Courses

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

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

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

An exploration of the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

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

Power and Influence for Positive Impact, a Harvard Business School (HBS) Online course, helps individuals develop their own power to gain influence and make an impact.

Learn how the Manchus conquered the Qing and established the last of the imperial dynasties.

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

Explore Chinese history and culture from the perspective of the individual through philosophical texts, literary works, and art.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

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

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

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

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.

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

Study Japanese scroll art as text and as "little movies" that immerse the viewer through visual narration. 

Engage with leading experts at a two-day continuing education conference that bridges spirituality, religion, and mental health care.

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

Learn how businesses thrive and grow while simultaneously solving some of the world's biggest challenges in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

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

An introduction to the study of bioethics and the application of legal and ethical reasoning.

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

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

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

Build a viable, valuable tech venture that can profitably scale in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Explore the impact of the conquest dynasties and the world of the Ming.

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

An exploration of the dynamics of contemporary China using the tools of close reading, discussion, and analysis.