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This tutorial helps students develop an academically strong thesis proposal. During the semester, they map critical issues of project design such as scope, background, methodology, and expected outcomes. Students are encouraged to contact their research…

This course explores the principles and methods of community-based, participatory, and action research. We engage with various perspectives on the process, practice, and applications of engaged inquiry, with an emphasis on diverse voices, sources, and…

This course teaches students the research and writing skills they need to write historical biography. It is interdisciplinary, drawing on the research skills of history and political science as well as narrative writing skills. We read and discuss excerpts…

Most data scientists spend 20 percent of their time building data models and analyzing model results. What do they do with the remaining 80 percent of their time? The answer is data engineering. Data engineering is a subdiscipline of software engineering that…

Psychometrics is just a fancy word for the assessment and measurement of psychological characteristics (skills, abilities, personality traits, knowledge, opinions, preferences, and attitudes). Political pollsters, survey writers, market researchers, teachers…

Translating scientific knowledge is a vital public service, and there is a large body of psychological and social science research that can have positive effects in people's lives, such as the psychology of learning and habit change, positive psychology and…

The course deals with basic economic principles that help us understand the process of decision-making by individuals and societies. We analyze the fundamental economic activities of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption at both the micro and…

In this course, students explore the fundamental elements of online course design and how to be practitioners of pedagogy and instructional design in a world where online learning is constantly changing. Students examine and establish the qualities of a good…

How can we make change? In this course we explore the ethical foundations, principles, methods, tools, and skill-set essential for designing strategies to advance social change. We explore various perspectives and practices for students to equip themselves…

In this advanced screenwriting workshop, students watch films and episodic television excerpts and discuss the work of workshop members. During the course, students present two 20- to 30-page acts from their screenplays for class discussion. The final project…

This course focuses on designing, building, and sustaining secure applications across their full life cycle. Students take a fictional product from ideation through design, development, testing, deployment, and eventual end-of-life, learning how to embed…

This course explores the field of wearable devices and computer vision, two technologies experiencing a modern-day renaissance. Wearable technologies is an exciting, innovative field that has seen a flurry of recent advancements, such as the Apple Vision Pro,…

This course is designed to cover an introductory level overview of bioinformatics. It covers commonly used bioinformatics tools and algorithms as well as standard formats, with the focus on DNA/RNA sequence and sequencing data analysis. The topics include…

In today's world, data is generated at an ever-increasing rate. The analytic platforms need to match this pace of generated data, digest it, and generate useful insights. The best decisions are made with informed data and as it changes, one needs to follow…

Pursue your own undergraduate research project under the supervision of an Extension School instructor or a faculty member at another Harvard school. The reading and research course counts as four upper-level credits toward your concentration and field of…

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of motivation. It is designed to help students understand what motivation is, how it relates to needs, cognitions, emotions, and behaviors. It also covers how to assess and intervene to help…

This course provides an analytic and applied overview of both microeconomics and macroeconomics. In the microeconomic portion of the course, we examine exactly how prices are determined in competitive markets and what can distort that determination. Market…

Pursue your own undergraduate research project under the supervision of an Extension School instructor or a faculty member at another Harvard school. The reading and research course counts as four upper-level credits toward your concentration and field of…

This course builds on CSCI E-101 , giving students a solid foundation for advanced data modeling, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI). The focus of this course is data exploration and inference methods for understanding and interpreting complex…

Scala is a strongly typed, versatile programming language that has emerged as a de facto language for big data systems. Scala supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming (FP) techniques. This…

More people die every year from opioid overdoses than gunshot wounds and car accidents, and the crisis appears to be worsening and rapidly changing. Making matters worse, understanding the crisis in real time is notoriously difficult, especially since most…

This course focuses on the venture capital cycle and typical venture-backed start-up companies. It covers the typical venture fund structure and related venture capital objectives and investment strategies, intellectual property, and common organizational…

Harvard University’s Introduction to Fiction Writing course offers a dynamic and immersive exploration of storytelling within the Emerging / Needs Review category. Designed for aspiring writers, this course delves into narrative techniques, character…

This precapstone course prepares students to write and present their business plan in the capstone. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, biotechnology, who wish to register for BIOT E-599 in the spring. Through idea discovery, market…

Why does it seem that some people are so resilient and content? This course looks at psychological and physical health from the perspective of positive psychology. The major focus is on mindfulness theory and its relationship to stress and coping, illness and…

This course equips students with the concepts, tools, and skills needed to participate in the transition to a circular economy across diverse sectors and domains. A circular economy aims to decouple economic value creation from the extraction of finite…

This course introduces the basic concepts of data analysis and statistical computing, both increasingly used in the social sciences and the humanities. The emphasis is on the practical application of quantitative reasoning, visualization, and data analysis.…

Harvard University presents 'Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Government, History, and International Relations Tutorial,' a meticulously designed course in the Emerging/Needs Review category. This tutorial equips students with advanced strategies for…

Most machine learning models emphasize cross-sectional data, while traditional time-series models typically focus on a small number of variables and low-frequency data. This course develops the skills and tools needed to analyze big data that are rich in both…

Harvard University presents The Science of Happiness and Well-Being, a cutting-edge course that delves into the Emerging / Needs Review category. This comprehensive program explores the psychological principles and practices that foster well-being, offering…