Free Courses

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

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

Explore Chinese history and culture from the perspective of the individual through philosophical texts, literary works, and art.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

An exploration of the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

An overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

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

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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

The Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Statements webinars provide a great opportunity to learn the basic principles of nonprofit accounting.

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

Learn to program in TensorFlow Lite for microcontrollers so that you can write the code, and deploy your model to your very own tiny microcontroller. Before you know it, you’ll be implementing an entire TinyML application.

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.

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.

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

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

Discover how neurons work together to create complex networks inside the brain.

Develop skills in digital research and visualization techniques across subjects and fields within the humanities.

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

An exploration of the dynamics of contemporary China using the tools of close reading, discussion, and analysis.

Develop the skills to lead with courage and conviction through challenging times with this free, 35-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson.