Political Science Courses

Leadership in Crises is an on campus executive program that will help you learn how to build the expertise needed to ensure a more successful crisis management process.

AI in Action provides the insights and tools you'll need to understand and utilize AI in all its forms.

Women and Power is an intensive one-week on campus program designed to accelerate women's leadership advancement.

Learn how to face and meet today’s challenges and design a public value proposition that is both actionable and value creating.

This is an intensive, 5-day executive program that examines the managerial and operational challenges faced by government officials and professionals who have regulatory, enforcement, security, compliance, or other risk-control responsibilities.

Public Narrative: Leadership, Storytelling, and Action is a transformative online program through which you can strengthen your capacity to lead.

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.

This on-campus executive program offers a stimulating and challenging curriculum that invites you to learn how to exercise leadership with more courage, skill, and effectiveness.

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

This on-campus executive program offers a stimulating and challenging curriculum that invites you to learn how to exercise leadership with more courage, skill, and effectiveness.

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.

This online executive program offers the latest research and best practices in nonprofit management to help leaders run organizations more effectively.

This program is designed to help experienced leaders gain the tools needed to effectively resolve the difficult challenges you face, often on a daily basis. The program will introduce you to a new approach to leadership called “The 4P Framework”.

Negotiation Strategies: Building Agreement Across Boundaries is an executive program that goes beyond other negotiation workshops to address the challenges of negotiating across cultures, organizations, and sectors.

Designed for current and aspiring nonprofit leaders, this course helps learners build the confidence needed to make stronger financial decisions in mission-driven organizations.

This program is designed to help leaders of civic associations, advocacy groups, and social movements learn how to organize communities that can mobilize power to make change.

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

Strategies for Inclusive Growth is a one-week, on-campus program from Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education.

An online executive program to explore how policy and technology, together, can address critical threats of the cyber world.

This program address the significant challenge of climate change and its impacts on the environment, as well as society and the global economy.

This 5-day Harvard Kennedy School executive program will develop and expand your capacity to be one of tomorrow’s leaders.

In today’s world, it is crucial that leaders act with integrity and authenticity. Leadership and Character in Uncertain Times is a five-week online program that offers an opportunity to learn how to lead in times of conflict and disagreement.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

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

Leadership Decision Making features hands-on learning experiences that help leaders like you improve decision analysis and leadership effectiveness.

This on-campus program will help you prepare for and respond to crises, develop protocols that minimize the potential for future occurrences, and inspire confidence in the long-term success and resilience of your institution.

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.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

Understand how the FDA regulates pharmaceuticals and explore debates on prescription drug costs, marketing, and testing.

This is an intensive, 5-day executive program that examines the managerial and operational challenges faced by government officials and professionals who have regulatory, enforcement, security, compliance, or other risk-control responsibilities.