Humanities Courses

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.

Explore the impact of the conquest dynasties and the world of the Ming.

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.

Explore China’s imperial period, with a focus on the Song dynasty and the role of the exam system in government.

Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature.

Use the case study method to study China from the rise of Deng Xiaoping to the present.

An overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.

Explore the birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.

Explore the Maoist period of China, from the Communist Party to the death of Mao and the reopening of China.

This course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online will teach you how to compete in the age of AI.

Learn how businesses thrive and grow while simultaneously solving some of the world's biggest challenges in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Develop a toolkit for making tough leadership decisions in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Power and Influence for Positive Impact, a Harvard Business School (HBS) Online course, helps individuals develop their own power to gain influence and make an impact.

This introduction to moral and political philosophy is one of the most popular courses taught at Harvard College.