Free Courses

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

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.

Understand how the FDA regulates pharmaceuticals and explore debates on prescription drug costs, marketing, and testing.

Learn how global warming impacts human health, and the ways we can diminish those impacts.

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.

Increase your quantitative reasoning skills through a deeper understanding of probability and statistics, with the engaging “Fat Chance” approach that’s made this course a favorite among learners worldwide.

Learn how to protect your own data, devices, and systems from today's threats.

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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.

Learn what is involved in using data wisely to build a culture of collaborative inquiry. 

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

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

Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

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

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

This is CS50’s introduction to computer science and tech literacy for business professionals.

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

This free webinar from HKS Professor Matthew Bunn tours the horizon of nuclear dangers.

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

Learn how to better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

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

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.

Explore acts of storytelling in Shakespeare’s Othello alongside world-class artists who interpret Othello’s story in new forms and contexts today.

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

Study Baroque and Classical opera through Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s Don Giovanni

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

Learn to use R programming to apply linear models to analyze data in life sciences.

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

How can we eradicate malaria? Explore cutting-edge science and technology, and examine policies needed, to control and eliminate malaria.