Courses

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

Expand your learning of chemistry and thermodynamics by exploring entropy, free energy, and equilibrium.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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

Learn about the development of 2D and 3D interactive games in this hands-on course, as you explore the design of games such as Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Angry Birds, and more.

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

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

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.

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

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 how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

Learn to use R programming to apply linear models to analyze data in life sciences.

Learn how to better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

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

Examine how great modern writers capture the intricacies of our globalized world and how their works circulate within that world to find their own audiences.

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

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

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

The Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Statements webinars provide a great opportunity to learn the basic principles of nonprofit accounting.

Learn to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs.

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.

Equipping clinicians with an up‑to‑date, comprehensive understanding of stem cell–based approaches for Parkinson’s disease, including biological rationale, current trial outcomes, comparison with existing therapies, and guidance for evidence.

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.