Free Courses

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.

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

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.

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

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

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

Explore acts of storytelling in Shakespeare’s Othello alongside world-class artists who interpret Othello’s story in new forms and contexts today.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

Learn basic data visualization principles and how to apply them using ggplot2.

Learn the music and cultural impact of three canonical operas from the 1800s: Les Huguenots, Das Rheingold, and Otello.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn how the Manchus conquered the Qing and established the last of the imperial dynasties.

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government

Traces Albert Einstein’s engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature.

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.