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Use the case study method to study China from the rise of Deng Xiaoping to the present.

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

Explore the birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.

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

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?

This introduction to moral and political philosophy is one of the most popular courses taught at Harvard College.

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

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

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

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

Show what you’ve learned from the Professional Certificate Program in Data Science.

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

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

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

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