Individual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the 19th Century Orchestra
Start today • 3-5 hours a week
Harvard Online Courses
Explore the richness of human experience through literature, music, history, religion, and culture. These courses invite you to engage with masterpieces, examine global traditions, and discover how art and ideas shape societies and inspire meaningful change.
Featured Courses
Individual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Modern Masterpieces of World Literature
Start today • 3-6 hours per week
Individual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
PredictionX: Omens, Oracles & Prophecies
Start today • 3-5 hours a week
Individual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Religious Literacy: Traditions and Scriptures
Start today • 5-10 hours per week
Individual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
China Humanities: The Individual in Chinese Culture
Start today • 2-4 hours per week
Individual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
China’s First Empires and the Rise of Buddhism
Start today • 1-3 hours per week
Individual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
The Architectural Imagination
Start today • 3-5 hours a week
Individual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots
Start today • 3-5 hours per week
Individual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Shakespeare’s Life and Work
Start today • 5-7 hours per week
Learn from the best in the industry
6 Programs
PredictionX
3 courses
World Religions Through Their Scriptures
7 courses
Shakespeare's Life, Work, and Characters
4 courses
Classical Works
5 courses
History of China: Bronze Age to the Last Dynasties
5 courses
History of China: The Modern Era
5 courses
Hear from our learners
All Courses in Arts & Humanities
Individual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology
Start today • 2-4 hours per weekPyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and ArchaeologyIndividual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and the Birth of Opera
Start today • 3-5 hours per weekMonteverdi’s L’Orfeo and the Birth of OperaIndividual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Hinduism Through Its Scriptures
Start today • 5-10 hours a weekHinduism Through Its ScripturesIndividual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots
Start today • 3-5 hours per weekStravinsky’s Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and RiotsIndividual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Shakespeare’s Othello: The Moor
Start today • 5-7 hours a weekShakespeare’s Othello: The MoorIndividual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Handel’s Messiah and Baroque Oratorio
Start today • 3-5 hours per weekHandel’s Messiah and Baroque OratorioIndividual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
PredictionX: Lost Without Longitude
Start today • 2-5 hours a weekPredictionX: Lost Without LongitudeIndividual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Justice
Start today • 3-6 hours a weekJusticeIndividual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
First Nights: Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and Program Music in the 19th Century
Start today • 3-5 hours a weekFirst Nights: Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and Program Music in the 19th CenturyIndividual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Christianity Through Its Scriptures
Start today • 5-10 hours a weekChristianity Through Its ScripturesIndividual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
Invasions, Rebellions, and the Fall of Imperial China
Start today • 1-3 hours per weekInvasions, Rebellions, and the Fall of Imperial ChinaIndividual Certificate · Free Audit Learning
CitiesX: The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life
Start today • 5-7 hours per weekCitiesX: The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life
Learn more with free articles and webinars
Going Back to School for a Career Change
Technology & Innovation
Online Courses for Teachers on Summer Break
Education
How Jamaica’s Honorary Consul in Philadelphia Learned Rhetoric From Harvard Online
Leadership & Communication
Harvard Online’s Most Fun Courses
Science & Mathematics
Webinar