Free Courses

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

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

Designed for current and aspiring nonprofit leaders, this course helps learners build the confidence needed to make stronger financial decisions in mission-driven organizations.

Find innovation opportunities in health care technology, management, consulting, or investing by examining health care cost, quality, and access.

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

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

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

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

This course picks up where CS50 leaves off, diving more deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap.

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.

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 human-centered approach to the fundamentals of cell biology with a focus on the power plants of the cell - mitochondria.

An introduction to basic statistical concepts and R programming skills necessary for analyzing data in the life sciences.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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

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

Increase your quantitative reasoning skills through a deeper understanding of probability and statistics, with the engaging “Fat Chance” approach that’s made this course a favorite among learners worldwide.

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

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

This free webinar from HKS Professor Matthew Bunn tours the horizon of nuclear dangers.

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

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

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

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

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

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.

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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

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

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.