Free Courses

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

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

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

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

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

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government

Explore the archaeology, history, art, and hieroglyphs surrounding the famous Egyptian Pyramids at Giza. Learn about Old Kingdom pharaohs and elites, tombs, temples, the Sphinx, and how new technology is unlocking their secrets.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Explore the Maoist period of China, from the Communist Party to the death of Mao and the reopening of China.

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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

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

Learn about Christianity through a study of its sacred scriptures. We will explore how diverse Christians have interpreted these writings and practiced their teachings over a 2000 year, global history.

Examine how great modern writers capture the intricacies of our globalized world and how their works circulate within that world to find their own audiences.

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

Join Harvard University instructor Pavlos Protopapas in this online course to learn how to use Python to harness and analyze data.

Learn how to create, read, update, and delete data with relational databases.

An exploration of the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

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.

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

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

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