Free Courses

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

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 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.

An overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

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

Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.

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

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.

Apply tools of single-variable calculus to create and analyze mathematical models used by real practitioners in social, life, and physical sciences.

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

Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

Explore the underlying structures of everyday arguments and develop the tools to communicate effectively.

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

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

Learn to use machine learning in Python in this introductory course on artificial intelligence.

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

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

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

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.

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

An introduction to basic statistical concepts and R programming skills necessary for analyzing data in the life sciences.

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

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

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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

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

This is CS50’s introduction to computer science and tech literacy for business professionals.

How can we eradicate malaria? Explore cutting-edge science and technology, and examine policies needed, to control and eliminate malaria.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.