Free Courses

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

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.

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

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

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

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

Learn about the development of 2D and 3D interactive games in this hands-on course, as you explore the design of games such as Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Angry Birds, and more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This course examines the Sikh scripture from a doctrinal and historical perspective by providing an overview of Sikh teachings as well as the historical context within which the scripture evolved and became canonized.

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.

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.

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

Learn about the Quran, the central sacred text of Islam, through an exploration of the rich diversity of roles and interpretations in Muslim societies.

Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

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

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

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

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

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

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

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

This course is a variant of Harvard University's introduction to computer science, CS50, designed especially for lawyers (and law students).

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.

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

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