Science Courses

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

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

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.

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!

Explore the roles that microbes play in the production, preservation, and enhancement of diverse foods in a variety of culinary traditions, and learn about the history of food fermentations.

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

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

Discover what makes your brain tick in this third course in our introductory series in neuroscience.

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

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

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

Learn the anatomy basic to understanding five musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in primary care medicine and orthopedic clinical specialty practice. Follow hypothetical patients from injury to operating room.

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

Traces Albert Einstein’s engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology.

A quantitative introduction to the energy system and its environmental impacts.