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Harvard has thousands of free online courses in 11 areas of knowledge. There 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 United States. 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 of them have subtitles in Portuguese. This makes it easier to learning.
List of free online courses open at Harvard
The free courses offered by Harvard University are divided into 11 areas, namely:
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.
Agenda
- 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.
Registration for free Harvard courses takes place online
Os Free online courses are available on the HarvardX platform. Those who are interested can access the website and check the complete list of more than 100 free courses that can be taken from anywhere. However, in some of them, the student will have to pay a fee to receive the certificate of completion.
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Most of the courses are in a “self-paced” format, that is, they can be taken at the student’s preferred pace. However, some have specific start and end dates, and require student monitoring at certain times and days.
To sign up for Harvard University's free online courses, you must register on the HarvardX platform or log in with your Facebook, Hotmail or Google account, choose the desired training and fill in the data required to access the classes.
Learn more about Harvard
Founded in 1636 in the city of Cambridge, Harvard is the oldest and most famous university in the USA and one of the institutions that form the famous Ivy League.
Initially called New College, it gained its iconic name three years after its founding, in honor of John Harvard, one of its first benefactors. The institution is located in an area with a strong university presence on the outskirts of Boston, where MIT, Tufts University and Boston University are also located.
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