Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Explore the risks and rewards of data privacy and collection.

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

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

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

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

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

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

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

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

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

Explore Higher Education Teaching and its practices offered by Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Learn to create a collaborative, engaging learning environment.

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

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

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

Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.

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

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

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

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

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

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

Explore the risks and rewards of data privacy and collection.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Led by Harvard Instructors and historians, you will discover China’s return to power through political, social, and economic growth in relation to other countries.