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How can we eradicate malaria? Explore cutting-edge science and technology, and examine policies needed, to control and eliminate malaria.

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

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

Learn how to protect your own data, devices, and systems from today's threats.

Apply tools of single-variable calculus to create and analyze mathematical models used by real practitioners in social, life, and physical sciences.

Explore the impact of the conquest dynasties and the world of the Ming.

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

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

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.

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

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

Take your introductory knowledge of Python programming to the next level and learn how to use Python 3 for your research.

This course is a variant of Harvard University's introduction to computer science, CS50, designed especially for lawyers (and law students).

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

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

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

A focus on several techniques that are widely used in the analysis of high-dimensional data.

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

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

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

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

Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

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

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

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

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

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

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