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Learn the fascinating history of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, one of the most challenging and rewarding ballets ever written.

Learn to use machine learning in Python in this introductory course on artificial intelligence.

Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.

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.

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

Learn the significance of electrochemistry, understanding how electrical, chemical, and mechanical energy are linked.

Use the case study method to study China from the rise of Deng Xiaoping to the present.

Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music.

Explore the underlying structures of everyday arguments and develop the tools to communicate effectively.

Explore China’s imperial period, with a focus on the Song dynasty and the role of the exam system in government.

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.

Learn how to use decision trees, the foundational algorithm for your understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.

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

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.

Learn inference and modeling: two of the most widely used statistical tools in data analysis.

An overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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

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

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

Learn to forecast the weather just by looking out your window.

Develop skills in digital research and visualization techniques across subjects and fields within the humanities.

Learn to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs.

A human-centered approach to the fundamentals of cell biology with a focus on the power plants of the cell - mitochondria.

Learn skills and tools that support data science and reproducible research, to ensure you can trust your own research results, reproduce them yourself, and communicate them to others.

This introduction to moral and political philosophy is one of the most popular courses taught at Harvard College.

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

Show what you’ve learned from the Professional Certificate Program in Data Science.

Learn how to face and meet today’s challenges and design a public value proposition that is both actionable and value creating.