Courses

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

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

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

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

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

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

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

Discover how pathogen genomics informs public health decisions and practice.

HKS Executive Education and Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences present a webinar featuring Harvard faculty Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.

Explore the underlying structures of everyday arguments and develop the tools to communicate effectively.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

An introduction to programming using Python, a popular language for general-purpose programming, data science, web programming, and more.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Learn to use machine learning in Python in this introductory course on artificial intelligence.

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

Develop skills in digital research and visualization techniques across subjects and fields within the humanities.

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

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

Learn the fascinating history of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, one of the most challenging and rewarding ballets ever written.

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

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

Learn about Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, an iconic Romantic symphony that ushered in an era of narrative “program music.”

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

This course is a variant of Harvard University's introduction to computer science, CS50, designed especially for lawyers (and law students).