Harvard Lets You Take 133 Free On-line Programs: Discover Programs on Justice, American Authorities, Literature, Faith, CompSci & Extra

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In South Korea, the place I stay, there could also be no model as respect­ed as Habodeu. Chil­dren dream of it; adults appear­ing­ly do any­factor to play up their very own con­nec­tions to it, how­ev­er ten­u­ous these con­nec­tions could also be. However what’s Habodeu? An elec­tron­ics com­pa­ny? A line of fabric­ing? Some form of lux­u­ry automotive? In no way: it’s, the truth is, the Kore­an professional­nun­ci­a­tion of Har­vard, the Amer­i­can uni­ver­si­ty. Prac­ti­cal­ly each­one all over the world is conscious of Har­vard’s pres­tige, however rel­a­tive­ly few know that you may take a lot of its cours­es on-line with­out pay­ing tuition, and even apply­ing. Actually, you will discover a listing of greater than 130 such cours­es proper right here, all avail­capable of take proper now.

These look­ing to start out construct­ing a base of tech­ni­cal ability may con­sid­er Intro­duc­tion to Com­put­er Sci­ence or Intro­duc­tion to Professional­gram­ming (of which there’s even a ver­sion for legal professionals). When you’ve bought a han­dle on cod­ing, you would transfer on to oth­er cours­es in information sci­ence or machine be taught­ing and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence.

In case your sci­en­tif­ic inter­ests lie else­the place, Har­vard additionally has such on-line supply­ings as Enjoyable­da­males­tals of Neu­ro­science, The Ein­stein Rev­o­lu­tion, and Sci­ence & Prepare dinner­ing for each physics and chem­istry. In case you’d pre­fer to shore up your knowl­fringe of reli­gion, there are additionally cours­es on Chris­tian­i­ty, Judaism, Bud­dhism, Hin­duism, Islam, and Sikhism via their scrip­tures.

Religion in artwork may also be sat­is­fied via, to call only a few examination­ples, Mas­ter­items of World Lit­er­a­ture (with spe­cial­ized cours­es in mas­ter­items mod­ern and historical); the life and work of Shake­speare and such spe­cif­ic performs as Ham­let, The Mer­chant of Venice, and Oth­el­lo; items of music includ­ing Beethoven’s ninth Sym­pho­ny and Stravinsky’s Ceremony of Spring; and cours­es on Japan­ese books and Chi­nese human­i­ties. However then, since we hap­pen to stay in what the Chi­nese name “inter­est­ing occasions,” per­haps you are feeling a extra pressing have to take cours­es on Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment and its con­sti­tu­tion­al foun­da­tions, civic interact­ment, the mod­ern media envi­ron­ment, and resilient lead­er­ship. You may even take the block­buster course on jus­tice from the polit­i­cal philoso­pher Michael Sandel: an enormous celebri­ty right here in Korea, inci­den­tal­ly, even by Habodeu stan­dards. Discover the com­plete checklist of free on-line cours­es right here. Additionally see our checklist, 1,700 Free On-line Cours­es from High Uni­ver­si­ties.

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