Free Courses

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.

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.

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

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

Explore the archaeology, history, art, and hieroglyphs surrounding the famous Egyptian Pyramids at Giza. Learn about Old Kingdom pharaohs and elites, tombs, temples, the Sphinx, and how new technology is unlocking their secrets.

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

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

Learn about the opioid epidemic in the United States, including information about treatment and recovery from opioid addiction.

Understand how the FDA regulates pharmaceuticals and explore debates on prescription drug costs, marketing, and testing.

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

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

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

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Increase your quantitative reasoning skills through a deeper understanding of probability and statistics, with the engaging “Fat Chance” approach that’s made this course a favorite among learners worldwide.

Learn simple graphical rules that allow you to use intuitive pictures to improve study design and data analysis for causal inference.

A focus on several techniques that are widely used in the analysis of high-dimensional data.

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

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

Explore the roles that microbes play in the production, preservation, and enhancement of diverse foods in a variety of culinary traditions, and learn about the history of food fermentations.

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

An in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic in Soho and its importance for the field of epidemiology.

Access to healthcare services is critical – but is it enough?

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

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 better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

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

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

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

Take your introductory knowledge of Python programming to the next level and learn how to use Python 3 for your research.

Learn the fundamentals of chemistry and energy, from the types of energy to atomic mass and matter to enthalpy and thermodynamics.