Free Courses

Develop skills in digital research and visualization techniques across subjects and fields within the humanities.

This free webinar from HKS Professor Matthew Bunn tours the horizon of nuclear dangers.

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

Learn the anatomy basic to understanding five musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in primary care medicine and orthopedic clinical specialty practice. Follow hypothetical patients from injury to operating room.

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

Explore the birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.

An introduction to the study of bioethics and the application of legal and ethical reasoning.

Examine how cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how their vision of literature contributes to our understanding of civilization, culture, and literature today.

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

Learn how to face and meet today’s challenges and design a public value proposition that is both actionable and value creating.

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

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.

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

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

Learn how global warming impacts human health, and the ways we can diminish those impacts.

Explore Chinese history and culture from the perspective of the individual through philosophical texts, literary works, and art.

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

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

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

An exploration of the dynamics of contemporary China using the tools of close reading, discussion, and analysis.

Study Japanese scroll art as text and as "little movies" that immerse the viewer through visual narration. 

Why should we care about Confucius? Explore ancient Chinese philosophy, ethics, and political theory to challenge your assumptions of what it means to be happy, live a meaningful life, and change the world.

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.

Access to healthcare services is critical – but is it enough?

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

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

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

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.