Free Courses

Learn about the Earth, life, and how we can search for life elsewhere in the universe.

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

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

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?

Join Harvard faculty in this online course to discover the physical history of the Jewish bible.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Designed for current and aspiring nonprofit leaders, this course helps learners build the confidence needed to make stronger financial decisions in mission-driven organizations.

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

Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music.

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.

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

Learn about Christianity through a study of its sacred scriptures. We will explore how diverse Christians have interpreted these writings and practiced their teachings over a 2000 year, global history.

This course is a variant of Harvard University's introduction to computer science, CS50, designed especially for lawyers (and law students).

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.

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

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

Explore how entrepreneurs build successful businesses by moving technology from lab to market.

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.

Learn how to protect your own data, devices, and systems from today's threats.

Discover Handel’s Messiah in this installment of First Nights, which will explore five masterpieces of western music.

An introduction to the study of bioethics and the application of legal and ethical reasoning.

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