Courses

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

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

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

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.

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

Join Harvard faculty in this online course to discover the physical history of the Jewish bible.

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

Explore Chinese history and culture from the perspective of the individual through philosophical texts, literary works, and art.

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

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

Why should we care about Confucius? Explore ancient Chinese philosophy, ethics, and political theory to challenge your assumptions of what it means to be happy, live a meaningful life, and change the world.

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