International Education Policy

Curriculum

International Education Policy, like other master's programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a one-year program requiring 8 courses to graduate. The IEP curriculum is rigorous but flexible, providing students with structured choices in international education and related curricular areas.

In addition to the course requirements, IEP students participate in a bimonthly seminar usually on Mondays from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

IEP students must complete three required courses:

• A-801 Education Policy Analysis and Research in Developing Countries (Fall)
• A-205A Microeconomics: A Policy Tool for Educators (Fall) or A-205B Microeconomics: A Policy Tool for Educators (Spring)
• S-012 Empirical Methods: Introduction to Statistics for Research (Fall)

Note: students, who have already covered these topics in previous courses, may request an interview with the respective faculty member to discuss obtaining a written exception from taking these three required courses.

In addition to the three required courses, IEP students must complete at least one additional course or two modules in International Education such as:

• A-165 The Economics of Education in Developing Countries (Spring 2008)
• A-804 Monitoring and Evaluation for Improving Education Systems (Spring 2008)
• A-809 Health and International Education (Spring 2008)
• A-810B Education in Displacement: Promoting Access, Building Systems
• A-810Z Community Participation in Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (Spring 2008)
• A-811 Education, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America (Spring)
• A-815 Universal Access to Education: Barriers and Opportunities (Spring 2007)
• H-310D Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Risk and Prevention in a Global Context

Students may complete courses offered by other graduate schools at Harvard, MIT, or Tufts, if the course has a substantial focus on international development studies or international education, to fulfill the requirement of this additional course. Please consult the IEP Program Director if you have questions about whether a particular course meets this description. For general information about taking courses at other Harvard graduate schools, please reference the section called "Cross-Registration" below.

IEP students must also take at least one additional course in Research and Evaluation from the list below.

• A-164 A-164 Program Evaluation (Spring)
• S-011 Understanding Today's Educational Testing (Fall)
• S-030A Intermediate Statistics: Applied Regression and Data Analysis (Spring)
• S-030B Intermediate Statistics: Applied Regression and Data Analysis (Spring)

In addition to the course requirements students are encouraged to take at least one course that focuses directly on instructional and curriculum design, learning or the relationship between human development and pedagogy.

• A-326A A-326B School Reform. Curricular and instructional leadership
• H-152 Children and Emotion
• H-175 Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet.
• H-180 Cognitive Development and Trust in Testimony (not offered in 2006-2007)
• H-250 Developmental Psychology: Psychology of Early Childhood
• H-331 Risk and Resilience: Strategies of Prevention and Intervention
• H-605 The Work of Jean Piaget
• H-700 From Language to Literacy
• H-810W Language Minority Learners
• H-870 Reading Comprehension
• HT-100 Cognitive Development, Education, and the Brain
• S-105 Philosophy of Education
• S-109 Thinking Like an Educator: Modeling an Integrative Approach (not offered in 2006-2007)
• S-110  Thinking and Acting Like an Education Reformer: Understanding Leadership and Policy Challenges in Middle Schools and High Schools
• T-502 Learning Media that Bridge Distance and Time
• T-656 Inquiry: Educating for the Unknown

Cross-Registration

Many HGSE students choose to take courses at other Harvard graduate schools (aka, cross-registering), including the Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Harvard's schools operate on different schedules. Therefore, remain mindful of school's individual calendars and deadlines: start of classes, vacations, and exams.

For more information about cross-registering at other Harvard schools, please visit: https://crossreg.harvard.edu/

HGSE Course Catalog

For more information about HGSE course offerings, view the entire HGSE course catalogue