Free Courses

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government

Study Japanese scroll art as text and as "little movies" that immerse the viewer through visual narration. 

Find innovation opportunities in health care technology, management, consulting, or investing by examining health care cost, quality, and access.

Explore how entrepreneurship and innovation tackle complex social problems in emerging economies.

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 about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.

Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

A quantitative introduction to the energy system and its environmental impacts.

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

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

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.

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This course examines the Sikh scripture from a doctrinal and historical perspective by providing an overview of Sikh teachings as well as the historical context within which the scripture evolved and became canonized.

This is CS50’s introduction to computer science and tech literacy for business professionals.

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 about the rich and diverse beliefs and practices of Buddhists across time and place. Experience Buddhism through its scriptures, both relationally as well as academically.

Equipping clinicians with an up‑to‑date, comprehensive understanding of stem cell–based approaches for Parkinson’s disease, including biological rationale, current trial outcomes, comparison with existing therapies, and guidance for evidence.

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

Keep your projects organized and produce reproducible reports using GitHub, git, Unix/Linux, and RStudio.

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