Free Courses

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

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

An overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Statements webinars provide a great opportunity to learn the basic principles of nonprofit accounting.

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

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

An exploration of the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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