Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences

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

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

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

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

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.

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

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

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.

Examine how cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how their vision of literature contributes to our understanding of civilization, culture, and literature today.

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

An exploration of the dynamics of contemporary China using the tools of close reading, discussion, and analysis.

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

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