**Please note there are no longer any Gen Ed courses accepting new students for the Fall 2023 semester.**
Fall 2023 Courses
An exciting range of Gen Ed courses is on offer this term. You can see a visual schedule of Fall 2023 Gen Ed courses. You can explore these course offerings in a number of ways:
- Filter Fall 2023 courses by category.
- See the urgent problems and enduring questions examined in Gen Ed courses.
- Visual schedule of Fall 2023 Gen Ed courses.
Choosing the Best Courses for You
We want to help you make the best choice when determining which Gen Ed courses to take. Below, please find a table that includes some information that may help you determine which courses to take. Courses with "Lottery" under the enrollment column are part of the Gen Ed lottery (details below). If you have further questions about enrollment or the lottery, please feel free to email us at gened_enrollment@fas.harvard.edu. As you finalize your schedule, please remember that students pursuing simultaneous enrollment in a Gen Ed course and a non-Gen Ed course must attend the Gen Ed course 100% of the time.
| Course # | Faculty | Title | Category | Enrollment |
| GENED 1001 | Bazzana, Giovanni | Stories from the End of the World | A&C | Lottery |
| GENED 1006 | Rehding, Alex | Music from Earth | A&C | Lottery |
| GENED 1011 | Balsari, Satchit & Tarun Khanna | Contemporary Developing Countries | HSI | |
| GENED 1017 | Gordon, Andrew & Erez Manela | Americans as Occupiers and Nation Builders | HSI | |
| GENED 1018 | Langmuir, Charles | How to Build a Habitable Planet | STS | |
| GENED 1019 | Patterson, Orlando | The Caribbean Crucible | HSI | |
| GENED 1025 | Rinard, Susanna | Happiness | E&C | Lottery |
| GENED 1034 | Blair, Ann & Leah Whittington | Texts in Transition | A&C, HSI | Lottery |
| GENED 1042 | Yoda, Tomiko | Anime as Global Popular Culture | A&C | Lottery |
| GENED 1043 | Rentschler, Eric | American Dreams Made in Hollywood and Beyond | A&C | |
| GENED 1050 | Levine, David | Act Natural | A&C | Lottery |
| GENED 1053 | Lee, Richard | The Global Heart Disease Epidemic | STS | Lottery |
| GENED 1056 | Henrich, Joe | Human Nature | STS | |
| GENED 1059 | Weir, Justin | Moral Inquiry in the Novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky | E&C | Lottery |
| GENED 1071 | Olupona, Jacob | African Spirituality and the Modern Times | HSI | |
| GENED 1074 | Nagy, Gregory | The Ancient Greek Hero | A&C | |
| GENED 1078 | Thornber, Karen | Disease, Illness, and Health through Literature | A&C | Lottery |
| GENED 1079 | Cutler, David | Why Is There No Cure for Health? | STS | |
| GENED 1080 | Wood, Rob | How Music Works | STS | Lottery |
| GENED 1084 | Haig, David | The First Nine Months | STS | |
| GENED 1092 | Skocpol, Theda & Mary Waters | American Society and Public Policy | HSI | |
| GENED 1093 | Becker, Ann; Salmaan Keshavjee & Arthur Kleinman | Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Cares? | STS | |
| GENED 1094 | Schrag, Dan | Confronting Climate Change | STS | |
| GENED 1102 | Sunstein, Cass | Making Change When Change Is Hard | E&C | Lottery |
| GENED 1104 | Sorenson, Pia | Science and Cooking | STS | Lottery |
| GENED 1105 | Flad, Rowan & Jason Ur | Can We Know Our Past? | HSI, STS | Lottery |
| GENED 1114 | Saunders, Matt | Painting’s Doubt | A&C | Lottery |
| GENED 1116 | Jones, David | Medical Ethics and History | E&C, HSI | Lottery |
| GENED 1120 | Lawrence, Robert & Lawrence Summers | The Political Economy of Globalization | E&C, HSI | |
| GENED 1129 | Goldmann, Don | Infectious Diseases, Pandemics and Social Injustice | STS | Lottery |
| GENED 1131 | Coleman, Kathleen | Loss | A&C | |
| GENED 1133 | Stauffer, John | Is the U.S. Civil War Still Being Fought? | HSI | |
| GENED 1136 | Bol, Peter & Bill Kirby | Power and Civilization: China | HSI | Lottery |
| GENED 1145 | Zahlten, Alexander | Global Japanese Cinema | A&C | Lottery |
| GENED 1148 | Carrasco, Davíd & William Fash | Moctezuma's Mexico Then and Now: Ancient Empires, Race Mixture and Finding Latinx | HSI | |
| GENED 1165 | Burt, Stephanie | Superheroes and Power | A&C | |
| GENED 1166 | Eck, Diana | Pluralism | E&C | |
| GENED 1167 | Anderson, Jim & Jim Engell | Climate Crossroads | STS | |
| GENED 1169 | Li, Wai-yee & David Wang | What Is the Good China Story? | A&C | |
| GENED 1181 | Sandel, Michael | Meritocracy and Its Critics | E&C | Lottery |
| GENED 1185 | Maranci, Christina | The Power and Beauty of Being In-Between | A&C |
UPDATE: The Gen Ed lottery has concluded, and all students who were offered seats in any enrollment-capped Gen Ed course have been notified via a green check mark in their my.harvard Crimson Carts. If you do not see a green check mark, you have not been offered a seat in a capped course. Please see each course's Canvas site for any information on options (if available). We ask that you do not contact faculty about enrolling in the course unless directed to do so. Please contact gened_enrollment@fas.harvard.edu with any questions.
Send all questions about enrollment and lotteries to gened_enrollment@fas.harvard.edu.
Questions and Advising
If your question isn't answered in our FAQs, please email gened_questions@fas.harvard.edu. We’re happy to help you!