Courses

Build a foundational understanding of AI concepts with this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Learn how businesses thrive and grow while simultaneously solving some of the world's biggest challenges in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

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

Explore the fundamental principles that guide ethical decision-making within health care environments: patient autonomy, the obligation to do good, the obligation to avoid harm, and justice.

Build a viable, valuable tech venture that can profitably scale in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

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

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

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.

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

Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

An exploration of the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

Combine literary research with data science to find answers in unexpected ways. Learn basic coding tools to help save time and draw insights from thousands of digital documents at once.

Learn the fascinating history of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, one of the most challenging and rewarding ballets ever written.

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

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

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

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

Discover Handel’s Messiah in this installment of First Nights, which will explore five masterpieces of western music.

Learn how the Manchus conquered the Qing and established the last of the imperial dynasties.

Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music.

Power and Influence for Positive Impact, a Harvard Business School (HBS) Online course, helps individuals develop their own power to gain influence and make an impact.

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.

An overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.

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

Explore China’s imperial period, with a focus on the Song dynasty and the role of the exam system in government.

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

Use the case study method to study China from the rise of Deng Xiaoping to the present.

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.

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