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

Learn how to create, read, update, and delete data with relational databases.

Apply tools of single-variable calculus to create and analyze mathematical models used by real practitioners in social, life, and physical sciences.

An in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic in Soho and its importance for the field of epidemiology.

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.

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

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

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

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

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

Explore the Maoist period of China, from the Communist Party to the death of Mao and the reopening of China.

Learn the significance of electrochemistry, understanding how electrical, chemical, and mechanical energy are linked.

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 overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.

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

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.

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

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

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

Discover Handel’s Messiah in this installment of First Nights, which will explore five masterpieces of western music.

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership. Gain the tools to imagine and build the future of learning.

Learn how the Manchus conquered the Qing and established the last of the imperial dynasties.

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 to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs.

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

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.

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

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

Discover how pathogen genomics informs public health decisions and practice.