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Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.

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

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

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

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

Learn about the opioid epidemic in the United States, including information about treatment and recovery from opioid addiction.

Understand how the FDA regulates pharmaceuticals and explore debates on prescription drug costs, marketing, and testing.

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.

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

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

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

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.

Build a movie recommendation system and learn the science behind one of the most popular and successful data science techniques.

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

This course examines the Sikh scripture from a doctrinal and historical perspective by providing an overview of Sikh teachings as well as the historical context within which the scripture evolved and became canonized.

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

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

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

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

Learn how the Manchus conquered the Qing and established the last of the imperial dynasties.

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.

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

Learn the skills and tools of improvement science to make positive changes in health, healthcare, and your daily life.

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

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

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 about the rich and diverse beliefs and practices of Buddhists across time and place. Experience Buddhism through its scriptures, both relationally as well as academically.

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

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