科学史系提供了全面的研究生课程，可授予AM和Ph.D学位。我们是产生下一代专业科学史学家的世界领先机构之一，它通过一系列为整个领域的教学和研究奠定广泛基础的学习课程，培训学生以研究科学的发展。我们的教职员工采用历史，文本，人种学和社会科学方法来探索科学的起源和演化，并分析科学的发展，将其作为人类知识和社会经验的一部分，并提出更大的问题各种科学如何在实践中发挥作用及其权威的基础，如何就其规范和应用做出伦理和政治决定，如何与更大的知识，文化，社会和政治趋势和变化联系起来，等等。教师和学生的兴趣跨越中世纪到当代
The Department of the History of Science offers a comprehensive graduate program leading to the AM and PhD degrees. We are one of the world's leading institutions for producing the next generation of professional historians of science, training students to examine the development of science through a course of study that lays a broad foundation for teaching and research across the field. Our faculty and students employ historical, textual, ethnographic, and social scientific methods to explore the genesis and evolution of the sciences and to analyze the growth of science as part of the intellectual and social experience of humankind, as well as to ask larger questions about how the various sciences work in practice and the basis of their authority, how ethical and political decisions are made about their regulation and applications, how they relate to larger intellectual, cultural, social, and political trends and changes, and much more. Faculty and student interests span medieval to contemporary times, and engage the full range of sciences: physics, astronomy, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, technology, brain and behavioral science, the psychological sciences, medicine, and public health. Together we form a lively interdisciplinary community of scholars. The department offers admission to a very few select students seeking the free-standing AM degree. External applicants for the degree may be considered on a case-by-case basis, it is expected they will be in fulltime residence. Students who have been accepted to pursue an AM include those pursuing a PhD in another Harvard department, advanced degree candidates at foreign universities, and students with a PhD in another field, from Harvard or elsewhere.