Free Courses

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

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

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

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.

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

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

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.

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 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.

Learn how to face and meet today’s challenges and design a public value proposition that is both actionable and value creating.

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

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

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.

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

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

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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

Learn how to protect your own data, devices, and systems from today's threats.

Learn probability, an essential language and set of tools for understanding data, randomness, and uncertainty.

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

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

Build a movie recommendation system and learn the science behind one of the most popular and successful data science techniques.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!