Courses

This course is a variant of Harvard University's introduction to computer science, CS50, designed especially for lawyers (and law students).

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.

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

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

Join Harvard faculty in this online course to discover the physical history of the Jewish bible.

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

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

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.

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.

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

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 significance of electrochemistry, understanding how electrical, chemical, and mechanical energy are linked.

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

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

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

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

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

Discover what makes your brain tick in this third course in our introductory series in neuroscience.

Learn how to better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

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

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

Learn to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs.

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

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

A quantitative introduction to the energy system and its environmental impacts.

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

Understand how the FDA regulates pharmaceuticals and explore debates on prescription drug costs, marketing, and testing.