Courses

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

Learn the anatomy basic to understanding five musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in primary care medicine and orthopedic clinical specialty practice. Follow hypothetical patients from injury to operating room.

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

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

Learn the skills and tools of improvement science to make positive changes in health, healthcare, and your daily life.

Take your introductory knowledge of Python programming to the next level and learn how to use Python 3 for your research.

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.

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

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

This free webinar from HKS Professor Matthew Bunn tours the horizon of nuclear dangers.

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

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

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

Learn about the rich and diverse beliefs and practices of Buddhists across time and place. Experience Buddhism through its scriptures, both relationally as well as academically.

Examine how cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how their vision of literature contributes to our understanding of civilization, culture, and literature today.

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership. Gain the tools to imagine and build the future of learning.

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

Learn how to create, read, update, and delete data with relational databases.

A gentle introduction to programming that prepares you for subsequent courses in coding.

Study Baroque and Classical opera through Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s Don Giovanni

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.

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

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

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

Learn the fundamentals of chemistry and energy, from the types of energy to atomic mass and matter to enthalpy and thermodynamics.

Combine literary research with data science to find answers in unexpected ways. Learn basic coding tools to help save time and draw insights from thousands of digital documents at once.

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

Learn about the key beliefs and practices of Judaism through an examination of its sacred texts and their interpretation.

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

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