Harvard Extension School: 23 products
About Us
Whether you want to take a course, earn a certificate, or work toward a degree, Harvard Extension School has options for you.
The Extension School—a cornerstone of Harvard University for a century—represents the University’s dedication to extending its rich academic resources to the public, locally, nationally, and internationally.
At Harvard University’s primary resource for continuin…
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The Culture of Capitalism
The course asks how cultural products, including literature, theater and film have captured the spirit of capitalism—fueling its fantasies,…
E-learning$1,045
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The Civil War from Nat Turner to Birth of a Nation
This interdisciplinary course reframes traditional understandings of the Civil War in three ways. First, by showing that civil conflict in …
E-learning$1,045
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International Political Economy
This course analyzes the interaction of politics and economics in the international arena. We focus on international trade, investment and …
E-learning$1,045
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Adult Development
This course explores adulthood—the latter two-thirds to three-quarters of our lives—not as a single, last phase of human development but as…
E-learning$1,045
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Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture
The Victorian middle classes were both titillated and repelled by transgression and abnormality: from Jack the Ripper to the Elephant Man, …
E-learning$1,045
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Japan in Asia and the World
From the emergence of a court-centered state 1500 years ago to a warrior-dominated society centuries later, Japan's premodern past fascinat…
E-learning$1,045
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Human Health and Global Environmental Change
This course explores the human health dimensions of global environmental change, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, and c…
E-learning$1,045
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Educational Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective
This course examines how social entrepreneurs have helped improve the quality of education for low-income and marginalized students. It foc…
E-learning$1,045
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Human Rights: A Philosophical Introduction
This course assesses the intellectual credibility of human rights. Why would human beings have such rights, and what rights, exactly, do th…
E-learning$1,045
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Visualization
The amount and complexity of information produced in science, engineering, business, and everyday human activity is increasing at staggerin…
E-learning$2,000
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Programming Languages
This course provides an introduction to the formal semantics of programming languages: it provides tools and techniques for understanding t…
E-learning$2,000
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Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology
This course introduces the theories of inference underlying most statistical methods. It covers how new approaches to research methods, dat…
E-learning$1,045
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Intelligent Machines: Perception, Learning, and Uncertainty
This course is an introduction to artificial intelligence, focusing on problems of perception, machine learning, and reasoning under uncert…
E-learning$2,000
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Data Structures and Algorithms
This is a rigorous course on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms and their associated data structures. Algorithm design methods…
E-learning$2,000
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International Conflict and Cooperation
This course is an introduction to the analysis of the causes and character of international conflict and cooperation. Theories of internati…
E-learning$1,045