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Why should we care about Confucius? Explore ancient Chinese philosophy, ethics, and political theory to challenge your assumptions of what it means to be happy, live a meaningful life, and change the world.

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.

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

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

A gentle introduction to programming that prepares you for subsequent courses in coding.

Explore the archaeology, history, art, and hieroglyphs surrounding the famous Egyptian Pyramids at Giza. Learn about Old Kingdom pharaohs and elites, tombs, temples, the Sphinx, and how new technology is unlocking their secrets.

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

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

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.

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.

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?

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

Get the opportunity to see TinyML in practice. You will see examples of TinyML applications, and learn first-hand how to train these models for tiny applications such as keyword spotting, visual wake words, and gesture recognition.

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

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

This course introduces learners to Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) through the lens of TinyML (Tiny Machine Learning). Learners explore best practices to deploy, monitor, and maintain (tiny) Machine Learning models in production at scale.

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

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

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

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

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

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

Examine best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale.

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

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

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

The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.