15 Free Online Classes You Can Take at Harvard Right Now

Learn more about George Frederic Handel’s notorious Messiah and more music of the baroque period.

Take the Handel’s Messiah and Baroque Oratorio course.

This course will not just teach you about William Shakespeare’s life and work but how to best appreciate both.

Take the Shakespeare’s Life and Work course.

Learn all about Egyptian history, including the pyramids and pharaohs, as well as how technology is connecting us with them today.

Take the Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology course here.

This course will teach you more about bioelectricity and bringing neuroscience home.

Take the Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 1: The Electrical Properties of the Neuron course.

Learn how different forms of religion factor into violence across the world historically.

Take the Religion, Conflict and Peace course.

Study the history of Japanese text with this class about Japanese books.

Take the Japanese Books: From Manuscript to Print course.

Learn how to use GitHub, git, Unix/Linux, and RStudio in this data science course.

Take the Data Science: Productivity Tools course.

This course on climate change takes it a step farther and shows you how the global crisis affects human health.

Take the The Health Effects of Climate Change course.

Improve your math skills with this course on statistics and probability.

Take the Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up course.

See how science factors into how you cook your favorite dishes with this physics-based course.

Take the Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science course.

Try your hand at architecture by learning the basics of the art, as well as the structure of some of the most famous buildings.

Take the The Architectural Imagination course.

This course will open your eyes to the ins and outs of America’s opioid crisis, including data on how prevalent it is and what we can do to stop it.

Take the The Opioid Crisis in America course.

Know exactly how the contracts you’re signing work when you take this course on contract law.

Take the Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract course.

Go inside how some of your favorite video games are created and learn about graphics, sound, and more.

Take the CS50’s Introduction to Game Development course.

This course will teach you more about health care and how population factors into the quality of care.

Take the Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety course.