Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences

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

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

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.

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

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

Explore the archaeology, history, art, and hieroglyphs surrounding the famous Egyptian Pyramids at Giza. Learn about Old Kingdom pharaohs and elites, tombs, temples, the Sphinx, and how new technology is unlocking their secrets.

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

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

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

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

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.

Explore the ways in which CRISPR is disrupting sectors across the economy with Harvard VPAL.

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.