Free Courses

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership. Gain the tools to imagine and build the future of learning.

An exploration of the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

This introduction to moral and political philosophy is one of the most popular courses taught at Harvard College.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Traces Albert Einstein’s engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology.

Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

Learn to program in TensorFlow Lite for microcontrollers so that you can write the code, and deploy your model to your very own tiny microcontroller. Before you know it, you’ll be implementing an entire TinyML application.

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

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

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

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

Discover how neurons work together to create complex networks inside the brain.

Study Japanese scroll art as text and as "little movies" that immerse the viewer through visual narration. 

Focusing on the basics of machine learning and embedded systems, such as smartphones, this course will introduce you to the “language” of TinyML.

An overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.

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.

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.

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

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 how to use decision trees, the foundational algorithm for your understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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?

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

Led by Nancy Gibbs, this video explores the underlying forces that are shaping today’s media environment.

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

Learn the music and cultural impact of three canonical operas from the 1800s: Les Huguenots, Das Rheingold, and Otello.