Courses

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

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

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.

Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Explore the roles that microbes play in the production, preservation, and enhancement of diverse foods in a variety of culinary traditions, and learn about the history of food fermentations.

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

  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.

The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.

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

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

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

Learn to use R programming to apply linear models to analyze data in life sciences.

Learn the anatomy basic to understanding five musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in primary care medicine and orthopedic clinical specialty practice. Follow hypothetical patients from injury to operating room.

An introduction to basic statistical concepts and R programming skills necessary for analyzing data in the life sciences.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

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

Learn the fundamentals of chemistry and energy, from the types of energy to atomic mass and matter to enthalpy and thermodynamics.

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

Learn how global warming impacts human health, and the ways we can diminish those impacts.

Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.

How can we eradicate malaria? Explore cutting-edge science and technology, and examine policies needed, to control and eliminate malaria.

Learn introductory programming and data analysis in MATLAB, with applications to biology and medicine.