Free Courses

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about food molecules and how chemical reactions can affect food texture and flavor.

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

An exploration of the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

Examine how cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how their vision of literature contributes to our understanding of civilization, culture, and literature today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 how genomic patterns help us understand infectious disease transmission.

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

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.

Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.

Learn about the opioid epidemic in the United States, including information about treatment and recovery from opioid addiction.

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

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

Sentar las bases de conocimiento en R y aprender a discutir, analizar y visualizar datos.

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

Expand your learning of chemistry and thermodynamics by exploring entropy, free energy, and equilibrium.

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

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.

This course is a variant of Harvard University's introduction to computer science, CS50, designed especially for lawyers (and law students).

Access to healthcare services is critical – but is it enough?

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.

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

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

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

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