Varied offerings from HarvardX
HarvardX, the faculty-led educational endeavor that supports innovative online teaching and research on campus and beyond, announced its new course offerings, expected to roll out through this fall. Students will be able to choose from learning experiences that last several months, akin to courses, and modules, discrete, topic-based units designed to be both standalone and integratable with traditional academic classes. Developed with the support of two HarvardX faculty-led committees, the courses and modules cover a range of subjects, from architecture to poetry and from clinical trials to health and society, and represent eight Schools. HarvardX, in particular, is embracing the arts and humanities, with a large number of courses and modules coming from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Providing broad and specialized content, the HarvardX versions of campus-based courses include some from the College’s General Education program, such as SPU27x, “Science and Cooking,” as well as others that are core components...