# Teaching Sort & Filters close ## Filters Teaching expand\_more - On Campus (19) - Online (3) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 22 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Date AscendingDate DescendingAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 22 results ### Fall, 2027 [### First-Year Seminar 54J: What Can AI Do Now, Really? ](/what-can-ai-do-now-really-fall-2027) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2027 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://firstyearseminarprogram.college.harvard.edu/directory/what-can-ai-do-no…) In the time since members of the Class of 2030 were born, artificial intelligence has advanced from barely recognizing a human face in a photograph to creating convincing images and videos of people—real or imagined—doing nearly anything. In just the past few years, the... ### Spring, 2026 [### Harvard GenEd 1112 "Prediction: The Past & Present of the Future" ](/gened1112-spring-2026) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2026 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://gened.college.harvard.edu/directory/prediction-the-past-and-present-of-…) Human beings are the only creatures in the animal kingdom properly defined as worriers. We are the only ones who expend tremendous amounts of time, energy, and resources trying (sometimes obsessively) to understand our futures before they happen. While the innate ability of... ### Fall, 2026 [### First-Year Seminar 54J: What Can AI Do Now, Really? ](/what-can-ai-do-now-really) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2026 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://firstyearseminarprogram.college.harvard.edu/directory/what-can-ai-do-no…) In the time since members of the Class of 2030 were born, artificial intelligence has advanced from barely recognizing a human face in a photograph to creating convincing images and videos of people—real or imagined—doing nearly anything. In just the past few years, the... ### Spring, 2025 [### Harvard GenEd 1112 "Prediction: The Past & Present of the Future" ](/gened1112-spring-2025) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2025 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://gened.college.harvard.edu/directory/prediction-the-past-and-present-of-…) Human beings are the only creatures in the animal kingdom properly defined as worriers. We are the only ones who expend tremendous amounts of time, energy, and resources trying (sometimes obsessively) to understand our futures before they happen. While the innate ability of... ### Spring, 2024 [### Harvard GenEd 1112 "Prediction: The Past & Present of the Future" ](/gened1112-spring-2024) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2024 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://gened.college.harvard.edu/directory/prediction-the-past-and-present-of-…) Human beings are the only creatures in the animal kingdom properly defined as worriers. We are the only ones who expend tremendous amounts of time, energy, and resources trying (sometimes obsessively) to understand our futures before they happen. While the innate ability of... ### Spring, 2023 [### Harvard GenEd 1112 "Prediction: The Past & Present of the Future" ](/gened1112-spring-2023) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2023 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://gened.college.harvard.edu/directory/prediction-the-past-and-present-of-…) Human beings are the only creatures in the animal kingdom properly defined as worriers. We are the only ones who expend tremendous amounts of time, energy, and resources trying (sometimes obsessively) to understand our futures before they happen. While the innate ability of... ### Spring, 2021 [### Harvard GenEd 1112 "Prediction: The Past & Present of the Future" ](/class/harvard-gened-1112-prediction-past-present-future) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2021 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://gened.fas.harvard.edu/classes/prediction-past-and-present-future) In the Spring of 2021, Alyssa Goodman will teach a "GenEd" (General Education) course on Prediction at Harvard. Human beings are the only creatures in the animal kingdom properly defined as worriers. We are the only ones who expend tremendous amounts of time, energy, and... ### Spring, 2020 [### Harvard GenEd 1112 "Prediction: The Past & Present of the Future" ](/gened1112-spring-2020) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://gened.college.harvard.edu/directory/prediction-the-past-and-present-of-…) Human beings are the only creatures in the animal kingdom properly defined as worriers. We are the only ones who expend tremendous amounts of time, energy, and resources trying (sometimes obsessively) to understand our futures before they happen. While the innate ability of... ### Fall, 2018 [### FRSEMR 27J: Prediction: From Ancient Omens to Modern Computer Simulations ](/class/frsemr-27j-prediction-ancient-omens-modern-computer-simulations) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2018 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/43639) We will discuss the variety of approaches humans have taken to predicting their own future. Early weeks will focus on Omens, Oracles, Religion and Prophecy. Next, we will move on to the so-called Scientific Revolution, exemplified by the work of Galileo, and the Age of... [### PredictionX: Lost Without Longitude Explore the history of navigation, from stars to satellites ](/class/predictionx-lost-without-longitude-explore-history-navigation-stars-satellites) **Year offered:** 2018 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://www.edx.org/course/predictionx-lost-without-longitude) Humans have been navigating for ages. As we developed the tools and techniques for determining location and planning a route, navigation grew into a practice, an art, and a science. Navigational skill has long been tied to commercial, economic, and military success. However... [### PredictionX: Diviner’s Guide ](/class/predictionx-diviners-guide) **Year offered:** 2018 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://www.edx.org/course/predictionx-diviners-guide-harvardx-soc1-practx) This course is an overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology. Humans have always sought to know their own future, be it the destiny of an empire or an individual's fate. Across cultures and history, we find people trying to... [### PredictionX: John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854 ](/class/predictionx-john-snow-and-cholera-epidemic-1854) **Year offered:** 2018 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://www.edx.org/course/predictionx-john-snow-cholera-epidemic-harvardx-soc1…) An in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic in Soho and its importance for the field of epidemiology. In 1854, a cholera epidemic swept through the London neighborhood of Soho. In the course of about three weeks, over 600 people died. This incident was, tragically... - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")