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

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

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.

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

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

An introduction to basic statistical concepts and R programming skills necessary for analyzing data in the life sciences.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Focusing on the basics of machine learning and embedded systems, such as smartphones, this course will introduce you to the “language” of TinyML.

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

Take your introductory knowledge of Python programming to the next level and learn how to use Python 3 for your research.

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

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.

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

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

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

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

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

How can we eradicate malaria? Explore cutting-edge science and technology, and examine policies needed, to control and eliminate malaria.