Science Courses

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about food molecules and how chemical reactions can affect food texture and flavor.

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

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

Learn the significance of electrochemistry, understanding how electrical, chemical, and mechanical energy are linked.

Leadership for Social Change is a 3.5 day on-campus executive education program developed by faculty from the Social Innovation + Change Initiative within the Harvard Kennedy School.

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

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

See how the immune system is being used to improve cancer treatment.

Learn foundational concepts in biochemistry and gain a new appreciation for how this field applies to human health and disease.

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

Explore the foundational principles of artificial intelligence (AI) and its transformative applications in medicine and biomedical research.

Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

Understand advances in drug delivery systems and approaches.

How can we eradicate malaria? Explore cutting-edge science and technology, and examine policies needed, to control and eliminate malaria.

Learn introductory programming and data analysis in MATLAB, with applications to biology and medicine.

This advanced course offers a unique way for professionals to learn from leading Harvard Medical School faculty and industry leaders about nucleic acid therapeutics.

Learn foundational concepts in immunology and gain a basis for understanding a broad range of medical conditions.

HKS Executive Education and Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences present a webinar featuring Harvard faculty Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.

Learn the fundamentals of chemistry and energy, from the types of energy to atomic mass and matter to enthalpy and thermodynamics.

Learn about the Earth, life, and how we can search for life elsewhere in the universe.

Dive into the mechanisms of action and exciting applications of new FDA-approved genetic medicines.

Prepare yourself and your organization for the business risks and opportunities created by climate change in this online course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

An introduction to the study of bioethics and the application of legal and ethical reasoning.

Learn foundational concepts in physiology and see how the material is used in taking care of patients.

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.

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

Learn foundational concepts in genetics and gain new insight into the rapidly evolving field of genomics.

Expand your learning of chemistry and thermodynamics by exploring entropy, free energy, and equilibrium.

Explore recent advances in gene therapy and learn about the implications for patient care.

Learn how cancer treatment is evolving due to advances in genetics.