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

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

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

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

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

This intensive course, developed by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), offers a comprehensive exploration of key topics in stem cell medicine.

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

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

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

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

Learn basic data visualization principles and how to apply them using ggplot2.

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

Combine literary research with data science to find answers in unexpected ways. Learn basic coding tools to help save time and draw insights from thousands of digital documents at once.

Learn simple graphical rules that allow you to use intuitive pictures to improve study design and data analysis for causal inference.

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

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.

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

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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.

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 birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.