Free Courses

Learn to forecast the weather just by looking out your window.

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

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  

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

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

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

Learn about the rich and diverse beliefs and practices of Buddhists across time and place. Experience Buddhism through its scriptures, both relationally as well as academically.

Develop skills in digital research and visualization techniques across subjects and fields within the humanities.

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.

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

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

Explore the underlying structures of everyday arguments and develop the tools to communicate effectively.

Learn how to create, read, update, and delete data with relational databases.

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

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

Designed for current and aspiring nonprofit leaders, this course helps learners build the confidence needed to make stronger financial decisions in mission-driven organizations.

The Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Statements webinars provide a great opportunity to learn the basic principles of nonprofit accounting.

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.

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

Gain critical communication skills in writing and public speaking with this introduction to American political rhetoric.

An introduction to the study of bioethics and the application of legal and ethical reasoning.

Learn about the development of 2D and 3D interactive games in this hands-on course, as you explore the design of games such as Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Angry Birds, and more.

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

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

Find innovation opportunities in health care technology, management, consulting, or investing by examining health care cost, quality, and access.

Learn introductory programming and data analysis in MATLAB, with applications to biology and medicine.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

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