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

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

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Understand how the FDA regulates pharmaceuticals and explore debates on prescription drug costs, marketing, and testing.

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

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

Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.

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

Find innovation opportunities in health care technology, management, consulting, or investing by examining health care cost, quality, and access.

The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.

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

Learn about the Quran, the central sacred text of Islam, through an exploration of the rich diversity of roles and interpretations in Muslim societies.

This course introduces learners to Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) through the lens of TinyML (Tiny Machine Learning). Learners explore best practices to deploy, monitor, and maintain (tiny) Machine Learning models in production at scale.

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.

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

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

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

This course picks up where CS50 leaves off, diving more deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap.

A human-centered approach to the fundamentals of cell biology with a focus on the power plants of the cell - mitochondria.

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

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

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

Learn how global warming impacts human health, and the ways we can diminish those impacts.

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

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.

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

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

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

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