Courses

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  

Learn introductory programming and data analysis in MATLAB, with applications to biology and medicine.

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

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

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

Learn to forecast the weather just by looking out your window.

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government

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.

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

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

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.

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

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

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

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

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.

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