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

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 to forecast the weather just by looking out your window.

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

Learn the anatomy basic to understanding five musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in primary care medicine and orthopedic clinical specialty practice. Follow hypothetical patients from injury to operating room.

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

Explore how entrepreneurs build successful businesses by moving technology from lab to market.

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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

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

Explore the birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.

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

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

Build a foundation in R and learn how to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

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

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

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.

Learn the skills and tools of improvement science to make positive changes in health, healthcare, and your daily life.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.

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

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