Distance Education Courses
You can take a Harvard Summer School online course from anywhere in the world.
Most of our online courses feature videos of lectures held on the Harvard campus. You watch the video when and where you choose, and complete scheduled assignments. Some have both online and on-campus options. So if you live nearby, you may attend classes in person or watch lectures online, or both. Watch a sample online class.
Several live web-conference courses are held online at a specified class time using the program Elluminate/Blackboard Collaborate. There are no videos.
Transfer credit. The Summer School does not offer online degrees. But online course credit can be transferred to many schools. Harvard College students: visit the Harvard College Academic Credit page about credit for on-campus courses with a distance option.
Biological sciences
- BIOS S-50 Neurobiology
Computer science
- CSCI S-1 Great Ideas in Computer Science with Java
- CSCI S-75 Building Dynamic Websites
- CSCI S-131b Communication Protocols and Internet Architectures
Economics
- ECON S-1452 Money, Financial Institutions, and Markets
Environmental studies
- ENVR S-101 Environmental Management
- ENVR S-130 Global Climate Change: The Science, Social Impact, and Diplomacy of a World Environmental Crisis
- ENVR S-140/W Fundamentals of Ecology
- ENVR S-210 Critical Analysis of Environmental Systems
Expository writing
- EXPO S-20a, section 2 Writing and Literature
Live web-conference course - EXPO S-20c Writing about Science
Live web-conference course - EXPO S-20d, section 1 Writing about Social and Ethical Issues
Live web-conference course
Government
- GOVT S-1130 Intellectual Property
History
- HIST S-1967/W From Cold War to Global Terror: World History from 1945 to the Present
Management
- MGMT S-2000 Principles of Finance
- MGMT S-4000 Organizational Behavior
Live web-conference course
Museum studies
- MUSE S-100 Introduction to Museum Studies
Religion
- RELI S-1010/W World Religions
- RELI S-1805 Islam: Fundamentals of Thought and Practice
Statistics
- STAT S-100 Introduction to Quantitative Methods
