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Religion, Conflict and Peace

Explore the diverse and complex roles that religions play in both promoting and mitigating violence.

In this course, we will explore a series of contemporary conflicts in different regions of the world with a special focus on identifying and analyzing the diverse and complex roles that religions play in both promoting and mitigating violence in each context.

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Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety

Access to healthcare services is critical – but is it enough?

The course is designed for those who care about health and healthcare and wish to learn more about how to measure and improve that care – for themselves, for their institutions, or for their countries.

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The Health Effects of Climate Change

Learn how global warming impacts human health, and the ways we can diminish those impacts.

Created with support from the Harvard Global Health Institute, this course will explain how climate change impacts people around the globe, but also how it directly affects you and your life.

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Energy Within Environmental Constraints

A quantitative introduction to the energy system and its environmental impacts.

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.

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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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CRISPR: Gene-Editing Applications

Disrupt sectors

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

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Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking

Gain critical communication skills

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.

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China Humanities: The Individual in Chinese Culture

Discover China's history through the perspective of the individual.

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.

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Modern Masterpieces of World Literature

How Writers Reach Beyond Boundaries

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.