeare After All: The Later Plays
- HARC S-128 Monuments and Cities of the Islamic World: An Introduction
- HIST S-44i Summer Seminar—The Golden Age of Piracy
- HIST S-1572 Summer Seminar—The Holocaust in History, Literature, and Film, Section 1
- KORE S-112 Korea at 2100
- LATI S-104 Ovid, Metamorphoses
- LING S-110 Introduction to Linguistics
- PSYC S-1015 Psychological Trauma
- SOCI S-23 Gender and Work
- SOCI S-46 Caribbean Societies
- SOCI S-188 Summer Seminar—Theories of Globalization and Development
Short Session II, July 22–August 17
- AFAM S-121 The Mother of All Conflicts? Drama and the Battle of the Sexes Across the Ages
- AFAM S-183 Please, Wake Up! Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Early Films of Spike Lee
- ASTR S-35 Fundamentals of Contemporary Astronomy: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
- CSCI S-111b Intensive Introduction to Data Structures Using Java
- GOVT S-1110 Political Institutions: An Analytical Survey
- GOVT S-1351 Congress: Parties, Policies, and Institutions
- GOVT S-1740 International Law
- HIST S-1572 Summer Seminar—The Holocaust in History, Literature, and Film, Section 2
- HIST S-1609 The Early Modern Anglophone World: An Interdisciplinary Study
- HIST S-1918 Colonialism in Africa
- JOUR S-50 Basic Journalism
- PSYC S-25x Summer Seminar—The Meaning of Madness
- RELI S-1435 The History of Christianity in the West
*Note: These courses begin later in the short session. See individual course description for specific dates.