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Women Making History: Ten Objects, Many Stories

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

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Data Science

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Causal Diagrams: Draw Your Assumptions Before Your Conclusions

Learn simple graphical rules that allow you to use intuitive pictures to improve study design and data analysis for causal inference.

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9 weeks long

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Art & Design

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19th-Century Opera: Meyerbeer, Wagner, & Verdi

Learn the music and cultural impact of three canonical operas from the 1800s: Les Huguenots, Das Rheingold, and Otello.

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6 weeks long

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Art & Design

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18th-Century Opera: Handel & Mozart

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

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3 weeks long

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Social Sciences

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A Darkening Horizon: Nuclear Dangers Around the World with Matthew Bunn

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

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Humanities

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The Einstein Revolution

Traces Albert Einstein’s engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology.

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Humanities

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ChinaX Book Club: Five Authors, Five Books, Five Views of China

An exploration of the dynamics of contemporary China using the tools of close reading, discussion, and analysis.

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5 weeks long

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Social Sciences

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American Government: Constitutional Foundations

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

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Humanities

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Masterpieces of World Literature

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

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Data Science

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Data Science: R Basics

Build a foundation in R and learn how to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.

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Social Sciences

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We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy

Gain a foundational knowledge of American constitutional democracy while crafting your own civic voice and identity.

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7 weeks long

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Data Science

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Data Science: Linear Regression

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

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8 weeks long

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Humanities

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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The Ghost

An exploration of the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

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4 weeks long

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Humanities

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China’s First Empires and the Rise of Buddhism

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.

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15 weeks long

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Humanities

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Creating Modern China: The Republican Period to the Present

Explore the birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.

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15 weeks long

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Humanities

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Global China: From the Mongols to the Ming

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

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15 weeks long

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Science

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Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 2: Neurons and Networks

Discover how neurons work together to create complex networks inside the brain.

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6 weeks long

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Health & Medicine

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Global Health Case Studies from a Biosocial Perspective

Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.

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Art & Design

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Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: Shylock

An exploration of the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

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Science

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Entropy and Equilibria

Expand your learning of chemistry and thermodynamics by exploring entropy, free energy, and equilibrium.

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Education & Teaching

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Leaders of Learning

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

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10 weeks long

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Social Sciences

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Leadership for Purposeful Change: Creating Public Value

Learn how to face and meet today’s challenges and design a public value proposition that is both actionable and value creating.

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7 weeks long

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Humanities

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China Humanities: The Individual in Chinese Culture

Explore Chinese history and culture from the perspective of the individual through philosophical texts, literary works, and art.

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Humanities

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China and Communism

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

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15 weeks long

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Computer Science

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Fundamentals of TinyML

Focusing on the basics of machine learning and embedded systems, such as smartphones, this course will introduce you to the “language” of TinyML.

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5 weeks long

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Data Science

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Data Science: Wrangling

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

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8 weeks long

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Social Sciences

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Our Information Emergency: Navigating the Media Environment in 2021

Led by Nancy Gibbs, this video explores the underlying forces that are shaping today’s media environment.

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Humanities

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Literati China: Examinations, Neo-Confucianism, and Later Imperial China

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

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15 weeks long

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Data Science

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Introduction to Digital Humanities

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

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7 weeks long

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Science

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Cell Biology: Mitochondria

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

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4 weeks long

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