Courses

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

Join Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques to use applied psychology to build personal resilience with five science-driven skills.

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

Study Baroque and Classical opera through Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Learn about the Quran, the central sacred text of Islam, through an exploration of the rich diversity of roles and interpretations in Muslim societies.

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.

Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.

Traces Albert Einstein’s engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology.

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

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

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.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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

Discover how neurons work together to create complex networks inside the brain.

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  

Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.

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

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

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

Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music.

Expand your learning of chemistry and thermodynamics by exploring entropy, free energy, and equilibrium.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.