Courses

Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature.

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

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

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

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

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

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

Study Japanese scroll art as text and as "little movies" that immerse the viewer through visual narration. 

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

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.

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