Courses

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

Build a movie recommendation system and learn the science behind one of the most popular and successful data science techniques.

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.

Learn how to face and meet today’s challenges and design a public value proposition that is both actionable and value creating.

Explore how entrepreneurship and innovation tackle complex social problems in emerging economies.

Learn about Christianity through a study of its sacred scriptures. We will explore how diverse Christians have interpreted these writings and practiced their teachings over a 2000 year, global history.

Apply tools of single-variable calculus to create and analyze mathematical models used by real practitioners in social, life, and physical sciences.

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 human-centered approach to the fundamentals of cell biology with a focus on the power plants of the cell - mitochondria.

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Learn how to use decision trees, the foundational algorithm for your understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

An overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

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

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

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

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

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

Join Harvard faculty in this online course to discover the physical history of the Jewish bible.

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

Learn to use R programming to apply linear models to analyze data in life sciences.

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.

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

Study Baroque and Classical opera through Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s Don Giovanni

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

Learn skills and tools that support data science and reproducible research, to ensure you can trust your own research results, reproduce them yourself, and communicate them to others.

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

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.

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

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.