Courses

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

Learn how to use decision trees, the foundational algorithm for your understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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

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.

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

Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

Explore how entrepreneurs build successful businesses by moving technology from lab to market.

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

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

Learn about the key beliefs and practices of Judaism through an examination of its sacred texts and their interpretation.

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

Why should we care about Confucius? Explore ancient Chinese philosophy, ethics, and political theory to challenge your assumptions of what it means to be happy, live a meaningful life, and change the world.

Learn inference and modeling: two of the most widely used statistical tools in data analysis.

Apply tools of single-variable calculus to create and analyze mathematical models used by real practitioners in social, life, and physical sciences.

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

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Sentar las bases de conocimiento en R y aprender a discutir, analizar y visualizar datos.

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

Learn how to face and meet today’s challenges and design a public value proposition that is both actionable and value creating.

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

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

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

An introduction to programming using Python, a popular language for general-purpose programming, data science, web programming, and more.

Learn the skills and tools of improvement science to make positive changes in health, healthcare, and your daily life.

A gentle introduction to programming that prepares you for subsequent courses in coding.

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

Explore how entrepreneurship and innovation tackle complex social problems in emerging economies.

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

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