Courses

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

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

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

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

Explore the risks and rewards of data privacy and collection.

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

Data Science Principles is a Harvard Online course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online that provides an overview of data science with a code- and math-free introduction to prediction, causality, data wrangling, privacy, and ethics.

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

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.

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

Learn simple graphical rules that allow you to use intuitive pictures to improve study design and data analysis for causal inference.

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

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

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

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

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.