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Table of Contents

Notice to Students
Introduction

1: Academic Calendar

2: Academic Information

3: Fields of Concentration

4: Secondary Fields

5: General Regulations and Standards of Conduct

6: Life in the Harvard Community

7: Financial Information

8: Academic and Support Resources

9: Extracurricular Activities


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FAS Courses of Instruction

Human Evolutionary Biology/Mind Brain and Behavior Track

14 half-courses

  1. Required Courses:
    1. Life Sciences 1b (normally in freshman year).
    2. Science B-62 (or B-29 for classes of 2010 and earlier).
    3. MCB 80 (formerly Biological Sciences 80).
    4. Two half-courses, to be chosen from among the following subfields: human evolution, human anatomy and/or physiology, human reproductive biology, primate behavioral ecology, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics and genomics.
    5. Two additional half-courses in Mind, Brain, and Behavior.
    6. Three additional half-courses in related fields. These can include: up to three half-courses from Physical Sciences 1, 2, and 3; up to two half-courses of Math and/or Biostatistics; one half-course of organic chemistry; up to two half-courses in approved courses in additional related fields (e.g., anthropology, organismic and evolutionary biology, molecular and cellular biology, psychology).
  2. Tutorials (All letter-graded):
    1. Sophomore year: Sophomore tutorial (ordinarily taken in the spring term of the sophomore year). Same as Basic Requirements.
    2. Junior year: One half-course MBB-approved seminar.
    3. Senior year: 99 (full course, letter graded), culminating in the submission of a senior thesis, followed by an oral examination on the thesis.
  3. Thesis: Required.
  4. General Examination: None.
  5. Other information: Same as Basic Requirements.