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Examine best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale.

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

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

An exploration of the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

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

Learn to use machine learning in Python in this introductory course on artificial intelligence.

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

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

Learn the fundamentals of chemistry and energy, from the types of energy to atomic mass and matter to enthalpy and thermodynamics.

Discover what makes your brain tick in this third course in our introductory series in neuroscience.

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

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.

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

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

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

Learn about the key beliefs and practices of Judaism through an examination of its sacred texts and their interpretation.

A human-centered approach to the fundamentals of cell biology with a focus on the power plants of the cell - mitochondria.

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

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

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

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music.

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

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

Explore the impact of the conquest dynasties and the world of the Ming.

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

Learn about Christianity through a study of its sacred scriptures. We will explore how diverse Christians have interpreted these writings and practiced their teachings over a 2000 year, global history.

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

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