Free Courses

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

An overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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

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?

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

Find innovation opportunities in health care technology, management, consulting, or investing by examining health care cost, quality, and access.

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

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

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 development of 2D and 3D interactive games in this hands-on course, as you explore the design of games such as Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Angry Birds, and more.

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

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.

The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.

Join Harvard faculty in this online course to discover the physical history of the Jewish bible.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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

Explore the roles that microbes play in the production, preservation, and enhancement of diverse foods in a variety of culinary traditions, and learn about the history of food fermentations.

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

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.

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.

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