Free Courses

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

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

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

Learn about Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, an iconic Romantic symphony that ushered in an era of narrative “program music.”

Learn the fascinating history of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, one of the most challenging and rewarding ballets ever written.

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

Learn introductory programming and data analysis in MATLAB, with applications to biology and medicine.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business to improve the well-being of your employees and company, while increasing revenue.

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