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

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.

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

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

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

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

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

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

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

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

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.

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

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

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

The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.

Apply tools of single-variable calculus to create and analyze mathematical models used by real practitioners in social, life, and physical sciences.

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

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

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

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

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

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

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

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government

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

This course examines the Sikh scripture from a doctrinal and historical perspective by providing an overview of Sikh teachings as well as the historical context within which the scripture evolved and became canonized.

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.