Free Courses

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

An exploration of the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

Explore acts of storytelling in Shakespeare’s Othello alongside world-class artists who interpret Othello’s story in new forms and contexts today.

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.

Explore the roles that microbes play in the production, preservation, and enhancement of diverse foods in a variety of culinary traditions, and learn about the history of food fermentations.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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

This free, one hour webinar discusses how the current energy transition is reshaping economic opportunity around the world

Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise?

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.

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

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

Learn inference and modeling: two of the most widely used statistical tools in data analysis.