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Join Harvard faculty in this online course to discover the physical history of the Jewish bible.

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

An introduction to programming using Python, a popular language for general-purpose programming, data science, web programming, and more.

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

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

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

Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature.

Develop skills in digital research and visualization techniques across subjects and fields within the humanities.

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

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

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

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

Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.

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

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

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about food molecules and how chemical reactions can affect food texture and flavor.

In Remote Work Revolution for Everyone, you will learn to excel in the virtual-work landscape. You will learn how to build trust, increase productivity, use digital tools intelligently, and remain fully aligned with your remote team.

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

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

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

This course examines the Sikh scripture from a doctrinal and historical perspective by providing an overview of Sikh teachings as well as the historical context within which the scripture evolved and became canonized.

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

A quantitative introduction to the energy system and its environmental impacts.

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

Sentar las bases de conocimiento en R y aprender a discutir, analizar y visualizar datos.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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

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

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.

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