edX Courses

Career Certificate

Leading in a Remote Environment

1 rating

Develop leadership skills for remote environments, focusing on trust-building, productivity enhancement, and effective digital tool usage to navigate challenges and drive team success in virtual settings.

• edX
• 7 weeks, 2-3 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• $358.00
• 2 courses

Career Certificate

The Science of Cooking

1 rating

Explore the scientific principles behind cooking, from chemistry to physics to microbiology. Gain insights from top chefs and researchers to enhance your culinary skills and understanding of food science.

• edX
• 46 weeks, 2-3 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• $747.00
• 2 courses

Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic

22 ratings at edX

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 3-5 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Women Making History: Ten Objects, Many Stories

32 ratings at edX

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 2-3 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

19th-Century Opera: Meyerbeer, Wagner, & Verdi

1 rating

Learn the music and cultural impact of three canonical operas from the 1800s: Les Huguenots , Das Rheingold , and Otello.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 3-5 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Digital Humanities

50 ratings at edX

Develop skills in digital research and visualization techniques across subjects and fields within the humanities.

• edX
• 7 weeks, 2-4 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Data Science: Productivity Tools

40 ratings at edX

Keep your projects organized and produce reproducible reports using GitHub, git, Unix/Linux, and RStudio.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 1-2 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Poetry in America: Modernism

1 rating

Reading works by Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens, among others, learn how American Modernist poetry departed from past traditions and past forms.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 3-5 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Ancient Masterpieces of World Literature

39 ratings at edX

Examine how cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how their vision of literature contributes to our understanding of civilization, culture, and literature today.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 3-6 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

CitiesX: The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life

66 ratings at edX

Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.

• edX
• 11 weeks, 5-7 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (physics)

33 ratings at edX

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

• edX
• 16 weeks, 2-3 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

MalariaX: Defeating Malaria from the Genes to the Globe

20 ratings at edX

How can we eradicate malaria? Explore cutting-edge science and technology, and examine policies needed to control and eliminate malaria.

• edX
• 11 weeks, 3-5 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: Shylock

14 ratings at edX

An exploration of the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 5-7 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Saving Schools: Reforming the U.S. Education System

1 rating

An overview of the past, present, and future of the United States public K-12 education system.

• edX
• 10 weeks, 3-5 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Introduction to Probability

42 ratings at edX

Learn probability, an essential language and set of tools for understanding data, randomness, and uncertainty.

• edX
• 10 weeks, 5-10 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)