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  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

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

Equipping clinicians with an up‑to‑date, comprehensive understanding of stem cell–based approaches for Parkinson’s disease, including biological rationale, current trial outcomes, comparison with existing therapies, and guidance for evidence.

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

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

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

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

Learn to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs.

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about food molecules and how chemical reactions can affect food texture and flavor.

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

Learn about the development of 2D and 3D interactive games in this hands-on course, as you explore the design of games such as Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Angry Birds, and more.

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

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

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

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

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

A focus on several techniques that are widely used in the analysis of high-dimensional data.

This course introduces learners to Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) through the lens of TinyML (Tiny Machine Learning). Learners explore best practices to deploy, monitor, and maintain (tiny) Machine Learning models in production at scale.

An introduction to basic statistical concepts and R programming skills necessary for analyzing data in the life sciences.

Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.

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

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

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

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

Build a foundation in R and learn how to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.

Show what you’ve learned from the Professional Certificate Program in Data Science.

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  

Join Harvard University instructor Pavlos Protopapas in this online course to learn how to use Python to harness and analyze data.