Free Courses

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

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

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.

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

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 the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

Discover Handel’s Messiah in this installment of First Nights, which will explore five masterpieces of western music.

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

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

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

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

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

Why should we care about Confucius? Explore ancient Chinese philosophy, ethics, and political theory to challenge your assumptions of what it means to be happy, live a meaningful life, and change the world.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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

Sentar las bases de conocimiento en R y aprender a discutir, analizar y visualizar datos.

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

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

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

Explore the roles that microbes play in the production, preservation, and enhancement of diverse foods in a variety of culinary traditions, and learn about the history of food fermentations.