Free Courses

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.

Learn how to use decision trees, the foundational algorithm for your understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

HKS Executive Education and Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences present a webinar featuring Harvard faculty Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

Discover what makes your brain tick in this third course in our introductory series in neuroscience.

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

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

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership. Gain the tools to imagine and build the future of learning.

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.

Examine best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale.

Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.

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

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

Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

Take your introductory knowledge of Python programming to the next level and learn how to use Python 3 for your research.