Free Courses

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

Learn how to protect your own data, devices, and systems from today's threats.

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

Learn how to better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

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

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

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

Learn about Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, an iconic Romantic symphony that ushered in an era of narrative “program music.”

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

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

This course picks up where CS50 leaves off, diving more deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap.

Learn about the key beliefs and practices of Judaism through an examination of its sacred texts and their interpretation.

Understand how the FDA regulates pharmaceuticals and explore debates on prescription drug costs, marketing, and testing.