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Harvard Offers Thousands of Free Online Courses in 11 Areas of Knowledge. These are Free Courses in Medicine and Public Health, Mathematics, Arts, and Much More.
Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the oldest institution of higher education in the U.S. In addition to its renowned undergraduate courses, Harvard offers an extensive selection of free online courses that can be accessed from anywhere in the world, including Brazil. Although most of the free courses are in English, some have subtitles in Portuguese. This makes learning easier.
List of Free Online Courses Available at Harvard
The free courses offered by Harvard University are divided into 11 areas, which are:
Medicine and Public Health
- Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics;
- Practical Improvement Science in Health Care: A Roadmap for Getting Results;
- Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs;
- PredictionX: John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854;
- Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster.
Computer Science
- CS50’s Introduction to Programming with Scratch;
- Quantitative Methods for Biology;
- Data Science: Machine Learning.
Arts and Design
- Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the 19th Century Orchestra;
- Handel’s Messiah and Baroque Oratorio;
- Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and the Birth of Opera;
- The Architectural Imagination.
Social Sciences
- CitiesX: The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life;
- Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract;
- Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract.
Science and Engineering;
- The Einstein Revolution;
- MalariaX: Defeating Malaria from the Genes to the Globe;
- Quantitative Methods for Biology;
- Energy and Thermodynamics;
- Entropy and Equilibria.
Educational and Organizational Development;
- Introduction to Data Wise: A Collaborative Process to Improve Learning & Teaching;
- Leaders of Learning;
- Introduction to Family Engagement in Education;
- Early Childhood Development: Global Strategies for Interventions.
Programming
- CS50: Introduction to Computer Science;
- CS50’s Introduction to Programming with Scratch;
- Quantitative Methods for Biology.
Business and Management
- Negotiating Salary;
- Designing Organizational Structure;
- Pricing Strategy;
- Identifying Competitive Risk.
Humanities
- CitiesX: The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life;
- Global Health Case Studies from a Biosocial Perspective;
- We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy.
Mathematics and Data Analysis
- Introduction to Bioconductor;
- Calculus Applied!;
- Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up;
- Data Science: Probability.
Data Science
- Introduction to Linear Models and Matrix Algebra;
- Statistics and R;
- Quantitative Methods for Biology;
- Data Science: R Basics.
Enrollments in Harvard’s Free Courses Take Place Online
The free online courses are available on the HarvardX platform. Those interested can access the site and check the complete list with over 100 free courses that can be taken from anywhere. However, in some cases, the student will have to pay a fee to receive the completion certificate.
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Most of the courses are in a “self-paced” format, meaning they can be completed at the student’s preferred pace. However, some have specific start and end dates, requiring student participation at certain hours and days.
To enroll in Harvard University’s free online courses, it is necessary to register on the HarvardX platform or log in with your Facebook, Hotmail, or Google account, select the desired course, and fill in the required information to access the classes.
Get to Know Harvard Better
Founded in 1636 in the city of Cambridge, Harvard is the oldest and most famous university in the U.S. and one of the institutions that form the famed Ivy League.
Initially called New College, it gained its iconic name three years after its founding, in honor of John Harvard, one of its earliest benefactors. The institution is located in an area with a strong university presence surrounding Boston, where MIT, Tufts University, and Boston University are also located.
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