Free Courses

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.

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

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

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

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

This free webinar from HKS Professor Matthew Bunn tours the horizon of nuclear dangers.

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

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.

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

Learn to forecast the weather just by looking out your window.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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

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

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.

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 global warming impacts human health, and the ways we can diminish those impacts.