Social Sciences Courses

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

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.

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.

Leading Economic Growth is an online executive program that brings together leading experts in economic development with practitioners from around the globe to focus on practical approaches to shared growth and development. 

This course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online will teach you how to approach pricing strategy, evaluate market demand, and differentiate offerings, so you can drive critical business decisions and successfully compete in the marketplace.

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

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

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

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government

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.

This 4-week Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education online program is designed to help managers in nonprofit organizations understand the tools, techniques and concepts of good financial management.

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

The Global Health Care Leaders Program (GHLP) is a multi-modular global program that aims to bring together the most important topics defining the future of health care industry for the leaders who will lead the charge.

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.

The Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Statements webinars provide a great opportunity to learn the basic principles of nonprofit accounting.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Develop the perspectives and skills necessary to be an effective law firm leader. 

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.

The Future of Legal provides the tools, knowledge, and practical strategies to navigate how to move forward in changing legal landscape.

This free webinar from HKS Professor Matthew Bunn tours the horizon of nuclear dangers.

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”.

Join Harvard Kennedy School faculty and former Pentagon Chief of Staff Eric Rosenbach to learn how to develop strategies for public leadership success.

Examine best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale.

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

Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

This course is a variant of Harvard University's introduction to computer science, CS50, designed especially for lawyers (and law students).