Courses

Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise?

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

Explore the birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.

Find innovation opportunities in health care technology, management, consulting, or investing by examining health care cost, quality, and access.

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

Learn salary negotiation techniques with this free, 15-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson taught by Mike Wheeler of Negotiation Mastery.

Learn the music and cultural impact of three canonical operas from the 1800s: Les Huguenots, Das Rheingold, and Otello.

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

Learn about Christianity through a study of its sacred scriptures. We will explore how diverse Christians have interpreted these writings and practiced their teachings over a 2000 year, global history.

Learn to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs.

Build a movie recommendation system and learn the science behind one of the most popular and successful data science techniques.

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

Build a foundation in R and learn how to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.

An in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic in Soho and its importance for the field of epidemiology.

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

Learn probability, an essential language and set of tools for understanding data, randomness, and uncertainty.

This intensive course, developed by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), offers a comprehensive exploration of key topics in stem cell medicine.

Learn how to better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

Access to healthcare services is critical – but is it enough?

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

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

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

This introduction to moral and political philosophy is one of the most popular courses taught at Harvard College.

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

This free webinar from HKS Professor Matthew Bunn tours the horizon of nuclear dangers.

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government

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