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

An introduction to the study of bioethics and the application of legal and ethical reasoning.

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

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.

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

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

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

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.

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.

Get the opportunity to see TinyML in practice. You will see examples of TinyML applications, and learn first-hand how to train these models for tiny applications such as keyword spotting, visual wake words, and gesture recognition.

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

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

Gain critical communication skills in writing and public speaking with this introduction to American political rhetoric.

Explore Chinese history and culture from the perspective of the individual through philosophical texts, literary works, and art.

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

Learn the essentials of U.S. health care policy from some of the nation's top experts.

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.

Learn basic data visualization principles and how to apply them using ggplot2.

Learn how the Manchus conquered the Qing and established the last of the imperial dynasties.

Learn about the key beliefs and practices of Judaism through an examination of its sacred texts and their interpretation.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Join Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques to use applied psychology to build personal resilience with five science-driven skills.

Focusing on the basics of machine learning and embedded systems, such as smartphones, this course will introduce you to the “language” of TinyML.

Learn about the Earth, life, and how we can search for life elsewhere in the universe.

Learn about the opioid epidemic in the United States, including information about treatment and recovery from opioid addiction.

Learn inference and modeling: two of the most widely used statistical tools in data analysis.