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Access to healthcare services is critical – but is it enough?

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

A quantitative introduction to the energy system and its environmental impacts.

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

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

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

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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

Explore the Maoist period of China, from the Communist Party to the death of Mao and the reopening of China.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn the anatomy basic to understanding five musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in primary care medicine and orthopedic clinical specialty practice. Follow hypothetical patients from injury to operating room.

Learn inference and modeling: two of the most widely used statistical tools in data analysis.

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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.

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

Learn what is involved in using data wisely to build a culture of collaborative inquiry. 

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

This introduction to moral and political philosophy is one of the most popular courses taught at Harvard College.

Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about food molecules and how chemical reactions can affect food texture and flavor.

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.

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

Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise?

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

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.