Free Courses

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.

Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.

Explore how entrepreneurship and innovation tackle complex social problems in emerging economies.

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

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

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

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

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

Join Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques to use applied psychology to build personal resilience with five science-driven skills.

Explore the underlying structures of everyday arguments and develop the tools to communicate effectively.

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

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

Learn to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs.

Learn how to face and meet today’s challenges and design a public value proposition that is both actionable and value creating.

Study Baroque and Classical opera through Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Learn the fundamentals of chemistry and energy, from the types of energy to atomic mass and matter to enthalpy and thermodynamics.

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise?

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

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

A quantitative introduction to the energy system and its environmental impacts.

Learn inference and modeling: two of the most widely used statistical tools in data analysis.

Learn to use R programming to apply linear models to analyze data in life sciences.

A gentle introduction to programming that prepares you for subsequent courses in coding.

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Learn about Christianity through a study of its sacred scriptures. We will explore how diverse Christians have interpreted these writings and practiced their teachings over a 2000 year, global history.

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.

Expand your learning of chemistry and thermodynamics by exploring entropy, free energy, and equilibrium.