Inside the classroom
The primary academic goals at Harkness are encouraging sound scholarship, independent thinking, leadership, problem solving skills, independent research, and clear communication.
Across disciplines, Harkness teaches a wide variety of critical thinking skills, asking students to grapple with complex problems and to articulate and defend their solutions with evidence, logic, and reason. In so doing, the Harkness curriculum emphasizes seven basic disciplines: Spanish, English, Social Science, Mathematics, Science, Computer Science and the Arts. Students have a range of elective choices, including courses in psychology, politics and business.
School hours
Our curriculum encourages the growth of independence and responsibility as students prepare for the challenges, rigors, responsibilities, and freedoms of college and adult life. Students select from a wide variety of course offerings, including intensive and focused research projects.
Course work increasingly involves philosophical and analytical thought.
Learning to manage discretionary time is an important part at Harkness.
