HarvardX offers Justice, Classics courses

New Harvard online courses go beyond quantitative subjects to include "Justice," ancient Greece

edX, the online learning joint partnership between Harvard and MIT (now including Berkeley, Georgetown, the University of Texas, and Wellesley), announced its second virtual "semester" of classes, including two Harvard-based large lecture courses that go beyond the initial focus on quantitative, principally computer-sciences, offerings. These initial humanities courses include:

Interestingly, both professors have previously presented versions of their courses in a recorded, online format. "Justice" was taped and shared with audiences around the world, and Sandel has recently introduced real-time, virtual interaction in his class with students from other countries. Nagy's teaching was featured in the Harvard Alumni Association-Faculty of Arts and Sciences "Harvard@Home" online series that launched early in 2001 and then was eclipsed by subsequent online experiments.

Thus, the humanities courses on edX begin with professors broadly conversant with projecting their teaching virtually.

edX also announced that the Center for Health and the Global Environment, based at Harvard School of Public Health, will offer "Human Health and Global Environmental Change," taught by Aaron Bernstein, the associate director—a physician at Children's Hospital Boston and instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Read Harvard Magazine's profile of the center's founder, Eric Chivian, and its early work.

A limited-enrollment course, "Copyright," will be taught by William Fisher, WilmerHale professor of intellectual property law and faculty director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

You might also like

In Sermon, Garber Urges Harvard Community to ‘Defend and Protect’ Institutions

Harvard’s president uses traditional Memorial Church address to encourage divergent views.

A New Narrative of Civil Rights

Political philosopher Brandon Terry’s vision of racial progress

This Astronomer is Sounding a Warning on 'Space Junk'

As debris accumulates in low Earth orbit, the danger of destructive collisions continues to rise.

Most popular

How MAGA Went Mainstream at Harvard

Trump, TikTok, and the pandemic are reshaping Gen Z politics.

Free Speech, the Bomb—and Donald Trump

A Harvard cardiologist on the unlikely alliances that shaped a global movement to prevent nuclear war

Explore More From Current Issue

Will Makris in blue checkered suit and red patterned tie standing outdoors by stone column.

A New HAA President at a Tumultuous Time

A career in higher ed inspired Will Makris to give back.

People sit in lawn chairs near a rustic barn at Cider Garden in New Salem on a sunny day.

CiderDays Festival Celebrates All Things Apple

Visiting small-batch cideries and orchards in Massachusetts

Johnston Gate

Your Views on Harvard’s Standoff, Antisemitism, and More

Readers comment on the controversial July-August cover, authoritarianism, and scientific research.