Courses

Explore how genomic patterns help us understand infectious disease transmission.

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

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

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

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

Learn how the Manchus conquered the Qing and established the last of the imperial dynasties.

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

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.

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

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

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

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

Learn probability, an essential language and set of tools for understanding data, randomness, and uncertainty.

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

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

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.

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

Learn how to create, read, update, and delete data with relational databases.

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Traces Albert Einstein’s engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology.