Courses

Learn how to better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

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

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

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

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

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

Led by Harvard Instructors and historians, you will discover China’s return to power through political, social, and economic growth in relation to other countries.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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