Courses

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

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

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

Gain critical communication skills in writing and public speaking with this introduction to American political rhetoric.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Take your introductory knowledge of Python programming to the next level and learn how to use Python 3 for your research.

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

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

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

Get the opportunity to see TinyML in practice. You will see examples of TinyML applications, and learn first-hand how to train these models for tiny applications such as keyword spotting, visual wake words, and gesture recognition.

Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

Learn skills and tools that support data science and reproducible research, to ensure you can trust your own research results, reproduce them yourself, and communicate them to others.

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

Equipping clinicians with an up‑to‑date, comprehensive understanding of stem cell–based approaches for Parkinson’s disease, including biological rationale, current trial outcomes, comparison with existing therapies, and guidance for evidence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

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

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.

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