Courses

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

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

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.

Build a viable, valuable tech venture that can profitably scale in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Build a foundational understanding of AI concepts with this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

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.

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

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

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

An exploration of the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

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

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

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

Learn how businesses thrive and grow while simultaneously solving some of the world's biggest challenges in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature.

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

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.

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

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.

Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.

Learn how the Manchus conquered the Qing and established the last of the imperial dynasties.

Explore China’s imperial period, with a focus on the Song dynasty and the role of the exam system in government.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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