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

Designed for current and aspiring nonprofit leaders, this course helps learners build the confidence needed to make stronger financial decisions in mission-driven organizations.

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

Equipping clinicians with an up‑to‑date, comprehensive understanding of stem cell–based approaches for Parkinson’s disease, including biological rationale, current trial outcomes, comparison with existing therapies, and guidance for evidence.

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

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

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

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

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

Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

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

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

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

Learn probability, an essential language and set of tools for understanding data, randomness, and uncertainty.

Learn the significance of electrochemistry, understanding how electrical, chemical, and mechanical energy are linked.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

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

Keep your projects organized and produce reproducible reports using GitHub, git, Unix/Linux, and RStudio.

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.

Discover how pathogen genomics informs public health decisions and practice.

Explore how entrepreneurs build successful businesses by moving technology from lab to market.

HKS Executive Education and Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences present a webinar featuring Harvard faculty Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.

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

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

This is CS50’s introduction to computer science and tech literacy for business professionals.

Learn how to create, read, update, and delete data with relational databases.

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

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

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