Harvard University provides multiple free courses in areas of art and design, business, computer science, data science, education and teaching, health and medicine, humanities, mathematics, programming, science, social sciences and theology. While most courses are self-paced course, some require one to complete them in a fixed time frame.
Students can receive a Harvard University certificate if they achieve a passing grade on a few pre-defined problem sets, assignments, and a final project.
The course Super-Earths and Life explores the topic of extra-terrestrial life, how we find it, and what it tells us about our role in the cosmos. The central idea of Super-Earths and Life is how biology and astronomy combined can address one of humanity’s most fundamental and potent questions: are we alone in the universe?
Introduction to computer science
Students will be introduced to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming in this free course. This is a 11-week course.
Systematic approaches to policy design
This free online course from Harvard Kennedy School introduces approaches to analytical decision-making for policy design.
Big data solutions for social and economic disparities
In this online course, students will study the effects of family status on educational outcomes and long-term success, as well as how highly engaged teachers can affect student learning outcomes. They will also understand how big data can be used to measure mobility and solve social problems.
Managing Happiness
Students enrolled in this free course will explore diverse definitions of happiness and understand its function in everyday life, learn how genetic, social, and economic influences impact your happiness, apply the science of the mind, body, and community to manage emotions and behaviors for greater happiness and recognise how success and achievement impact short versus long-term happiness.
Introduction to Digital Humanities
The free course aims to improve students’ abilities in digital research and visualization methods for a variety of humanities subjects and fields. Students will learn how to handle the various facets of digital humanities research and scholarship in this course. Through the use of digital tools, this course will help anyone, be they a student or scholar, librarian or archivist, museum curator or public historian, or just plain curious, bring the subject or area of interest to new life.
Introduction to game development
The free course aims to improve students’ abilities in digital research and visualization methods for a variety of humanities subjects and fields. Students will learn how to handle the various facets of digital humanities research and scholarship in this course. Through the use of digital tools, this course will help anyone, be they a student or scholar, librarian or archivist, museum curator or public historian, or just plain curious, bring the subject or area of interest to new life.