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Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

Discover what makes your brain tick in this third course in our introductory series in neuroscience.

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

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

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.

Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.

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

Expand your learning of chemistry and thermodynamics by exploring entropy, free energy, and equilibrium.

Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

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.

Learn to use R programming to apply linear models to analyze data in life sciences.

A gentle introduction to programming that prepares you for subsequent courses in coding.

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

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

Learn what is involved in using data wisely to build a culture of collaborative inquiry. 

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

Examine how great modern writers capture the intricacies of our globalized world and how their works circulate within that world to find their own audiences.

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

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

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