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

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!

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

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

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

Build a movie recommendation system and learn the science behind one of the most popular and successful data science techniques.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Discover Handel’s Messiah in this installment of First Nights, which will explore five masterpieces of western music.

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

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

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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

This course picks up where CS50 leaves off, diving more deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap.

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

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

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.