COVID-19: Harvard University offers 67 free online courses

NEW DELHI: Harvard University is offering 67 online courses to students for free during the COVID-19 pandemic period.

Students have an opportunity to learn while they stay safe at home.

The duration of these courses ranges from 1 week to 12 weeks.

The courses are available for a range of fields including health and medicine, humanities, social sciences, computer science, programming, art and design, business and more.

Courses

Some of the free course include, Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology where you can study and learn all about old kingdom pharaohs and elites, tombs, temples, the Sphinx, and how new technology is unlocking their secrets.

Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic will help you understand the context for the Ebola outbreak: like what went right, what went wrong, and how the world can do better.

There are also arts and literature courses like: Beethoven's 9th Symphony and the 19th Century Orchestra, Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: Shylock.

How to apply for online courses

• Visit the official site of Harvard University at online-learning.harvard.edu.

• Click on the subject area and choose the subject, price, start date, schools, duration and difficulty level.

• You will see a list of programs under these options.

• Choose a program and proceed.

• Click on ‘Take course’

• Fill in the application form.

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