Free Courses

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

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.

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

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

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.

An overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.

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

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.

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.

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

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

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

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership. Gain the tools to imagine and build the future of learning.

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

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

Learn the music and cultural impact of three canonical operas from the 1800s: Les Huguenots, Das Rheingold, and Otello.

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

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

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

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

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

An overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

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.

Use the case study method to study China from the rise of Deng Xiaoping to the present.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

Build a movie recommendation system and learn the science behind one of the most popular and successful data science techniques.

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

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

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.

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?