Free Courses

An introduction to programming using Python, a popular language for general-purpose programming, data science, web programming, and more.

This course examines the Sikh scripture from a doctrinal and historical perspective by providing an overview of Sikh teachings as well as the historical context within which the scripture evolved and became canonized.

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

Learn skills and tools that support data science and reproducible research, to ensure you can trust your own research results, reproduce them yourself, and communicate them to others.

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

Learn how to create, read, update, and delete data with relational databases.

Explore the underlying structures of everyday arguments and develop the tools to communicate effectively.

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

Learn about the Quran, the central sacred text of Islam, through an exploration of the rich diversity of roles and interpretations in Muslim societies.

Apply tools of single-variable calculus to create and analyze mathematical models used by real practitioners in social, life, and physical sciences.

The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.

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

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

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

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

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

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  

Learn about Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, an iconic Romantic symphony that ushered in an era of narrative “program music.”

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

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

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.

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

Focusing on the basics of machine learning and embedded systems, such as smartphones, this course will introduce you to the “language” of TinyML.

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.

This intensive course, developed by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), offers a comprehensive exploration of key topics in stem cell medicine.

Explore Chinese history and culture from the perspective of the individual through philosophical texts, literary works, and art.

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