PHXDV15

Does Harvard require they're undergraduates to have an art credit or any sort of fine art credit to graduate? And if so how many?

gibby

See: Homepage Program in General Education

No. Harvard undergraduates DO NOT have to complete an art credit/fine art credit to graduate. Harvard undergraduates do, however, have to complete 8 general education requirements touching on the areas of:

- Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding
- Culture and Belief
- Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning
- Ethical Reasoning
- Science of Living Systems
- Science of the Physical Universe
- Societies of the World
- United States in the World

PHXDV15

Does that mean courses such as AP Art History and AP Music Theory are pretty useless when it comes to the Harvard education and admission?

exultationsy

Harvard doesn't give credit for AP tests in terms of getting out of requirements, no. Will either of those help you get in if they're more rigorous/fit your passion/intended major better than alternative courses? Yes.

PHXDV15

I don't intend to be an art or music major as I am horrible at both but with that said they're are regarded as hard classes and they are AP classes. If I don't want to go into art or music are they that helpful to admissions to any college?

exultationsy

And also if you do well in them. If you're so horrible in them that you get lower grades than you'd be getting in your alternative equally-rigorous courses, they'll hurt you.

PHXDV15

Thank you.