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

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

This introduction to moral and political philosophy is one of the most popular courses taught at Harvard College.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Explore acts of storytelling in Shakespeare’s Othello alongside world-class artists who interpret Othello’s story in new forms and contexts today.

Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature.

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

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

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.

An exploration of the dynamics of contemporary China using the tools of close reading, discussion, and analysis.

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

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

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

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

A human-centered approach to the fundamentals of cell biology with a focus on the power plants of the cell - mitochondria.

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

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

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  

Show what you’ve learned from the Professional Certificate Program in Data Science.

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

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.

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