Mind, Brain, and Education

Curriculum

MBE Cognition & Neuroscience courses

The following courses offered at the Harvard Graduate School of Education can be counted toward the Additional MBE Course requirements.

• A-112: Students with Disabilities in School (fall, Hehir)
• H-110B   Testing in Mind, Brain, and Education: Investigating Process and Outcome (spring, Christodoulou)
• H-152: Children and Emotion* (not offered 2008-09)
• H-175: Good Work in Education: When Excellence, Engagement and Ethics Meet* (spring, Gardner)
• H-180: Cognitive Development and Trust in Testimony* (spring, Harris)
• H-250: Developmental Psychology: Psychology of Early Childhood (fall, Harris)
• H-331: Risk and Resilience across Childhood and Adolescence: Strategies and Systems of Prevention and Intervention* (year-long, 4 credits, Jones)
• H-370 The Promotion of Social Development in Students: The Prevention of Disability and Distrust in Schools (fall, Selman)
• H-382: The Problems Kids Have: Psychosocial, Developmental, and Biological Perspectives of Risk in School-Age Children (spring)
• HT-500: Growing Up in a Media World (fall, Blatt)
• H-810W: Language Minority Learners I: Literacy Development and Instruction (fall, Lesaux)
• H-810X: Language Minority Learners II: The Social Context of Language Minority Learners (spring, Uccelli)
• H-860: Reading Difficulties* (spring, Thomson)
• H-870: Reading Comprehension (spring, Uccelli)
• S-504: Introduction to Qualitative Research (fall, Fong)
• T-006: Adult Development (spring, Kegan)
• T-605: The Work of Jean Piaget (not offered 2008-09)

The following courses offered in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences can be counted toward the Additional MBE Course requirements:

• Anthropology 2430: Behavioral Biology Seminar (spring, Kramer)
• Computer Science 181: Intelligent Machines: Perception, Learning, and Uncertainty (not offered 2008-09)
• Computer Science 182: Intelligent Machines: Reasoning, Actions, and Plans (fall, Parkes)
• Computer Science 187: Computational Linguistics (fall, Shieber)
• Linguistics 88: Language and Cognition (fall, Boecks)
• Linguistics 110: Introduction to Linguistics (fall, Jonas)
• MCB 80: Neurobiology of Behavior (spring, Sanes, Lichtman)
• MCB 105: Systems Neuroscience (spring, Engert)
• MCB 118: From Egg to Embryo to Organ (not offered 2008-09)
• MCB 141: Molecular and Developmental Neurobiology (not offered 2008-09)
• Psychology 1702: Emotion (not offered 2008-09)
• Psychology 2170: Developmental Proseminar* (not offered 2008-09)
• Psychology 2300r: Perception, Cognition, and Representation: Seminar * (spring, Cavanagh)
• Psychology 2482: Neuropsychological Assessment (not offered 2008-09)

Note: students may also choose from any course listed as part of the Mind/Brain/Behavior concentration in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

*Permission of Instructor is Required

The following course offered at Boston University can be counted toward the Additional MBE Course requirements:

• CAS CN510: Principles and Methods of Cognitive and Neural Modeling I