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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 social…
This course provides a comprehensive overview of fundamental project management concepts, tools, techniques, and behavioral characteristics necessary for successfully launching, leading, and delivering projects in organizations. Students explore the project…
We are entering a new era in which a fundamental understanding of developmental biology and regeneration plays a critical role. In this course, embryonic and adult stem cells in different organisms are examined in terms of their molecular, cellular, and…
This course examines global history from the colonization of the Americas to the end of the cold war through a normative lens, using the admission timeline of the 193 United Nations (UN) member states as a framework. Students explore the historical…
This course introduces students to key concepts, actors, and events in the politics of China. The rise of China is one of the most important realities of the twenty-first century and has changed the world's economic, political, and military realities. Does…
This course examines critical issues in middle and high school mathematics education in the United States from a variety of perspectives. Questions addressed include: what are the goals of mathematics education at the middle and high school level? Why does…
Biochemical engineering harnesses living cells as miniature chemical reactors, enabling the production of designer molecules ranging from pharmaceuticals to plastics to biofuels. Live cells possess unique capabilities to manufacture complex chemical entities,…
Despite globalization, the nation-state is still a major actor in today's world. This course tries to understand why this is so by examining the role that nationalism plays in peoples' identities and the effects of globalization on nations and nation-states.…
Food and eating are not just necessary for life, they are the basis of culture. Through selection, ingestion, and digestion of food, we make the outside world a part of us. It is not surprising then that food and its associated practices have long nourished…
In this course, students work on real-world problems that do not have obvious solutions. As part of a project team, students are matched with a client that has a difficult challenge. The project team analyzes the challenge in the context of broader systems…
The need to develop personal finance literacy is an increasingly important issue worldwide, especially in the wake of the latest financial shocks and the current pandemic crisis. The large majority of households do not possess the basic knowledge of financial…
Indian Buddhism has inspired philosophers for almost 2500 years. Yet, relative to Euro-American philosophy, Buddhist philosophy has received little attention. In this course, we explore the rich traditions of Indian Buddhist philosophy. More specifically, we…
This course is designed for students interested in the challenges and controversies for corporate governance as it attempts to focus on global problems such as climate change; political uncertainties; environmental, social, and governance (ESG)…
Why are some cities and states richer than others? What drives people and businesses to cluster in certain places and not others? This course explores the economic forces that shape local outcomes, such as productivity, wages, housing, and inequality, and how…
What is populism, and how much of a threat is it to democracy? The recent rise of authoritarian-populism, across both long-established and developing democracies, has posed new challenges for good governance. This course explores the conditions for the rise…
This course aims to provide students with an overview of issues relating to the relationships between digital technologies, politics, and law. It also introduces students to theoretical frameworks for examining the mutually interactive relationships between…
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…
How do we know how humans evolved? This course investigates the evidence and methods used to reconstruct human evolution. We review eight million years of evolutionary history, focusing on the origins of defining features of our species such as bipedalism,…
What do our ghost stories say and what do our beasts betray about us? Which witches bewitch us, which rumors consume us, and what sense can be made of what haunts us? Restless spirits, alien invaders, wicked witches, bloodthirsty vampires, legendary cryptids,…
A theoretical and practical introduction to the role of strategic communication and public relations in corporate, nonprofit, and political spheres. Includes analysis and practical application of the skills involved in building strategic communication…
There is widespread agreement that global and local food systems must be improved in order to promote long-term sustainability, but there is widespread disagreement about exactly what those changes should be. This course provides an overview of key approaches…
The digital age has arrived. The fourth industrial revolution—driven by artificial intelligence (AI) combined with a fusion of cutting-edge technologies—is blurring the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds. Accelerated by the recent pandemic,…
This section of the writers' residency is for writers interested in writing drama, as well as for fiction and creative nonfiction writers interested in studying elements of dramatic writing. Students interested in exploring dramatic writing for the first time…
This section of the writers' residency is for writers of fiction. The writers' residency is for advanced creative writers who have been admitted to the Harvard Extension School Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), <a…
This section of the writers' residency is for writers of fiction. The writers' residency is for advanced creative writers who have been admitted to the Harvard Extension School Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), <a…
This course is a comprehensive survey of chemistry for the general student that emphasizes the principles underlying the formation and interaction of chemical substances: stoichiometry, states of matter, thermochemistry, atomic and molecular structure,…
This course helps students develop an academically strong capstone proposal. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, <a href="https://extension.harvard.edu/academics/programs/cybersecurity-graduate-program/">cybersecurity</a>, who wish…
This course aims to introduce students to a practical, hands-on approach to effective public speaking. Our focus is on developing a personal style of speaking that is confident, spontaneous, energetic, and vocally and physically expressive. Through exercises,…
This course provides an introductory survey of the field of finance. It examines the agents, instruments, and institutions that make up the financial system of the modern economy, such as bonds, the stock market, derivatives, and the money market. Along the…
The goal of this course is to develop skills for making corporate investment decisions and for analyzing risk. Topics include discounted cash flow and other valuation techniques; risk and return; capital asset pricing model; corporate capital structure and…
While a near consensus has been reached on the existence and impact of climate change, the question now turns to what can be done to address the problem. Sustainability challenges increasingly offer unparalleled opportunities for innovative solutions. This…
This course is a capstone for students earning a Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability degree. Course deliverables include a detailed, actionable, and measurable sustainability action plan (SAP), as well as a presentation to be given to the class and to…
This course is an introduction to electromagnetism, wave optics, and ray optics. Topics covered include electrostatics, circuits, magnetism, diffraction, interference, and image formation via reflection and refraction. This course has a laboratory component…
This course is about how to lift the veil of an insider's industry. Students learn how quantitative finance is applied in practice and utilized by the world's largest investment banks, asset management firms, hedge funds, pension plans, and insurance…
This course aims to introduce student to normative, ethical, and philosophical debates around the place of science and technology in human societies. Political theory brings a specific set of questions, problems, approaches, and conceptual tools for thinking…
No one wants someone they love to starve or go without medicine or shelter, but one in ten people go hungry every day, a record-high number are homeless every night, and nearly three million children live in extreme poverty in the United States, one of the…
This course exposes the student to the basic principles of test construction and interpretation, including issues related to reliability and validity. Additionally, issues related to test administration, scoring, and reporting are explored, with emphasis…
This course examines how domestic and international legal institutions regulate the law of war, crimes against humanity, torture, and genocide, and the main legal theories that lawyers and judges use to address their violation. Students are introduced to the…
The course examines the science of happiness and well-being through lenses of positive psychology, neuroscience, and organizational behavior. We translate findings from academic research on human flourishing into attitudes, behaviors, and practices that…
This course offers an in-depth overview of the management consulting industry and the skills required to succeed within it. Topics include the structure, conduct, and performance of the management consulting industry; firms in the industry and their…
This course is designed to foster a deep understanding of neurodiversity and equip students with the knowledge, skills, and tools to create inclusive and supportive environments for individuals with diverse neurological profiles. Students embark on a…
This course is designed for students with little or no prior instruction in ancient Greek who are committed to learning the language at rapid speed. Equivalent to the first two semesters of college-level instruction, it covers all basic grammar and vocabulary…
Speaking the language of modern mathematics requires fluency with the topics of this course: infinite series, integration, and differential equations. We model practical situations using integrals and differential equations. Students learn how to represent…
This course introduces students to the Arabic language. Emphasis is placed on building communicative skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), as well as on developing intercultural competence in relation to Arab cultures.
Intended and designed for students with little, if any formal knowledge of Italian, this course enables beginning students to develop the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing Italian in a cultural context. Activities include listening…
This course considers how culture shapes the economic aspects of our lives. That is, we seek to understand the economy not as a separate realm with its own special logic and structure but instead as embedded in the social relations, identities, and cultural…
This course examines the history of the form, including graphic novels and comic strips, and explores the building blocks necessary to create effective comics based upon personal experiences and research. Students are taught ways to access their writing and…
How would you choose the ideal worker out of 400 applicants? Is it possible to predict employee motivation? Are virtual teams more effective than in-person teams? Questions like these can be answered through the help of industrial and organizational (I/O)…
This course trains students in the skills of critically engaging the scholarly literature in their field of study. They learn how to assess the presuppositions, argumentation, methodology, evidence, and conclusions of scholarly writing in their discipline.…
Humankind faces tremendous challenges. Lives and livelihoods of civilians around the world are threatened by conflict, the health of individuals everywhere is at risk due to infectious diseases such as COVID-19, and our planet is threatened by the…