Social Sciences Courses

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

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

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

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

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

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

This introduction to moral and political philosophy is one of the most popular courses taught at Harvard College.

Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise?

Join Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques to use applied psychology to build personal resilience with five science-driven skills.

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

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.

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

Are you a public policymaker frustrated with the limited impact of your government’s policies? Are you trying to improve implementation? If so, you are not alone.

Start thinking like the top strategists with this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Design Thinking and Innovation from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online will teach you how to leverage fundamental design thinking principles and innovative problem-solving tools to address business challenges.