Free Courses

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

Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise?

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

Learn how to better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

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.

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

Understand how the FDA regulates pharmaceuticals and explore debates on prescription drug costs, marketing, and testing.

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

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

Take your introductory knowledge of Python programming to the next level and learn how to use Python 3 for your research.

A gentle introduction to programming that prepares you for subsequent courses in coding.

Explore how entrepreneurs build successful businesses by moving technology from lab to market.

Discover how pathogen genomics informs public health decisions and practice.

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

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

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

This course introduces learners to Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) through the lens of TinyML (Tiny Machine Learning). Learners explore best practices to deploy, monitor, and maintain (tiny) Machine Learning models in production at scale.

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

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

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

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

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

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

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.

Equipping clinicians with an up‑to‑date, comprehensive understanding of stem cell–based approaches for Parkinson’s disease, including biological rationale, current trial outcomes, comparison with existing therapies, and guidance for evidence.

Learn to use R programming to apply linear models to analyze data in life sciences.

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

Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.