HarvardX - Trick or Treat? 🎃

Two Jack O'Lanterns side by side, one with an angry face and one with a smiling face.

Do you prefer a ghoulish scare or a sweet treat?

Whether your night is brimming with haunted happenings or candy-filled delights, Harvard Online has a course suited for your Halloween celebrations. Explore those fit for a trick or for a treat:

Tricks
Learn about scary skeletons, ghostly apparitions, and ancient divinations to make for a spook-tacularly haunted Halloween.

Human Anatomy: Musculoskeletal Cases - Make sure your skeletons (decorative or not) are anatomically correct by understanding the basics of musculoskeletal injuries.

Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Ghost - Explore the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

PredictionX: Omens, Oracles & Prophecies - Learn an overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

First Nights - Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and the Birth of Opera - Begin your descent into Hades and learn about Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

Bonus Trick:
It’s a Monster Mash! One exercise in Digital Humanities in Practice: From Research Questions to Results will show you how to programmatically extract vampires, zombies, and other monsters from different web pages.

Treats

From good foods to good moods, these courses are sure to lift your spirits on a dark Halloween night.

Managing Happiness - Learn how to unlock the strategies to create a more purposeful life, full of long-lasting enjoyment and satisfaction.

The Path to Happiness: What Chinese Philosophy Teaches us about the Good Life - Explore ancient Chinese philosophy, ethics, and political theory to challenge your assumptions of what it means to be happy, live a meaningful life, and change the world.

The Science of Cooking - Learn how biology, chemistry, and physics change food flavor, texture, and preservation — making our food more nutritious, delicious, and safe to eat.

Food Fermentation: The Science of Cooking with Microbes - Explore the roles that microbes play in the production, preservation, and enhancement of diverse foods in a variety of culinary traditions.