Courses

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

Learn about the Earth, life, and how we can search for life elsewhere in the universe.

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

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

Prepare your student for college-level writing now.

Led by Harvard Instructors and historians, you will discover China’s return to power through political, social, and economic growth in relation to other countries.

An in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic in Soho and its importance for the field of epidemiology.

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

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

Think critically about social questions such as education policy, upward income mobility, and racial disparities, and understand how big data can answer these questions as well as impact policies that lead to improved outcomes around the world.

Learn how to better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

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

Gain a foundational knowledge of American constitutional democracy while crafting your own civic voice and identity.

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

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

Explore Higher Education Teaching and its practices offered by Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Learn to create a collaborative, engaging learning environment.

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

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

Think critically about social questions such as education policy, upward income mobility, and racial disparities, and understand how big data can answer these questions as well as impact policies that lead to improved outcomes around the world.

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

Discover Handel’s Messiah in this installment of First Nights, which will explore five masterpieces of western music.

Learn about the key beliefs and practices of Judaism through an examination of its sacred texts and their interpretation.

Taught by Harvard Professor Michael Sandel with insights from actor Michael B. Jordan

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

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

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

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Explore the ways in which CRISPR is disrupting sectors across the economy with Harvard VPAL.

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

Increase your quantitative reasoning skills through a deeper understanding of probability and statistics, with the engaging “Fat Chance” approach that’s made this course a favorite among learners worldwide.