Free Courses

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

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

A focus on several techniques that are widely used in the analysis of high-dimensional data.

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

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

Learn the skills and tools of improvement science to make positive changes in health, healthcare, and your daily life.

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.

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

Learn about the Quran, the central sacred text of Islam, through an exploration of the rich diversity of roles and interpretations in Muslim societies.

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

Explore China’s imperial period, with a focus on the Song dynasty and the role of the exam system in government.

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

An in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic in Soho and its importance for the field of epidemiology.

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

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

Designed for current and aspiring nonprofit leaders, this course helps learners build the confidence needed to make stronger financial decisions in mission-driven organizations.

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

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

Increase your quantitative reasoning skills through a deeper understanding of probability and statistics, with the engaging “Fat Chance” approach that’s made this course a favorite among learners worldwide.

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

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

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

How can we eradicate malaria? Explore cutting-edge science and technology, and examine policies needed, to control and eliminate malaria.

This course examines the Sikh scripture from a doctrinal and historical perspective by providing an overview of Sikh teachings as well as the historical context within which the scripture evolved and became canonized.

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

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

Study Baroque and Classical opera through Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.