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Data Science for Business

Move beyond the spreadsheet

Designed for managers, this course provides a hands-on approach for demystifying the data science ecosystem and making you a more conscientious consumer of information.

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Shakespeare's Life and Work

Learn to read William Shakespeare's plays

Moving between the world in which Shakespeare lived and the present day, this course will introduce different kinds of literary analysis that you can use when reading Shakespeare.

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Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Ghost

One of the most remarkable creations of Shakespeare

Join Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt to explore the figure at the heart of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and understand ghost symbolism in Elizabethan times.

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Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: Shylock

An examination of comedy and tragedy

Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt guides learners through an exploration of Shakespeare’s magnetic and ambivalent Shylock and his historical origins.

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Shakespeare’s Othello: The Moor

An examination of comedy and tragedy

Explore acts of storytelling in William Shakespeare's Othello alongside world-class artists who interpret Othello's story in new forms and contexts today.

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Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and the Birth of Opera

Learn about the first opera ever written

Join Harvard University faculty in this online course to explore an important example of early opera that helped to establish traditions, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.

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Handel's Messiah and Baroque Oratorio

Masterpieces of western music

Join Harvard University faculty in this online course to discover Handel’s Messiah and explore five other masterpieces of western music in the Baroque era.

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Beethoven's 9th Symphony and the 19th Century Orchestra

Experience forms of orchestral music

Join Harvard University faculty Thomas Forrest Kelly in this online course to discover Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and other forms of orchestral music.

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Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and Program Music in the 19th Century

Experience music in the Romantic Era

Join Harvard University faculty in this course to learn about Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, a Romantic symphony that ushered in an era of narrative program music.