Free Courses

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

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

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

Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.

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

Join Harvard faculty in this online course to discover the physical history of the Jewish bible.

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

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

Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

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

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

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

Join Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques to use applied psychology to build personal resilience with five science-driven skills.