Free Courses

Join HKS Shorenstein Center Director and former TIME Editor in Chief Nancy Gibbs and colleagues for a panel discussion on the challenges facing global news-industry leaders.

Led by Nancy Gibbs, this video explores the underlying forces that are shaping today’s media environment.

This free webinar from HKS professor Nancy Gibbs explores the underlying forces that are shaping today’s media environment, and techniques to be more successful in light of these forces.

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.

Join Harvard University Professor Raj Chetty in this online course to understand how big data can be used to measure mobility and solve social problems.

Find innovation opportunities in health care technology, management, consulting, or investing by examining health care cost, quality, and access.

Learn about Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, an iconic Romantic symphony that ushered in an era of narrative “program music.”

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

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

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

Learn the fascinating history of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, one of the most challenging and rewarding ballets ever written.

Learn introductory programming and data analysis in MATLAB, with applications to biology and medicine.

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

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.

Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.