Courses

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

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!

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

Explore acts of storytelling in Shakespeare’s Othello alongside world-class artists who interpret Othello’s story in new forms and contexts today.