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Education & Teaching
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Leaders of Learning

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership. Gain the tools to imagine and build the future of learning.
Price
Free*
Duration
10 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Humanities
Online

China’s Political and Intellectual Foundations: From Sage Kings to Confucius

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.
Price
Free*
Duration
15 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Data Science
Online

Data Science: Wrangling

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  
Price
Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Opens Apr 15
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Science
Online

Energy Within Environmental Constraints

A quantitative introduction to the energy system and its environmental impacts.
Price
Free*
Duration
10 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Humanities
Online

Shakespeare's Life and Work

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Art & Design
Online

Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and the Birth of Opera

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.
Price
Free*
Duration
3 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
CS50W
Programming
Online

CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript

This course picks up where CS50 leaves off, diving more deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap.
Price
Free*
Duration
12 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Science
Online

Backyard Meteorology: The Science of Weather

Learn to forecast the weather just by looking out your window.
Price
Free*
Duration
6 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Data Science
Online

Data Science: R Basics

Build a foundation in R and learn how to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Humanities
Online

Ancient Masterpieces of World Literature

Examine how cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how their vision of literature contributes to our understanding of civilization, culture, and literature today.
Price
Free*
Duration
6 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Opens Mar 11
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Education & Teaching
Online

Introduction to Data Wise: A Collaborative Process to Improve Learning & Teaching

Learn what is involved in using data wisely to build a culture of collaborative inquiry. 
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Opens Mar 25
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Humanities
Online

Modern Masterpieces of World Literature

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.
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Data Science
Online

Introduction to Bioconductor

The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.
Price
Free*
Duration
4 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Business
Online

Technology Entrepreneurship: Lab to Market

Explore how entrepreneurs build successful businesses by moving technology from lab to market.
Price
Free*
Duration
5 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Art & Design
Online

Beethoven's 9th Symphony and the 19th Century Orchestra

Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music.
Price
Free*
Duration
3 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Social Sciences
Online

Citizen Politics in America: Public Opinion, Elections, Interest Groups, and the Media

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Data Science
Online

Data Science: Probability

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.
Price
Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Opens Apr 15
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Data Science
Online

Data Science: Inference and Modeling

Learn inference and modeling: two of the most widely used statistical tools in data analysis.
Price
Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Science
Online

Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 3: The Brain

Discover what makes your brain tick in this third course in our introductory series in neuroscience.
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Opens Apr 1
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Data Science
Online

Data Science: Wrangling

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  
Price
Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
CS50S
Computer Science
Online

CS50's Introduction to Programming with Scratch

A gentle introduction to programming that prepares you for subsequent courses in coding.
Price
Free*
Duration
3 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Science
Online

Super-Earths and Life

Learn about the Earth, life, and how we can search for life elsewhere in the universe.
Price
Free*
Duration
15 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Health & Medicine
Online

Global Health Case Studies from a Biosocial Perspective

Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Mathematics
Online

Calculus Applied!

Apply tools of single-variable calculus to create and analyze mathematical models used by real practitioners in social, life, and physical sciences.
Price
Free*
Duration
10 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Humanities
Online

Japanese Books: From Manuscript to Print

Study Japanese scroll art as text and as "little movies" that immerse the viewer through visual narration. 
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Health & Medicine
Online

The Opioid Crisis in America

Learn about the opioid epidemic in the United States, including information about treatment and recovery from opioid addiction.
Price
Free*
Duration
10 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Data Science
Online

Data Science: Probability

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Art & Design
Online

The Architectural Imagination

Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.
Price
Free*
Duration
10 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Humanities
Online

Justice Today: Money, Markets, and Morals (edX)

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.
Price
Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Art & Design
Online

19th-Century Opera: Meyerbeer, Wagner, & Verdi

Learn the music and cultural impact of three canonical operas from the 1800s: Les Huguenots, Das Rheingold, and Otello.
Price
Free*
Duration
6 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now

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