Courses

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.

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

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

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.

Learn about Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, an iconic Romantic symphony that ushered in an era of narrative “program music.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This course examines the Sikh scripture from a doctrinal and historical perspective by providing an overview of Sikh teachings as well as the historical context within which the scripture evolved and became canonized.