Free Courses

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

Learn about the development of 2D and 3D interactive games in this hands-on course, as you explore the design of games such as Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Angry Birds, and more.

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

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

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.

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

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.

How can we eradicate malaria? Explore cutting-edge science and technology, and examine policies needed, to control and eliminate malaria.

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.

Join Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques to use applied psychology to build personal resilience with five science-driven skills.

Learn the fascinating history of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, one of the most challenging and rewarding ballets ever written.

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

Learn about Christianity through a study of its sacred scriptures. We will explore how diverse Christians have interpreted these writings and practiced their teachings over a 2000 year, global history.

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

Gain critical communication skills in writing and public speaking with this introduction to American political rhetoric.

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

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

Study Baroque and Classical opera through Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s Don Giovanni

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

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

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

Learn introductory programming and data analysis in MATLAB, with applications to biology and medicine.

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

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

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!

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

Get the opportunity to see TinyML in practice. You will see examples of TinyML applications, and learn first-hand how to train these models for tiny applications such as keyword spotting, visual wake words, and gesture recognition.

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

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