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Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

Combine literary research with data science to find answers in unexpected ways. Learn basic coding tools to help save time and draw insights from thousands of digital documents at once.

Examine how great modern writers capture the intricacies of our globalized world and how their works circulate within that world to find their own audiences.

Learn about the rich and diverse beliefs and practices of Buddhists across time and place. Experience Buddhism through its scriptures, both relationally as well as academically.

Join Harvard faculty in this online course to discover the physical history of the Jewish bible.

Learn about Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, an iconic Romantic symphony that ushered in an era of narrative “program music.”

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

A focus on several techniques that are widely used in the analysis of high-dimensional data.

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

Learn about the Quran, the central sacred text of Islam, through an exploration of the rich diversity of roles and interpretations in Muslim societies.

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government

Learn the skills and tools of improvement science to make positive changes in health, healthcare, and your daily life.

Join Harvard University instructor Pavlos Protopapas in this online course to learn how to use Python to harness and analyze data.

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

Explore how entrepreneurs build successful businesses by moving technology from lab to market.

Learn about the key beliefs and practices of Judaism through an examination of its sacred texts and their interpretation.

Discover Handel’s Messiah in this installment of First Nights, which will explore five masterpieces of western music.

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

Learn the fundamentals of chemistry and energy, from the types of energy to atomic mass and matter to enthalpy and thermodynamics.

Keep your projects organized and produce reproducible reports using GitHub, git, Unix/Linux, and RStudio.

In Remote Work Revolution for Everyone, you will learn to excel in the virtual-work landscape. You will learn how to build trust, increase productivity, use digital tools intelligently, and remain fully aligned with your remote team.

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature.

Equipping clinicians with an up‑to‑date, comprehensive understanding of stem cell–based approaches for Parkinson’s disease, including biological rationale, current trial outcomes, comparison with existing therapies, and guidance for evidence.

Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.

An overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.

Learn introductory programming and data analysis in MATLAB, with applications to biology and medicine.

This course examines the Sikh scripture from a doctrinal and historical perspective by providing an overview of Sikh teachings as well as the historical context within which the scripture evolved and became canonized.