Harvard University courses

This course is designed for students who wish to build upon the skills developed in <a href="/search/?p=EXPO%2025" data-action="result-detail" data-group="code:EXPO 25" >EXPO S-25</a> in order to produce more advanced research and writing in the humanities.…

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…

While beating the markets was long thought to be impossible, hedge funds have seemingly challenged many financial theories, cracked the mysteries of Wall Street, and made fortunes in the process. They are also one of the fastest growing and least understood…

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…

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…

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…

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 explores the brain at the level of molecules, cells, circuits, and behavior. Topics include brain anatomy and function; sensory and motor systems; how the brain processes thoughts; how the brain regulates emotions; learning, memory, and attention;…

This is a workshop for those who wish to learn the foundations and processes for writing feature-length motion picture screenplays. Adaptations, documentary, and television scripts may be written with the instructor's permission. Topics covered include…

With gender inequities and biases pervasive within and across cultures worldwide, and the global pandemics of gender-based violence and structural violence further intensified by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, how have individuals, groups, communities,…

This course examines the main ways in which the relationship between self, society, and politics has been conceptualized in major sociological and philosophical texts. What are the political implications of different ways of understanding the self? Is it fair…

This course is an introduction to historical linguistics, the study of language change over time. It covers the fundamental aspects of language change (semantic, phonological, morphological, and syntactic), as well as the techniques and procedures involved in…

The past decade has signaled a massive transformation in the world's understanding of the connections between climate change and our planet's water cycle. A single volcanic eruption off Tonga increased global atmospheric water vapor (our most abundant…

Data science and artificial intelligence (AI) are creating new opportunities to improve businesses' decision-making, productivity, and competitiveness. However, data science and AI also create ethical and privacy concerns. For example, a classification…

This course is an integrated introduction to general chemistry, taught in a contextual framework of social, environmental, technological, and health issues. It is intended for students with little to no background in chemistry, as well as those who desire to…

Evolutionary processes provide the foundation for understanding the origins and distribution of inherited and environmentally influenced variation among populations and species of all organisms. Demographic (Malthusian) factors, evolutionary (Darwinian)…

In an era of increasing climate-driven disasters, understanding community-based approaches to disaster prevention and response is crucial across all sectors. This interdisciplinary course explores disasters as complex social phenomena, blending environmental…

This course seeks to introduce students to the core beliefs and practices of Islam, with special focus on how Islam has manifested in diverse cultures throughout its vast history (China, Spain, the United States, and the Middle East). Students obtain a…

The course is an introduction to cybersecurity for technical and non-technical audiences alike. Students learn how to secure their accounts, data, systems, and software against today's threats and how to recognize and evaluate tomorrow's as well, both at home…

This course is an introduction to Newtonian mechanics. Topics include Newton's laws, kinematics, statics, conservation of energy and momentum, the simple harmonic oscillator, and rotations. This course fulfills one of two semesters of physics for entrance to…

This course is a survey of fundamental data structures for information processing, including lists, stacks, queues, trees, and graphs. It explores the implementation of these data structures (both array-based and linked representations) and examines classic…

This course provides a structured approach to the design, analysis, and implementation of networks and protocols. We study various protocols, including TCP/IP, WWW/HTTP, email/SMTP, domain name system (DNS), multimedia protocols for voice and video, routing…

This course deals with issues related to human behavior in a variety of organizational settings. Conceptual frameworks, case discussion, and skills-based activities are applied to each topic/issue. Topics include communications, motivation, group dynamics,…

This course deals with issues related to human behavior in a variety of organizational settings. Conceptual frameworks, case discussion, and skills-based activities are applied to each topic/issue. Topics include communications, motivation, group dynamics,…

This course covers the intersection of start-ups, entrepreneurship, and intellectual property (IP) law. Students gain skills with navigation of major tenants of intellectual property law including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trades secrets as these…

Why do people from some cultures find body modifications attractive that others find ugly? What makes a Picasso beautiful? Why are fashion trends constantly changing? This course delves into the hidden functions that explain our aesthetic tastes, including…

This course examines the role of nuclear weapons in US and international security. In addition to familiarizing students with the types and effects of nuclear arms, the course considers the history and future of nuclear strategy, the control and reduction of…

Game theory is a set of tools designed to study multiple strategic agents in many different environments. The scenarios involve interactions where the payoff of one agent, Agent A, depends on both Agent A's actions and the actions taken by other agents in the…

This course provides an introduction to basic notions in special relativity and general relativity. After discussing the older Galilean relativity of Newtonian mechanics, the Lorentz transformations of special relativity are derived and their consequences…

This course provides an overview of the neuroscience of learning through mind, brain, health, and education science (MBHE), or the intersection of psychology, cognitive neuroscience, health, and education. Fundamental biological, psychological, social, and…

What happened in the past, and if and how we should remember it, is hotly contested. What is our degree of certainty about the past societies and cultures that historians, archaeologists, and others study today? Whose past matters? And how should we remember…

This course explores the concepts of stress and resilience in relation to the underlying psychophysiologic mechanisms that regulate them. Shaped by evolutionary forces, human psychophysiologic, emotional, behavioral, and social performance continuously adapts…

This course presents the basic analytical tools of microeconomics. We start by looking at the basic operation of a market where price and quantity of a product are determined. Then we focus on the decision-making of individual consumers and ask how these…

This course helps students develop academically strong, individual or team-based capstone proposals. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, digital media design, who wish to register for the <a href="/search/?p=DGMD%20E-599"…

This course is designed to prepare students to interpret and analyze financial statements for tasks such as credit and security analyses, lending and investment decisions, and other decisions that rely on financial data. This course explores in greater depth…

This is an intensive course focused on the elements of craft required to master the novel form: narration, plot, structure, chronology, and characterization. We look closely at various genres (auto-fiction, the bildungsroman, the comedy of manners, science…

This course introduces students to the demands and conventions of academic reading and writing. It focuses on analyzing texts, building effective arguments, and using evidence and secondary source material. Instruction on the stages of the writing process,…

This is an intensive workshop in the craft of writing short fiction. It is for writers who love to read short stories and want to make their own short stories come alive on the page. Students should arrive having read widely among past and contemporary…

This course is designed for students seeking preparation for <a href="/search/?p=EXPO%20E-25" data-action="result-detail" data-group="code:EXPO E-25" class="notoffered" title="This course is not being offered in the selected term.">EXPO E-25</a>, which is a…

Writing offers us seemingly endless ways to express ourselves and find our own unique voices. Why should we have to choose just one? In this course, we practice creative writing through fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, exploring the unique artistic tools each…

This course introduces the fundamentals of Kali Linux, a powerful operating system used for penetration testing, digital forensics, and ethical hacking. Through hands-on exercises and real-world scenarios, students learn the basics of Kali Linux installation,…

This course is designed for students seeking preparation for <a href="/search/?p=EXPO%20E-25" data-action="result-detail" data-group="code:EXPO E-25" class="notoffered" title="This course is not being offered in the selected term.">EXPO E-25</a>, which is a…

Literary narrative goes back to ancient times, but the novel, as the term is used today, did not appear until the seventeenth century, and only in the eighteenth century did it establish itself as the dominant literary form of our culture. This course…

The primary focus of this course is to understand the various aspects of economic growth, environmental protection, human development, sustainability, and their interrelationships. What does sustainable development mean? What is the difference between strong…

Efficient production of electricity is key to a sustainable future. Efficient transportation in cars and airplanes is integral to economic activity. Efficient heating and air conditioning are necessary to human health. But how do we understand efficiency and…

This course provides an introduction to concepts, theories, and evidence in the field of comparative politics. Topics include origins of nation-states, democracy and authoritarianism, social revolutions, politics of economic development, ethnicity and ethnic…

This proseminar introduces students to basic behavioral science research methods in psychology and anthropology. It teaches them how to read and evaluate research papers and translate their ideas into viable research projects. Topics include library and…

This course provides students with a foundational knowledge of cognitive neuroscience, a field that studies the intricate links between the mind, the brain, and behavior. Students learn basics about brain anatomy and function and the methods used to study how…

This course introduces students to religion, media, and American popular culture. The course examines how religious and spiritual ideas, practices, and communities are being reshaped by television, films, the internet, mobile devices, and popular culture. How…

This course examines literatures of the Pacific. We begin with the ancestral connections between Pacific Islands, travel through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as we interrogate the entanglements of European imperialism and native Pacific…