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

Learn skills and tools that support data science and reproducible research, to ensure you can trust your own research results, reproduce them yourself, and communicate them to others.

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

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

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

Discover how pathogen genomics informs public health decisions and practice.

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

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

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

Explore how entrepreneurs build successful businesses by moving technology from lab to market.

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

An introduction to programming using Python, a popular language for general-purpose programming, data science, web programming, and more.

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

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

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

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.

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.

Explore the archaeology, history, art, and hieroglyphs surrounding the famous Egyptian Pyramids at Giza. Learn about Old Kingdom pharaohs and elites, tombs, temples, the Sphinx, and how new technology is unlocking their secrets.

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

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.

Learn how to use decision trees, the foundational algorithm for your understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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

A gentle introduction to programming that prepares you for subsequent courses in coding.

Increase your quantitative reasoning skills through a deeper understanding of probability and statistics, with the engaging “Fat Chance” approach that’s made this course a favorite among learners worldwide.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

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

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

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

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.