Courses

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

Watch an information session featuring award-winning actress and PLC alumna Uzo Aduba.

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

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

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.

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

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.

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

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

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.

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

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

Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

Learn about Christianity through a study of its sacred scriptures. We will explore how diverse Christians have interpreted these writings and practiced their teachings over a 2000 year, global history.

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

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

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

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

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 the archaeology, history, art, and hieroglyphs surrounding the famous Egyptian Pyramids at Giza. Learn about Old Kingdom pharaohs and elites, tombs, temples, the Sphinx, and how new technology is unlocking their secrets.

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

Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music.

This is CS50’s introduction to computer science and tech literacy for business professionals.

Learn how to use decision trees, the foundational algorithm for your understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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

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.

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

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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