Free Courses

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

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government

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

Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

Develop the skills to lead with courage and conviction through challenging times with this free, 35-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson.

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

Examine best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale.

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

Learn to program in TensorFlow Lite for microcontrollers so that you can write the code, and deploy your model to your very own tiny microcontroller. Before you know it, you’ll be implementing an entire TinyML application.

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

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.

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

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

Keep your projects organized and produce reproducible reports using GitHub, git, Unix/Linux, and RStudio.

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

Focusing on the basics of machine learning and embedded systems, such as smartphones, this course will introduce you to the “language” of TinyML.

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

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

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

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

Get the opportunity to see TinyML in practice. You will see examples of TinyML applications, and learn first-hand how to train these models for tiny applications such as keyword spotting, visual wake words, and gesture recognition.

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

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

Explore China’s imperial period, with a focus on the Song dynasty and the role of the exam system in government.

This free webinar from HKS Professor Matthew Bunn tours the horizon of nuclear dangers.

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.

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

Combine literary research with data science to find answers in unexpected ways. Learn basic coding tools to help save time and draw insights from thousands of digital documents at once.