Courses

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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?

The Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Statements webinars provide a great opportunity to learn the basic principles of nonprofit accounting.

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

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

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

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

Examine how great modern writers capture the intricacies of our globalized world and how their works circulate within that world to find their own audiences.

This intensive course, developed by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), offers a comprehensive exploration of key topics in stem cell medicine.

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

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.

An exploration of the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

Develop the skills to lead with courage and conviction through challenging times with this free, 35-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson.

Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Learn the anatomy basic to understanding five musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in primary care medicine and orthopedic clinical specialty practice. Follow hypothetical patients from injury to operating room.

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

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

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

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

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

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

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

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

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

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