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Increase your quantitative reasoning skills through a deeper understanding of probability and statistics, with the engaging “Fat Chance” approach that’s made this course a favorite among learners worldwide.

Learn skills and tools that support data science and reproducible research, to ensure you can trust your own research results, reproduce them yourself, and communicate them to others.

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

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

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

Learn about Christianity through a study of its sacred scriptures. We will explore how diverse Christians have interpreted these writings and practiced their teachings over a 2000 year, global history.

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

Explore the roles that microbes play in the production, preservation, and enhancement of diverse foods in a variety of culinary traditions, and learn about the history of food fermentations.

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.

Learn about the Earth, life, and how we can search for life elsewhere in the universe.

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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

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?

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 what is involved in using data wisely to build a culture of collaborative inquiry. 

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.

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

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

An introduction to basic statistical concepts and R programming skills necessary for analyzing data in the life sciences.

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.

Learn about the Quran, the central sacred text of Islam, through an exploration of the rich diversity of roles and interpretations in Muslim societies.

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Examine how great modern writers capture the intricacies of our globalized world and how their works circulate within that world to find their own audiences.

Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.

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

In Remote Work Revolution for Everyone, you will learn to excel in the virtual-work landscape. You will learn how to build trust, increase productivity, use digital tools intelligently, and remain fully aligned with your remote team.

A gentle introduction to programming that prepares you for subsequent courses in coding.

Take your introductory knowledge of Python programming to the next level and learn how to use Python 3 for your research.