Courses

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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