Courses

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

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

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

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

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

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

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

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

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?

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 about the opioid epidemic in the United States, including information about treatment and recovery from opioid addiction.

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

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

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

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

This course is a variant of Harvard University's introduction to computer science, CS50, designed especially for lawyers (and law students).

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.

Join Harvard University instructor Pavlos Protopapas in this online course to learn how to use Python to harness and analyze data.

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

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.

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

Join Harvard faculty in this online course to discover the physical history of the Jewish bible.

Learn how to create, read, update, and delete data with relational databases.

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

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

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

Learn about the development of 2D and 3D interactive games in this hands-on course, as you explore the design of games such as Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Angry Birds, and more.

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

Designed for current and aspiring nonprofit leaders, this course helps learners build the confidence needed to make stronger financial decisions in mission-driven organizations.