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

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

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

Explore acts of storytelling in Shakespeare’s Othello alongside world-class artists who interpret Othello’s story in new forms and contexts today.

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.

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

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.

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership. Gain the tools to imagine and build the future of learning.

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

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

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

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.

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