Courses

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

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

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

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

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

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

An in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic in Soho and its importance for the field of epidemiology.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Explore how entrepreneurs build successful businesses by moving technology from lab to market.

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.

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

An overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.

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.

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

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

Learn about the opioid epidemic in the United States, including information about treatment and recovery from opioid addiction.

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

Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.

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