Free Courses

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

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

How can we eradicate malaria? Explore cutting-edge science and technology, and examine policies needed, to control and eliminate malaria.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

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

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

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

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about food molecules and how chemical reactions can affect food texture and flavor.

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

Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.

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

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.

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

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

Learn probability, an essential language and set of tools for understanding data, randomness, and uncertainty.

Learn about the key beliefs and practices of Judaism through an examination of its sacred texts and their interpretation.

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

Discover how neurons work together to create complex networks inside the brain.

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

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

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

Learn inference and modeling: two of the most widely used statistical tools in data analysis.

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

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