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.

Turn the uncertainty of today's global economy into an opportunity to manage risk, and create and capture value for your organization, in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Enhance your ability to be an effective and influential leader who can drive results.

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.

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”.

Persuasive Communication is designed to help you build a critical set of skills in writing, speaking, and presentation by providing a dynamic forum to learn, practice, and receive feedback on these essential skills.