Courses

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Learn how to protect your own data, devices, and systems from today's threats.

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.

The Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Statements webinars provide a great opportunity to learn the basic principles of nonprofit accounting.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Explore how entrepreneurship and innovation tackle complex social problems in emerging economies.

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

This course examines the Sikh scripture from a doctrinal and historical perspective by providing an overview of Sikh teachings as well as the historical context within which the scripture evolved and became canonized.

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

An overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

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

Learn about the rich and diverse beliefs and practices of Buddhists across time and place. Experience Buddhism through its scriptures, both relationally as well as academically.

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

Learn about the opioid epidemic in the United States, including information about treatment and recovery from opioid addiction.

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

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

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.

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 about the Quran, the central sacred text of Islam, through an exploration of the rich diversity of roles and interpretations in Muslim societies.