FAQ

You can easily declare GHHP as your secondary once you have chosen a concentration. Simply sign up on my.harvard. All students are welcome to join GHHP; no applications required. Once you officially declare, reach out or sign up for an advising meeting! You'll be added to GHHP's mailing list to stay informed about GHHP advising resources, courses, research opportunities, etc. If you're a first or second year student, and have not declared yet but intend to pursue the GHHP Secondary, you can ask to be put on our mailing list anyway! Email us with your request, house, and year.

Possibly. You can petition to have the course count for one of your additional elective courses. Email us with the course syllabus, indicate which category it fulfills and why. 

GHHP 99 is a guided research seminar offered every spring, taught in weekly sections by graduate students. The course ends with a final research paper, usually on a policy recommendation. GHHP 91 is similar to an independent study (but graded) where students work independently, under the guidance of a Harvard faculty advisor, to write their research paper. Meeting times are determined jointly by student and advisor. 

Yes, only one of the five courses that count for GHHP can be non-letter graded. (Exception: Two courses may be taken non-letter graded if one is a senior thesis tutorial satisfying the GHHP research requirement.)

Yes, email us with the five courses that fulfill the GHHP requirements. Be sure to indicate any courses that will double-count.

There are only four ways to fulfill the research requirement. Some students choose to use research done during the summer or Wintersession as a basis for their GHHP 91 paper written the following term; if you'd like to do that, reach out or sign up for an advising meeting to discuss. The bottom line is that the GHHP research requirement may only be completed by taking a course - either a senior thesis tutorial, GHHP 91 (or other 91R course), or GHHP 99.