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

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.

This course introduces learners to Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) through the lens of TinyML (Tiny Machine Learning). Learners explore best practices to deploy, monitor, and maintain (tiny) Machine Learning models in production at scale.

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

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

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

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

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

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.

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.

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

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about food molecules and how chemical reactions can affect food texture and flavor.

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

Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.

Join Harvard faculty in this online course to discover the physical history of the Jewish bible.

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

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

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.

Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

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.

Join Harvard University instructor Pavlos Protopapas in this online course to learn how to use Python to harness and analyze data.

Learn about the Earth, life, and how we can search for life elsewhere in the universe.