Online Courses

Learn skills and tools that support data science and reproducible research, to ensure you can trust your own research results, reproduce them yourself, and communicate them to others.

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

Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

The exercise demonstrations in our online course can help relieve ankle, knee, hip, or shoulder pain, and help you become more active again. 

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

Increase your quantitative reasoning skills through a deeper understanding of probability and statistics.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.