Free Courses

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

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

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

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

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

Learn how the Manchus conquered the Qing and established the last of the imperial dynasties.

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

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?

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

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

A quantitative introduction to the energy system and its environmental impacts.

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.

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

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

Join Harvard faculty in this online course to discover the physical history of the Jewish bible.

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

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

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

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.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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.

Understand how the FDA regulates pharmaceuticals and explore debates on prescription drug costs, marketing, and testing.

Watch an information session featuring award-winning actress and PLC alumna Uzo Aduba.

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

Discover what makes your brain tick in this third course in our introductory series in neuroscience.