Courses

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

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

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

Power and Influence for Positive Impact, a Harvard Business School (HBS) Online course, helps individuals develop their own power to gain influence and make an impact.

Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music.

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

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.

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.

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

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

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

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

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

Learn about the key beliefs and practices of Judaism through an examination of its sacred texts and their interpretation.

Gain a foundational knowledge of American constitutional democracy while crafting your own civic voice and identity.

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

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.

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

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

Gain critical communication skills in writing and public speaking with this introduction to American political rhetoric.

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

An in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic in Soho and its importance for the field of epidemiology.

Learn about Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, an iconic Romantic symphony that ushered in an era of narrative “program music.”

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.

Learn how global warming impacts human health, and the ways we can diminish those impacts.

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

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