Courses

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

In Remote Work Revolution for Everyone, you will learn to excel in the virtual-work landscape. You will learn how to build trust, increase productivity, use digital tools intelligently, and remain fully aligned with your remote team.

Take your introductory knowledge of Python programming to the next level and learn how to use Python 3 for your research.

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

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

Explore Chinese history and culture from the perspective of the individual through philosophical texts, literary works, and art.

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

Discover what makes your brain tick in this third course in our introductory series in neuroscience.

Discover how neurons work together to create complex networks inside the brain.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Learn about the Earth, life, and how we can search for life elsewhere in the universe.

This intensive course, developed by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), offers a comprehensive exploration of key topics in stem cell medicine.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

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 about the rich and diverse beliefs and practices of Buddhists across time and place. Experience Buddhism through its scriptures, both relationally as well as academically.

Join Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques to use applied psychology to build personal resilience with five science-driven skills.

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.

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

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

Learn about the key beliefs and practices of Judaism through an examination of its sacred texts and their interpretation.

Learn how to protect your own data, devices, and systems from today's threats.

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

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

Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.

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.