Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

Gain a foundational knowledge of American constitutional democracy while crafting your own civic voice and identity.

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

Use the case study method to study China from the rise of Deng Xiaoping to the present.

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

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

Explore the risks and rewards of data privacy and collection.

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

Learn the music and cultural impact of three canonical operas from the 1800s: Les Huguenots, Das Rheingold, and Otello.

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.

Increase your quantitative reasoning skills through a deeper understanding of probability and statistics, with the engaging “Fat Chance” approach that’s made this course a favorite among learners worldwide.

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

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.

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.

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

Data Science Principles is a Harvard Online course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online that provides an overview of data science with a code- and math-free introduction to prediction, causality, data wrangling, privacy, and ethics.

Explore the risks and rewards of data privacy and collection.

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

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

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

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

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

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.

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.

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

Think critically about social questions such as education policy, upward income mobility, and racial disparities, and understand how big data can answer these questions as well as impact policies that lead to improved outcomes around the world.

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

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

An overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.