Harvard Extension School: 23 products
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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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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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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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Modern American Crime Narratives
This course covers American crime narratives, emphasizing the hard-boiled and noir fiction that flourished between the Jazz Age and the col…
E-learning$1,045
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Energy: Perspectives, Problems, and Prospects
The course provides an historical account of the evolution of the modern energy system, from early dependence on human and animal power, to…
E-learning$1,045
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The Aztec Empire
In the late fourteenth-century, the Culhua-Mexica people of the basin of Mexico founded their city of Tenochtitlan in Lake Texcoco, eventua…
E-learning$1,045
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
This course is an interpretive look at the American city in terms of changing attitudes toward urban life. City and suburb are experienced …
E-learning$1,045