Free Courses

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

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

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

Discover how neurons work together to create complex networks inside the brain.

Traces Albert Einstein’s engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology.

Learn simple graphical rules that allow you to use intuitive pictures to improve study design and data analysis for causal inference.

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

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

Develop the skills to lead with courage and conviction through challenging times with this free, 35-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

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

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?

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

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

Build a movie recommendation system and learn the science behind one of the most popular and successful data science techniques.

Learn to program in TensorFlow Lite for microcontrollers so that you can write the code, and deploy your model to your very own tiny microcontroller. Before you know it, you’ll be implementing an entire TinyML application.

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.

Learn salary negotiation techniques with this free, 15-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson taught by Mike Wheeler of Negotiation Mastery.

Build a foundation in R and learn how to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.

Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.

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.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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

HKS Executive Education and Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences present a webinar featuring Harvard faculty Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.

Learn the music and cultural impact of three canonical operas from the 1800s: Les Huguenots, Das Rheingold, and Otello.

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