Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Explore the risks and rewards of data privacy and collection.

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Data Science and AI Principles is a Harvard Online course that gives you an overview of data science and AI systems with a nearly code- and math-free introduction to prediction, causality, visualization, data wrangling, privacy, ethics.

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

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

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

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

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

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

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

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

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

Data Science and AI Principles is a Harvard Online course that gives you an overview of data science and AI systems with a nearly code- and math-free introduction to prediction, causality, visualization, data wrangling, privacy, ethics.

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

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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.

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.

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

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

Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature.