Free Courses

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.

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

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

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

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

Learn probability, an essential language and set of tools for understanding data, randomness, and uncertainty.

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

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

Get the opportunity to see TinyML in practice. You will see examples of TinyML applications, and learn first-hand how to train these models for tiny applications such as keyword spotting, visual wake words, and gesture recognition.

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

A quantitative introduction to the energy system and its environmental impacts.

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

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

In Remote Work Revolution for Everyone, you will learn to excel in the virtual-work landscape. You will learn how to build trust, increase productivity, use digital tools intelligently, and remain fully aligned with your remote team.

Use the case study method to study China from the rise of Deng Xiaoping to the present.

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

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

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

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

This intensive course, developed by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), offers a comprehensive exploration of key topics in stem cell medicine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.