Courses

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

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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

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.

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

Examine best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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

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

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

Learn the fascinating history of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, one of the most challenging and rewarding ballets ever written.

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

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

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!

Explore how genomic patterns help us understand infectious disease transmission.

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

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

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

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

Learn probability, an essential language and set of tools for understanding data, randomness, and uncertainty.

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

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

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

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

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

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

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

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

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

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