The Harvard Bartending Course is not only a historic part of Harvard Student Agencies, its parent company and the largest stu ... dent-run corporation in the world, but it is also a historic part of Harvard University. In fact, the course recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. The first course in 1964 was planned as a platform for helping Harvard students find jobs as bartenders. In 1972, the Harvard Bartending Course opened its doors to all local Cambridge and Boston college students. Thus began a long history of our bartending course certifying local students and preparing them for jobs in the bartending industry. Today, the Harvard Bartending Course continues the mission on which it was founded, by certifying Harvard students and helping them find jobs as bartenders. Additionally, however, we seek to help members of the Cambridge and Boston community become bartenders. We accomplish this goal by offering our Deluxe TIPS & Mixology course, which teaches both our historic Art of Mixology course, and a TIPS Certification course which TIPS certifies participants and allows them to legally serve alcohol in the state of Massachusetts. read more