Free Courses

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

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

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.

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

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

Explore the archaeology, history, art, and hieroglyphs surrounding the famous Egyptian Pyramids at Giza. Learn about Old Kingdom pharaohs and elites, tombs, temples, the Sphinx, and how new technology is unlocking their secrets.

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

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

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

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

Learn the fascinating history of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, one of the most challenging and rewarding ballets ever written.

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.

An introduction to the study of bioethics and the application of legal and ethical reasoning.

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

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

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

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

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

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