Courses

Learn how to better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

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

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

Explore the risks and rewards of data privacy and collection.

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

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

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

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Explore the impact of the conquest dynasties and the world of the Ming.

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

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

Taught by Harvard Professor Michael Sandel with insights from actor Michael B. Jordan

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Taught by Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with insights from actor and singer Cynthia Erivo

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

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

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

Scale AI adoption with strategy, trust, and compliance.

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

Lead with stories that clarify, align, and inspire action.

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

Designed for individuals and teams, this Harvard Online course taught by preeminent Harvard Professor Mahzarin Banaji teaches the science of hidden bias and strategies to counter its impact in the workplace.

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

Apply economic concepts to personal finance and investing to evaluate risk, understand markets, and make smarter long-term financial decisions.

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

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.

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.