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Energy Within Environmental Constraints won’t give you the answer. Instead, we will teach you how to ask the right questions and estimate the consequences of different choices.

Explore the ways in which CRISPR is disrupting sectors across the economy with Harvard VPAL. Learn the fundamental principles of gene-editing.

This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive writing and speech. In it, learners will learn to construct and defend compelling arguments, an essential skill in many settings.

Join Harvard University faculty in this online course to explore Chinese history and culture from the perspective of the individual through philosophical texts, literary works, and art.

Join Harvard faculty, David Damrosch and Martin Puchner, in this online course to examine how great modern writers capture the intricacies of our globalized world.

Join Harvard faculty, David Damrosch and Martin Puchner, in this online course to embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

Join Harvard faculty in this online course to examine how ancient cultures defined themselves through literature and how their vision contributes to our understanding of civilization today.

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.

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