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

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.

Join Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques to use applied psychology to build personal resilience with five science-driven skills.

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

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

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

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

Build a movie recommendation system and learn the science behind one of the most popular and successful data science techniques.

Learn to program in TensorFlow Lite for microcontrollers so that you can write the code, and deploy your model to your very own tiny microcontroller. Before you know it, you’ll be implementing an entire TinyML application.

Explore the Maoist period of China, from the Communist Party to the death of Mao and the reopening of China.

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

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

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.

Explore the roles that microbes play in the production, preservation, and enhancement of diverse foods in a variety of culinary traditions, and learn about the history of food fermentations.

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

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

This course picks up where CS50 leaves off, diving more deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap.

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

An introduction to programming using Python, a popular language for general-purpose programming, data science, web programming, and more.

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

Learn probability, an essential language and set of tools for understanding data, randomness, and uncertainty.

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

Explore the impact of the conquest dynasties and the world of the Ming.

HKS Executive Education and Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences present a webinar featuring Harvard faculty Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.

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

Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise?

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

Traces Albert Einstein’s engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology.

Explore how entrepreneurship and innovation tackle complex social problems in emerging economies.

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