Teaching & Learning | Fields of Concentration

There are many curricular paths to the Harvard degree. Students have more than 40 concentrations from which to choose, many with a variety of more focused tracks, and each provides substantive training in a specific academic discipline. It is also possible to combine major fields or to devise special concentrations.

Concentration courses offer many opportunities for close contact with faculty. Many departmental seminars enroll 10 or fewer students. Tutorials, which are taught in small groups or individually by instructors in the student's field of concentration, are a central part of many students' plans of study, often in each of the last three years of the undergraduate program. Tutorials also encourage students to develop more scholarly approaches to their academic disciplines. About half of all Harvard students choose an honors track within their concentrations, and most of them will write senior theses or complete research projects under the one-on one supervision of professors and departmental tutors.

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