Free Courses

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

Examine how cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how their vision of literature contributes to our understanding of civilization, culture, and literature today.

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

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

Led by Nancy Gibbs, this video explores the underlying forces that are shaping today’s media environment.

Learn salary negotiation techniques with this free, 15-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson taught by Mike Wheeler of Negotiation Mastery.

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.

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.

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

Gain a foundational knowledge of American constitutional democracy while crafting your own civic voice and identity.

Study Japanese scroll art as text and as "little movies" that immerse the viewer through visual narration. 

Learn to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs.

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

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

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

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world 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.

Explore the impact of the conquest dynasties and the world of the Ming.

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

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.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

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

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

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

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

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

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

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