Courses

Learn the significance of electrochemistry, understanding how electrical, chemical, and mechanical energy are linked.

A gentle introduction to programming that prepares you for subsequent courses in coding.

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

Why should we care about Confucius? Explore ancient Chinese philosophy, ethics, and political theory to challenge your assumptions of what it means to be happy, live a meaningful life, and change the world.

How can we eradicate malaria? Explore cutting-edge science and technology, and examine policies needed, to control and eliminate malaria.

Find innovation opportunities in health care technology, management, consulting, or investing by examining health care cost, quality, and access.

Learn introductory programming and data analysis in MATLAB, with applications to biology and medicine.

Learn what is involved in using data wisely to build a culture of collaborative inquiry. 

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

The Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Statements webinars provide a great opportunity to learn the basic principles of nonprofit accounting.

An overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

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

Learn how global warming impacts human health, and the ways we can diminish those impacts.

Expand your learning of chemistry and thermodynamics by exploring entropy, free energy, and equilibrium.

Learn about the Quran, the central sacred text of Islam, through an exploration of the rich diversity of roles and interpretations in Muslim societies.

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

The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.

Learn about the opioid epidemic in the United States, including information about treatment and recovery from opioid addiction.

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

Learn inference and modeling: two of the most widely used statistical tools in data analysis.

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

Explore the birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.

Learn skills and tools that support data science and reproducible research, to ensure you can trust your own research results, reproduce them yourself, and communicate them to others.

A quantitative introduction to the energy system and its environmental impacts.