Free Courses

Build a foundation in R and learn how to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.

This intensive course, developed by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), offers a comprehensive exploration of key topics in stem cell medicine.

Examine best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale.

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

The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.

Discover what makes your brain tick in this third course in our introductory series in neuroscience.

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

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

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

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

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

Build a foundation in R and learn how to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.

Join Harvard University instructor Pavlos Protopapas in this online course to learn how to use Python to harness and analyze data.

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.

Learn to forecast the weather just by looking out your window.

Discover how pathogen genomics informs public health decisions and practice.

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

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  

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

Learn to use machine learning in Python in this introductory course on artificial intelligence.

This free webinar from HKS Professor Matthew Bunn tours the horizon of nuclear dangers.

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

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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

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

Learn the anatomy basic to understanding five musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in primary care medicine and orthopedic clinical specialty practice. Follow hypothetical patients from injury to operating room.

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

Learn about the development of 2D and 3D interactive games in this hands-on course, as you explore the design of games such as Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Angry Birds, and more.

Learn how to use decision trees, the foundational algorithm for your understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence.