anchor.diff:  Myths and misconceptions surrounding the animal food systems will be discussed. We’ll also look closely at some of the global issues, problems, and challenges in these food systems which scientists, farmers, and veterinarians, are attempting to solve through collaboration.
   
   Lectures will be delivered by several experts from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine who are intimately involved in the study and advancement of animal production systems. The course is geared towards learners who seek a greater understanding of animal food systems as well as those who might have never visited an animal farm, but have a desire to learn more about where some of our food comes from and issues surrounding sustainability."
  -An Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Perspectives from Public Health,food-system,https://coursera.org/learn/food-system,Life Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"A food system encompasses the activities, people and resources involved in getting food from field to plate. Along the way, it intersects with aspects of public health, equity and the environment. In this course, we will provide a brief introduction to the U.S. food system and how food production practices and what we choose to eat impacts the world in which we live. We will discuss some key historical and political factors that have helped shape the current food system and consider alternative approaches from farm to fork. The course will be led by a team of faculty and staff from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. Guest lecturers will include experts from a variety of disciplines, including public health, policy and agriculture."
  -Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1,biostatistics,https://coursera.org/learn/biostatistics,Math and Logic,Johns Hopkins University,"This class presents the fundamental probability and statistical concepts used in elementary data analysis. It will be taught at an introductory level for students with junior or senior college-level mathematical training including a working knowledge of calculus. A small amount of linear algebra and programming are useful for the class, but not required."
  +Finding Hidden Messages in DNA (Bioinformatics I),dna-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/dna-analysis,Life Sciences,"University of California, San Diego","This course begins a series of classes illustrating the power of computing in modern biology. Please join us on the frontier of bioinformatics to look for hidden messages in DNA without ever needing to put on a lab coat. In the first half of the course, we investigate DNA replication, and ask the question, where in the genome does DNA replication begin? We will see that we can answer this question for many bacteria using only some straightforward algorithms to look for hidden messages in the genome."
  +Finding Mutations in DNA and Proteins (Bioinformatics VI),dna-mutations,https://coursera.org/learn/dna-mutations,Life Sciences,"University of California, San Diego","In previous courses in the Specialization, we have discussed how to sequence and compare genomes. This course will cover advanced topics in finding mutations lurking within DNA and proteins. In the first half of the course, we would like to ask how an individual's genome differs from the ""reference genome"" of the species. Our goal is to take small fragments of DNA from the individual and ""map"" them to the reference genome. We will see that the combinatorial pattern matching algorithms solving this problem are elegant and extremely efficient, requiring a surprisingly small amount of runtime and memory."
  +Fixing Healthcare Delivery,fixing-healthcare,https://coursera.org/learn/fixing-healthcare,Life Sciences,University of Florida,"Isn’t it time to end the loss of life from preventable medical errors? Each year 100,000 patients die from preventable errors in the U.S. How can you help to change this intractable problem? Knowledge is power, and this course will provide you with a deep understanding of the problems and the solutions. You can become part of the solution."
  +Foundations for Assisting in Home Care,home-care,https://coursera.org/learn/home-care,Life Sciences,The State University of New York,This course is intended as a self-study course for those interested in exploring a career as a Home Health Aide or Personal Care Aide.
  +Foundations for Global Health Responders,ghresponder,https://coursera.org/learn/ghresponder,Life Sciences,University of Colorado System,"Around the world, we are increasingly socially and economically interdependent. Health on one side of the globe affects people on the other. Global health, once merely an ethical consideration, now dominates discussions and policies of global security. A diverse team of experts in this emerging field has come together to help you contextualize your experiences as a new or seasoned global health responder."
  +Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology),genes,https://coursera.org/learn/genes,Life Sciences,"University of Maryland, College Park","To acquire an understanding of the fundamental concepts of genomics and biotechnology, and their implications for human biology, evolution, medicine, social policy and individual life path choices in the 21st century."
  +Genetics and Society: A Course for Educators,genetics-society,https://coursera.org/learn/genetics-society,Life Sciences,American Museum of Natural History,"How have advances in genetics affected society? What do we need to know to make ethical decisions about genetic technologies? This course includes the study of cloning, genetic enhancement, and ownership of genetic information. Course participants will acquire the tools to explore the ethics of modern genetics and learn how to integrate these issues into their classrooms."
  +Genome Sequencing (Bioinformatics II),genome-sequencing,https://coursera.org/learn/genome-sequencing,Life Sciences,"University of California, San Diego","You may have heard a lot about genome sequencing and its potential to usher in an era of personalized medicine, but what does it mean to sequence a genome? Biologists still cannot read the nucleotides of an entire genome as you would read a book from beginning to end. However, they can read short pieces of DNA. In this course, we will see how graph theory can be used to assemble genomes from these short pieces. We will further learn about brute force algorithms and apply them to sequencing mini-proteins called antibiotics."
  +Genomic and Precision Medicine,genomic-precision-medicine,https://coursera.org/learn/genomic-precision-medicine,Life Sciences,"University of California, San Francisco","The course is geared toward practicing health care providers, although it should be accessible to anyone with a background in the biological sciences and a basic understanding of genetics. It is designed to be succinct and clinically-focused, offering both conceptual and practical information about real-world applications of genomics. Two lessons offer a basic primer on molecular genomics relevant to the individual patient as well as to patient populations. The remaining five lessons focus on five applications of genomics and present the material as case studies, highlighting the strengths, limitations, and issues that arise in the use of each test."
  +Genomics: Decoding the Universal Language of Life,genomics-research,https://coursera.org/learn/genomics-research,Life Sciences,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"What is a genome? A genome contains all of the information that a cell needs to develop, function, and reproduce itself, and all the information needed for those cells to come together to form a person, plant, or animal. Genomes contain an organism’s complete set of genes, and also the even tinier genetic structures that help regulate when and how those genes are used. The ability to regrow a torn ligament, the clues that might predict the onset of mental illness, the nutritional potential of crops, and even the history of life itself, are all encoded in genomes."
  +Getting started in cryo-EM,cryo-em,https://coursera.org/learn/cryo-em,Life Sciences,Caltech,"This class covers the fundamental principles underlying cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) starting with the basic anatomy of electron microscopes, an introduction to Fourier transforms, and the principles of image formation. Building upon that foundation, the class then covers the sample preparation issues, data collection strategies, and basic image processing workflows for all 3 basic modalities of modern cryo-EM: tomography, single particle analysis, and 2-D crystallography."
  +Global Adolescent Health,adolescenthealth,https://coursera.org/learn/adolescenthealth,Life Sciences,The University of Melbourne,"This course will explore the dynamic factors affecting the health and wellbeing of young people around the world, and how important it is for individuals, communities and nations that we improve the health and life chances of this important population group. With over 25% of the world’s population aged between 10 and 24 years, today’s generation of young people is the largest in human history."
  +Global Health at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface,global-health-human-animal-ecosystem,https://coursera.org/learn/global-health-human-animal-ecosystem,Life Sciences,University of Geneva,"This MOOC proposes you a dynamic, international and interdisciplinary programme based on the One Heath approach (human-animal-environmental dimensions) and involving more than 30 top experts from more than 20 academic and research institutions and international organisations based in Geneva, Paris, Montreal and the world. Policy makers from the World Health Organisation, clinicians from the University Hospitals of Geneva, epidemiologists from Institut Pasteur etc. will share with you their knowledge and experiences all along this MOOC. Video-lectures have been filmed in different parts of the world and settings (from the field to the lab and office) and will be combined with the latest open readings and interactive activities in the discussion forum, video-conferences etc."
  +Global Health Policy,global-health-policy,https://coursera.org/learn/global-health-policy,Life Sciences,The University of Tokyo,"In this course, learners will become familiar with principles and theories of global health problems, and major challenges and controversies in improving global population health as well as practical applications of quantitative methods to analyze and interpret issues and challenges for policy. Topics will include health and foreign policy, health governance, acute disease surveillance, non-communicable diseases, burden of disease, universal health coverage, health systems strengthening, health financing, and human resources for health and ageing."
  +Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Overview,global-health-overview,https://coursera.org/learn/global-health-overview,Life Sciences,University of Geneva,"This course proposes an overview of current global health challenges drawing on the insights of several academic disciplines including medicine, public health, law, economics, social sciences and humanities. This interdisciplinary approach will guide the student into seven critical topics in global health."
  +Gut Check: Exploring Your Microbiome,microbiome,https://coursera.org/learn/microbiome,Life Sciences,"University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado System","Imagine if there were an organ in your body that weighed as much as your brain, that affected your health, your weight, and even your behavior. Wouldn’t you want to know more about it? There is such an organ — the collection of microbes in and on your body, your human microbiome."
  +Health Across the Gender Spectrum,health-gender-spectrum,https://coursera.org/learn/health-gender-spectrum,Life Sciences,Stanford University,"This course offers an intimate, story-based introduction to the experiences of six transgender children and their families. Through illustrated stories and short teaching videos, learners will gain a better understanding of gender identity and the gender spectrum. Stanford physicians, K-12 educators, and transgender faculty members offer practical tips for parents, teachers, healthcare providers and anyone who wants to help create a more gender-expansive environment - one in which all people can live authentically. As a global community of unique individuals, we can begin to build a world that is ready to nurture and love each and every child. 
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  +Due to the sensitive nature of the story-based course content, we have chosen not to offer course certificates for this course. Simply put, we feel that the thoughts, ideas and sentiments of these remarkable children and their families... are priceless. We are confident that, like us, you will end up learning more from them than you could ever imagine. Together, we can lay a stronger foundation for all children. Join us as we explore health, across the gender spectrum.
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  +Additional note: When submitting answers to quizzes, you may be asked to enter your ""full legal name"". This feature is primarily for verification purposes for courses that offer a certificate on Coursera, so it does not really apply to this course. We recognize that, for some individuals the name they use does not match the one on their legal documents. Please feel free to enter the name you normally use in these boxes."
  +Health Care IT: Challenges and Opportunities,healthcare-it,https://coursera.org/learn/healthcare-it,Life Sciences,Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,"A strong argument can be made that the health care field is one of the most information-intensive sectors in the U.S. economy and avoidance of the rapid advances in information technology is no longer an option. Consequently, the study of health care information technology and systems has become central to health care delivery effectiveness. This course covers the modern application of information technology that is critical to supporting the vision and operational knowledge of the health care leaders in managing the health care organization. Heath care decision-makers have to meet head-on the dynamic challenges of health care delivery quality, cost, access, and regulatory control."
  +Health for All Through Primary Health Care,health-for-all,https://coursera.org/learn/health-for-all,Life Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,This course explores why primary health care is central for achieving Health for All. It provides examples of how primary health care has been instrumental in approaching this goal in selected populations and how the principles of primary health care can guide future policies and actions.
  +Health in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies,health-che,https://coursera.org/learn/health-che,Life Sciences,Emory University,"The Center for Humanitarian Emergencies is a partnership between CDC's Emergency Response and Recovery Branch and the Rollins School of Public Health that drives global collaboration, research and evidence based training to improve the lives and well-being of populations impacted by humanitarian emergencies. - Center for Humanitarian Emergencies: http://www.che.emory.edu/ - CDC's Emergency Response and Recovery Branch: http://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/healthprotection/errb/index.html This course covers the technical and management principles that are the basis of planning, implementing, and evaluating health programs for acutely displaced populations in developing countries."
  +Health Informatics on FHIR,fhir,https://coursera.org/learn/fhir,Life Sciences,Georgia Institute of Technology,"Through this course even non-technical students can gain basic proficiency in health informatics: the application of computing to healthcare delivery, public health and community-based clinical research. The overall course paradigm is the Institute of Medicine's vision of a ""Learning Health System"" that uses data from actual patient care to gain new knowledge and feeds that knowledge back as care is delivered to achieve a safer, higher quality and more cost effective health delivery system. Module 1 covers the US healthcare delivery system's unique structural, economic and policy issues and the strategic role for health informatics."
  +Health Literacy and Communication for Health Professionals,healthliteracy,https://coursera.org/learn/healthliteracy,Life Sciences,University of Nebraska,"In the United States, two-thirds of the population read at an eighth-grade level or below. When it comes to health information, most Americans have the ability to read and write at the fifth-grade level. This inter-professional course aims to give health professionals the tools needed to improve upon their health literacy and communication skills."
  +Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship,healthcare-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/healthcare-innovation,Life Sciences,Duke University,"This interdisciplinary course focuses on sustainable innovation, introducing entrepreneurial students to the realities of problem identification and solution design within the complex world of healthcare."
  +"HI-FIVE: Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment (Administrative/IT Perspective)",hi-five-admin-it,https://coursera.org/learn/hi-five-admin-it,Life Sciences,Columbia University,"HI-FIVE (Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment) Training is an approximately 10-hour online course designed by Columbia University in 2016, with sponsorship from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The training is role-based and uses case scenarios. Our nation’s healthcare system is changing at a rapid pace. Transformative health care delivery programs depend heavily on health information technology to improve and coordinate care, maintain patient registries, support patient engagement, develop and sustain data infrastructure necessary for multi-payer value-based payment, and enable analytical capacities to inform decision making and streamline reporting."
  +"HI-FIVE: Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment (Clinical Perspective)",hi-five-clinical,https://coursera.org/learn/hi-five-clinical,Life Sciences,Columbia University,"HI-FIVE (Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment) Training is a 12-hour online course designed by Columbia University in 2016, with sponsorship from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The training is role-based and uses case scenarios. Also, it has additional, optional modules on other topics of interest or relevance. Although we suggest to complete the course within a month's timeframe, the course is self-paced and so you can start and finish the course at anytime during a month's time period. No additional hardware or software are required for this course."
  +"HI-FIVE: Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment (Social/Peer Perspective)",hi-five-social-peer,https://coursera.org/learn/hi-five-social-peer,Life Sciences,Columbia University,"HI-FIVE (Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment) Training is an approximately 10-hour online course designed by Columbia University in 2016, with sponsorship from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The training is role-based and uses case scenarios. Our nation’s healthcare system is changing at a rapid pace. Transformative health care delivery programs depend heavily on health information technology to improve and coordinate care, maintain patient registries, support patient engagement, develop and sustain data infrastructure necessary for multi-payer value-based payment, and enable analytical capacities to inform decision making and streamline reporting."
  +HPV-Associated Oral and Throat Cancer: What You Need to Know,hpv-oral-throat-cancer,https://coursera.org/learn/hpv-oral-throat-cancer,Life Sciences,Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,"This course, offered by the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is designed to inform primary care physicians and otolaryngologists (general and head and neck surgeons), as well as medical students, residents, nurses, physician assistants, medical assistants, about HPV-associated oral and throat cancers. It is also applicable to individuals who wish to broaden their knowledge and vernacular about this disease process, especially those who may have been diagnosed with HPV and/or HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancers. The course has been divided into four modules, each of which is followed by multiple choice questions to help attendees further understand this condition:"
  +Implant Dentistry,implant-dentistry,https://coursera.org/learn/implant-dentistry,Life Sciences,The University of Hong Kong,"Implant Dentistry is one of the most dynamic and rapidly developing areas within oral health care. In spite of increasing popularity of implantology, it is a relatively new discipline within dental education and remains limited to post-graduate courses offered by dental schools in many parts of the world today. With the vision to help dental practitioners gain clinical understanding of implantology and an opportunity to provide implant treatments to their patients, the Faculty of Dentistry of HKU (ranked No. 1 dental school in the World in 2016) developed this MOOC to provide a world-class quality, unbiased, evidence-based and clinically-oriented course in this discipline."
  +In the footsteps of Zika… approaching the unknown,zika,https://coursera.org/learn/zika,Life Sciences,University of Geneva,"This MOOC will cover a range of topics, such as epidemiology, historical and geographical dispersion of the virus and its vectors through globalization and climate change, its modes of transmission, but also the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment. The different types of preventive measures will be also covered. A special module will focus on possible neurological adverse effects such as the risk for birth defects (microcephaly) in pregnant women, while another one will examine the peripheral nerve paralysis called the Guillain-Barré syndrome."
  +Infection Prevention in Nursing Homes,infection-prevention,https://coursera.org/learn/infection-prevention,Life Sciences,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,Learn about the role of environment in disease transmission and how to implement standard and transmission-based precautions to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria and other infections in your facility.
  +Instructional Methods in Health Professions Education,instructmethodshpe,https://coursera.org/learn/instructmethodshpe,Life Sciences,University of Michigan,"This course provides those involved in educating members of the health professions an asynchronous, interdisciplinary, and interactive way to obtain, expand, and improve their teaching skills. These skills can then be applied within their own professional context, with a variety of learners, extending across many stages."
  +Integrated Analysis in Systems Biology,integrated-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/integrated-analysis,Life Sciences,Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,This course will focus on developing integrative skills through directed reading and analysis of the current primary literature to enable the student to develop the capstone project as the overall final exam for the specialization in systems biology.
  +Introduction to Breast Cancer,breast-cancer-causes-prevention,https://coursera.org/learn/breast-cancer-causes-prevention,Life Sciences,Yale University,"Welcome to an Introduction to Breast Cancer! In this course, we’ll learn a bit about the leading cause of cancer in women worldwide – from the basic biology of the disease, to risk factors and prevention, to treatment modalities to survivorship. We’ll talk to leading experts, explore some of the milestone studies that have pushed this field forward, and have interactive discussions on discussion boards and social media."
  +Introduction to Cataract Surgery,cataract-surgery,https://coursera.org/learn/cataract-surgery,Life Sciences,University of Michigan,This comprehensive course will give you the fundamental knowledge needed to begin performing cataract surgery by phacoemulsification and extracapsular removal. Each step from preoperative evaluation to postoperative care will be covered to help prepare you for the operating room.
  +Introduction to Clinical Neurology,clinical-neurology,https://coursera.org/learn/clinical-neurology,Life Sciences,"University of California, San Francisco","An overview of the relevant aspects of the epidemiology, clinical presentation, basic disease mechanisms, diagnostic approaches and treatment options of the most common neurological diseases."
  +Introduction to Dental Medicine,dental-medicine-penn,https://coursera.org/learn/dental-medicine-penn,Life Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"The mouth is the window into human health. This course provides an overview of dental medicine to engage, educate, excite and assist you in improving the oral health of your patients and members of your community. We will review topics in dental medicine including scope of the field, what to expect in function, and some of the many ways that dysfunction may present for different patients. This will include discussions of mouth, jaw, and tooth anatomy, pathology, and treatment. We will talk about differences between patients and the unique roles that different members of the dental field may play in treatment depending on the patient and condition."
  +Introduction to Forensic Science,forensic-science,https://coursera.org/learn/forensic-science,Life Sciences,"Nanyang Technological University, Singapore","We have all seen forensic scientists in TV shows, but how do they really work? What is the science behind their work? The course aims to explain the scientific principles and techniques behind the work of forensic scientists and will be illustrated with numerous case studies from Singapore and around the world."
  +Introduction to Genetics and Evolution,genetics-evolution,https://coursera.org/learn/genetics-evolution,Life Sciences,Duke University,"Introduction to Genetics and Evolution is a college-level class being offered simultaneously to new students at Duke University. The course gives interested people a very basic overview of some principles behind these very fundamental areas of biology. We often hear about new ""genome sequences,"" commercial kits that can tell you about your ancestry (including pre-human) from your DNA or disease predispositions, debates about the truth of evolution, why animals behave the way they do, and how people found ""genetic evidence for natural selection."""
  +Introduction to Reproduction,reproductive-health,https://coursera.org/learn/reproductive-health,Life Sciences,Northwestern University,"The objective of this course is to ensure you understand reproductive health and not confuse reproduction with sex (or having sex). This course was designed with you in mind, and is aimed at providing you with quality information that is meaningful to you and that may be hard to find otherwise. Reproductive health is an area of knowledge that needs to be demystified."
  +Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis,systematic-review,https://coursera.org/learn/systematic-review,Life Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"We will introduce methods to perform systematic reviews and meta-analysis of clinical trials. We will cover how to formulate an answerable research question, define inclusion and exclusion criteria, search for the evidence, extract data, assess the risk of bias in clinical trials, and perform a meta-analysis."
  +Introduction to Systems Biology,systems-biology,https://coursera.org/learn/systems-biology,Life Sciences,Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,"This course will introduce the student to contemporary Systems Biology focused on mammalian cells, their constituents and their functions. Biology is moving from molecular to modular. As our knowledge of our genome and gene expression deepens and we develop lists of molecules (proteins, lipids, ions) involved in cellular processes, we need to understand how these molecules interact with each other to form modules that act as discrete functional systems."
  +Introduction to the Biology of Cancer,cancer,https://coursera.org/learn/cancer,Life Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"Over 500,000 people in the United States and over 8 million people worldwide are dying every year from cancer. As people live longer, the incidence of cancer is rising worldwide and the disease is expected to strike over 20 million people annually by 2030. This open course is designed for people who would like to develop an understanding of cancer and how it is prevented, diagnosed, and treated."
  +Introductory Human Physiology,physiology,https://coursera.org/learn/physiology,Life Sciences,Duke University,"In this course, students learn to recognize and to apply the basic concepts that govern integrated body function (as an intact organism) in the body's nine organ systems."
  +Leading Healthcare Quality and Safety,quality-healthcare,https://coursera.org/learn/quality-healthcare,Life Sciences,The George Washington University,"Ensuring patient safety and healthcare quality is critical and should be a key focus of everyone in healthcare practice. This course provides healthcare practitioners and others with an introduction to the knowledge and skills needed to lead patient safety and quality improvement initiatives at the micro and macro levels. Participants will explore the foundations of health care quality and the science underlying patient safety and quality improvement, design and select effective health care measures, analyze patient safety problems and processes using tools such as human factors analysis, apply systematic approaches including the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model to address quality improvement challenges, and learn strategies to lead a culture of change. The course takes a world view of patient safety and quality, linking participants to research and resources from the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Joint Commission and other international organizations."
  +"Living with Dementia: Impact on Individuals, Caregivers, Communities and Societies",dementia-care,https://coursera.org/learn/dementia-care,Life Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"Health professionals and students, family caregivers, friends of and affected individuals, and others interested in learning about dementia and quality care will benefit from completing the course. Led by Drs. Nancy Hodgson and Laura Gitlin, participants will acquire foundational knowledge in the care of persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and other neurocognitive disorders."
  +Major Depression in the Population: A Public Health Approach,public-health-depression,https://coursera.org/learn/public-health-depression,Life Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"Public Mental Health is the application of the principles of medicine and social science to prevent the occurrence of mental and behavioral disorders and to promote mental health of the population. This course illustrates the principles of public health applied to depressive disorder, including principles of epidemiology, transcultural psychiatry, health services research, and prevention. It is predicted that by 2020 depressive disorder will be the most important cause of disease burden in the entire world! Every human being suffers from feeling depressed at some point or other, but only about one fifth of the population will experience an episode of depressive disorder over the course of their lives. This course illuminates the public health approach to disease, and the particular complexities of applying this approach to mental disorders, using depression as the exemplar."
  +Medical Neuroscience,medical-neuroscience,https://coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience,Life Sciences,Duke University,"Medical Neuroscience explores the functional organization and neurophysiology of the human central nervous system, while providing a neurobiological framework for understanding human behavior. In this course, you will discover the organization of the neural systems in the brain and spinal cord that mediate sensation, motivate bodily action, and integrate sensorimotor signals with memory, emotion and related faculties of cognition. The overall goal of this course is to provide the foundation for understanding the impairments of sensation, action and cognition that accompany injury, disease or dysfunction in the central nervous system. The course will build upon knowledge acquired through prior studies of cell and molecular biology, general physiology and human anatomy, as we focus primarily on the central nervous system."
  +Molecular Evolution (Bioinformatics IV),molecular-evolution,https://coursera.org/learn/molecular-evolution,Life Sciences,"University of California, San Diego","In the previous course in the Specialization, we learned how to compare genes, proteins, and genomes. One way we can use these methods is in order to construct a ""Tree of Life"" showing how a large collection of related organisms have evolved over time. In the first half of the course, we will discuss approaches for evolutionary tree construction that have been the subject of some of the most cited scientific papers of all time, and show how they can resolve quandaries from finding the origin of a deadly virus to locating the birthplace of modern humans."
  +Mountains 101,mountains-101,https://coursera.org/learn/mountains-101,Life Sciences,University of Alberta,"Mountains 101­­ is a broad and integrated overview of the mountain world. This 12-lesson course covers an interdisciplinary field of study focusing on the physical, biological, and human dimensions of mountain places in Alberta, Canada, and around the world. Specifically, we'll study the geological origins of mountains, how they’re built-up and worn-down over time; we’ll learn about their importance for biodiversity and water cycles, globally and locally; we’ll explore their cultural significance to societies around the globe, and how that relationship has evolved over time; and we’ll learn how mountains are used, how they’re protected, and how today they’re experiencing rapid change in a warming climate."
  +Music as Biology: What We Like to Hear and Why,music-as-biology,https://coursera.org/learn/music-as-biology,Life Sciences,Duke University,"The course will explore the tone combinations that humans consider consonant or dissonant, the scales we use, and the emotions music elicits, all of which provide a rich set of data for exploring music and auditory aesthetics in a biological framework. Analyses of speech and musical databases are consistent with the idea that the chromatic scale (the set of tones used by humans to create music), consonance and dissonance, worldwide preferences for a few dozen scales from the billions that are possible, and the emotions elicited by music in different cultures all stem from the relative similarity of musical tonalities and the characteristics of voiced (tonal) speech."
  +Network Analysis in Systems Biology,network-biology,https://coursera.org/learn/network-biology,Life Sciences,Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,"An introduction to data integration and statistical methods used in contemporary Systems Biology, Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology research. The course covers methods to process raw data from genome-wide mRNA expression studies (microarrays and RNA-seq) including data normalization, differential expression, clustering, enrichment analysis and network construction. The course contains practical tutorials for using tools and setting up pipelines, but it also covers the mathematics behind the methods applied within the tools. The course is mostly appropriate for beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates majoring in fields such as biology, math, physics, chemistry, computer science, biomedical and electrical engineering."
  +Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy,nutrition-pregnancy,https://coursera.org/learn/nutrition-pregnancy,Life Sciences,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU),Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy offers an overview of the latest research findings and international recommendations on a variety of nutrition-related aspects and outcomes of pregnancy. Ensuring a healthy nutritional status and lifestyle prior to and during pregnancy is one of the best ways to help support the healthy growth and development of the unborn child. We will look at how a healthy diet and lifestyle should ideally be achieved prior to conception and provide recommendations for pre-conception counselling of women.
  +Osteoarchaeology: The Truth in Our Bones,truthinourbones-osteoarchaeology-archaeology,https://coursera.org/learn/truthinourbones-osteoarchaeology-archaeology,Life Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"This course is about what we can learn from examining the human skeleton, and how we can use this knowledge to reconstruct the lives of people who lived in the past. In archaeology and anthropology, human skeletal remains can provide unique insights into the past and the present; insights that cannot be gained otherwise. These insights are explored in five main themes spread out over five weeks of learning. First, it is shown how age-at-death, sex and stature can be estimated by the close examination of (archaeological) skeletal remains. In subsequent modules it is shown how human bones can provide information about the diseases and injuries that people suffered from and what they ate. Also, it is shown how the human skeleton provides information about the kinds of activities that people engaged in and about how they migrated and moved around their landscapes."
  +Paleontology: Ancient Marine Reptiles,ancient-marine-reptiles,https://coursera.org/learn/ancient-marine-reptiles,Life Sciences,University of Alberta,"Paleontology: Ancient Marine Reptiles is a four-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of the evolutionary changes that occur when air-breathing terrestrial animals return to water. This course examines the diversity, adaptations, convergence, and phylogenetic relationships of extinct marine reptiles. Students will explore three major groups of marine reptiles: ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs."
  +Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution,early-vertebrate-evolution,https://coursera.org/learn/early-vertebrate-evolution,Life Sciences,University of Alberta,"Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution is a four-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of the origin of vertebrates. Students will explore the diversity of Palaeozoic lineages within a phylogenetic and evolutionary framework. This course examines the evolution of major vertebrate novelties including the origin of fins, jaws, and tetrapod limbs. Students also explore key Canadian fossil localities, including the Burgess Shale (British Columbia), Miguasha (Quebec), and Man On The Hill (Northwest Territories)."
  +Paleontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds,theropods-birds,https://coursera.org/learn/theropods-birds,Life Sciences,University of Alberta,"Paleontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds is a five-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of the origins of birds. This course examines the anatomy, diversity, and evolution of theropod dinosaurs in relation to the origin of birds. Students explore various hypotheses for the origin of flight. Watch a preview of the course here: https://uofa.ualberta.ca/courses/paleontology-theropod-dinosaurs"
  +Preventing Chronic Pain: A Human Systems Approach,chronic-pain,https://coursera.org/learn/chronic-pain,Life Sciences,University of Minnesota,"Chronic pain is at epidemic levels and has become the highest-cost condition in health care. This course uses evidence-based science with creative and experiential learning to better understand chronic pain conditions and how they can be prevented through self-management in our cognitive, behavioral, physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and environmental realms."
  +Protected Areas Management in Africa,protected-areas,https://coursera.org/learn/protected-areas,Life Sciences,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"This course is about areas dedicated nature conservation, ""protected areas"": how they work and why they are so important in maintaining the health of the environment in a fast developing world, and in particular in Africa. It will help you understand the challenges of conservation in Africa and how protected areas can help to deal with it, from the local to the international level."
  +Rethinking Ageing:  Are we prepared to live longer?,ageing,https://coursera.org/learn/ageing,Life Sciences,The University of Melbourne,"Population ageing is occurring in nearly every country around the world. This MOOC takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore the impact of living longer and takes into account the technological advancements, the built environment, economics and ethics to rethink what it means to 'age well' now and in the future."
  +Service Transformed: Lessons in U.S. Veteran Centered Care,va-health-care,https://coursera.org/learn/va-health-care,Life Sciences,University of Michigan,"Improving health care for veterans has become a matter of national attention and has gained increasing attention from the medical community. With the current surge of veterans reintegrating into civilian society it is critical to improve the training of the next cadre of providers who will provide care for our veterans. It is widely known that veterans receive care in all aspects of the health system, thus providers in veteran focused care facilities, military health serves and civilian locals must be aware of the unique needs of veterans. It is perhaps even more important to educate civilian providers who may be unfamiliar with the unique physical, mental and emotional needs related to military service."
  +Stanford Introduction to Food and Health,food-and-health,https://coursera.org/learn/food-and-health,Life Sciences,Stanford University,"Around the world, we find ourselves facing global epidemics of obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and other predominantly diet-related diseases. To address these public health crises, we urgently need to explore innovative strategies for promoting healthful eating. There is strong evidence that global increases in the consumption of heavily processed foods, coupled with cultural shifts away from the preparation of food in the home, have contributed to high rates of preventable, chronic disease. In this course, learners will be given the information and practical skills they need to begin optimizing the way they eat. This course will shift the focus away from reductionist discussions about nutrients and move, instead, towards practical discussions about real food and the environment in which we consume it."
  +Stories of Infection,stories-of-infection,https://coursera.org/learn/stories-of-infection,Life Sciences,Stanford University,"This course introduces learners to a variety of infectious diseases using a patient-centered, story-based approach. Through illustrated, short videos, learners will follow the course of each patient’s illness, from initial presentation to resolution. Integrating the relevant microbiology, pathophysiology and immunology, this course aims to engage and entice the learner towards future studies in microbiology, immunology and infectious diseases. 
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  +The patient-centered videos included in this course were created as part of the Re-imagining Medical Education initiative, led by Charles Prober MD, Senior Associate Dean of Medical Education at the Stanford School of Medicine. This initiative was the first of its kind to explore the collaborative creation of foundational medical education online content by inter-institutional teams of faculty. The content presented in this course was created by faculty from Stanford University School of Medicine, in collaboration with The University of Washington School of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine, and The University of Michigan Medical School. Support for this initiative was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Burke Family Foundation.
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  +Sustainable Food Production Through Livestock Health Management,livestock-farming,https://coursera.org/learn/livestock-farming,Life Sciences,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Learn about the impact of infectious disease on sustainable animal-based food production by understanding the science of growth, immunity, and infection and by learning the problem-solving skills needed to advance animal health and food production through optimal management practices. There is a growing global need in agricultural production for a workforce that is capable of integrating knowledge of animal health and production with an understanding of consumer preferences in the context of economic reality, business efficiency, and ethical constraint."
  +"Synapses, Neurons and Brains ",synapses,https://coursera.org/learn/synapses,Life Sciences,Hebrew University of Jerusalem,"These are very unique times for brain research. The aperitif for the course will thus highlight the present “brain-excitements” worldwide. You will then become intimately acquainted with the operational principles of neuronal “life-ware” (synapses, neurons and the networks that they form) and consequently, on how neurons behave as computational microchips and how they plastically and constantly change - a process that underlies learning and memory. Recent heroic attempts to realistically simulate large cortical networks in the computer will be highlighted (e.g., “the Blue Brain Project”) and processes related to perception, cognition and emotions in the brain will be discussed."
  +Systems Science and Obesity,systems-science-obesity,https://coursera.org/learn/systems-science-obesity,Life Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"Systems science has been instrumental in breaking new scientific ground in diverse fields such as meteorology, engineering and decision analysis. However, it is just beginning to impact public health. This seminar is designed to introduce students to basic tools of theory building and data analysis in systems science and to apply those tools to better understand the obesity epidemic in human populations. There will also be a lab in which students will use a simple demonstration model of food acquisition behavior using agent-based modeling on standard (free) software (netlogo)."
  +Systems Thinking In Public Health,systems-thinking,https://coursera.org/learn/systems-thinking,Life Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"This course provides an introduction to systems thinking and systems models in public health. Problems in public health and health policy tend to be complex with many actors, institutions and risk factors involved. If an outcome depends on many interacting and adaptive parts and actors the outcome cannot be analyzed or predicted with traditional statistical methods. Systems thinking is a core skill in public health and helps health policymakers build programs and policies that are aware of and prepared for unintended consequences."
  +Teaching and Assessing Clinical Skills,clinical-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/clinical-skills,Life Sciences,University of Michigan,"The purpose of this course is to improve feedback, clinical teaching, and assessment of clinical skills."
  +The Addicted Brain,addiction-and-the-brain,https://coursera.org/learn/addiction-and-the-brain,Life Sciences,Emory University,This is a course about addiction to drugs and other behaviors. It will describe what happens in the brain and how this information helps us deal with and overcome addiction. It will also discuss other topics such as government policy and our vulnerability to take drugs.
  +The Brain and Space,human-brain,https://coursera.org/learn/human-brain,Life Sciences,Duke University,"This course is about how the brain creates our sense of spatial location from a variety of sensory and motor sources, and how this spatial sense in turn shapes our cognitive abilities. Knowing where things are is effortless. But “under the hood,” your brain must figure out even the simplest of details about the world around you and your position in it. Recognizing your mother, finding your phone, going to the grocery store, playing the banjo – these require careful sleuthing and coordination across different sensory and motor domains."
  +The Challenges of Global Health,global-health,https://coursera.org/learn/global-health,Life Sciences,Duke University,An introduction to key challenges and concepts important to understanding the current status and determinants of global health.
  +The Changing Arctic,the-changing-arctic,https://coursera.org/learn/the-changing-arctic,Life Sciences,National Research Tomsk State University,"After taking this course you will have an understanding of Arctic landscapes, how they were formed and how they are changing. You will also learn how scientists from countries around the North are working together to understand how these changes will affect the People of the North and the global community. You will experience a range of scientific topics, up-to-date-methods for understanding our environment, and the current consensus views on the future of the Arctic environment."
  +The Horse Course: Introduction to Basic Care and Management,horse-care,https://coursera.org/learn/horse-care,Life Sciences,University of Florida,"There are over 100 million horses, donkeys and mules in the world today and owners of these animals can be found on almost every continent and in almost every society. The Horse Course will cover many unique aspects of equine ownership and touch upon the science behind many of today’s management practices."
  +The New Nordic Diet - from Gastronomy to Health ,newnordicdiet,https://coursera.org/learn/newnordicdiet,Life Sciences,University of Copenhagen,"The New Nordic Diet is a new food culture developed in 2009-13 with key emphasis on gastronomy, health, and environment. Major research in its effect on acceptability, behaviour and learning skills, and disease prevention have been conducted by the OPUS centre at the University of Copenhagen and the people behind the award-winning restaurant Noma in Copenhagen."
  +The Science of Gastronomy,scigast,https://coursera.org/learn/scigast,Life Sciences,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,"This course introduces a number of basic scientific principles underpinning the methodology of cooking, food preparation and the enjoyment of food. All topics covered have a strong basis in biology, chemistry, and physics application. Among others, they include the consumption of cooked food, the physiological and evolutionary implication of the senses, geographic and cultural influences on food, and the rationale behind food preparation."
  +Thoracic Oncology,thoracic-oncology,https://coursera.org/learn/thoracic-oncology,Life Sciences,University of Michigan,"Thoracic malignancies are major, global health problems. Lung cancer is the mostcommon cancer and cause of cancer death in the world, with more than 1.5 million deaths per year. MoreAmericans will die from lungcancer each year (approximately 159,480) than from colon,breast,pancreatic,and prostate cancer combined (approximately 158,630), the next most common causes of cancer death. Esophageal cancer is the 6th most common cause of cancer deaths worldwide, and the 4th most common cause in developing nations. This course will provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to state of the art approaches in the care of patients with thoracic malignancies, including various types of lung cancers and esophageal cancers."
  +To Screen or not to Screen? Methods and health policies through case studies ,screening,https://coursera.org/learn/screening,Life Sciences,University of Geneva,"Current and future public health is characterized by the increase of chronic and degenerative diseases, corresponding to the worldwide ageing of the population. The increasing prevalence of these conditions together with the long incubation period of the chronic diseases and the restless technological innovations, offer new opportunities to develop strategies for early diagnosis."
  +Training and Learning Programs for Volunteer Community Health Workers,commhealthworkers,https://coursera.org/learn/commhealthworkers,Life Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are a major strategy for increasing access to and coverage of basic health interventions. Our village health worker training course reviews the process of training and continuing education of CHWs as an important component of involving communities in their own health service delivery. Participants will be guided through the steps of planning training and continuing education activities for village volunteers. The course draws on real-life examples from community-directed onchocerciasis control, village health worker programs, community case management efforts, peer educators programs and patent medicine vendor training programs, to name a few."
  +"Tropical Parasitology: Protozoans, Worms, Vectors and Human Diseases",parasitology,https://coursera.org/learn/parasitology,Life Sciences,"Duke University, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College","This course provides students an understanding of important human parasitic diseases, including their life cycles, vectors of transmission, distribution and epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical manifestations, treatment, and prevention and control. Tropical Parasitology is taught by faculty from an area highly impacted by tropical parasites- the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College in Moshi, Tanzania. The faculty include Drs. Frank Mosha and Mramba Nyindo (and two lecturers, Drs. Johnson Matowo and Jovin Kitau). Dr. John Bartlett, Professor of Medicine, Global Health and Nursing at Duke University, joins his faculty colleagues in this effort."
  +Understanding Cancer Metastasis,cancer-metastasis,https://coursera.org/learn/cancer-metastasis,Life Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"Over 500,000 people in the United States and over 8 million people worldwide are dying from cancer every year. As people live longer, the incidence of cancer is rising worldwide, and the disease is expected to strike over 20 million people annually by 2030. Everyone has been, or will be touched by cancer in some way during their lifetime. Thanks to years of dedication and commitment to research we’ve made enormous advances in the prevention and treatment of cancer, But there is still a lot of work to be done. In this course, physicians and scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine explain how cancer spreads or metastasizes. We’ll describe the major theories of metastasis and then describe the biology behind the steps in metastasis. The course also describes the major organs targeted by metastasis and describes how metastases harm the patient."
  +Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics,clinical-research,https://coursera.org/learn/clinical-research,Life Sciences,University of Cape Town,"If you’ve ever skipped over`the results section of a medical paper because terms like “confidence interval” or “p-value” go over your head, then you’re in the right place. You may be a clinical practitioner reading research articles to keep up-to-date with developments in your field or a medical student wondering how to approach your own research. Greater confidence in understanding statistical analysis and the results can benefit both working professionals and those undertaking research themselves."
  +Understanding Obesity,understanding-obesity,https://coursera.org/learn/understanding-obesity,Life Sciences,The University of Edinburgh,"This course focuses on a range of management techniques. You’ll discover the main skills and competencies of effective leaders, and how to distinguish between management and leadership. The course will cover team dynamics, how to build effective relationships, key motivation theories, and how to use communication to best effect."
  +Understanding Plants - Part I: What a Plant Knows?,plantknows,https://coursera.org/learn/plantknows,Life Sciences,Tel Aviv University,"For centuries we have collectively marveled at plant diversity and form—from Charles Darwin’s early fascination with stems and flowers to Seymour Krelborn’s distorted doting in Little Shop of Horrors. This course intends to present an intriguing and scientifically valid look at how plants themselves experience the world—from the colors they see to the sensations they feel. Highlighting the latest research in genetics and more, we will delve into the inner lives of plants and draw parallels with the human senses to reveal that we have much more in common with sunflowers and oak trees than we may realize."
  +Understanding Plants - Part II: Fundementals of Plant Biology,plant-biology,https://coursera.org/learn/plant-biology,Life Sciences,Tel Aviv University,"This class is aimed at people interested in understanding the basic science of plant biology. In this four lecture series, we'll first learn about the structure-function of plants and of plant cells. Then we'll try to understand how plants grow and develop, making such complex structures as flowers. Once we know how plants grow and develop, we'll then delve into understanding photosynthesis - how plants take carbon dioxide from the air and water from soil, and turn this into oxygen for us to breathe and sugars for us to eat."
  +Understanding Prostate Cancer,prostate-cancer,https://coursera.org/learn/prostate-cancer,Life Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"Welcome to Understanding Prostate Cancer. My name is Ken Pienta, Professor of Urology and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. I have been studying prostate cancer and treating patients with prostate cancer for over 25 years. Over 1,000,000 men worldwide and 230,000 men in the United States are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. Three hundred thousand men worldwide and 30,000 men in the US are dying from prostate cancer every year. As people live longer, the incidence of prostate cancer is rising worldwide and prostate cancer continues to be a major health problem."
  +Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life,neurobiology,https://coursera.org/learn/neurobiology,Life Sciences,The University of Chicago,"Learn how the nervous system produces behavior, how we use our brain every day, and how neuroscience can explain the common problems afflicting people today. We will study functional human neuroanatomy and neuronal communication, and then use this information to understand how we perceive the outside world, move our bodies voluntarily, stay alive, and play well with others."
  +Visual Perception and the Brain,visual-perception,https://coursera.org/learn/visual-perception,Life Sciences,Duke University,"Learners will be introduced to the problems that vision faces, using perception as a guide. The course will consider how what we see is generated by the visual system, what the central problem for vision is, and what visual perception indicates about how the brain works. The evidence will be drawn from neuroscience, psychology, the history of vision science and what philosophy has contributed. Although the discussions will be informed by visual system anatomy and physiology, the focus is on perception. We see the physical world in a strange way, and goal is to understand why."
  +Vital Signs: Understanding What the Body Is Telling Us,vital-signs,https://coursera.org/learn/vital-signs,Life Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"The vital signs – heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, respiration rate, and pain – communicate important information about the physiological status of the human body. In this six-part course we explore the anatomy and physiology underlying the vital signs so that you will develop a systematic, integrated understanding of how the body functions. Relevant body systems are reviewed including cardiovascular and respiratory, followed by explanations of how the function of these systems affects vital signs."
   Calculus One,calculus1,https://coursera.org/learn/calculus1,Math and Logic,The Ohio State University,"Calculus is about the very large, the very small, and how things change. The surprise is that something seemingly so abstract ends up explaining the real world. Calculus plays a starring role in the biological, physical, and social sciences. By focusing outside of the classroom, we will see examples of calculus appearing in daily life."
   Calculus Two: Sequences and Series,advanced-calculus,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-calculus,Math and Logic,The Ohio State University,"Calculus Two: Sequences and Series is an introduction to sequences, infinite series, convergence tests, and Taylor series. The course emphasizes not just getting answers, but asking the question ""why is this true?"""
  +Calculus: Single Variable Part 1 - Functions,single-variable-calculus,https://coursera.org/learn/single-variable-calculus,Math and Logic,University of Pennsylvania,"Calculus is one of the grandest achievements of human thought, explaining everything from planetary orbits to the optimal size of a city to the periodicity of a heartbeat. This brisk course covers the core ideas of single-variable Calculus with emphases on conceptual understanding and applications. The course is ideal for students beginning in the engineering, physical, and social sciences. Distinguishing features of the course include: 1) the introduction and use of Taylor series and approximations from the beginning; 2) a novel synthesis of discrete and continuous forms of Calculus; 3) an emphasis on the conceptual over the computational; and 4) a clear, dynamic, unified approach."
  +Calculus: Single Variable Part 2 - Differentiation,differentiation-calculus,https://coursera.org/learn/differentiation-calculus,Math and Logic,University of Pennsylvania,"Calculus is one of the grandest achievements of human thought, explaining everything from planetary orbits to the optimal size of a city to the periodicity of a heartbeat. This brisk course covers the core ideas of single-variable Calculus with emphases on conceptual understanding and applications. The course is ideal for students beginning in the engineering, physical, and social sciences. Distinguishing features of the course include: 1) the introduction and use of Taylor series and approximations from the beginning; 2) a novel synthesis of discrete and continuous forms of Calculus; 3) an emphasis on the conceptual over the computational; and 4) a clear, dynamic, unified approach."
  +Calculus: Single Variable Part 3 - Integration,integration-calculus,https://coursera.org/learn/integration-calculus,Math and Logic,University of Pennsylvania,"Calculus is one of the grandest achievements of human thought, explaining everything from planetary orbits to the optimal size of a city to the periodicity of a heartbeat. This brisk course covers the core ideas of single-variable Calculus with emphases on conceptual understanding and applications. The course is ideal for students beginning in the engineering, physical, and social sciences."
   Calculus: Single Variable Part 4 - Applications,applications-calculus,https://coursera.org/learn/applications-calculus,Math and Logic,University of Pennsylvania,"Calculus is one of the grandest achievements of human thought, explaining everything from planetary orbits to the optimal size of a city to the periodicity of a heartbeat. This brisk course covers the core ideas of single-variable Calculus with emphases on conceptual understanding and applications. The course is ideal for students beginning in the engineering, physical, and social sciences. Distinguishing features of the course include: 1) the introduction and use of Taylor series and approximations from the beginning; 2) a novel synthesis of discrete and continuous forms of Calculus; 3) an emphasis on the conceptual over the computational; and 4) a clear, dynamic, unified approach."
  -Calculus: Single Variable Part 1 - Functions,single-variable-calculus,https://coursera.org/learn/single-variable-calculus,Math and Logic,University of Pennsylvania,"Calculus is one of the grandest achievements of human thought, explaining everything from planetary orbits to the optimal size of a city to the periodicity of a heartbeat. This brisk course covers the core ideas of single-variable Calculus with emphases on conceptual understanding and applications. The course is ideal for students beginning in the engineering, physical, and social sciences. Distinguishing features of the course include: 1) the introduction and use of Taylor series and approximations from the beginning; 2) a novel synthesis of discrete and continuous forms of Calculus; 3) an emphasis on the conceptual over the computational; and 4) a clear, dynamic, unified approach."
  +Calculus: Single Variable Part 5 - Discrete Calculus,discrete-calculus,https://coursera.org/learn/discrete-calculus,Math and Logic,University of Pennsylvania,"Calculus is one of the grandest achievements of human thought, explaining everything from planetary orbits to the optimal size of a city to the periodicity of a heartbeat. This brisk course covers the core ideas of single-variable Calculus with emphases on conceptual understanding and applications. The course is ideal for students beginning in the engineering, physical, and social sciences. Distinguishing features of the course include: 1) the introduction and use of Taylor series and approximations from the beginning; 2) a novel synthesis of discrete and continuous forms of Calculus; 3) an emphasis on the conceptual over the computational; and 4) a clear, dynamic, unified approach."
  +Data Science Math Skills,datasciencemathskills,https://coursera.org/learn/datasciencemathskills,Math and Logic,Duke University,"Data science courses contain math—no avoiding that! This course is designed to teach learners the basic math you will need in order to be successful in almost any data science math course and was created for learners who have basic math skills but may not have taken algebra or pre-calculus. Data Science Math Skills introduces the core math that data science is built upon, with no extra complexity, introducing unfamiliar ideas and math symbols one-at-a-time."
  +Discrete Mathematics,discrete-mathematics,https://coursera.org/learn/discrete-mathematics,Math and Logic,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,"Discrete mathematics forms the mathematical foundation of computer and information science. It is also a fascinating subject in itself. Learners will become familiar with a broad range of mathematical objects like sets, functions, relations, graphs, that are omnipresent in computer science. Perhaps more importantly, they will reach a certain level of mathematical maturity - being able to understand formal statements and their proofs; coming up with rigorous proofs themselves; and coming up with interesting results."
  +Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio,fibonacci,https://coursera.org/learn/fibonacci,Math and Logic,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,"This is a course about the Fibonacci numbers, the golden ratio, and their intimate relationship. In this course, we learn the origin of the Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio, and derive a formula to compute any Fibonacci number from powers of the golden ratio. We learn how to add a series of Fibonacci numbers and their squares, and unveil the mathematics behind a famous paradox called the Fibonacci bamboozlement. We construct a beautiful golden spiral and an even more beautiful Fibonacci spiral, and we learn why the Fibonacci numbers may appear unexpectedly in nature."
   Games without Chance: Combinatorial Game Theory ,combinatorial-game-theory,https://coursera.org/learn/combinatorial-game-theory,Math and Logic,Georgia Institute of Technology,This course will cover the mathematical theory and analysis of simple games without chance moves.
  -Calculus: Single Variable Part 2 - Differentiation,differentiation-calculus,https://coursera.org/learn/differentiation-calculus,Math and Logic,University of Pennsylvania,"Calculus is one of the grandest achievements of human thought, explaining everything from planetary orbits to the optimal size of a city to the periodicity of a heartbeat. This brisk course covers the core ideas of single-variable Calculus with emphases on conceptual understanding and applications. The course is ideal for students beginning in the engineering, physical, and social sciences. Distinguishing features of the course include: 1) the introduction and use of Taylor series and approximations from the beginning; 2) a novel synthesis of discrete and continuous forms of Calculus; 3) an emphasis on the conceptual over the computational; and 4) a clear, dynamic, unified approach."
  -Calculus: Single Variable Part 5 - Discrete Calculus,discrete-calculus,https://coursera.org/learn/discrete-calculus,Math and Logic,University of Pennsylvania,"Calculus is one of the grandest achievements of human thought, explaining everything from planetary orbits to the optimal size of a city to the periodicity of a heartbeat. This brisk course covers the core ideas of single-variable Calculus with emphases on conceptual understanding and applications. The course is ideal for students beginning in the engineering, physical, and social sciences. Distinguishing features of the course include: 1) the introduction and use of Taylor series and approximations from the beginning; 2) a novel synthesis of discrete and continuous forms of Calculus; 3) an emphasis on the conceptual over the computational; and 4) a clear, dynamic, unified approach."
  +Image and Video Processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a Stop at the Hospital,image-processing,https://coursera.org/learn/image-processing,Math and Logic,Duke University,"In this course, you will learn the science behind how digital images and video are made, altered, stored, and used. We will look at the vast world of digital imaging, from how computers and digital cameras form images to how digital special effects are used in Hollywood movies to how the Mars Rover was able to send photographs across millions of miles of space. The course starts by looking at how the human visual system works and then teaches you about the engineering, mathematics, and computer science that makes digital images work. You will learn the basic algorithms used for adjusting images, explore JPEG and MPEG standards for encoding and compressing video images, and go on to learn about image segmentation, noise removal and filtering."
  +Introduction to Complex Analysis,complex-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/complex-analysis,Math and Logic,Wesleyan University,"This course provides an introduction to complex analysis which is the theory of complex functions of a complex variable. We will start by introducing the complex plane, along with the algebra and geometry of complex numbers, and then we will make our way via differentiation, integration, complex dynamics, power series representation and Laurent series into territories at the edge of what is known today. Each module consists of five video lectures with embedded quizzes, followed by an electronically graded homework assignment. Additionally, modules 1, 3, and 5 also contain a peer assessment."
  +Introduction to Enumerative Combinatorics,enumerative-combinatorics,https://coursera.org/learn/enumerative-combinatorics,Math and Logic,Higher School of Economics,"Enumerative combinatorics deals with finite sets and their cardinalities. In other words, a typical problem of enumerative combinatorics is to find the number of ways a certain pattern can be formed. In the first part of our course we will be dealing with elementary combinatorial objects and notions: permutations, combinations, compositions, Fibonacci and Catalan numbers etc. In the second part of the course we introduce the notion of generating functions and use it to study recurrence relations and partition numbers. The course is mostly self-contained. However, some acquaintance with basic linear algebra and analysis (including Taylor series expansion) may be very helpful."
   Introduction to Galois Theory,galois,https://coursera.org/learn/galois,Math and Logic,Higher School of Economics,"A very beautiful classical theory on field extensions of a certain type (Galois extensions) initiated by Galois in the 19th century. Explains, in particular, why it is not possible to solve an equation of degree 5 or more in the same way as we solve quadratic or cubic equations. You will learn to compute Galois groups and (before that) study the properties of various field extensions. We first shall survey the basic notions and properties of field extensions: algebraic, transcendental, finite field extensions, degree of an extension, algebraic closure, decomposition field of a polynomial."
  -Calculus: Single Variable Part 3 - Integration,integration-calculus,https://coursera.org/learn/integration-calculus,Math and Logic,University of Pennsylvania,"Calculus is one of the grandest achievements of human thought, explaining everything from planetary orbits to the optimal size of a city to the periodicity of a heartbeat. This brisk course covers the core ideas of single-variable Calculus with emphases on conceptual understanding and applications. The course is ideal for students beginning in the engineering, physical, and social sciences."
  -Introduction to Complex Analysis,complex-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/complex-analysis,Math and Logic,Wesleyan University,"This course provides an introduction to complex analysis which is the theory of complex functions of a complex variable. We will start by introducing the complex plane, along with the algebra and geometry of complex numbers, and then we will make our way via differentiation, integration, complex dynamics, power series representation and Laurent series into territories at the edge of what is known today. Each module consists of five video lectures with embedded quizzes, followed by an electronically graded homework assignment. Additionally, modules 1, 3, and 5 also contain a peer assessment."
  +Introduction to Logic,logic-introduction,https://coursera.org/learn/logic-introduction,Math and Logic,Stanford University,"This course is an introduction to Logic from a computational perspective. It shows how to encode information in the form of logical sentences; it shows how to reason with information in this form; and it provides an overview of logic technology and its applications - in mathematics, science, engineering, business, law, and so forth."
  +Introduction to Mathematical Thinking,mathematical-thinking,https://coursera.org/learn/mathematical-thinking,Math and Logic,Stanford University,"Learn how to think the way mathematicians do – a powerful cognitive process developed over thousands of years. Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics – at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to solve highly stereotyped problems. Professional mathematicians think a certain way to solve real problems, problems that can arise from the everyday world, or from science, or from within mathematics itself. The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box – a valuable ability in today’s world. This course helps to develop that crucial way of thinking."
  +Jacobi modular forms: 30 ans après,modular-forms-jacobi,https://coursera.org/learn/modular-forms-jacobi,Math and Logic,Higher School of Economics,"This is a master course given in Moscow at the Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry of the National Research University Higher School of Economics by Valery Gritsenko, a professor of University Lille 1, France. Jacobi forms are holomorphic functions in two complex variables. They are modular in one variable and abelian (or double periodic) in another variable. The theory of Jacobi modular forms became an independent research subject after the famous book of Martin Eichler and Don Zagier “Jacobi modular forms” (Progress in Mathematics, vol. 55, 1985) which was cited more than a thousand times in research papers. This is due to many applications of Jacobi forms in arithmetic, topology, algebraic and differential geometry, mathematical and theoretical physics, in the theory of Lie algebras, etc. The list of mentioned subjects shows that my course might be useful for master and Ph.D. students working in different directions."
  +Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1,biostatistics,https://coursera.org/learn/biostatistics,Math and Logic,Johns Hopkins University,"This class presents the fundamental probability and statistical concepts used in elementary data analysis. It will be taught at an introductory level for students with junior or senior college-level mathematical training including a working knowledge of calculus. A small amount of linear algebra and programming are useful for the class, but not required."
   Pre-Calculus: Functions,pre-calculus,https://coursera.org/learn/pre-calculus,Math and Logic,"University of California, Irvine","This course covers mathematical topics in college algebra, with an emphasis on functions. The course is designed to help prepare students to enroll for a first semester course in single variable calculus."
   Pre-Calculus: Trigonometry,trigonometry,https://coursera.org/learn/trigonometry,Math and Logic,"University of California, Irvine","This course covers mathematical topics in trigonometry. Trigonometry is the study of triangle angles and lengths, but trigonometric functions have far reaching applications beyond simple studies of triangles. This course is designed to help prepare students to enroll for a first semester course in single variable calculus."
  -Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio,fibonacci,https://coursera.org/learn/fibonacci,Math and Logic,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,"This is a course about the Fibonacci numbers, the golden ratio, and their intimate relationship. In this course, we learn the origin of the Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio, and derive a formula to compute any Fibonacci number from powers of the golden ratio. We learn how to add a series of Fibonacci numbers and their squares, and unveil the mathematics behind a famous paradox called the Fibonacci bamboozlement. We construct a beautiful golden spiral and an even more beautiful Fibonacci spiral, and we learn why the Fibonacci numbers may appear unexpectedly in nature."
  -Introduction to Logic,logic-introduction,https://coursera.org/learn/logic-introduction,Math and Logic,Stanford University,"This course is an introduction to Logic from a computational perspective. It shows how to encode information in the form of logical sentences; it shows how to reason with information in this form; and it provides an overview of logic technology and its applications - in mathematics, science, engineering, business, law, and so forth."
  -Jacobi modular forms: 30 ans après,modular-forms-jacobi,https://coursera.org/learn/modular-forms-jacobi,Math and Logic,Higher School of Economics,"This is a master course given in Moscow at the Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry of the National Research University Higher School of Economics by Valery Gritsenko, a professor of University Lille 1, France. Jacobi forms are holomorphic functions in two complex variables. They are modular in one variable and abelian (or double periodic) in another variable. The theory of Jacobi modular forms became an independent research subject after the famous book of Martin Eichler and Don Zagier “Jacobi modular forms” (Progress in Mathematics, vol. 55, 1985) which was cited more than a thousand times in research papers. This is due to many applications of Jacobi forms in arithmetic, topology, algebraic and differential geometry, mathematical and theoretical physics, in the theory of Lie algebras, etc. The list of mentioned subjects shows that my course might be useful for master and Ph.D. students working in different directions."
  -Image and Video Processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a Stop at the Hospital,image-processing,https://coursera.org/learn/image-processing,Math and Logic,Duke University,"In this course, you will learn the science behind how digital images and video are made, altered, stored, and used. We will look at the vast world of digital imaging, from how computers and digital cameras form images to how digital special effects are used in Hollywood movies to how the Mars Rover was able to send photographs across millions of miles of space. The course starts by looking at how the human visual system works and then teaches you about the engineering, mathematics, and computer science that makes digital images work. You will learn the basic algorithms used for adjusting images, explore JPEG and MPEG standards for encoding and compressing video images, and go on to learn about image segmentation, noise removal and filtering."
  -Data Science Math Skills,datasciencemathskills,https://coursera.org/learn/datasciencemathskills,Math and Logic,Duke University,"Data science courses contain math—no avoiding that! This course is designed to teach learners the basic math you will need in order to be successful in almost any data science math course and was created for learners who have basic math skills but may not have taken algebra or pre-calculus. Data Science Math Skills introduces the core math that data science is built upon, with no extra complexity, introducing unfamiliar ideas and math symbols one-at-a-time."
  -Introduction to Mathematical Thinking,mathematical-thinking,https://coursera.org/learn/mathematical-thinking,Math and Logic,Stanford University,"Learn how to think the way mathematicians do – a powerful cognitive process developed over thousands of years. Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics – at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to solve highly stereotyped problems. Professional mathematicians think a certain way to solve real problems, problems that can arise from the everyday world, or from science, or from within mathematics itself. The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box – a valuable ability in today’s world. This course helps to develop that crucial way of thinking."
  -Discrete Mathematics,discrete-mathematics,https://coursera.org/learn/discrete-mathematics,Math and Logic,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,"Discrete mathematics forms the mathematical foundation of computer and information science. It is also a fascinating subject in itself. Learners will become familiar with a broad range of mathematical objects like sets, functions, relations, graphs, that are omnipresent in computer science. Perhaps more importantly, they will reach a certain level of mathematical maturity - being able to understand formal statements and their proofs; coming up with rigorous proofs themselves; and coming up with interesting results."
  -Introduction to Enumerative Combinatorics,enumerative-combinatorics,https://coursera.org/learn/enumerative-combinatorics,Math and Logic,Higher School of Economics,"Enumerative combinatorics deals with finite sets and their cardinalities. In other words, a typical problem of enumerative combinatorics is to find the number of ways a certain pattern can be formed. In the first part of our course we will be dealing with elementary combinatorial objects and notions: permutations, combinations, compositions, Fibonacci and Catalan numbers etc. In the second part of the course we introduce the notion of generating functions and use it to study recurrence relations and partition numbers. The course is mostly self-contained. However, some acquaintance with basic linear algebra and analysis (including Taylor series expansion) may be very helpful."
  +Academic Information Seeking,academicinfoseek,https://coursera.org/learn/academicinfoseek,Personal Development,"University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)",This course will introduce you to the basic elements of academic information seeking - we will explore the search process from defining a strategy to evaluating and documenting your search results. Attending the course will make you a proficient information seeker. You will learn how to carry out comprehensive literature searches based on your own research assignment.
  +Applying to U.S. Universities,study-in-usa,https://coursera.org/learn/study-in-usa,Personal Development,University of Pennsylvania,"This course will help international students (non-U.S. citizens) and non-native English speakers navigate the U.S. university admission process by offering practical information about the documents and pieces that make up a U.S. university application. More importantly, admission officers will discuss how they use those pieces to decide who is accepted and who is denied, so that you can understand the process beyond the pieces."
  +Becoming Part of the Globalised Workplace,becoming-part-of-the-globalised-workplace,https://coursera.org/learn/becoming-part-of-the-globalised-workplace,Personal Development,National University of Singapore,"The final course aims to build learners’ confidence and adaptability when communicating in cross-cultural environments as they assume leadership responsibility to communicate influence in persuasive workplace contexts. The course focuses on enhancing learners’ professional persona for skilful engagement and intercultural communication with stakeholders within and beyond the organization, including cross-departmental work teams, clients and external partners. Learners will also discover and apply good practices in organising information, using visual aids and body language for presentations while demonstrating a heightened sense of cultural sensitivity in a given context."
  +Career Options: Exploring a New Career,career-exploration,https://coursera.org/learn/career-exploration,Personal Development,University System of Georgia,"This course is for you if you are interested in researching a new career and acquiring the skills necessary to succeed in it. You will be asked to reflect on your experiences and critically evaluate what you currently know, what you need to acquire, and how to go about getting it. You will then identify groups and individuals that can serve and support you in exploring a new career. During this course, you will identify the elements of a well-structured career plan and evaluate career options by individual fit to determine how to effectively engage your network in your career journey."
  +Career Planning:  A Pathway to Employment,career-planning,https://coursera.org/learn/career-planning,Personal Development,University System of Georgia,"This course is designed to foster creative approaches to launching a new career. You will articulate best ways to make a first impression and analyze your strengths by creating a personal statement. You will identify appropriate elements to make your resume stand out from the crowd. You will also identify the most effective ways a cover letter can answer a job description, and how to best leverage social media in your job search. In short, this course will help you to prepare for a new job."
  +Course 1: Strategic Career Self-Management,strategic-career-self-management,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-career-self-management,Personal Development,The State University of New York,"According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the current economy, Americans shift jobs every 4-5 years, which translates into 8-10 job transitions, including several career changes, over one’s life time. With competition for jobs on the rise, a person’s continuing employability and career success are increasingly defined by his or her mastery of individual career development and the ability to effectively ""manage oneself"" (P. Drucker). In this course, you will learn how to think strategically and professionally about your career self-management. Through this course you'll develop an objective, external view of your marketable skills as a solid foundation for building a strong career brand."
  +Course 2: Career Brand Development and Self-Coaching,career-brand-development-self-coaching,https://coursera.org/learn/career-brand-development-self-coaching,Personal Development,The State University of New York,"In this course, you will engage in developing and strengthening the functional component of your career brand. Acting as “your own Chief Executive Officer” (P. Drucker), you will learn how to use strategic management models and techniques for enhancing your skills portfolio. You will learn how to increase your human capital by developing and documenting high-demand marketable skills."
  +Course 3: Strategic Self-Marketing and Personal Branding,strategic-self-marketing-personal-branding,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-self-marketing-personal-branding,Personal Development,The State University of New York,"In this course, you will learn how to use strategic marketing and personal branding techniques for designing, enhancing, and promoting your professional image. Acting as ""your own Chief Executive Officer"" (P. Drucker), you will learn how to use relationship and network marketing and impression management to showcase your skills to prospective employers, colleagues, supervisors, and other interested parties."
  +Creative Problem Solving,creative-problem-solving,https://coursera.org/learn/creative-problem-solving,Personal Development,University of Minnesota,"This course deals directly with your ability for creativity which is a critical skill in any field. It focuses on divergent thinking, the ability to develop multiple ideas and concepts to solve problems. Through a series of creativity building exercises, short lectures, and readings, learners develop both an understanding of creativity and increase their own ability."
  +De-Mystifying Mindfulness,mindfulness,https://coursera.org/learn/mindfulness,Personal Development,Universiteit Leiden,"Interest in meditation, mindfulness, and contemplation has grown exponentially in recent years. Rather than being seen as mystical practices from ancient Buddhism or esoteric philosophy, they are increasingly seen as technologies rooted in evidence from psychology and neuroscience. Mindfulness has become the basis for numerous therapeutic interventions, both as a treatment in healthcare and as a means of enhancing well-being and happiness. For millions around the world, mindfulness has become a life-style choice, enhancing and enriching everyday experience. Mindfulness is big business."
  +Designing Your Personal Weight Loss Plan,weight-loss-plan,https://coursera.org/learn/weight-loss-plan,Personal Development,Case Western Reserve University,"This 5 week course will guide learners through the essential steps in planning an individualized weight loss program. There is no guarantee of weight loss through completing the course; learners will have the framework and essential components for an evidence-based weight loss program. This course is intended for healthy adults who do not have any chronic disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, lung disease or any others. In addition, this course does not provide information for people who have food allergies or intolerances."
  +Digital Footprint,digital-footprint,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-footprint,Personal Development,The University of Edinburgh,"If I Googled you, what would I find?
  +
  +As we move around the online world we leave tracks and traces of our activity all the time: social media accounts, tagged images, professional presences, scraps of text, but also many artefacts we don't always realise we are leaving behind, or that others leave about us.  
  +
  +In this course you will hear from a range of experts and you will have an opportunity to explore and reflect on your own online tracks and traces, to understand why your digital footprint is important. We will introduce you to some of the tools and approaches to effectively manage your online presence (or digital footprint).  
  +
  +The course will focus on the different dimensions of a digital footprint, including developing an effective online presence, managing your privacy, creating opportunities for networking, balancing and managing professional and personal presences (eprofessionalism). By the end of this course (MOOC) you should be equipped to ensure that your digital footprint works for you, whether you want to be more private online, or are looking to create a more effective and impactful presence.  
  +"
  +Engaging in Persuasive and Credible Communication,engaging-in-credible-persuasion,https://coursera.org/learn/engaging-in-credible-persuasion,Personal Development,National University of Singapore,"In ""Engaging in Persuasive and Credible Communication"", you will learn the key skill of persuasion, in the context of professional communication in a globalised world. Persuasive communication is essential to any professional workplace. From a simple email request for your colleague to help you, to developing a presentation for the board of directors, these are acts of communication that require a good degree of persuasion."
  +Essentials for English Speeches and Presentations  英语演讲与演示,yingyuyanjiang,https://coursera.org/learn/yingyuyanjiang,Personal Development,Peking University,"Students must learn essential knowledge and skills to deliver an impressive English speech or presentation for academic purposes, job hunting, and business occasions. Global perspectives and inter-cultural communication skills are taught here to facilitate most Chinese English learners."
  +Establishing a Professional ‘Self’ through Effective Intercultural Communication,effective-intercultural-communication,https://coursera.org/learn/effective-intercultural-communication,Personal Development,National University of Singapore,"In the course ‘Establishing a professional ‘self’ through effective intercultural communication’, you will learn how to communicate effectively to establish relationships with colleagues in a culturally and linguistically diverse community and workplace."
  +Fundamentals of Public Speaking,fundamentals-of-public-speaking,https://coursera.org/learn/fundamentals-of-public-speaking,Personal Development,University of Washington,"This course gives you a reliable model for preparing and delivering effective presentations. In business, in school, and in public life, we are often called upon to “make a few comments.” Often, people tasked with such speeches become flummoxed. They might not know what to talk about, or ramble without making a point, or simply be confusing to listen to. This course is designed to help you shine where others falter."
  +Giving Helpful Feedback,feedback,https://coursera.org/learn/feedback,Personal Development,University of Colorado Boulder,"This course teaches you the simple principles expert managers use to improve and motivate employee performance. You’ll never have to avoid telling an employee “the truth” again, because the seven techniques we teach will not make employees defensive or afraid. As a manager, or someone who would like to be a manager, you’ll also learn specifically what feedback is, how negative feedback is weighed more heavily than positive, and how positive feedback can super-charge behaviors such as creativity and teamwork."
  +Healing with the Arts,healing-with-the-arts,https://coursera.org/learn/healing-with-the-arts,Personal Development,University of Florida,"Through art projects—including visual arts, dance, writing, and music—along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing With the Arts gives you the tools to heal what you need to heal in your life: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual."
  +How to Apply to College,applying-to-college,https://coursera.org/learn/applying-to-college,Personal Development,University of Pennsylvania,"How to Apply to College will empower learners of all backgrounds to demystify and better understand the college search and selection process, combining the expertise of an Ivy League admissions office and a leading college access and success organization. Led by expert educators, including Eric J. Furda, Dean of Admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Sean Vereen, President of Steppingstone Scholars, Inc., this free course will help students, family members, college counselors and any inquisitive learner to navigate each stage from the start of the college search process through the transition into a college environment."
  +How to Write a Resume (Project-Centered Course),how-to-write-a-resume,https://coursera.org/learn/how-to-write-a-resume,Personal Development,The State University of New York,"In this project-centered course*, you will craft an essential cornerstone of the modern-day job or internship search: the resume. You’ll review resume best practices and explore current trends with guidance from a professional career counselor and recruiter, and you’ll exchange structured feedback with your peers as you work to polish your own resume. When you complete the course, you’ll have an eye-catching resume that lets your professional strengths shine."
  +Ignite Your Everyday Creativity,ignite-creativity,https://coursera.org/learn/ignite-creativity,Personal Development,"University of California, Irvine",You will learn to extend your knowledge of making iOS apps so that they can securely interact with web services and receive push notifications. You'll learn how to store data securely on a device using Core Data. You’ll also learn to securely deploy apps to the App Store and beta users over-the-air. The format of the course is through a series of code tutorials. We will walk you through the creation of several apps that you can keep as a personal app toolbox.
  +Improving Communication Skills,wharton-communication-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-communication-skills,Personal Development,University of Pennsylvania,"Learn how to communicate more effectively at work and achieve your goals. Taught by award-winning Wharton professor and best-selling author Maurice Schweitzer, Improving Communications Skills is an essential course designed to give you both the tools you need to improve your communication skills, and the most successful strategies for using them to your advantage. You'll learn how to discover if someone is lying (and how to react if they are), how to develop trust, the best method of communication for negotiation, and how to apologize. You'll also learn when to cooperate and when to compete, how to create persuasive messages, ask thoughtful questions, engage in active listening, and choose the right medium (face-to-face conversation, video conference, phone call, or email) for your messages. By"
   Introduction to Public Speaking,public-speaking,https://coursera.org/learn/public-speaking,Personal Development,University of Washington,"This course gives you a reliable model for preparing and delivering effective presentations. In business, in school, and in public life, we are often called upon to “make a few comments.” Often, people tasked with such speeches become flummoxed. They might not know what to talk about, or ramble without making a point, or simply be confusing to listen to. This course is designed to help you shine where others falter."
  -Applying to U.S. Universities,study-in-usa,https://coursera.org/learn/study-in-usa,Personal Development,University of Pennsylvania,"This course will help international students (non-U.S. citizens) and non-native English speakers navigate the U.S. university admission process by offering practical information about the documents and pieces that make up a U.S. university application. More importantly, admission officers will discuss how they use those pieces to decide who is accepted and who is denied, so that you can understand the process beyond the pieces."
  -Essentials for English Speeches and Presentations  英语演讲与演示,yingyuyanjiang,https://coursera.org/learn/yingyuyanjiang,Personal Development,Peking University,"Students must learn essential knowledge and skills to deliver an impressive English speech or presentation for academic purposes, job hunting, and business occasions. Global perspectives and inter-cultural communication skills are taught here to facilitate most Chinese English learners."
  -Creative Problem Solving,creative-problem-solving,https://coursera.org/learn/creative-problem-solving,Personal Development,University of Minnesota,"This course deals directly with your ability for creativity which is a critical skill in any field. It focuses on divergent thinking, the ability to develop multiple ideas and concepts to solve problems. Through a series of creativity building exercises, short lectures, and readings, learners develop both an understanding of creativity and increase their own ability."
  +Job Success: Get Hired or Promoted in 3 Steps,get-hired,https://coursera.org/learn/get-hired,Personal Development,The State University of New York,"This course, Job Success: Get Hired or Promoted in Three Steps, will prepare you to stand out in a crowded applicant pool so that you can get hired or promoted. In three steps you will leave this course with 1. An upgraded social media presence (one that you can be proud of) 2. A visual, infographic resume that will get you noticed 3. A professional pitch that highlights your strengths and skills"
   Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects,learning-how-to-learn,https://coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn,Personal Development,"University of California, San Diego","This course gives you easy access to the invaluable learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. We’ll learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates (“chunks”) information. We’ll also cover illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects."
  +Metaliteracy: Empowering Yourself in a Connected World,information-literacy,https://coursera.org/learn/information-literacy,Personal Development,The State University of New York,"This course prepares learners to empower themselves through metaliteracy in a connected world. Metaliteracy promotes critical thinking and self-reflection to consume, create, and share information with others. Participants will learn how to critically navigate, evaluate and produce information in open, online, and social media settings. This course features videos, readings, discussions, and learning activities that promote metaliteracy competencies. Participants will become active and collaborative digital citizens who locate and evaluate information in 21st century social environments, including Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), while making contributions to these spaces as self-reflective and empowered metaliterate learners."
  +Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential,mindshift,https://coursera.org/learn/mindshift,Personal Development,McMaster University,"Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence.  We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions.  This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed!
  +
  +This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course, Learning How to Learn.  (Mindshift is more career focused, and Learning How to Learn is more learning focused.)"
   Personal Branding,personal-branding,https://coursera.org/learn/personal-branding,Personal Development,University of Virginia,"Though the concept of personal branding isn't new, questions remain about how to create one and, more importantly, what it means to maintain and inhabit that brand."
  -Ignite Your Everyday Creativity,ignite-creativity,https://coursera.org/learn/ignite-creativity,Personal Development,"University of California, Irvine",You will learn to extend your knowledge of making iOS apps so that they can securely interact with web services and receive push notifications. You'll learn how to store data securely on a device using Core Data. You’ll also learn to securely deploy apps to the App Store and beta users over-the-air. The format of the course is through a series of code tutorials. We will walk you through the creation of several apps that you can keep as a personal app toolbox.
  -Course 1: Strategic Career Self-Management,strategic-career-self-management,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-career-self-management,Personal Development,The State University of New York,"According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the current economy, Americans shift jobs every 4-5 years, which translates into 8-10 job transitions, including several career changes, over one’s life time. With competition for jobs on the rise, a person’s continuing employability and career success are increasingly defined by his or her mastery of individual career development and the ability to effectively ""manage oneself"" (P. Drucker). In this course, you will learn how to think strategically and professionally about your career self-management. Through this course you'll develop an objective, external view of your marketable skills as a solid foundation for building a strong career brand."
  -Academic Information Seeking,academicinfoseek,https://coursera.org/learn/academicinfoseek,Personal Development,"University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)",This course will introduce you to the basic elements of academic information seeking - we will explore the search process from defining a strategy to evaluating and documenting your search results. Attending the course will make you a proficient information seeker. You will learn how to carry out comprehensive literature searches based on your own research assignment.
  -Establishing a Professional ‘Self’ through Effective Intercultural Communication,effective-intercultural-communication,https://coursera.org/learn/effective-intercultural-communication,Personal Development,National University of Singapore,"In the course ‘Establishing a professional ‘self’ through effective intercultural communication’, you will learn how to communicate effectively to establish relationships with colleagues in a culturally and linguistically diverse community and workplace."
  -Giving Helpful Feedback,feedback,https://coursera.org/learn/feedback,Personal Development,University of Colorado Boulder,"This course teaches you the simple principles expert managers use to improve and motivate employee performance. You’ll never have to avoid telling an employee “the truth” again, because the seven techniques we teach will not make employees defensive or afraid. As a manager, or someone who would like to be a manager, you’ll also learn specifically what feedback is, how negative feedback is weighed more heavily than positive, and how positive feedback can super-charge behaviors such as creativity and teamwork."
  -How to Write a Resume (Project-Centered Course),how-to-write-a-resume,https://coursera.org/learn/how-to-write-a-resume,Personal Development,The State University of New York,"In this project-centered course*, you will craft an essential cornerstone of the modern-day job or internship search: the resume. You’ll review resume best practices and explore current trends with guidance from a professional career counselor and recruiter, and you’ll exchange structured feedback with your peers as you work to polish your own resume. When you complete the course, you’ll have an eye-catching resume that lets your professional strengths shine."
  -Course 2: Career Brand Development and Self-Coaching,career-brand-development-self-coaching,https://coursera.org/learn/career-brand-development-self-coaching,Personal Development,The State University of New York,"In this course, you will engage in developing and strengthening the functional component of your career brand. Acting as “your own Chief Executive Officer” (P. Drucker), you will learn how to use strategic management models and techniques for enhancing your skills portfolio. You will learn how to increase your human capital by developing and documenting high-demand marketable skills."
  +Personality Types at Work,personality-types-at-work,https://coursera.org/learn/personality-types-at-work,Personal Development,University of Florida,"Knowing yourself, your team, your manager, and your organization are keys to personal and business success. What were once labeled soft skills are now modern requirements in today's workplace - especially if you are trying to get in the door or are already leading a team."
  +Science of Training Young Athletes Part 2,science-of-training-young-athletes-part-2,https://coursera.org/learn/science-of-training-young-athletes-part-2,Personal Development,University of Florida,In this course you will learn how to design the type of training that takes advantage of the plastic nature of the athlete’s body so you mold the right phenotype for a sport. We explore ways the muscular system can be designed to generate higher force and power and the type of training needed to mold the athlete's physical capacity so it meets the energy and biochemical demands of the sport. We also examine the cost of plasticity when it is carried beyond the ability of the body to adjust itself to meet the imposed training stresses.
  +"Sit Less, Get Active",get-active,https://coursera.org/learn/get-active,Personal Development,The University of Edinburgh,Physical inactivity and sedentariness are “silent killers”. Do you feel like you spend too much time sitting? Do you feel like you would like to be more active? Are you unsure about how to incorporate physical activity into your daily life? We are here to help. Join us on a journey to learn about how to sit less and become more active. Use this FREE course to learn how to monitor your own activity and set physical activity goals.
  +Speaking to inform:  Discussing complex ideas with clear explanations and dynamic slides,inform-speech,https://coursera.org/learn/inform-speech,Personal Development,University of Washington,"In the professional realm, most speeches and presentations we give are informative in scope. A scientist needs to explain her recent research findings. A financial officer needs to report on quarterly earnings to his company’s board. A technology professional needs to educate a consumer about a new product. Any time you need to convey ideas or demonstrate a process, you’re dealing with informative speaking. Informative speaking is a fun puzzle. You need to think from the perspective of your audience to identify what they need to hear in order to understand the key ideas. How much does the audience already know? What are the most important elements to convey?"
   Strengthening Your Widening Network ,strengthening-your-widening-network,https://coursera.org/learn/strengthening-your-widening-network,Personal Development,National University of Singapore,"In this course, you will learn strategies not only on how to communicate effectively but also how to strengthen your relationships with co-workers and other stakeholders from diverse cultural backgrounds, both inside and beyond the organisation. In particular, ""Strengthening your widening network"" aims to equip you with a workplace discourse that facilitates familiarity with practices in the working environment and to help you appreciate the complexities inherent in the organisational structure and hierarchy."
  -Engaging in Persuasive and Credible Communication,engaging-in-credible-persuasion,https://coursera.org/learn/engaging-in-credible-persuasion,Personal Development,National University of Singapore,"In ""Engaging in Persuasive and Credible Communication"", you will learn the key skill of persuasion, in the context of professional communication in a globalised world. Persuasive communication is essential to any professional workplace. From a simple email request for your colleague to help you, to developing a presentation for the board of directors, these are acts of communication that require a good degree of persuasion."
  -Course 3: Strategic Self-Marketing and Personal Branding,strategic-self-marketing-personal-branding,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-self-marketing-personal-branding,Personal Development,The State University of New York,"In this course, you will learn how to use strategic marketing and personal branding techniques for designing, enhancing, and promoting your professional image. Acting as ""your own Chief Executive Officer"" (P. Drucker), you will learn how to use relationship and network marketing and impression management to showcase your skills to prospective employers, colleagues, supervisors, and other interested parties."
  +Studying at Japanese Universities,study-in-japan,https://coursera.org/learn/study-in-japan,Personal Development,The University of Tokyo,"Are you interested in studying at Japanese universities? Do you want to learn about Japan’s university application and enrollment processes, as well as the types of programs on offer? This course will help you to both discover great programs offered by different Japanese universities and prepare a study plan through project-based learning."
  +Success,wharton-succcess,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-succcess,Personal Development,University of Pennsylvania,"Do you want to be more successful? This course was designed to help you define what success means to you, and to develop a plan for achieving it. Wharton Professor G. Richard Shell, an award-winning author and the creator of the popular Wharton School course on the meaning of success, created this course to help you answer the questions that arise when you consider how best to use your life. Drawing on his decades of research and mentoring, Shell offers personalized assessments to help you probe your past, imagine your future, and measure your strengths. He then combines these with the latest scientific insights on everything from self-confidence and happiness to relationships and careers"
  +Successful Career Development,career-advancement,https://coursera.org/learn/career-advancement,Personal Development,University System of Georgia,"No matter the professional level, we can all benefit from learning how to succeed in our careers. Whether a well-seasoned professional, a management trainee, or a service level employee, this course will help you enrich your career by honing your professional behavior and networking. Through industry expert support and resources, this course is designed to prepare you for success in any chosen career. You will develop the habits and attitudes you need to perform effectively in the job market. You will identify a mentor to add value to your career."
  +Take the Lead on Healthcare Quality Improvement,hcqualityimprovement,https://coursera.org/learn/hcqualityimprovement,Personal Development,Case Western Reserve University,In this course you will learn about the importance of quality in healthcare and how you can contribute by implementing a quality improvement (QI) project to improve processes of care and patient outcomes. You will learn about powerful tools to add to your QI ‘toolbox’ during short lectures and reflective exercises. You will apply these tools to the implementation of a QI project in your own practice setting or an area of personal improvement.
  +Teaching Science at University,teachingscience,https://coursera.org/learn/teachingscience,Personal Development,University of Zurich,"This course will prepare you for teaching science in higher education. In this MOOC you will learn to make your knowledge as an excellent researcher accessible to your students. We will show you how to communicate science to novices as well as advanced students in science. You will experience the value of teaching with analogies and you will be guided to train your students' competences. Based on up-to-date findings from research into teaching and learning science you will be able to - implement evidence-based strategies into your own teaching, - use students everyday-conceptions for the development of courses, - prepare analogies and models to teach in your field,"
  +The Arts and Science of Relationships: Understanding Human Needs,human-needs,https://coursera.org/learn/human-needs,Personal Development,University of Toronto,"This course provides an introduction to: 1. Basic concepts of The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development System (SSLD), their relevance for every day relationships and provide advanced concepts for participants who work in fields of social work and health care . 2. Basic practice principles and methods of SSLD, illustrated by relationship management case studies. 3. The SSLD framework for relationship management assessment; N3C (needs, circumstances, characteristics, capacity) and problem translation. 4. Core competencies in the relationship management application of the SSLD system: Observation learning, simulation, real life implementation, review and monitoring."
   The Science of Training Young Athletes,youth-sports,https://coursera.org/learn/youth-sports,Personal Development,University of Florida,"Seventy percent of kids drop out of sports before their high school graduation. Only 15% leave because they feel they are not good enough. Almost 70% leave because they were not having fun, or due to problems with the coach. Injuries cause 30% to give up sports. This course is packed full of practical sports science information that provide youth coaches and parents with the practical pediatric sports science insights to successfully retain young athletes and develop their sport potential while avoiding injury and overtraining. We begin by examining the multidimensional nature of coaching, the relevant sport motor performance abilities, the impact of growth and development on motor skills, the gene versus practice controversy, and briefly overview the body structures strengthened through training."
  -Becoming Part of the Globalised Workplace,becoming-part-of-the-globalised-workplace,https://coursera.org/learn/becoming-part-of-the-globalised-workplace,Personal Development,National University of Singapore,"The final course aims to build learners’ confidence and adaptability when communicating in cross-cultural environments as they assume leadership responsibility to communicate influence in persuasive workplace contexts. The course focuses on enhancing learners’ professional persona for skilful engagement and intercultural communication with stakeholders within and beyond the organization, including cross-departmental work teams, clients and external partners. Learners will also discover and apply good practices in organising information, using visual aids and body language for presentations while demonstrating a heightened sense of cultural sensitivity in a given context."
  -Tinkering Fundamentals: A Constructionist Approach to STEM Learning,tinkering,https://coursera.org/learn/tinkering,Personal Development,Exploratorium,"The Tinkering Fundamentals course will offer educators and enthusiasts an opportunity to develop a practice of tinkering and making. We see tinkering as a serious endeavor—one that is generalizable across content and especially good at interweaving disciplines in a way that leads to complex projects and individualized learning opportunities. Tinkering has recently been introduced into the educational field as a potential driver of creativity, excitement, and innovation in science learning. It is seen by many as an effective means to engage in exploring STEM concepts, practices and phenomena. Tinkering typically blends the high and low tech tools of science along with a strong aesthetic dimension that supports children’s (and adults) self expression."
  -Take the Lead on Healthcare Quality Improvement,hcqualityimprovement,https://coursera.org/learn/hcqualityimprovement,Personal Development,Case Western Reserve University,In this course you will learn about the importance of quality in healthcare and how you can contribute by implementing a quality improvement (QI) project to improve processes of care and patient outcomes. You will learn about powerful tools to add to your QI ‘toolbox’ during short lectures and reflective exercises. You will apply these tools to the implementation of a QI project in your own practice setting or an area of personal improvement.
  -"Sit Less, Get Active",get-active,https://coursera.org/learn/get-active,Personal Development,The University of Edinburgh,Physical inactivity and sedentariness are “silent killers”. Do you feel like you spend too much time sitting? Do you feel like you would like to be more active? Are you unsure about how to incorporate physical activity into your daily life? We are here to help. Join us on a journey to learn about how to sit less and become more active. Use this FREE course to learn how to monitor your own activity and set physical activity goals.
   Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments,understanding-arguments,https://coursera.org/learn/understanding-arguments,Personal Development,Duke University,"Reasoning is important. This series of four short courses will teach you how to do it well. You will learn simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and common and tempting mistakes to avoid in reasoning. We will discuss how to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments by other people (including politicians, used car salesmen, and teachers) and how to construct arguments of your own in order to help you decide what to believe or what to do. These skills will be useful in dealing with whatever matters most to you."
   Think Again II: How to Reason Deductively,deductive-reasoning,https://coursera.org/learn/deductive-reasoning,Personal Development,Duke University,"Think Again: How to Reason and Argue Reasoning is important. This series of four short courses will teach you how to do it well. You will learn simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and common and tempting mistakes to avoid in reasoning. We will discuss how to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments by other people (including politicians, used car salesmen, and teachers) and how to construct arguments of your own in order to help you decide what to believe or what to do. These skills will be useful in dealing with whatever matters most to you."
  +Think Again III: How to Reason Inductively,inductive-reasoning,https://coursera.org/learn/inductive-reasoning,Personal Development,Duke University,"Think Again: How to Reason and Argue Reasoning is important. This series of four short courses will teach you how to do it well. You will learn simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and common and tempting mistakes to avoid in reasoning. We will discuss how to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments by other people (including politicians, used car salesmen, and teachers) and how to construct arguments of your own in order to help you decide what to believe or what to do. These skills will be useful in dealing with whatever matters most to you."
   Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies,logical-fallacies,https://coursera.org/learn/logical-fallacies,Personal Development,Duke University,"Think Again: How to Reason and Argue Reasoning is important. This series of four short courses will teach you how to do it well. You will learn simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and common and tempting mistakes to avoid in reasoning. We will discuss how to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments by other people (including politicians, used car salesmen, and teachers) and how to construct arguments of your own in order to help you decide what to believe or what to do. These skills will be useful in dealing with whatever matters most to you."
  -Think Again III: How to Reason Inductively,inductive-reasoning,https://coursera.org/learn/inductive-reasoning,Personal Development,Duke University,"Think Again: How to Reason and Argue Reasoning is important. This series of four short courses will teach you how to do it well. You will learn simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and common and tempting mistakes to avoid in reasoning. We will discuss how to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments by other people (including politicians, used car salesmen, and teachers) and how to construct arguments of your own in order to help you decide what to believe or what to do. These skills will be useful in dealing with whatever matters most to you."
  -Success,wharton-succcess,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-succcess,Personal Development,University of Pennsylvania,"Do you want to be more successful? This course was designed to help you define what success means to you, and to develop a plan for achieving it. Wharton Professor G. Richard Shell, an award-winning author and the creator of the popular Wharton School course on the meaning of success, created this course to help you answer the questions that arise when you consider how best to use your life. Drawing on his decades of research and mentoring, Shell offers personalized assessments to help you probe your past, imagine your future, and measure your strengths. He then combines these with the latest scientific insights on everything from self-confidence and happiness to relationships and careers"
  -Job Success: Get Hired or Promoted in 3 Steps,get-hired,https://coursera.org/learn/get-hired,Personal Development,The State University of New York,"This course, Job Success: Get Hired or Promoted in Three Steps, will prepare you to stand out in a crowded applicant pool so that you can get hired or promoted. In three steps you will leave this course with 1. An upgraded social media presence (one that you can be proud of) 2. A visual, infographic resume that will get you noticed 3. A professional pitch that highlights your strengths and skills"
  -Studying at Japanese Universities,study-in-japan,https://coursera.org/learn/study-in-japan,Personal Development,The University of Tokyo,"Are you interested in studying at Japanese universities? Do you want to learn about Japan’s university application and enrollment processes, as well as the types of programs on offer? This course will help you to both discover great programs offered by different Japanese universities and prepare a study plan through project-based learning."
  -Successful Career Development,career-advancement,https://coursera.org/learn/career-advancement,Personal Development,University System of Georgia,"No matter the professional level, we can all benefit from learning how to succeed in our careers. Whether a well-seasoned professional, a management trainee, or a service level employee, this course will help you enrich your career by honing your professional behavior and networking. Through industry expert support and resources, this course is designed to prepare you for success in any chosen career. You will develop the habits and attitudes you need to perform effectively in the job market. You will identify a mentor to add value to your career."
  -Personality Types at Work,personality-types-at-work,https://coursera.org/learn/personality-types-at-work,Personal Development,University of Florida,"Knowing yourself, your team, your manager, and your organization are keys to personal and business success. What were once labeled soft skills are now modern requirements in today's workplace - especially if you are trying to get in the door or are already leading a team."
  -Career Options: Exploring a New Career,career-exploration,https://coursera.org/learn/career-exploration,Personal Development,University System of Georgia,"This course is for you if you are interested in researching a new career and acquiring the skills necessary to succeed in it. You will be asked to reflect on your experiences and critically evaluate what you currently know, what you need to acquire, and how to go about getting it. You will then identify groups and individuals that can serve and support you in exploring a new career. During this course, you will identify the elements of a well-structured career plan and evaluate career options by individual fit to determine how to effectively engage your network in your career journey."
  -Career Planning:  A Pathway to Employment,career-planning,https://coursera.org/learn/career-planning,Personal Development,University System of Georgia,"This course is designed to foster creative approaches to launching a new career. You will articulate best ways to make a first impression and analyze your strengths by creating a personal statement. You will identify appropriate elements to make your resume stand out from the crowd. You will also identify the most effective ways a cover letter can answer a job description, and how to best leverage social media in your job search. In short, this course will help you to prepare for a new job."
  -Designing Your Personal Weight Loss Plan,weight-loss-plan,https://coursera.org/learn/weight-loss-plan,Personal Development,Case Western Reserve University,"This 5 week course will guide learners through the essential steps in planning an individualized weight loss program. There is no guarantee of weight loss through completing the course; learners will have the framework and essential components for an evidence-based weight loss program. This course is intended for healthy adults who do not have any chronic disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, lung disease or any others. In addition, this course does not provide information for people who have food allergies or intolerances."
  -De-Mystifying Mindfulness,mindfulness,https://coursera.org/learn/mindfulness,Personal Development,Universiteit Leiden,"Interest in meditation, mindfulness, and contemplation has grown exponentially in recent years. Rather than being seen as mystical practices from ancient Buddhism or esoteric philosophy, they are increasingly seen as technologies rooted in evidence from psychology and neuroscience. Mindfulness has become the basis for numerous therapeutic interventions, both as a treatment in healthcare and as a means of enhancing well-being and happiness. For millions around the world, mindfulness has become a life-style choice, enhancing and enriching everyday experience. Mindfulness is big business."
  -Fundamentals of Public Speaking,fundamentals-of-public-speaking,https://coursera.org/learn/fundamentals-of-public-speaking,Personal Development,University of Washington,"This course gives you a reliable model for preparing and delivering effective presentations. In business, in school, and in public life, we are often called upon to “make a few comments.” Often, people tasked with such speeches become flummoxed. They might not know what to talk about, or ramble without making a point, or simply be confusing to listen to. This course is designed to help you shine where others falter."
  -Metaliteracy: Empowering Yourself in a Connected World,information-literacy,https://coursera.org/learn/information-literacy,Personal Development,The State University of New York,"This course prepares learners to empower themselves through metaliteracy in a connected world. Metaliteracy promotes critical thinking and self-reflection to consume, create, and share information with others. Participants will learn how to critically navigate, evaluate and produce information in open, online, and social media settings. This course features videos, readings, discussions, and learning activities that promote metaliteracy competencies. Participants will become active and collaborative digital citizens who locate and evaluate information in 21st century social environments, including Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), while making contributions to these spaces as self-reflective and empowered metaliterate learners."
  +Tinkering Fundamentals: A Constructionist Approach to STEM Learning,tinkering,https://coursera.org/learn/tinkering,Personal Development,Exploratorium,"The Tinkering Fundamentals course will offer educators and enthusiasts an opportunity to develop a practice of tinkering and making. We see tinkering as a serious endeavor—one that is generalizable across content and especially good at interweaving disciplines in a way that leads to complex projects and individualized learning opportunities. Tinkering has recently been introduced into the educational field as a potential driver of creativity, excitement, and innovation in science learning. It is seen by many as an effective means to engage in exploring STEM concepts, practices and phenomena. Tinkering typically blends the high and low tech tools of science along with a strong aesthetic dimension that supports children’s (and adults) self expression."
   Wine Tasting: Sensory Techniques for Wine Analysis,wine,https://coursera.org/learn/wine,Personal Development,"University of California, Davis","With its roots in ancient cultures as early as 6,000 BC, wine has long been part of the human experience. Today, increasing worldwide interest in wine and its complexities and varieties has created an international market valued at $304 billion annually. For the learner who is just getting started in the study of wine, this course will help you take the first steps toward understanding the physiological process of wine tasting. The first module will explore types of wine and help you set up your own tasting. You’ll also begin to build a sensory vocabulary. In module 2 you will review classic wine types of the world and set up flights of specific wines. Later we’ll examine the various faults and defects that can appear in wine as well as techniques for spotting problems. In week 4 we’ll delve into the complex world of wine and food pairings, and its “seven deadly sins.” The course will culminate in a peer review project in which you will apply the knowledge and sensory techniques you have developed throughout the course to assess a specific wine."
  -Science of Training Young Athletes Part 2,science-of-training-young-athletes-part-2,https://coursera.org/learn/science-of-training-young-athletes-part-2,Personal Development,University of Florida,In this course you will learn how to design the type of training that takes advantage of the plastic nature of the athlete’s body so you mold the right phenotype for a sport. We explore ways the muscular system can be designed to generate higher force and power and the type of training needed to mold the athlete's physical capacity so it meets the energy and biochemical demands of the sport. We also examine the cost of plasticity when it is carried beyond the ability of the body to adjust itself to meet the imposed training stresses.
  -Healing with the Arts,healing-with-the-arts,https://coursera.org/learn/healing-with-the-arts,Personal Development,University of Florida,"Through art projects—including visual arts, dance, writing, and music—along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing With the Arts gives you the tools to heal what you need to heal in your life: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual."
  -How to Apply to College,applying-to-college,https://coursera.org/learn/applying-to-college,Personal Development,University of Pennsylvania,"How to Apply to College will empower learners of all backgrounds to demystify and better understand the college search and selection process, combining the expertise of an Ivy League admissions office and a leading college access and success organization. Led by expert educators, including Eric J. Furda, Dean of Admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Sean Vereen, President of Steppingstone Scholars, Inc., this free course will help students, family members, college counselors and any inquisitive learner to navigate each stage from the start of the college search process through the transition into a college environment."
  -Teaching Science at University,teachingscience,https://coursera.org/learn/teachingscience,Personal Development,University of Zurich,"This course will prepare you for teaching science in higher education. In this MOOC you will learn to make your knowledge as an excellent researcher accessible to your students. We will show you how to communicate science to novices as well as advanced students in science. You will experience the value of teaching with analogies and you will be guided to train your students' competences. Based on up-to-date findings from research into teaching and learning science you will be able to - implement evidence-based strategies into your own teaching, - use students everyday-conceptions for the development of courses, - prepare analogies and models to teach in your field,"
  -Speaking to inform:  Discussing complex ideas with clear explanations and dynamic slides,inform-speech,https://coursera.org/learn/inform-speech,Personal Development,University of Washington,"In the professional realm, most speeches and presentations we give are informative in scope. A scientist needs to explain her recent research findings. A financial officer needs to report on quarterly earnings to his company’s board. A technology professional needs to educate a consumer about a new product. Any time you need to convey ideas or demonstrate a process, you’re dealing with informative speaking. Informative speaking is a fun puzzle. You need to think from the perspective of your audience to identify what they need to hear in order to understand the key ideas. How much does the audience already know? What are the most important elements to convey?"
  -Improving Communication Skills,wharton-communication-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-communication-skills,Personal Development,University of Pennsylvania,"Learn how to communicate more effectively at work and achieve your goals. Taught by award-winning Wharton professor and best-selling author Maurice Schweitzer, Improving Communications Skills is an essential course designed to give you both the tools you need to improve your communication skills, and the most successful strategies for using them to your advantage. You'll learn how to discover if someone is lying (and how to react if they are), how to develop trust, the best method of communication for negotiation, and how to apologize. You'll also learn when to cooperate and when to compete, how to create persuasive messages, ask thoughtful questions, engage in active listening, and choose the right medium (face-to-face conversation, video conference, phone call, or email) for your messages. By"
  -The Arts and Science of Relationships: Understanding Human Needs,human-needs,https://coursera.org/learn/human-needs,Personal Development,University of Toronto,"This course provides an introduction to: 1. Basic concepts of The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development System (SSLD), their relevance for every day relationships and provide advanced concepts for participants who work in fields of social work and health care . 2. Basic practice principles and methods of SSLD, illustrated by relationship management case studies. 3. The SSLD framework for relationship management assessment; N3C (needs, circumstances, characteristics, capacity) and problem translation. 4. Core competencies in the relationship management application of the SSLD system: Observation learning, simulation, real life implementation, review and monitoring."
  -Digital Footprint,digital-footprint,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-footprint,Personal Development,The University of Edinburgh,"If I Googled you, what would I find?
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  -As we move around the online world we leave tracks and traces of our activity all the time: social media accounts, tagged images, professional presences, scraps of text, but also many artefacts we don't always realise we are leaving behind, or that others leave about us.  
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  -In this course you will hear from a range of experts and you will have an opportunity to explore and reflect on your own online tracks and traces, to understand why your digital footprint is important. We will introduce you to some of the tools and approaches to effectively manage your online presence (or digital footprint).  
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  -The course will focus on the different dimensions of a digital footprint, including developing an effective online presence, managing your privacy, creating opportunities for networking, balancing and managing professional and personal presences (eprofessionalism). By the end of this course (MOOC) you should be equipped to ensure that your digital footprint works for you, whether you want to be more private online, or are looking to create a more effective and impactful presence.  
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  -Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential,mindshift,https://coursera.org/learn/mindshift,Personal Development,McMaster University,"Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence.  We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions.  This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed!
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  -This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course, Learning How to Learn.  (Mindshift is more career focused, and Learning How to Learn is more learning focused.)"
  -The Evolving Universe,evolvinguniverse,https://coursera.org/learn/evolvinguniverse,Physical Science and Engineering,Caltech,"This is an introductory astronomy survey class that covers our understanding of the physical universe and its major constituents, including planetary systems, stars, galaxies, black holes, quasars, larger structures, and the universe as a whole."
  -Our Energy Future,future-of-energy,https://coursera.org/learn/future-of-energy,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, San Diego","This course is designed to introduce students to the issues of energy in the 21st century – including food and fuels – which are inseparably linked – and will discuss energy production and utilization from the biology, engineering, economics, climate science, and social science perspectives."
  +Advanced Chemistry,advanced-chemistry,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-chemistry,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Kentucky,"A chemistry course to cover selected topics covered in advanced high school chemistry courses, correlating to the standard topics as established by the American Chemical Society."
  +Advanced Converter Control Techniques,advanced-converter-control,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-converter-control,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado Boulder,"This course covers advanced converter control techniques, including averaged-switch modeling and Spice simulations, modeling and design of peak current mode and average current mode controlled converters, as well as an introduction to control of single-phase ac grid tied rectifiers and inverters. Design and simulation examples include wide bandwidth point-of-load voltage regulators, low-harmonic power-factor-correction rectifiers, and grid-tied inverters for solar photovoltaic power systems."
  +Advanced Engineering Systems in Motion: Dynamics of Three Dimensional (3D) Motion,motion-and-kinetics,https://coursera.org/learn/motion-and-kinetics,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course is an advanced study of bodies in motion as applied to engineering systems and structures. We will study the dynamics of rigid bodies in 3D motion. This will consist of both the kinematics and kinetics of motion. Kinematics deals with the geometrical aspects of motion describing position, velocity, and acceleration, all as a function of time. Kinetics is the study of forces acting on these bodies and how it affects their motion."
  +Advanced Manufacturing Process Analysis,advanced-manufacturing-process-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-manufacturing-process-analysis,Physical Science and Engineering,"University at Buffalo, The State University of New York","Variability is a fact of life in manufacturing environments, impacting product quality and yield. Through this course, students will learn why performing advanced analysis of manufacturing processes is integral for diagnosing and correcting operational flaws in order to improve yields and reduce costs. Gain insights into the best ways to collect, prepare and analyze data, as well as computational platforms that can be leveraged to collect and process data over sustained periods of time. Become better prepared to participate as a member of an advanced analysis team and share valuable inputs on effective implementation."
  +Analyzing the Universe,analyze,https://coursera.org/learn/analyze,Physical Science and Engineering,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Using publicly available data from NASA of actual satellite observations of astronomical x-ray sources, we explore some of the mysteries of the cosmos, including neutron stars, black holes, quasars and supernovae. We will analyze energy spectra and time series data to understand how these incredible objects work. We utilize an imaging tool called DS9 to explore the amazing diversity of astronomical observations that have made x-ray astronomy one of the most active and exciting fields of scientific investigation in the past 50 years. Each week we will explore a different facet of x-ray astronomy. Beginning with an introduction to the nature of image formation, we then move on to examples of how our imaging program, DS9, can aid our understanding of real satellite data."
   Applications in Engineering Mechanics,engineering-mechanics-statics-2,https://coursera.org/learn/engineering-mechanics-statics-2,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,This course applies principles learned in my course “Introduction to Engineering Mechanics” to analyze real world engineering structures. You will need to have mastered the engineering fundamentals from that class in order to be successful in this course offering. This course addresses the modeling and analysis of static equilibrium problems with an emphasis on real world engineering systems and problem solving.
  +Archaeoastronomy,archaeoastronomy,https://coursera.org/learn/archaeoastronomy,Physical Science and Engineering,Politecnico di Milano,"Archaeoastronomy is the “science of stars and stones”: it studies the relationships between the ancient monuments and the sky, in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and of their religious and symbolic world. The course provides the first complete, easy introduction to this fascinating discipline. During the course, many spectacular ancient sites – such as Stonehenge in England, Giza and Karnak in Egypt, Chichen Itzá in the Yucatan, Macchu Picchu in Peru and the Pantheon in Rome – will be visited and the fascinating events occurring there in special days of the year (such as solstices, equinoxes, or the day of the foundation of Rome) will be shown and explained. The course also provides the necessary background on Astronomy with the naked eye and a general introduction to the role of Astronomy in religion and in the management of power among ancient cultures."
  +Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life,astrobiology,https://coursera.org/learn/astrobiology,Physical Science and Engineering,The University of Edinburgh,Learn about the origin and evolution of life and the search for life beyond the Earth.
  +Astronomy: Exploring Time and Space,astro,https://coursera.org/learn/astro,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Arizona,This course is designed for anyone who is interested in learning more about modern astronomy. We will help you get up to date on the most recent astronomical discoveries while also providing support at an introductory level for those who have no background in science.
  +AstroTech: The Science and Technology behind Astronomical Discovery,astronomy-technology,https://coursera.org/learn/astronomy-technology,Physical Science and Engineering,The University of Edinburgh,"Modern astronomy has made some astonishing discoveries - how stars burn and how black holes form; galaxies from the edge of the universe and killer rocks right next door; where the elements come from and how the expanding universe is accelerating. But how do we know all that? The truth is that astronomy would be impossible without technology, and every advance in astronomy is really an advance in technology. But the technology by itself is not enough. We have to apply it critically with a knowledge of physics to unlock the secrets of the Universe."
  +Big History - From the Big Bang until Today,bighistory,https://coursera.org/learn/bighistory,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Amsterdam,"Welcome to this Big History course! In this course, renowned scientists and scholars from the University of Amsterdam and beyond will take you on a journey from the Big Bang until today while addressing key questions in their fields. After completing this journey you will have developed a better understanding of how you and everything around you became the way they are today. You will also have gained an understanding of the underlying mechanisms that have helped shape the history of everything and how they wil help shape the future. Last but not least, you will have developed the skill to use this knowledge to put smaller subjects into a bigger perspective with the aid of the little big history approach, which can help you develop some new ideas on these smaller subjects."
  +Building Arduino robots and devices,arduino,https://coursera.org/learn/arduino,Physical Science and Engineering,Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,"For many years now, people have been improving their tools, studying the forces of nature and bringing them under control, using the energy of the nature to operate their machines. Last century is noted for the creation of machines which can operate other machines. Nowadays the creation of devices that interact with the physical world is available to anyone. Our course consists of a series of practical problems on making things that work independently: they make their own decisions, act, move, communicate with each other and people around, and control other devices. We will demonstrate how to assemble such devices and programme them using the Arduino platform as a basis."
  +Chemistry,chemistry-1,https://coursera.org/learn/chemistry-1,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Kentucky,"This course is designed to cover subjects in advanced high school chemistry courses, correlating to the standard topics as established by the American Chemical Society. This course is a precursor to the Advanced Chemistry Coursera course. Areas that are covered include atomic structure, periodic trends, compounds, reactions and stoichiometry, bonding, and thermochemistry."
  +Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries,climate-change-mitigation,https://coursera.org/learn/climate-change-mitigation,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Cape Town,This course challenges you to consider how one might lift societies out of poverty while also mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. We explore the inherent complexity of developing country governments wanting to grow their economies in a climate friendly way. You will be introduced to an approach with which to address this challenge. The approach consists of a facilitated process whereby academic researchers and high-level influential actors within society co-produce knowledge.
  +Computer Architecture,comparch,https://coursera.org/learn/comparch,Physical Science and Engineering,Princeton University,"In this course, you will learn to design the computer architecture of complex modern microprocessors."
  +Converter Circuits,converter-circuits,https://coursera.org/learn/converter-circuits,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado Boulder,"This course introduces more advanced concepts of switched-mode converter circuits. Realization of the power semiconductors in inverters or in converters having bidirectional power flow is explained. Power diodes, power MOSFETs, and IGBTs are explained, along with the origins of their switching times. Equivalent circuit models are refined to include the effects of switching loss. The discontinuous conduction mode is described and analyzed."
  +Converter Control,converter-control,https://coursera.org/learn/converter-control,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado Boulder,"This course teaches how to design a feedback system to control a switching converter. The equivalent circuit models derived in the previous courses are extended to model small-signal ac variations. These models are then solved, to find the important transfer functions of the converter and its regulator system. Finally, the feedback loop is modeled, analyzed, and designed to meet requirements such as output regulation, bandwidth and transient response, and rejection of disturbances."
  +"Creativity, Innovation, and Change",creativity-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/creativity-innovation,Physical Science and Engineering,The Pennsylvania State University,"Let’s keep making history together - over and over! In 2013 and 2014, over 200,000 people from more than 190 countries came together in this MOOC to explore creativity, innovation, and change. What did we DO? We discovered creative uniqueness through Creative Diversity. We used Intelligent Fast Failure to build innovative skills. We applied CENTER principles to drive personal change. And we implemented value creation skills to initiate lasting change."
  +Data Driven Astronomy,data-driven-astronomy,https://coursera.org/learn/data-driven-astronomy,Physical Science and Engineering,The University of Sydney,"Science is undergoing a data explosion, and astronomy is leading the way. Modern telescopes produce terabytes of data per observation, and the simulations required to model our observable Universe push supercomputers to their limits. To analyse this data scientists need to be able to think computationally to solve problems. In this course you will investigate the challenges of working with large datasets: how to implement algorithms that work; how to use databases to manage your data; and how to learn from your data with machine learning tools. The focus is on practical skills - all the activities will be done in Python 3, a modern programming language used throughout astronomy."
  +Digital Manufacturing & Design,digital-manufacturing-design,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-manufacturing-design,Physical Science and Engineering,"University at Buffalo, The State University of New York","This course will expose you to the transformation taking place, throughout the world, in the way that products are being designed and manufactured. The transformation is happening through digital manufacturing and design (DM&D) – a shift from paper-based processes to digital processes in the manufacturing industry. By the end of this course, you’ll understand what DMD is and how it is impacting careers, practices and processes in companies both large and small."
  +Digital Signal Processing,dsp,https://coursera.org/learn/dsp,Physical Science and Engineering,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"Digital Signal Processing is the branch of engineering that, in the space of just a few decades, has enabled unprecedented levels of interpersonal communication and of on-demand entertainment. By reworking the principles of electronics, telecommunication and computer science into a unifying paradigm, DSP is a the heart of the digital revolution that brought us CDs, DVDs, MP3 players, mobile phones and countless other devices."
  +Digital Systems: From Logic Gates to Processors,digital-systems,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-systems,Physical Science and Engineering,Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,"This course gives you a complete insight into the modern design of digital systems fundamentals from an eminently practical point of view. Unlike other more ""classic"" digital circuits courses, our interest focuses more on the system than on the electronics that support it. This approach will allow us to lay the foundation for the design of complex digital systems."
  +Digital Thread: Components,digital-thread-components,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-thread-components,Physical Science and Engineering,"University at Buffalo, The State University of New York","This course will help you recognize how the ""digital thread"" is the backbone of the digital manufacturing and design (DM&D) transformation, turning manufacturing processes from paper-based to digital-based. You will have a working understanding of the digital thread – the stream that starts at product concept and continues to accumulate information and data throughout the product’s life cycle – and identify opportunities to leverage it."
  +Digital Thread: Implementation,digital-thread-implementation,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-thread-implementation,Physical Science and Engineering,"University at Buffalo, The State University of New York","There are opportunities throughout the design process of any product to make significant changes, and ultimately impact the future of manufacturing, by embracing the digital thread. In this course, you will dig into the transformation taking place in how products are designed and manufactured throughout the world. It is the second of two courses that focuses on the ""digital thread"" – the stream that starts at the creation of a product concept and continues to accumulate information and data throughout the product life cycle."
  +Disaster Preparedness,disaster-preparedness,https://coursera.org/learn/disaster-preparedness,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Pittsburgh,"Have you ever viewed a news report depicting the aftermath of a devastating natural disaster? The damage to human life and property are both staggering and heartbreaking. All parts of the world face the possibility of floods, hurricanes, tornados, fires, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural phenomena. Are you prepared if disaster would strike you? This course will help you prepare!"
  +Ecosystem Services: a Method for Sustainable Development,ecosystem-services,https://coursera.org/learn/ecosystem-services,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Geneva,"Ecosystem services are a way of thinking about – and evaluating – the goods and services provided by nature that contribute to the well-being of humans. This MOOC will cover scientific (technical), economic, and socio-political dimensions of the concept through a mix of theory, case-studies, interviews with specialists and a serious-game."
  +Electric Utilities Fundamentals and Future,electric-utilities,https://coursera.org/learn/electric-utilities,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado System,"THIS COURSE GIVES YOU THE INSIDE TRACK TO A COMPLICATED INDUSTRY. The approach of this course is truly unique in how it approaches and engages learners. It looks at the electric utility industry, which has remained critical to our quality of life, health and comfort from the eyes of numerous industry experts through on-location interviews, compelling visuals, and animation. You will benefit from having the inside track because you see some behind-the-scenes information not covered in news stories, social media or even if we are in the business ourselves. 
  +
  +EACH WEEK YOU NOT ONLY LEARN WHAT IS CHANGING, BUT WHY. As this industry continues to unfold at an unprecedented pace, you will be armed with knowledge and insights to form informed opinions supporting decisions you will increasingly make for your energy-dependent homes and businesses.
  +
  +This course kicks off with animated crash course on industry history, highlighting aspects of the structure, governance, and technology that remain today, despite the passage of time. Then, throughout the modules, you will build some basics about how electricity gets to you, who watches over decisions, including setting rates. This information establishes a knowledge foundation so that when we explore some of the most critical topics, like renewable energy, smart grid, battery storage, and you can think about it from a much more analytical and critical viewpoint. 
  +
  +YOU WILL DEVELOP A FRAMEWORK FOR MAKING SENSE OF THIS INDUSTRY THAT WILL BENEFIT YOU BEYOND THIS COURSE. This industry can get pretty complicated, and this course will help you make more sense of it. Electric Utilities Fundamentals and Future is the course for you whether you’re just curious about the industry or an industry veteran looking to grow – or, thinking about joining the industry. (Hint: now is a good time. You'll learn why in this course.)  No prior education or experience required. You just need a healthy curiosity and an open mind to learn about an industry that I think a lot of us, including myself sometimes, take for granted."
  +Emergent Phenomena in Science and Everyday Life,emergent-phenomena,https://coursera.org/learn/emergent-phenomena,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Irvine","Before the advent of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century, most scientists believed that it should be possible to predict the behavior of any object in the universe simply by understanding the behavior of its constituent parts. For instance, if one could write down the equations of motion for every atom in a system, it should be possible to solve those equations (with the aid of a sufficiently large computing device) and make accurate predictions about that system’s future."
  +Energy 101: The Big Picture,energy-101,https://coursera.org/learn/energy-101,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"As a society and individually, we use energy every moment of our lives to improve our quality of life. Energy 101 will develop the big picture and connect the details of our energy use, technology, infrastructure, impact, and future."
  +Engineering Systems in Motion: Dynamics of Particles and Bodies in 2D Motion,dynamics,https://coursera.org/learn/dynamics,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course is an introduction to the study of bodies in motion as applied to engineering systems and structures. We will study the dynamics of particle motion and bodies in rigid planar (2D) motion. This will consist of both the kinematics and kinetics of motion. Kinematics deals with the geometrical aspects of motion describing position, velocity, and acceleration, all as a function of time. Kinetics is the study of forces acting on these bodies and how it affects their motion."
  +Experimentation for Improvement,experimentation,https://coursera.org/learn/experimentation,Physical Science and Engineering,McMaster University,"We are always using experiments to improve our lives, our community, and our work. Are you doing it efficiently? Or are you (incorrectly) changing one thing at a time and hoping for the best? In this course, you will learn how to plan efficient experiments - testing with many variables. Our goal is to find the best results using only a few experiments. A key part of the course is how to optimize a system."
  +Exploring Light: Hands-on Activities and Strategies for Teachers,explorelight,https://coursera.org/learn/explorelight,Physical Science and Engineering,Exploratorium,"This is an Exploratorium teacher professional development course taught by Teacher Institute staff, open to any science teacher (particularly middle or high school level) and science enthusiast. This is a hands-on workshop that explores topics and strategies teachers can use to help their students become active investigators of light."
  +From the Big Bang to Dark Energy,big-bang,https://coursera.org/learn/big-bang,Physical Science and Engineering,The University of Tokyo,"We have learned a lot recently about how the Universe evolved in 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang. More than 80% of matter in the Universe is mysterious Dark Matter, which made stars and galaxies to form. The newly discovered Higgs-boson became frozen into the Universe a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang and brought order to the Universe. Yet we still do not know how ordinary matter (atoms) survived against total annihilation by Anti-Matter. The expansion of the Universe started acceleration about 7 billion years ago and the Universe is being ripped apart. The culprit is Dark Energy, a mysterious energy multiplying in vacuum. I will present evidence behind these startling discoveries and discuss what we may learn in the near future."
  +Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics,audio-engineering,https://coursera.org/learn/audio-engineering,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Rochester,"In this course students learn the basic concepts of acoustics and electronics and how they can applied to understand musical sound and make music with electronic instruments. Topics include: sound waves, musical sound, basic electronics, and applications of these basic principles in amplifiers and speaker design."
  +Fundamentals of Digital Image and Video Processing,digital,https://coursera.org/learn/digital,Physical Science and Engineering,Northwestern University,"In this class you will learn the basic principles and tools used to process images and videos, and how to apply them in solving practical problems of commercial and scientific interests. Digital images and videos are everywhere these days – in thousands of scientific (e.g., astronomical, bio-medical), consumer, industrial, and artistic applications. Moreover they come in a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum - from visible light and infrared to gamma rays and beyond. The ability to process image and video signals is therefore an incredibly important skill to master for engineering/science students, software developers, and practicing scientists."
   Fundamentals of Engineering Exam Review,fe-exam,https://coursera.org/learn/fe-exam,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"The purpose of this course is to review the material covered in the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam to enable the student to pass it. It will be presented in modules corresponding to the FE topics, particularly those in Civil and Mechanical Engineering. Each module will review main concepts, illustrate them with examples, and provide extensive practice problems."
  -"Creativity, Innovation, and Change",creativity-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/creativity-innovation,Physical Science and Engineering,The Pennsylvania State University,"Let’s keep making history together - over and over! In 2013 and 2014, over 200,000 people from more than 190 countries came together in this MOOC to explore creativity, innovation, and change. What did we DO? We discovered creative uniqueness through Creative Diversity. We used Intelligent Fast Failure to build innovative skills. We applied CENTER principles to drive personal change. And we implemented value creation skills to initiate lasting change."
  +Fundamentals of Fluid Power,fluid-power,https://coursera.org/learn/fluid-power,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Minnesota,"Fluid power has the highest power density of all conventional power-transmission technologies. Learn the benefits and limitations of fluid power, how to analyze fluid power components and circuits, and how to design and simulate fluid power circuits for applications. In this course, you will be introduced to the fundamental principles and analytical modeling of fluid power components, circuits, and systems."
  +Fundamentals of Fluid-Solid Interactions,fluid-solid-interaction,https://coursera.org/learn/fluid-solid-interaction,Physical Science and Engineering,École Polytechnique,"What is fluid-solid interactions ? It is what happens when the motions of a fluid and of a solid are somehow coupled. This happens all the time, around you when leaves flutter in the wind, inside you when your heart beats, above you when wings of a plane vibrate, under the sea... The idea behind this MOOC is to give you the basic tools to be able to predict and eventually mitigate things called flutter, galloping, sloshing, vortex-induced vibrations, added mass, to cite a few."
  +Fundamentals of GIS,gis,https://coursera.org/learn/gis,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Davis","Explore the world of spatial analysis and cartography with geographic information systems (GIS). In this class you will learn the basics of the industry’s leading software tool, ArcGIS, during four week-long modules"
  +Fundamentals of Global Energy Business,energy-business,https://coursera.org/learn/energy-business,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado System,"Learn about diverse and integrated markets for primary energy, and the essential considerations driving business leaders and policy makers in development of global energy resources."
  +General Chemistry: Concept Development and Application,general-chemistry,https://coursera.org/learn/general-chemistry,Physical Science and Engineering,Rice University,"This course will cover the topics of a full year, two semester General Chemistry course. We will use a free on-line textbook, Concept Development Studies in Chemistry, available via Rice’s Connexions project."
  +Geodesign: Change Your World,geodesign,https://coursera.org/learn/geodesign,Physical Science and Engineering,The Pennsylvania State University,"This course includes well-illustrated lectures by the instructor, but also guest lectures each week to ensure you are hearing a variety of viewpoints. Each week you will also be able to examine what geodesign is through interactive mapping that showcases real-word Case Study examples of geodesign from around the globe. As you move along in the course, you will discover the interrelationships of both the physical and human aspects that contribute to how geodesign strategies are composed. The course concludes with you outlining your own Geodesign Challenge, and receiving feedback about that from your peers."
  +Geospatial and Environmental Analysis,geo-enviro-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/geo-enviro-analysis,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Davis","Apply your GIS knowledge in this course on geospatial analysis, focusing on analysis tools, 3D data, working with rasters, projections, and environment variables. Through all four weeks of this course, we'll work through a project together - something unique to this course - from project conception, through data retrieval, initial data management and processing, and finally to our analysis products."
  +"GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality",gis-data-design,https://coursera.org/learn/gis-data-design,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Davis","In this course, the second in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization, you will go in-depth with common data types (such as raster and vector data), structures, quality and storage during four week-long modules:"
  +Global Environmental Management,global-environmental-management,https://coursera.org/learn/global-environmental-management,Physical Science and Engineering,Technical University of Denmark (DTU),"Learn about the best environmental technologies for a sustainable development and how they are managed in various settings around the world. This course gives you an opportunity to learn about global trends that influence our environment and the living conditions and how different management systems and approaches that are used around the world to manage the environment. This includes current environmental technologies built for the environment and technologies for sustainable soil management, groundwater protection methods and integrated Water resources management."
  +"Global Postharvest Loss Prevention: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Actors",postharvest,https://coursera.org/learn/postharvest,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course provides an overview of the issue of postharvest loss of grains by exploring essential physical, technical, and social dimensions of postharvest supply chains and loss prevention methods globally. Each year, estimates suggest that 1/3 of all food produced is lost or wasted, making postharvest loss a critical global food security and sustainability issue of today."
  +Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change,global-warming,https://coursera.org/learn/global-warming,Physical Science and Engineering,The University of Chicago,"This class describes the science of global warming and the forecast for humans’ impact on Earth’s climate. Intended for an audience without much scientific background but a healthy sense of curiosity, the class brings together insights and perspectives from physics, chemistry, biology, earth and atmospheric sciences, and even some economics—all based on a foundation of simple mathematics (algebra)."
  +Global Warming II: Create Your Own Models in Python,global-warming-model,https://coursera.org/learn/global-warming-model,Physical Science and Engineering,The University of Chicago,"This class provides a series of Python programming exercises intended to explore the use of numerical modeling in the Earth system and climate sciences. The scientific background for these models is presented in a companion class, Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change. This class assumes that you are new to Python programming (and this is indeed a great way to learn Python!), but that you will be able to pick up an elementary knowledge of Python syntax from another class or from on-line tutorials."
   Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia,greening-the-economy,https://coursera.org/learn/greening-the-economy,Physical Science and Engineering,Lund University,"This course will explore greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nation. We will look at the relationships between these levels and give many practical examples of the complexities and solutions across the levels. Scandinavia, a pioneering place advancing sustainability and combating climate change, is a unique starting point for learning about greening the economy. We will learn from many initiatives attempted in Scandinavia since the 1970s, which are all potentially helpful and useful for other countries and contexts."
  -Our Earth's Future,earth-climate-change,https://coursera.org/learn/earth-climate-change,Physical Science and Engineering,American Museum of Natural History,"Our Earth’s Future is about the science of climate change and how to talk about it. You will learn from scientists in the fields of climatology, oceanography, Earth science, and anthropology who study how climate change is affecting people, populations, and ways of life. Explore the multiple lines of evidence for the human-induced climate change that is happening today, and consider what that means for the future of our planet. At the end of this course you will be able to understand key scientific principles, identify and address misconceptions, and contribute confidently to conversations about climate change."
  -The Age of Sustainable Development,sustainable-development,https://coursera.org/learn/sustainable-development,Physical Science and Engineering,Columbia University,"The Age of Sustainable Development"" gives students an understanding of the key challenges and pathways to sustainable development - that is, economic development that is also socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable."
  -From the Big Bang to Dark Energy,big-bang,https://coursera.org/learn/big-bang,Physical Science and Engineering,The University of Tokyo,"We have learned a lot recently about how the Universe evolved in 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang. More than 80% of matter in the Universe is mysterious Dark Matter, which made stars and galaxies to form. The newly discovered Higgs-boson became frozen into the Universe a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang and brought order to the Universe. Yet we still do not know how ordinary matter (atoms) survived against total annihilation by Anti-Matter. The expansion of the Universe started acceleration about 7 billion years ago and the Universe is being ripped apart. The culprit is Dark Energy, a mysterious energy multiplying in vacuum. I will present evidence behind these startling discoveries and discuss what we may learn in the near future."
  +Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities,gte-sustainable-cities,https://coursera.org/learn/gte-sustainable-cities,Physical Science and Engineering,Lund University,How can we shape urban development towards sustainable and prosperous futures? This course will explore sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy. We place cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change. Sustainable urban transformation refers to structural transformation processes – multi-dimensional and radical change – that can effectively direct urban development towards ambitious sustainability and climate goals.
  +How Things Work,how-things-work,https://coursera.org/learn/how-things-work,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Virginia,An introduction to physics in the context of everyday objects.
  +"Imagery, Modeling and Applications",gis-imgagery-model-apply,https://coursera.org/learn/gis-imgagery-model-apply,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Davis","Welcome to the last course of the specialization (unless your continuing on to the capstone project, of course!). Using the knowledge you’ve learned about ArcGIS, complete technical tasks such raster calculations and suitability analysis. In this class you will become comfortable with spatial analysis and applications within GIS during four week-long modules:"
  +Imagining Other Earths,life-on-other-planets,https://coursera.org/learn/life-on-other-planets,Physical Science and Engineering,Princeton University,"Are we alone? This course introduces core concepts in astronomy, biology, and planetary science that enable the student to speculate scientifically about this profound question and invent their own solar systems."
  +Intelligent Machining,intelligent-machining,https://coursera.org/learn/intelligent-machining,Physical Science and Engineering,"University at Buffalo, The State University of New York","Manufacturers are increasingly utilizing machine tools that are self-aware – they perceive their own states and the state of the surrounding environment – and are able to make decisions related to machine activity processes. This is called intelligent machining, and through this course students will receive a primer on its background, tools and related terminology. Learn how the integration of smart sensors and controls are helping to improve productivity. You’ll be exposed to various sensors and sensing techniques, process control strategies, and open architecture systems that can be leveraged to enable intelligent machining."
  +Interfacing with the Arduino,interface-with-arduino,https://coursera.org/learn/interface-with-arduino,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Irvine","Arduino senses the environment by receiving inputs from add-on devices such as sensors, and can control the world around it by adjusting lights, motors, and other actuators. In this class you will learn how and when to use the different types of sensors and how to connect them to the Arduino. Since the external world uses continuous or analog signals and the hardware is digital you will learn how these signals are converted back-and-forth and how this must be considered as you program your device. You'll also learn about the use of Arduino-specific shields and the shields software libraries to interface with the real world. Please note that this course does not include discussion forums."
  +Interfacing with the Raspberry Pi,raspberry-pi-interface,https://coursera.org/learn/raspberry-pi-interface,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Irvine","The Raspberry Pi uses a variety of input/output devices based on protocols such as HDMI, USB, and Ethernet to communicate with the outside world. In this class you will learn how to use these protocols with other external devices (sensors, motors, GPS, orientation, LCD screens etc.) to get your IoT device to interact with the real world. Most physical devices use analog signals; however computer hardware is digital so in this class you will learn how these signals are converted back-and-forth and how this must be considered as you program your device."
  +Internet of Things & Augmented Reality Emerging Technologies,iot-augmented-reality-technologies,https://coursera.org/learn/iot-augmented-reality-technologies,Physical Science and Engineering,Yonsei University,"What is the Internet of Things? What is augmented reality? This course deals with the new emerging technologies of IoT (Internet of Things) and AR (Augmented Reality). IoT is a new emerging technology domain which will be used to connect all objects through the Internet for remote sensing and control. IoT uses a combination of WSN (Wireless Sensor Network), M2M (Machine to Machine), robotics, wireless networking, Internet technologies, and Smart Devices."
  +Internet of Things: How did we get here?,internet-of-things-history,https://coursera.org/learn/internet-of-things-history,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, San Diego","It is hard to imagine life without your Smartphone – you have come to rely on it so much – for your work; to stay in touch with family and friends; to capture and share those special moments; to find your way around in a new neighborhood. Did you ever wonder how and when all this happened? Or how and when GPS sensors came to be in your cell phone? In this course, we will explore the convergence of multiple disciplines leading to todays’ Smartphones. You will learn about the birth and evolution of Telephony Networks, Broadcast Networks (TV and Radio) and Consumer Electronics. We will discuss the impact of Internet, (multimedia) content, smartphones and apps on everyday lives."
  +Internet of Things: Multimedia Technologies,internet-of-things-multimedia,https://coursera.org/learn/internet-of-things-multimedia,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, San Diego","Content is an eminent example of the features that contributed to the success of wireless Internet. Mobile platforms such as the Snapdragon™ processor have special hardware and software capabilities to make acquisition, processing and rendering of multimedia content efficient and cost-effective. In this course, you will learn the principles of video and audio codecs used for media content in iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Netflix, etc."
  +Internet of Things: Sensing and Actuation From Devices,internet-of-things-sensing-actuation,https://coursera.org/learn/internet-of-things-sensing-actuation,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, San Diego","Have you wondered how information from physical devices in the real world gets communicated to Smartphone processors? Do you want to make informed design decisions about sampling frequencies and bit-width requirements for various kinds of sensors? Do you want to gain expertise to affect the real world with actuators such as stepper motors, LEDs and generate notifications?"
  +Internet of Things: Setting Up Your DragonBoard™ Development Platform,internet-of-things-dragonboard,https://coursera.org/learn/internet-of-things-dragonboard,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, San Diego",Do you want to develop skills to prototype mobile-enabled products using state-of-the-art technologies? In this course you will build a hardware and software development environment to guide your journey through the Internet of Things specialization courses. We will use the DragonBoard™ 410c single board computer (SBC). This is the first in a series of courses where you will learn both the theory and get the hands-on development practice needed to prototype Internet of Things products.
  +Introduction into General Theory of Relativity,relativity-theory,https://coursera.org/learn/relativity-theory,Physical Science and Engineering,Higher School of Economics,"General Theory of Relativity or the theory of relativistic gravitation is the one which describes black holes, gravitational waves and expanding Universe. The goal of the course is to introduce you into this theory. The introduction is based on the consideration of many practical generic examples in various scopes of the General Relativity. After the completion of the course you will be able to solve basic standard problems of this theory. We assume that you are familiar with the Special Theory of Relativity and Classical Electrodynamics."
  +Introduction to Chemistry:  Reactions and Ratios,intro-chemistry,https://coursera.org/learn/intro-chemistry,Physical Science and Engineering,Duke University,"This is an introductory course for students with limited background in chemistry; basic concepts involved in chemical reactions, stoichiometry, the periodic table, periodic trends, nomenclature, and chemical problem solving will be emphasized with the goal of preparing students for further study in chemistry as needed for many science, health, and policy professions.."
  +Introduction to Chemistry:  Structures and Solutions,basic-chemistry,https://coursera.org/learn/basic-chemistry,Physical Science and Engineering,Duke University,"This is an introductory course for students with limited background in chemistry; basic concepts such as atomic and molecular structure, solutions, phases of matter, and quantitative problem solving will be emphasized with the goal of preparing students for further study in chemistry."
  +Introduction to Electronics,electronics,https://coursera.org/learn/electronics,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course introduces students to the basic components of electronics: diodes, transistors, and op amps. It covers the basic operation and some common applications."
   Introduction to Engineering Mechanics,engineering-mechanics-statics,https://coursera.org/learn/engineering-mechanics-statics,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,This course is an introduction to learning and applying the principles required to solve engineering mechanics problems. Concepts will be applied in this course from previous courses you have taken in basic math and physics. The course addresses the modeling and analysis of static equilibrium problems with an emphasis on real world engineering applications and problem solving
  +Introduction to High-Throughput Materials Development,high-throughput,https://coursera.org/learn/high-throughput,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course is an introduction to high-throughput experimental methods that accelerate the discovery and development of new materials. It is well recognized that the discovery of new materials is the key to solving many technological problems faced by industry and society. These problems include energy production and utilization, carbon capture, tissue engineering, and sustainable materials production, among many others."
  +Introduction to Neuroeconomics: How the Brain Makes Decisions,neuroeconomics,https://coursera.org/learn/neuroeconomics,Physical Science and Engineering,Higher School of Economics,"Economics, psychology, and neuroscience are converging today into a unified discipline of Neuroeconomics with the ultimate aim of creating a single, general theory of human decision-making. Neuroeconomics provides biologists, economists, psychologists and social scientists with a deeper understanding of how they make their own decisions and how others decide. Neuroscience, when allied with psychology and economics, creates powerful new models to explain why we make decisions."
  +Introduction to Physical Chemistry,physical-chemistry,https://coursera.org/learn/physical-chemistry,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Manchester,"The course covers the key concepts of three of the principal topics in first-year undergraduate physical chemistry: thermodynamics, kinetics and quantum mechanics. These three topics cover whether or not reactions occur, how fast they go and what is actually going on at the sub-atomic scale."
  +Introduction to Power Electronics,power-electronics,https://coursera.org/learn/power-electronics,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado Boulder,"This course introduces the basic concepts of switched-mode converter circuits for controlling and converting electrical power with high efficiency. Principles of converter circuit analysis are introduced, and are developed for finding the steady state voltages, current, and efficiency of power converters. Assignments include simulation of a dc-dc converter, analysis of an inverting dc-dc converter, and modeling and efficiency analysis of an electric vehicle system and of a USB power regulator."
  +Introduction to Satellite Communications,satellitecommunications,https://coursera.org/learn/satellitecommunications,Physical Science and Engineering,Institut Mines-Télécom,How is a satellite built? How do they fly? How do they communicate and how does the network operate? You will get all the answers in this course from teachers and researchers from three schools associated with Institut Mines-Télécom.
  +Introduction to Sustainability,sustainability,https://coursera.org/learn/sustainability,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history."
  +Introduction to Systems Engineering,systems-engineering,https://coursera.org/learn/systems-engineering,Physical Science and Engineering,UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales),"""Introduction to Systems Engineering"" uses a structured yet flexible approach to provide a holistic, solid foundation to the successful development of complicated systems. The course takes you step by step through the system life cycle, from design to development, production and management. You will learn how the different components of a system interrelate, and how each contributes to a project’s goals and success."
  +Introduction to the Arctic: Climate,arctic-introduction-climate,https://coursera.org/learn/arctic-introduction-climate,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Alberta,"The University of Alberta, the University of Tromso and the University of the Arctic invite you to explore this four week course that examines the environment and climate of the circumpolar North. This course is the result of an international collaboration and provides you with an insight into our planet's North. Following an overview of regional geography, we will focus on the cryosphere (ice), as well as the atmosphere and ocean of the region. We will learn why the Arctic is cold and ice covered, and how that impacts its climate and ecosystems."
  +Introduction to Thermodynamics: Transferring Energy from Here to There,thermodynamics-intro,https://coursera.org/learn/thermodynamics-intro,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Michigan,"This course provides an introduction to the most powerful engineering principles you will ever learn - Thermodynamics: the science of transferring energy from one place or form to another place or form. We will introduce the tools you need to analyze energy systems from solar panels, to engines, to insulated coffee mugs. More specifically, we will cover the topics of mass and energy conservation principles; first law analysis of control mass and control volume systems; properties and behavior of pure substances; and applications to thermodynamic systems operating at steady state conditions."
  +Journey Conversations: Weaving Knowledge and Action,journey-knowledge-action,https://coursera.org/learn/journey-knowledge-action,Physical Science and Engineering,Yale University,"Journey of the Universe weaves together the discoveries of the evolutionary sciences together with humanities such as history, philosophy, art, and religion. This course draws on the Journey of the Universe Conversations, a series of 20 interviews with scientists and environmentalists. The first 10 interviews are with scientists and historians who deepen our understanding of the evolutionary process of universe, Earth, and humans. The second 10 interviews are with environmentalists, teachers, and artists who explore the connections between the universe story and the practices for a flourishing Earth community."
  +Linear Circuits 1: DC Analysis,linear-circuits-dcanalysis,https://coursera.org/learn/linear-circuits-dcanalysis,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course explains how to analyze circuits that have direct current (DC) current or voltage sources. A DC source is one that is constant. Circuits with resistors, capacitors, and inductors are covered, both analytically and experimentally. Some practical applications in sensors are demonstrated."
  +Machine Design Part I,machine-design1,https://coursera.org/learn/machine-design1,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"“Machine Design Part I” is the first course in an in-depth three course series of “Machine Design.” The “Machine Design” Coursera series covers fundamental mechanical design topics, such as static and fatigue failure theories, the analysis of shafts, fasteners, and gears, and the design of mechanical systems such as gearboxes. Throughout this series of courses we will examine a number of exciting design case studies, including the material selection of a total hip implant, the design and testing of the wing on the 777 aircraft, and the impact of dynamic loads on the design of an bolted pressure vessel."
  +Magnetics for Power Electronic Converters,magnetics-power-electronic-converters,https://coursera.org/learn/magnetics-power-electronic-converters,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado Boulder,"This course covers the analysis and design of magnetic components, including inductors and transformers, used in power electronic converters. The course starts with an introduction to physical principles behind inductors and transformers, including the concepts of inductance, core material saturation, airgap and energy storage in inductors, reluctance and magnetic circuit modeling, transformer equivalent circuits, magnetizing and leakage inductance. Multi-winding transformer models are also developed, including inductance matrix representation, for series and parallel structures. Modeling of losses in magnetic components covers core and winding losses, including skin and proximity effects."
  +Managing an Agile Team,managing-team-agile,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-team-agile,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Virginia,"Traditional development processes often lead to team frustration and poor results. Agile offers a different approach to managing the complexity of software development. This course focuses on the day-to-day jobs of running a software development program and how leading agile methodologies (Scrum, XP, kanban) can help you do them better."
  +Mastering bitumen for better roads and innovative applications,mastering-bitumen,https://coursera.org/learn/mastering-bitumen,Physical Science and Engineering,École des Ponts ParisTech,"During the four coming weeks, best experts in bitumen will bring you their knowledge and experience to build a strong understanding of today’s realities and new perspectives on the future of bitumen. Total is the European leader on bitumen markets. Innovation has always been the key to sustainability and durability in the products they develop."
  +Material Behavior,material-behavior,https://coursera.org/learn/material-behavior,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This is the first of three Coursera courses that mirror the Introduction to Materials Science class that is taken by most engineering undergrads at Georgia Tech. The aim of the course is to help students better understand the engineering materials that are used in the world around them. This first section covers the fundamentals of materials science including atomic structure and bonding, crystal structure, atomic and microscopic defects, and noncrystalline materials such as glasses, rubbers, and polymers."
  +Material Processing,material-science-engineering,https://coursera.org/learn/material-science-engineering,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This is the second of three Coursera courses that mirror the Introduction to Materials Science class that is taken by most engineering undergrads at Georgia Tech. The aim of the course is to help students better understand the engineering materials that are used in the world around them. This first section covers the fundamentals of materials science including atomic structure and bonding, crystal structure, atomic and microscopic defects, and noncrystalline materials such as glasses, rubbers, and polymers."
  +Materials Data Sciences and Informatics,material-informatics,https://coursera.org/learn/material-informatics,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course aims to provide a succinct overview of the emerging discipline of Materials Informatics at the intersection of materials science, computational science, and information science. Attention is drawn to specific opportunities afforded by this new field in accelerating materials development and deployment efforts. A particular emphasis is placed on materials exhibiting hierarchical internal structures spanning multiple length/structure scales and the impediments involved in establishing invertible process-structure-property (PSP) linkages for these materials."
  +Materials Science: 10 Things Every Engineer Should Know,materials-science,https://coursera.org/learn/materials-science,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Davis",We explore “10 things” that range from the menu of materials available to engineers in their profession to the many mechanical and electrical properties of materials important to their use in various engineering fields. We also discuss the principles behind the manufacturing of those materials.
  +Mechanics of Materials I: Fundamentals of Stress & Strain and Axial Loading,mechanics-1,https://coursera.org/learn/mechanics-1,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course explores the topic of solid objects subjected to stress and strain. The methods taught in the course are used to predict the response of engineering structures to various types of loading, and to analyze the vulnerability of these structures to various failure modes. Axial loading with be the focus in this course."
  +Mechanics of Materials II: Thin-Walled Pressure Vessels and Torsion,mechanics2,https://coursera.org/learn/mechanics2,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,This course explores the analysis and design of thin-walled pressure vessels and engineering structures subjected to torsion.
  +Mechanics of Materials III: Beam Bending,beam-bending,https://coursera.org/learn/beam-bending,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,This course explores the analysis and design of beam bending problems. Prerequisite Knowledge: You will need to have successfully completed my earlier course “Mechanics of Materials I: Fundamentals of Stress and Strain and Axial Loading” in order to be successful in this course
  +"Mechanics of Materials IV: Deflections, Buckling, Combined Loading & Failure Theories",materials-structures,https://coursera.org/learn/materials-structures,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course explores the analysis and design of engineering structures considering factors of deflection, buckling, combined loading, & failure theories"
   "Mechanics: Motion, Forces, Energy and Gravity, from Particles to Planets",mechanics-particles-planets,https://coursera.org/learn/mechanics-particles-planets,Physical Science and Engineering,UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales),"The course uses rich multimedia tutorials to present the material: film clips of key experiments, animations and worked example problems, all with a friendly narrator. You'll do a range of interesting practice problems, and in an optional component, you will use your ingenuity to complete at-home experiments using simple, everyday materials."
  -Fundamentals of Global Energy Business,energy-business,https://coursera.org/learn/energy-business,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado System,"Learn about diverse and integrated markets for primary energy, and the essential considerations driving business leaders and policy makers in development of global energy resources."
  -Introduction to Physical Chemistry,physical-chemistry,https://coursera.org/learn/physical-chemistry,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Manchester,"The course covers the key concepts of three of the principal topics in first-year undergraduate physical chemistry: thermodynamics, kinetics and quantum mechanics. These three topics cover whether or not reactions occur, how fast they go and what is actually going on at the sub-atomic scale."
  -Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics,audio-engineering,https://coursera.org/learn/audio-engineering,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Rochester,"In this course students learn the basic concepts of acoustics and electronics and how they can applied to understand musical sound and make music with electronic instruments. Topics include: sound waves, musical sound, basic electronics, and applications of these basic principles in amplifiers and speaker design."
  -Internet of Things: How did we get here?,internet-of-things-history,https://coursera.org/learn/internet-of-things-history,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, San Diego","It is hard to imagine life without your Smartphone – you have come to rely on it so much – for your work; to stay in touch with family and friends; to capture and share those special moments; to find your way around in a new neighborhood. Did you ever wonder how and when all this happened? Or how and when GPS sensors came to be in your cell phone? In this course, we will explore the convergence of multiple disciplines leading to todays’ Smartphones. You will learn about the birth and evolution of Telephony Networks, Broadcast Networks (TV and Radio) and Consumer Electronics. We will discuss the impact of Internet, (multimedia) content, smartphones and apps on everyday lives."
  -Advanced Engineering Systems in Motion: Dynamics of Three Dimensional (3D) Motion,motion-and-kinetics,https://coursera.org/learn/motion-and-kinetics,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course is an advanced study of bodies in motion as applied to engineering systems and structures. We will study the dynamics of rigid bodies in 3D motion. This will consist of both the kinematics and kinetics of motion. Kinematics deals with the geometrical aspects of motion describing position, velocity, and acceleration, all as a function of time. Kinetics is the study of forces acting on these bodies and how it affects their motion."
  -Smartphone Emerging Technologies,smartphone-emerging-technologies,https://coursera.org/learn/smartphone-emerging-technologies,Physical Science and Engineering,Yonsei University,"Smartphones are one of the most influential devices that we use in our everyday lives. Smartphones consist of the most advanced hardware and software technologies that exist in the world, all combined together into a miraculous single easy-to-use portable system. These lectures focus on the specifications, hardware modules, and OS (Operating System) iOS & Android that enable smartphones to perform various features and functionalities. Since there are so many smartphone types, in the lectures, three smartphones were selected and compared. The lecture covers the specifications of the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge, LG G4, and the iPhone 6 plus, which are among the most popular recently released smartphones in the world!"
  -Experimentation for Improvement,experimentation,https://coursera.org/learn/experimentation,Physical Science and Engineering,McMaster University,"We are always using experiments to improve our lives, our community, and our work. Are you doing it efficiently? Or are you (incorrectly) changing one thing at a time and hoping for the best? In this course, you will learn how to plan efficient experiments - testing with many variables. Our goal is to find the best results using only a few experiments. A key part of the course is how to optimize a system."
  -Astronomy: Exploring Time and Space,astro,https://coursera.org/learn/astro,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Arizona,This course is designed for anyone who is interested in learning more about modern astronomy. We will help you get up to date on the most recent astronomical discoveries while also providing support at an introductory level for those who have no background in science.
  -Advanced Chemistry,advanced-chemistry,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-chemistry,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Kentucky,"A chemistry course to cover selected topics covered in advanced high school chemistry courses, correlating to the standard topics as established by the American Chemical Society."
   MOS Transistors,mosfet,https://coursera.org/learn/mosfet,Physical Science and Engineering,Columbia University,"PLEASE NOTE: This version of the course has been formed from an earlier version, which was actively run by the instructor and his teaching assistants. Some of what is mentioned in the video lectures and the accompanying material regarding logistics, book availability and method of grading may no longer be relevant to the present version. Neither the instructor nor the original teaching assistants are running this version of the course. There will be no certificate offered for this course."
  -Introduction to Sustainability,sustainability,https://coursera.org/learn/sustainability,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history."
  -Organic Solar Cells - Theory and Practice,solar-cell,https://coursera.org/learn/solar-cell,Physical Science and Engineering,Technical University of Denmark (DTU),"The goal of the course is to give students awareness of the largest alternative form of energy and how organic / polymer solar cells can harvest this energy. The course provides an insight into the theory behind organic solar cells and describes the three main research areas within the field i.e. materials, stability and processing."
  -Understanding Research Methods,research-methods,https://coursera.org/learn/research-methods,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of London, SOAS University of London","This MOOC is about demystifying research and research methods. It will outline the fundamentals of doing research, aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at the postgraduate level. It places the student experience at the centre of our endeavours by engaging learners in a range of robust and challenging discussions and exercises befitting SOAS, University of London's status as a research-intensive university and its rich research heritage."
  -General Chemistry: Concept Development and Application,general-chemistry,https://coursera.org/learn/general-chemistry,Physical Science and Engineering,Rice University,"This course will cover the topics of a full year, two semester General Chemistry course. We will use a free on-line textbook, Concept Development Studies in Chemistry, available via Rice’s Connexions project."
  -Imagining Other Earths,life-on-other-planets,https://coursera.org/learn/life-on-other-planets,Physical Science and Engineering,Princeton University,"Are we alone? This course introduces core concepts in astronomy, biology, and planetary science that enable the student to speculate scientifically about this profound question and invent their own solar systems."
  -Engineering Systems in Motion: Dynamics of Particles and Bodies in 2D Motion,dynamics,https://coursera.org/learn/dynamics,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course is an introduction to the study of bodies in motion as applied to engineering systems and structures. We will study the dynamics of particle motion and bodies in rigid planar (2D) motion. This will consist of both the kinematics and kinetics of motion. Kinematics deals with the geometrical aspects of motion describing position, velocity, and acceleration, all as a function of time. Kinetics is the study of forces acting on these bodies and how it affects their motion."
  -Disaster Preparedness,disaster-preparedness,https://coursera.org/learn/disaster-preparedness,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Pittsburgh,"Have you ever viewed a news report depicting the aftermath of a devastating natural disaster? The damage to human life and property are both staggering and heartbreaking. All parts of the world face the possibility of floods, hurricanes, tornados, fires, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural phenomena. Are you prepared if disaster would strike you? This course will help you prepare!"
  -Energy 101: The Big Picture,energy-101,https://coursera.org/learn/energy-101,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"As a society and individually, we use energy every moment of our lives to improve our quality of life. Energy 101 will develop the big picture and connect the details of our energy use, technology, infrastructure, impact, and future."
  -Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life,astrobiology,https://coursera.org/learn/astrobiology,Physical Science and Engineering,The University of Edinburgh,Learn about the origin and evolution of life and the search for life beyond the Earth.
  -Quantitative Methods,quantitative-methods,https://coursera.org/learn/quantitative-methods,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Amsterdam,"Discover the principles of solid scientific methods in the behavioral and social sciences. Join us and learn to separate sloppy science from solid research! This course will cover the fundamental principles of science, some history and philosophy of science, research designs, measurement, sampling and ethics. The course is comparable to a university level introductory course on quantitative research methods in the social sciences, but has a strong focus on research integrity."
  -How Things Work,how-things-work,https://coursera.org/learn/how-things-work,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Virginia,An introduction to physics in the context of everyday objects.
  -Statistical Molecular Thermodynamics,statistical-thermodynamics,https://coursera.org/learn/statistical-thermodynamics,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Minnesota,This introductory physical chemistry course examines the connections between molecular properties and the behavior of macroscopic chemical systems.
  -Internet of Things & Augmented Reality Emerging Technologies,iot-augmented-reality-technologies,https://coursera.org/learn/iot-augmented-reality-technologies,Physical Science and Engineering,Yonsei University,"What is the Internet of Things? What is augmented reality? This course deals with the new emerging technologies of IoT (Internet of Things) and AR (Augmented Reality). IoT is a new emerging technology domain which will be used to connect all objects through the Internet for remote sensing and control. IoT uses a combination of WSN (Wireless Sensor Network), M2M (Machine to Machine), robotics, wireless networking, Internet technologies, and Smart Devices."
  -"Origins - Formation of the Universe, Solar System, Earth and Life",origins-universe-solarsystem,https://coursera.org/learn/origins-universe-solarsystem,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Copenhagen,The Origins course tracks the origin of all things – from the Big Bang to the origin of the Solar System and the Earth. The course follows the evolution of life on our planet through deep geological time to present life forms.
  -Introduction to Neuroeconomics: How the Brain Makes Decisions,neuroeconomics,https://coursera.org/learn/neuroeconomics,Physical Science and Engineering,Higher School of Economics,"Economics, psychology, and neuroscience are converging today into a unified discipline of Neuroeconomics with the ultimate aim of creating a single, general theory of human decision-making. Neuroeconomics provides biologists, economists, psychologists and social scientists with a deeper understanding of how they make their own decisions and how others decide. Neuroscience, when allied with psychology and economics, creates powerful new models to explain why we make decisions."
  -Internet of Things: Setting Up Your DragonBoard™ Development Platform,internet-of-things-dragonboard,https://coursera.org/learn/internet-of-things-dragonboard,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, San Diego",Do you want to develop skills to prototype mobile-enabled products using state-of-the-art technologies? In this course you will build a hardware and software development environment to guide your journey through the Internet of Things specialization courses. We will use the DragonBoard™ 410c single board computer (SBC). This is the first in a series of courses where you will learn both the theory and get the hands-on development practice needed to prototype Internet of Things products.
  -Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities,gte-sustainable-cities,https://coursera.org/learn/gte-sustainable-cities,Physical Science and Engineering,Lund University,How can we shape urban development towards sustainable and prosperous futures? This course will explore sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy. We place cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change. Sustainable urban transformation refers to structural transformation processes – multi-dimensional and radical change – that can effectively direct urban development towards ambitious sustainability and climate goals.
  -Introduction to Power Electronics,power-electronics,https://coursera.org/learn/power-electronics,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado Boulder,"This course introduces the basic concepts of switched-mode converter circuits for controlling and converting electrical power with high efficiency. Principles of converter circuit analysis are introduced, and are developed for finding the steady state voltages, current, and efficiency of power converters. Assignments include simulation of a dc-dc converter, analysis of an inverting dc-dc converter, and modeling and efficiency analysis of an electric vehicle system and of a USB power regulator."
   Municipal Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries,mswm,https://coursera.org/learn/mswm,Physical Science and Engineering,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"Have you come across large piles of garbage in neighborhoods and streets, or smelly waste disposal sites polluting the environment of low and middle income countries? Are you also convinced that improvements are necessary and do you want to know what kind of sustainable solutions are appropriate to better manage waste and enhance recycling and recovery? If yes, this course is for you! This course provides an overview of the municipal solid waste management situation in developing countries covering key elements of the waste management system, with its technical, environmental, social, financial and institutional aspects."
   "Nanotechnology and Nanosensors, Part 2",nanotechnology2,https://coursera.org/learn/nanotechnology2,Physical Science and Engineering,Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,"Learn about novel sensing tools that make use of nanotechnology to screen, detect and monitor various events in personal or professional life. Together, we will lay the groundwork for infinite innovative applications, starting from diagnosis and treatments of diseases, continuing with quality control of goods and environmental aspects, and ending with monitoring security issues."
  -Internet of Things: Sensing and Actuation From Devices,internet-of-things-sensing-actuation,https://coursera.org/learn/internet-of-things-sensing-actuation,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, San Diego","Have you wondered how information from physical devices in the real world gets communicated to Smartphone processors? Do you want to make informed design decisions about sampling frequencies and bit-width requirements for various kinds of sensors? Do you want to gain expertise to affect the real world with actuators such as stepper motors, LEDs and generate notifications?"
  +"Nanotechnology and Nanosensors, Part1",nanotechnology1,https://coursera.org/learn/nanotechnology1,Physical Science and Engineering,Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,"Nanotechnology and nanosensors are broad, interdisciplinary areas that encompass (bio)chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, electrical engineering and more. The present course will provide a survey on some of the fundamental principles behind nanotechnology and nanomaterials and their vital role in novel sensing properties and applications. The course will discuss interesting interdisciplinary scientific and engineering knowledge at the nanoscale to understand fundamental physical differences at the nanosensors."
  +"Natural Attenuation of Groundwater Contaminants: New Paradigms, Technologies, and Applications",natural-attenuation-of-groundwater-contaminants,https://coursera.org/learn/natural-attenuation-of-groundwater-contaminants,Physical Science and Engineering,Rice University,"Cleaning up the large number of groundwater contamination sites is a significant and complex environmental challenge. The environmental industry is continuously looking for remediation methods that are both effective and cost-efficient. Over the past 10 years there have been amazing, important developments in our understanding of key attenuation processes and technologies for evaluating natural attenuation processes, and a changing institutional perspective on when and where Monitored Natural Attenuation (MNA) may be applied."
  +Oil & Gas Industry Operations and Markets ,oilandgas,https://coursera.org/learn/oilandgas,Physical Science and Engineering,Duke University,"The oil and gas industry has an enormous impact on all aspects of daily life. Individuals, corporations, and national governments make financial and policy decisions based on the cost, use, and availability of these two natural resources. This two-week course looks at the two most fundamental aspects of the oil and gas industry, its operations and markets, each of which is addressed as a separate module in the course. In the operations module, the course provides an overview of the production of oil and gas, from initial exploration to final transport."
  +Organic Solar Cells - Theory and Practice,solar-cell,https://coursera.org/learn/solar-cell,Physical Science and Engineering,Technical University of Denmark (DTU),"The goal of the course is to give students awareness of the largest alternative form of energy and how organic / polymer solar cells can harvest this energy. The course provides an insight into the theory behind organic solar cells and describes the three main research areas within the field i.e. materials, stability and processing."
  +"Origins - Formation of the Universe, Solar System, Earth and Life",origins-universe-solarsystem,https://coursera.org/learn/origins-universe-solarsystem,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Copenhagen,The Origins course tracks the origin of all things – from the Big Bang to the origin of the Solar System and the Earth. The course follows the evolution of life on our planet through deep geological time to present life forms.
  +"Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes",our-earth,https://coursera.org/learn/our-earth,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Manchester,"Develop a greater appreciation for how the air, water, land, and life formed and have interacted over the last 4.5 billion years."
  +Our Earth's Future,earth-climate-change,https://coursera.org/learn/earth-climate-change,Physical Science and Engineering,American Museum of Natural History,"Our Earth’s Future is about the science of climate change and how to talk about it. You will learn from scientists in the fields of climatology, oceanography, Earth science, and anthropology who study how climate change is affecting people, populations, and ways of life. Explore the multiple lines of evidence for the human-induced climate change that is happening today, and consider what that means for the future of our planet. At the end of this course you will be able to understand key scientific principles, identify and address misconceptions, and contribute confidently to conversations about climate change."
  +Our Energy Future,future-of-energy,https://coursera.org/learn/future-of-energy,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, San Diego","This course is designed to introduce students to the issues of energy in the 21st century – including food and fuels – which are inseparably linked – and will discuss energy production and utilization from the biology, engineering, economics, climate science, and social science perspectives."
  +Particle Physics: an Introduction,particle-physics,https://coursera.org/learn/particle-physics,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Geneva,"This course introduces you to subatomic physics, i.e. the physics of nuclei and particles. More specifically, the following questions are addressed: - What are the concepts of particle physics and how are they implemented? - What are the properties of atomic nuclei and how can one use them? - How does one accelerate and detect particles and measure their properties? - What does one learn from particle reactions at high energies and particle decays? - How do electromagnetic interactions work and how can one use them? - How do strong interactions work and why are they difficult to understand? - How do weak interactions work and why are they so special?"
  +Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies,sanitation,https://coursera.org/learn/sanitation,Physical Science and Engineering,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"Do you want to learn how to plan affordable and context-specific sanitation solutions? Do you want to be updated on the newest developments in urban sanitation planning and programming? Do you want to get insights about best practices examples of urban sanitation systems in low- and middle-income countries? If yes, this course is for you! The course starts with an introduction about integrated sanitation planning, dealing with citywide planning as well as with planning for specific contexts such as informal settlements."
  +Preparing for the AP Physics 1 Exam,ap-physics-1,https://coursera.org/learn/ap-physics-1,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Houston System,"This course is designed for high school students preparing to take the AP* Physics 1 Exam. * AP Physics 1 is a registered trademark of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product."
  +Quantitative Methods,quantitative-methods,https://coursera.org/learn/quantitative-methods,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Amsterdam,"Discover the principles of solid scientific methods in the behavioral and social sciences. Join us and learn to separate sloppy science from solid research! This course will cover the fundamental principles of science, some history and philosophy of science, research designs, measurement, sampling and ethics. The course is comparable to a university level introductory course on quantitative research methods in the social sciences, but has a strong focus on research integrity."
  +Quantum Optics 1 : Single Photons,quantum-optics-single-photon,https://coursera.org/learn/quantum-optics-single-photon,Physical Science and Engineering,École Polytechnique,"This course gives you access to basic tools and concepts to understand research articles and books on modern quantum optics. You will learn about quantization of light, formalism to describe quantum states of light without any classical analogue, and observables allowing one to demonstrate typical quantum properties of these states. These tools will be applied to the emblematic case of a one-photon wave packet, which behaves both as a particle and a wave. Wave-particle duality is a great quantum mystery in the words of Richard Feynman. You will be able to fully appreciate real experiments demonstrating wave-particle duality for a single photon, and applications to quantum technologies based on single photon sources, which are now commercially available."
  +Robotics: Aerial Robotics,robotics-flight,https://coursera.org/learn/robotics-flight,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Pennsylvania,"How can we create agile micro aerial vehicles that are able to operate autonomously in cluttered indoor and outdoor environments? You will gain an introduction to the mechanics of flight and the design of quadrotor flying robots and will be able to develop dynamic models, derive controllers, and synthesize planners for operating in three dimensional environments. You will be exposed to the challenges of using noisy sensors for localization and maneuvering in complex, three-dimensional environments. Finally, you will gain insights through seeing real world examples of the possible applications and challenges for the rapidly-growing drone industry."
  +Robotics: Computational Motion Planning,robotics-motion-planning,https://coursera.org/learn/robotics-motion-planning,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Pennsylvania,"Robotic systems typically include three components: a mechanism which is capable of exerting forces and torques on the environment, a perception system for sensing the world and a decision and control system which modulates the robot's behavior to achieve the desired ends. In this course we will consider the problem of how a robot decides what to do to achieve its goals. This problem is often referred to as Motion Planning and it has been formulated in various ways to model different situations. You will learn some of the most common approaches to addressing this problem including graph-based methods, randomized planners and artificial potential fields. Throughout the course, we will discuss the aspects of the problem that make planning challenging."
  +Robotics: Estimation and Learning,robotics-estimation-and-learning,https://coursera.org/learn/robotics-estimation-and-learning,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Pennsylvania,"How can robots determine their state and properties of the surrounding environment from noisy sensor measurements in time? In this module you will learn how to get robots to incorporate uncertainty into estimating and learning from a dynamic and changing world. Specific topics that will be covered include probabilistic generative models, Bayesian filtering for localization and mapping."
  +Robotics: Mobility,robotics-mobility,https://coursera.org/learn/robotics-mobility,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Pennsylvania,"How can robots use their motors and sensors to move around in an unstructured environment? You will understand how to design robot bodies and behaviors that recruit limbs and more general appendages to apply physical forces that confer reliable mobility in a complex and dynamic world. We develop an approach to composing simple dynamical abstractions that partially automate the generation of complicated sensorimotor programs. Specific topics that will be covered include: mobility in animals and robots, kinematics and dynamics of legged machines, and design of dynamical behavior via energy landscapes."
  +Robotics: Perception,robotics-perception,https://coursera.org/learn/robotics-perception,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Pennsylvania,"How can robots perceive the world and their own movements so that they accomplish navigation and manipulation tasks? In this module, we will study how images and videos acquired by cameras mounted on robots are transformed into representations like features and optical flow. Such 2D representations allow us then to extract 3D information about where the camera is and in which direction the robot moves. You will come to understand how grasping objects is facilitated by the computation of 3D posing of objects and navigation can be accomplished by visual odometry and landmark-based localization."
  +Smartphone Emerging Technologies,smartphone-emerging-technologies,https://coursera.org/learn/smartphone-emerging-technologies,Physical Science and Engineering,Yonsei University,"Smartphones are one of the most influential devices that we use in our everyday lives. Smartphones consist of the most advanced hardware and software technologies that exist in the world, all combined together into a miraculous single easy-to-use portable system. These lectures focus on the specifications, hardware modules, and OS (Operating System) iOS & Android that enable smartphones to perform various features and functionalities. Since there are so many smartphone types, in the lectures, three smartphones were selected and compared. The lecture covers the specifications of the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge, LG G4, and the iPhone 6 plus, which are among the most popular recently released smartphones in the world!"
  +Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations,statistical-mechanics,https://coursera.org/learn/statistical-mechanics,Physical Science and Engineering,École normale supérieure,"In this course you will learn a whole lot of modern physics (classical and quantum) from basic computer programs that you will download, generalize, or write from scratch, discuss, and then hand in. Join in if you are curious (but not necessarily knowledgeable) about algorithms, and about the deep insights into science that you can obtain by the algorithmic approach."
  +Statistical Molecular Thermodynamics,statistical-thermodynamics,https://coursera.org/learn/statistical-thermodynamics,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Minnesota,This introductory physical chemistry course examines the connections between molecular properties and the behavior of macroscopic chemical systems.
  +Statistical Thermodynamics: Molecules to Machines,stathermo,https://coursera.org/learn/stathermo,Physical Science and Engineering,Carnegie Mellon University,"Modern engineering research focuses on designing new materials and processes at the molecular level. Statistical thermodynamics provides the formalism for understanding how molecular interactions lead to the observed collective behavior at the macroscale. This course will develop a molecular-level understanding of key thermodynamic quantities like heat, work, free energy and entropy. These concepts will be applied in understanding several important engineering and biological applications."
  +Sustainability through Soccer: Systems-Thinking in Action,sustainability-through-soccer,https://coursera.org/learn/sustainability-through-soccer,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Virginia,"This course takes learners on a journey through a progression of systems-thinking and sustainability concepts. Using the beautiful game of soccer as an analogy, we'll work together to illuminate real-world interdependencies (such as between climate change and human rights), building the chain of concepts in a fun, accessible way. Soccer nerds and newbies alike will be entertained and, ultimately, rewarded with the epiphanies that come from seeing in systems more clearly. Those who complete the course will: create examples of systems parts, boundaries, and behaviors related to sustainability (and soccer); practice evaluating the sustainability of systems they care about using several complementary methods; generate ideas to improve the sustainability of a system they care about; and explain a mindset shift that would enhance the sustainability of a system they care about."
  +Sustainable Agricultural Land Management,sustainable-agriculture,https://coursera.org/learn/sustainable-agriculture,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Florida,"This course will cover the agricultural and urban water quality issues in Florida, their bases, land and nutrient management strategies, and the science and policy behind the best management practices (BMPs). Students will learn to evaluate BMP research and analyze its role in determining practices and policies that protect water quality."
  +The Age of Sustainable Development,sustainable-development,https://coursera.org/learn/sustainable-development,Physical Science and Engineering,Columbia University,"The Age of Sustainable Development"" gives students an understanding of the key challenges and pathways to sustainable development - that is, economic development that is also socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable."
  +The Dynamic Earth: A Course for Educators,earth-amnh,https://coursera.org/learn/earth-amnh,Physical Science and Engineering,American Museum of Natural History,"The AMNH course The Dynamic Earth: A Course for Educators provides students with an overview of the origin and evolution of the Earth. Informed by the recently released Next Generation Science Standards, this course examines geological time scales, radiometric dating, and how scientists “read the rocks.” We will explore dramatic changes in the Earth over the last 4 billion years, including how the evolution of life on Earth has affected its atmosphere."
  +"The Effect of Fires on People, Property and the Environment",fire-effect,https://coursera.org/learn/fire-effect,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of Maryland, College Park","Fires impact people, property and the environment in all countries around the world. In some cases, the resulting losses are extraordinary, causing hundreds of deaths, widespread damage to property and contents and significant impacts on the environment. More often, fires may cause a single casualty or affect a single home, though the effects are still highly significant to those affected and collectively are substantial. This course will provide an overview of the challenges posed by fire as well as the fire safety solutions that are available to meet those challenges."
  +The Evolving Universe,evolvinguniverse,https://coursera.org/learn/evolvinguniverse,Physical Science and Engineering,Caltech,"This is an introductory astronomy survey class that covers our understanding of the physical universe and its major constituents, including planetary systems, stars, galaxies, black holes, quasars, larger structures, and the universe as a whole."
  +The Finite Element Method for Problems in Physics,finite-element-method,https://coursera.org/learn/finite-element-method,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Michigan,"This course is an introduction to the finite element method as applicable to a range of problems in physics and engineering sciences. The treatment is mathematical, but only for the purpose of clarifying the formulation. The emphasis is on coding up the formulations in a modern, open-source environment that can be expanded to other applications, subsequently. The course includes about 45 hours of lectures covering the material I normally teach in an introductory graduate class at University of Michigan. The treatment is mathematical, which is natural for a topic whose roots lie deep in functional analysis and variational calculus. It is not formal, however, because the main goal of these lectures is to turn the viewer into a competent developer of finite element code. We do spend time in rudimentary functional analysis, and variational calculus, but this is only to highlight the mathematical basis for the methods, which in turn explains why they work so well."
  +The Meat We Eat,meat-we-eat,https://coursera.org/learn/meat-we-eat,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Florida,"The Meat We Eat is a course designed to create a more informed consumer about the quality, safety, healthfulness and sustainability of muscle foods and address current issues in animal agriculture in developed and developing countries."
  +The Science of the Solar System,solarsystem,https://coursera.org/learn/solarsystem,Physical Science and Engineering,Caltech,"Learn about the science behind the current exploration of the solar system in this free class. Use principles from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology to understand the latest from Mars, comprehend the outer solar system, ponder planets outside our solar system, and search for habitability in our neighborhood and beyond. This course is generally taught at an advanced level assuming a prior knowledge of undergraduate math and physics, but the majority of the concepts and lectures can be understood without these prerequisites."
  +The Sun and the Total Eclipse of August 2017,eclipse,https://coursera.org/learn/eclipse,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado Boulder,"A total eclipse is one of the most spectacular sights you can ever see! It looks like the end of the world may be at hand. There is a black hole in the sky where the sun should be. Pink flames of solar prominences and long silver streamers of the sun's corona stretch across the sky. It gets cold, and animals do strange things. People scream and shout and cheer, and remember the experience their whole life. But total eclipses are important scientifically as well. They let us see parts of the sun’s atmosphere that are otherwise invisible. A total eclipse presented the first chance to test Einstein’s prediction that matter can bend space – like near a black hole. The best total eclipse in the US in 40 years happens Aug. 21, 2017. This course will prepare you to see it, to help people watch safely and even make money by leading a “neighborhood watch” of the eclipse, and to learn about the sun: how astronomers study it, how it formed, and how we know what’s inside it where the energy that supports life on earth is generated."
  +Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity,einstein-relativity,https://coursera.org/learn/einstein-relativity,Physical Science and Engineering,Stanford University,"In this course we will seek to “understand Einstein,” especially focusing on the special theory of relativity that Albert Einstein, as a twenty-six year old patent clerk, introduced in his “miracle year” of 1905. Our goal will be to go behind the myth-making and beyond the popularized presentations of relativity in order to gain a deeper understanding of both Einstein the person and the concepts, predictions, and strange paradoxes of his theory. Some of the questions we will address include: How did Einstein come up with his ideas?"
  +Understanding Research Methods,research-methods,https://coursera.org/learn/research-methods,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of London, SOAS University of London","This MOOC is about demystifying research and research methods. It will outline the fundamentals of doing research, aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at the postgraduate level. It places the student experience at the centre of our endeavours by engaging learners in a range of robust and challenging discussions and exercises befitting SOAS, University of London's status as a research-intensive university and its rich research heritage."
   Wind Energy,wind-energy,https://coursera.org/learn/wind-energy,Physical Science and Engineering,Technical University of Denmark (DTU),"How tall is a modern wind turbine and how can it possibly generate power from the wind? This course gives an overview of key aspects in wind energy engineering. Whether you are looking for general insight in this green technology or your ambition is to pursue a career in wind energy engineering, 'Wind Energy' is an excellent starting point. Experts located in the wind pioneering country of Denmark will take you on a tour through the most fundamental disciplines of wind energy research such as wind measurements and resource assessment, aerodynamics, wind turbine technology, structural mechanics, materials, financial and electrical systems."
  -Converter Control,converter-control,https://coursera.org/learn/converter-control,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado Boulder,"This course teaches how to design a feedback system to control a switching converter. The equivalent circuit models derived in the previous courses are extended to model small-signal ac variations. These models are then solved, to find the important transfer functions of the converter and its regulator system. Finally, the feedback loop is modeled, analyzed, and designed to meet requirements such as output regulation, bandwidth and transient response, and rejection of disturbances."
  -Robotics: Mobility,robotics-mobility,https://coursera.org/learn/robotics-mobility,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Pennsylvania,"How can robots use their motors and sensors to move around in an unstructured environment? You will understand how to design robot bodies and behaviors that recruit limbs and more general appendages to apply physical forces that confer reliable mobility in a complex and dynamic world. We develop an approach to composing simple dynamical abstractions that partially automate the generation of complicated sensorimotor programs. Specific topics that will be covered include: mobility in animals and robots, kinematics and dynamics of legged machines, and design of dynamical behavior via energy landscapes."
  -Materials Science: 10 Things Every Engineer Should Know,materials-science,https://coursera.org/learn/materials-science,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Davis",We explore “10 things” that range from the menu of materials available to engineers in their profession to the many mechanical and electrical properties of materials important to their use in various engineering fields. We also discuss the principles behind the manufacturing of those materials.
  -Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change,global-warming,https://coursera.org/learn/global-warming,Physical Science and Engineering,The University of Chicago,"This class describes the science of global warming and the forecast for humans’ impact on Earth’s climate. Intended for an audience without much scientific background but a healthy sense of curiosity, the class brings together insights and perspectives from physics, chemistry, biology, earth and atmospheric sciences, and even some economics—all based on a foundation of simple mathematics (algebra)."
  -Fundamentals of Digital Image and Video Processing,digital,https://coursera.org/learn/digital,Physical Science and Engineering,Northwestern University,"In this class you will learn the basic principles and tools used to process images and videos, and how to apply them in solving practical problems of commercial and scientific interests. Digital images and videos are everywhere these days – in thousands of scientific (e.g., astronomical, bio-medical), consumer, industrial, and artistic applications. Moreover they come in a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum - from visible light and infrared to gamma rays and beyond. The ability to process image and video signals is therefore an incredibly important skill to master for engineering/science students, software developers, and practicing scientists."
  -Internet of Things: Multimedia Technologies,internet-of-things-multimedia,https://coursera.org/learn/internet-of-things-multimedia,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, San Diego","Content is an eminent example of the features that contributed to the success of wireless Internet. Mobile platforms such as the Snapdragon™ processor have special hardware and software capabilities to make acquisition, processing and rendering of multimedia content efficient and cost-effective. In this course, you will learn the principles of video and audio codecs used for media content in iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Netflix, etc."
  -Mechanics of Materials I: Fundamentals of Stress & Strain and Axial Loading,mechanics-1,https://coursera.org/learn/mechanics-1,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course explores the topic of solid objects subjected to stress and strain. The methods taught in the course are used to predict the response of engineering structures to various types of loading, and to analyze the vulnerability of these structures to various failure modes. Axial loading with be the focus in this course."
  -Robotics: Aerial Robotics,robotics-flight,https://coursera.org/learn/robotics-flight,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Pennsylvania,"How can we create agile micro aerial vehicles that are able to operate autonomously in cluttered indoor and outdoor environments? You will gain an introduction to the mechanics of flight and the design of quadrotor flying robots and will be able to develop dynamic models, derive controllers, and synthesize planners for operating in three dimensional environments. You will be exposed to the challenges of using noisy sensors for localization and maneuvering in complex, three-dimensional environments. Finally, you will gain insights through seeing real world examples of the possible applications and challenges for the rapidly-growing drone industry."
  -Fundamentals of GIS,gis,https://coursera.org/learn/gis,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Davis","Explore the world of spatial analysis and cartography with geographic information systems (GIS). In this class you will learn the basics of the industry’s leading software tool, ArcGIS, during four week-long modules"
  -Interfacing with the Raspberry Pi,raspberry-pi-interface,https://coursera.org/learn/raspberry-pi-interface,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Irvine","The Raspberry Pi uses a variety of input/output devices based on protocols such as HDMI, USB, and Ethernet to communicate with the outside world. In this class you will learn how to use these protocols with other external devices (sensors, motors, GPS, orientation, LCD screens etc.) to get your IoT device to interact with the real world. Most physical devices use analog signals; however computer hardware is digital so in this class you will learn how these signals are converted back-and-forth and how this must be considered as you program your device."
  -Introduction to the Arctic: Climate,arctic-introduction-climate,https://coursera.org/learn/arctic-introduction-climate,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Alberta,"The University of Alberta, the University of Tromso and the University of the Arctic invite you to explore this four week course that examines the environment and climate of the circumpolar North. This course is the result of an international collaboration and provides you with an insight into our planet's North. Following an overview of regional geography, we will focus on the cryosphere (ice), as well as the atmosphere and ocean of the region. We will learn why the Arctic is cold and ice covered, and how that impacts its climate and ecosystems."
  -Emergent Phenomena in Science and Everyday Life,emergent-phenomena,https://coursera.org/learn/emergent-phenomena,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Irvine","Before the advent of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century, most scientists believed that it should be possible to predict the behavior of any object in the universe simply by understanding the behavior of its constituent parts. For instance, if one could write down the equations of motion for every atom in a system, it should be possible to solve those equations (with the aid of a sufficiently large computing device) and make accurate predictions about that system’s future."
  -Oil & Gas Industry Operations and Markets ,oilandgas,https://coursera.org/learn/oilandgas,Physical Science and Engineering,Duke University,"The oil and gas industry has an enormous impact on all aspects of daily life. Individuals, corporations, and national governments make financial and policy decisions based on the cost, use, and availability of these two natural resources. This two-week course looks at the two most fundamental aspects of the oil and gas industry, its operations and markets, each of which is addressed as a separate module in the course. In the operations module, the course provides an overview of the production of oil and gas, from initial exploration to final transport."
  -Preparing for the AP Physics 1 Exam,ap-physics-1,https://coursera.org/learn/ap-physics-1,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Houston System,"This course is designed for high school students preparing to take the AP* Physics 1 Exam. * AP Physics 1 is a registered trademark of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product."
  -"Nanotechnology and Nanosensors, Part1",nanotechnology1,https://coursera.org/learn/nanotechnology1,Physical Science and Engineering,Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,"Nanotechnology and nanosensors are broad, interdisciplinary areas that encompass (bio)chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, electrical engineering and more. The present course will provide a survey on some of the fundamental principles behind nanotechnology and nanomaterials and their vital role in novel sensing properties and applications. The course will discuss interesting interdisciplinary scientific and engineering knowledge at the nanoscale to understand fundamental physical differences at the nanosensors."
  -Mechanics of Materials II: Thin-Walled Pressure Vessels and Torsion,mechanics2,https://coursera.org/learn/mechanics2,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,This course explores the analysis and design of thin-walled pressure vessels and engineering structures subjected to torsion.
  -Introduction to Systems Engineering,systems-engineering,https://coursera.org/learn/systems-engineering,Physical Science and Engineering,UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales),"""Introduction to Systems Engineering"" uses a structured yet flexible approach to provide a holistic, solid foundation to the successful development of complicated systems. The course takes you step by step through the system life cycle, from design to development, production and management. You will learn how the different components of a system interrelate, and how each contributes to a project’s goals and success."
  -Converter Circuits,converter-circuits,https://coursera.org/learn/converter-circuits,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado Boulder,"This course introduces more advanced concepts of switched-mode converter circuits. Realization of the power semiconductors in inverters or in converters having bidirectional power flow is explained. Power diodes, power MOSFETs, and IGBTs are explained, along with the origins of their switching times. Equivalent circuit models are refined to include the effects of switching loss. The discontinuous conduction mode is described and analyzed."
  -Interfacing with the Arduino,interface-with-arduino,https://coursera.org/learn/interface-with-arduino,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Irvine","Arduino senses the environment by receiving inputs from add-on devices such as sensors, and can control the world around it by adjusting lights, motors, and other actuators. In this class you will learn how and when to use the different types of sensors and how to connect them to the Arduino. Since the external world uses continuous or analog signals and the hardware is digital you will learn how these signals are converted back-and-forth and how this must be considered as you program your device. You'll also learn about the use of Arduino-specific shields and the shields software libraries to interface with the real world. Please note that this course does not include discussion forums."
  -Robotics: Computational Motion Planning,robotics-motion-planning,https://coursera.org/learn/robotics-motion-planning,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Pennsylvania,"Robotic systems typically include three components: a mechanism which is capable of exerting forces and torques on the environment, a perception system for sensing the world and a decision and control system which modulates the robot's behavior to achieve the desired ends. In this course we will consider the problem of how a robot decides what to do to achieve its goals. This problem is often referred to as Motion Planning and it has been formulated in various ways to model different situations. You will learn some of the most common approaches to addressing this problem including graph-based methods, randomized planners and artificial potential fields. Throughout the course, we will discuss the aspects of the problem that make planning challenging."
  -The Dynamic Earth: A Course for Educators,earth-amnh,https://coursera.org/learn/earth-amnh,Physical Science and Engineering,American Museum of Natural History,"The AMNH course The Dynamic Earth: A Course for Educators provides students with an overview of the origin and evolution of the Earth. Informed by the recently released Next Generation Science Standards, this course examines geological time scales, radiometric dating, and how scientists “read the rocks.” We will explore dramatic changes in the Earth over the last 4 billion years, including how the evolution of life on Earth has affected its atmosphere."
  -Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries,climate-change-mitigation,https://coursera.org/learn/climate-change-mitigation,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Cape Town,This course challenges you to consider how one might lift societies out of poverty while also mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. We explore the inherent complexity of developing country governments wanting to grow their economies in a climate friendly way. You will be introduced to an approach with which to address this challenge. The approach consists of a facilitated process whereby academic researchers and high-level influential actors within society co-produce knowledge.
  -Chemistry,chemistry-1,https://coursera.org/learn/chemistry-1,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Kentucky,"This course is designed to cover subjects in advanced high school chemistry courses, correlating to the standard topics as established by the American Chemical Society. This course is a precursor to the Advanced Chemistry Coursera course. Areas that are covered include atomic structure, periodic trends, compounds, reactions and stoichiometry, bonding, and thermochemistry."
  -Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations,statistical-mechanics,https://coursera.org/learn/statistical-mechanics,Physical Science and Engineering,École normale supérieure,"In this course you will learn a whole lot of modern physics (classical and quantum) from basic computer programs that you will download, generalize, or write from scratch, discuss, and then hand in. Join in if you are curious (but not necessarily knowledgeable) about algorithms, and about the deep insights into science that you can obtain by the algorithmic approach."
  -Material Behavior,material-behavior,https://coursera.org/learn/material-behavior,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This is the first of three Coursera courses that mirror the Introduction to Materials Science class that is taken by most engineering undergrads at Georgia Tech. The aim of the course is to help students better understand the engineering materials that are used in the world around them. This first section covers the fundamentals of materials science including atomic structure and bonding, crystal structure, atomic and microscopic defects, and noncrystalline materials such as glasses, rubbers, and polymers."
  -Global Warming II: Create Your Own Models in Python,global-warming-model,https://coursera.org/learn/global-warming-model,Physical Science and Engineering,The University of Chicago,"This class provides a series of Python programming exercises intended to explore the use of numerical modeling in the Earth system and climate sciences. The scientific background for these models is presented in a companion class, Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change. This class assumes that you are new to Python programming (and this is indeed a great way to learn Python!), but that you will be able to pick up an elementary knowledge of Python syntax from another class or from on-line tutorials."
  -Exploring Light: Hands-on Activities and Strategies for Teachers,explorelight,https://coursera.org/learn/explorelight,Physical Science and Engineering,Exploratorium,"This is an Exploratorium teacher professional development course taught by Teacher Institute staff, open to any science teacher (particularly middle or high school level) and science enthusiast. This is a hands-on workshop that explores topics and strategies teachers can use to help their students become active investigators of light."
  -The Science of the Solar System,solarsystem,https://coursera.org/learn/solarsystem,Physical Science and Engineering,Caltech,"Learn about the science behind the current exploration of the solar system in this free class. Use principles from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology to understand the latest from Mars, comprehend the outer solar system, ponder planets outside our solar system, and search for habitability in our neighborhood and beyond. This course is generally taught at an advanced level assuming a prior knowledge of undergraduate math and physics, but the majority of the concepts and lectures can be understood without these prerequisites."
  -Mastering bitumen for better roads and innovative applications,mastering-bitumen,https://coursera.org/learn/mastering-bitumen,Physical Science and Engineering,École des Ponts ParisTech,"During the four coming weeks, best experts in bitumen will bring you their knowledge and experience to build a strong understanding of today’s realities and new perspectives on the future of bitumen. Total is the European leader on bitumen markets. Innovation has always been the key to sustainability and durability in the products they develop."
  -"GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality",gis-data-design,https://coursera.org/learn/gis-data-design,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Davis","In this course, the second in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization, you will go in-depth with common data types (such as raster and vector data), structures, quality and storage during four week-long modules:"
  -Mechanics of Materials III: Beam Bending,beam-bending,https://coursera.org/learn/beam-bending,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,This course explores the analysis and design of beam bending problems. Prerequisite Knowledge: You will need to have successfully completed my earlier course “Mechanics of Materials I: Fundamentals of Stress and Strain and Axial Loading” in order to be successful in this course
  -Robotics: Perception,robotics-perception,https://coursera.org/learn/robotics-perception,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Pennsylvania,"How can robots perceive the world and their own movements so that they accomplish navigation and manipulation tasks? In this module, we will study how images and videos acquired by cameras mounted on robots are transformed into representations like features and optical flow. Such 2D representations allow us then to extract 3D information about where the camera is and in which direction the robot moves. You will come to understand how grasping objects is facilitated by the computation of 3D posing of objects and navigation can be accomplished by visual odometry and landmark-based localization."
  -Advanced Converter Control Techniques,advanced-converter-control,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-converter-control,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado Boulder,"This course covers advanced converter control techniques, including averaged-switch modeling and Spice simulations, modeling and design of peak current mode and average current mode controlled converters, as well as an introduction to control of single-phase ac grid tied rectifiers and inverters. Design and simulation examples include wide bandwidth point-of-load voltage regulators, low-harmonic power-factor-correction rectifiers, and grid-tied inverters for solar photovoltaic power systems."
  -Managing an Agile Team,managing-team-agile,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-team-agile,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Virginia,"Traditional development processes often lead to team frustration and poor results. Agile offers a different approach to managing the complexity of software development. This course focuses on the day-to-day jobs of running a software development program and how leading agile methodologies (Scrum, XP, kanban) can help you do them better."
  -"Mechanics of Materials IV: Deflections, Buckling, Combined Loading & Failure Theories",materials-structures,https://coursera.org/learn/materials-structures,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course explores the analysis and design of engineering structures considering factors of deflection, buckling, combined loading, & failure theories"
  -Statistical Thermodynamics: Molecules to Machines,stathermo,https://coursera.org/learn/stathermo,Physical Science and Engineering,Carnegie Mellon University,"Modern engineering research focuses on designing new materials and processes at the molecular level. Statistical thermodynamics provides the formalism for understanding how molecular interactions lead to the observed collective behavior at the macroscale. This course will develop a molecular-level understanding of key thermodynamic quantities like heat, work, free energy and entropy. These concepts will be applied in understanding several important engineering and biological applications."
  -Material Processing,material-science-engineering,https://coursera.org/learn/material-science-engineering,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This is the second of three Coursera courses that mirror the Introduction to Materials Science class that is taken by most engineering undergrads at Georgia Tech. The aim of the course is to help students better understand the engineering materials that are used in the world around them. This first section covers the fundamentals of materials science including atomic structure and bonding, crystal structure, atomic and microscopic defects, and noncrystalline materials such as glasses, rubbers, and polymers."
  -Robotics: Estimation and Learning,robotics-estimation-and-learning,https://coursera.org/learn/robotics-estimation-and-learning,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Pennsylvania,"How can robots determine their state and properties of the surrounding environment from noisy sensor measurements in time? In this module you will learn how to get robots to incorporate uncertainty into estimating and learning from a dynamic and changing world. Specific topics that will be covered include probabilistic generative models, Bayesian filtering for localization and mapping."
  -Introduction to Thermodynamics: Transferring Energy from Here to There,thermodynamics-intro,https://coursera.org/learn/thermodynamics-intro,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Michigan,"This course provides an introduction to the most powerful engineering principles you will ever learn - Thermodynamics: the science of transferring energy from one place or form to another place or form. We will introduce the tools you need to analyze energy systems from solar panels, to engines, to insulated coffee mugs. More specifically, we will cover the topics of mass and energy conservation principles; first law analysis of control mass and control volume systems; properties and behavior of pure substances; and applications to thermodynamic systems operating at steady state conditions."
  -Fundamentals of Fluid Power,fluid-power,https://coursera.org/learn/fluid-power,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Minnesota,"Fluid power has the highest power density of all conventional power-transmission technologies. Learn the benefits and limitations of fluid power, how to analyze fluid power components and circuits, and how to design and simulate fluid power circuits for applications. In this course, you will be introduced to the fundamental principles and analytical modeling of fluid power components, circuits, and systems."
  -Introduction to Electronics,electronics,https://coursera.org/learn/electronics,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course introduces students to the basic components of electronics: diodes, transistors, and op amps. It covers the basic operation and some common applications."
  -Introduction to Satellite Communications,satellitecommunications,https://coursera.org/learn/satellitecommunications,Physical Science and Engineering,Institut Mines-Télécom,How is a satellite built? How do they fly? How do they communicate and how does the network operate? You will get all the answers in this course from teachers and researchers from three schools associated with Institut Mines-Télécom.
  -Magnetics for Power Electronic Converters,magnetics-power-electronic-converters,https://coursera.org/learn/magnetics-power-electronic-converters,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado Boulder,"This course covers the analysis and design of magnetic components, including inductors and transformers, used in power electronic converters. The course starts with an introduction to physical principles behind inductors and transformers, including the concepts of inductance, core material saturation, airgap and energy storage in inductors, reluctance and magnetic circuit modeling, transformer equivalent circuits, magnetizing and leakage inductance. Multi-winding transformer models are also developed, including inductance matrix representation, for series and parallel structures. Modeling of losses in magnetic components covers core and winding losses, including skin and proximity effects."
  -Geospatial and Environmental Analysis,geo-enviro-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/geo-enviro-analysis,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Davis","Apply your GIS knowledge in this course on geospatial analysis, focusing on analysis tools, 3D data, working with rasters, projections, and environment variables. Through all four weeks of this course, we'll work through a project together - something unique to this course - from project conception, through data retrieval, initial data management and processing, and finally to our analysis products."
  -Materials Data Sciences and Informatics,material-informatics,https://coursera.org/learn/material-informatics,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course aims to provide a succinct overview of the emerging discipline of Materials Informatics at the intersection of materials science, computational science, and information science. Attention is drawn to specific opportunities afforded by this new field in accelerating materials development and deployment efforts. A particular emphasis is placed on materials exhibiting hierarchical internal structures spanning multiple length/structure scales and the impediments involved in establishing invertible process-structure-property (PSP) linkages for these materials."
  -Introduction to High-Throughput Materials Development,high-throughput,https://coursera.org/learn/high-throughput,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course is an introduction to high-throughput experimental methods that accelerate the discovery and development of new materials. It is well recognized that the discovery of new materials is the key to solving many technological problems faced by industry and society. These problems include energy production and utilization, carbon capture, tissue engineering, and sustainable materials production, among many others."
  -Computer Architecture,comparch,https://coursera.org/learn/comparch,Physical Science and Engineering,Princeton University,"In this course, you will learn to design the computer architecture of complex modern microprocessors."
  -"The Effect of Fires on People, Property and the Environment",fire-effect,https://coursera.org/learn/fire-effect,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of Maryland, College Park","Fires impact people, property and the environment in all countries around the world. In some cases, the resulting losses are extraordinary, causing hundreds of deaths, widespread damage to property and contents and significant impacts on the environment. More often, fires may cause a single casualty or affect a single home, though the effects are still highly significant to those affected and collectively are substantial. This course will provide an overview of the challenges posed by fire as well as the fire safety solutions that are available to meet those challenges."
  -"Global Postharvest Loss Prevention: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Actors",postharvest,https://coursera.org/learn/postharvest,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course provides an overview of the issue of postharvest loss of grains by exploring essential physical, technical, and social dimensions of postharvest supply chains and loss prevention methods globally. Each year, estimates suggest that 1/3 of all food produced is lost or wasted, making postharvest loss a critical global food security and sustainability issue of today."
  -Sustainable Agricultural Land Management,sustainable-agriculture,https://coursera.org/learn/sustainable-agriculture,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Florida,"This course will cover the agricultural and urban water quality issues in Florida, their bases, land and nutrient management strategies, and the science and policy behind the best management practices (BMPs). Students will learn to evaluate BMP research and analyze its role in determining practices and policies that protect water quality."
  -"Imagery, Modeling and Applications",gis-imgagery-model-apply,https://coursera.org/learn/gis-imgagery-model-apply,Physical Science and Engineering,"University of California, Davis","Welcome to the last course of the specialization (unless your continuing on to the capstone project, of course!). Using the knowledge you’ve learned about ArcGIS, complete technical tasks such raster calculations and suitability analysis. In this class you will become comfortable with spatial analysis and applications within GIS during four week-long modules:"
  -Introduction to Chemistry:  Reactions and Ratios,intro-chemistry,https://coursera.org/learn/intro-chemistry,Physical Science and Engineering,Duke University,"This is an introductory course for students with limited background in chemistry; basic concepts involved in chemical reactions, stoichiometry, the periodic table, periodic trends, nomenclature, and chemical problem solving will be emphasized with the goal of preparing students for further study in chemistry as needed for many science, health, and policy professions.."
  -"Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes",our-earth,https://coursera.org/learn/our-earth,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Manchester,"Develop a greater appreciation for how the air, water, land, and life formed and have interacted over the last 4.5 billion years."
  -"Natural Attenuation of Groundwater Contaminants: New Paradigms, Technologies, and Applications",natural-attenuation-of-groundwater-contaminants,https://coursera.org/learn/natural-attenuation-of-groundwater-contaminants,Physical Science and Engineering,Rice University,"Cleaning up the large number of groundwater contamination sites is a significant and complex environmental challenge. The environmental industry is continuously looking for remediation methods that are both effective and cost-efficient. Over the past 10 years there have been amazing, important developments in our understanding of key attenuation processes and technologies for evaluating natural attenuation processes, and a changing institutional perspective on when and where Monitored Natural Attenuation (MNA) may be applied."
  -Introduction to Chemistry:  Structures and Solutions,basic-chemistry,https://coursera.org/learn/basic-chemistry,Physical Science and Engineering,Duke University,"This is an introductory course for students with limited background in chemistry; basic concepts such as atomic and molecular structure, solutions, phases of matter, and quantitative problem solving will be emphasized with the goal of preparing students for further study in chemistry."
  -Introduction into General Theory of Relativity,relativity-theory,https://coursera.org/learn/relativity-theory,Physical Science and Engineering,Higher School of Economics,"General Theory of Relativity or the theory of relativistic gravitation is the one which describes black holes, gravitational waves and expanding Universe. The goal of the course is to introduce you into this theory. The introduction is based on the consideration of many practical generic examples in various scopes of the General Relativity. After the completion of the course you will be able to solve basic standard problems of this theory. We assume that you are familiar with the Special Theory of Relativity and Classical Electrodynamics."
  -Global Environmental Management,global-environmental-management,https://coursera.org/learn/global-environmental-management,Physical Science and Engineering,Technical University of Denmark (DTU),"Learn about the best environmental technologies for a sustainable development and how they are managed in various settings around the world. This course gives you an opportunity to learn about global trends that influence our environment and the living conditions and how different management systems and approaches that are used around the world to manage the environment. This includes current environmental technologies built for the environment and technologies for sustainable soil management, groundwater protection methods and integrated Water resources management."
  -Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity,einstein-relativity,https://coursera.org/learn/einstein-relativity,Physical Science and Engineering,Stanford University,"In this course we will seek to “understand Einstein,” especially focusing on the special theory of relativity that Albert Einstein, as a twenty-six year old patent clerk, introduced in his “miracle year” of 1905. Our goal will be to go behind the myth-making and beyond the popularized presentations of relativity in order to gain a deeper understanding of both Einstein the person and the concepts, predictions, and strange paradoxes of his theory. Some of the questions we will address include: How did Einstein come up with his ideas?"
  -The Meat We Eat,meat-we-eat,https://coursera.org/learn/meat-we-eat,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Florida,"The Meat We Eat is a course designed to create a more informed consumer about the quality, safety, healthfulness and sustainability of muscle foods and address current issues in animal agriculture in developed and developing countries."
  -Fundamentals of Fluid-Solid Interactions,fluid-solid-interaction,https://coursera.org/learn/fluid-solid-interaction,Physical Science and Engineering,École Polytechnique,"What is fluid-solid interactions ? It is what happens when the motions of a fluid and of a solid are somehow coupled. This happens all the time, around you when leaves flutter in the wind, inside you when your heart beats, above you when wings of a plane vibrate, under the sea... The idea behind this MOOC is to give you the basic tools to be able to predict and eventually mitigate things called flutter, galloping, sloshing, vortex-induced vibrations, added mass, to cite a few."
  -Journey Conversations: Weaving Knowledge and Action,journey-knowledge-action,https://coursera.org/learn/journey-knowledge-action,Physical Science and Engineering,Yale University,"Journey of the Universe weaves together the discoveries of the evolutionary sciences together with humanities such as history, philosophy, art, and religion. This course draws on the Journey of the Universe Conversations, a series of 20 interviews with scientists and environmentalists. The first 10 interviews are with scientists and historians who deepen our understanding of the evolutionary process of universe, Earth, and humans. The second 10 interviews are with environmentalists, teachers, and artists who explore the connections between the universe story and the practices for a flourishing Earth community."
  -Digital Systems: From Logic Gates to Processors,digital-systems,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-systems,Physical Science and Engineering,Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,"This course gives you a complete insight into the modern design of digital systems fundamentals from an eminently practical point of view. Unlike other more ""classic"" digital circuits courses, our interest focuses more on the system than on the electronics that support it. This approach will allow us to lay the foundation for the design of complex digital systems."
  -Digital Signal Processing,dsp,https://coursera.org/learn/dsp,Physical Science and Engineering,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"Digital Signal Processing is the branch of engineering that, in the space of just a few decades, has enabled unprecedented levels of interpersonal communication and of on-demand entertainment. By reworking the principles of electronics, telecommunication and computer science into a unifying paradigm, DSP is a the heart of the digital revolution that brought us CDs, DVDs, MP3 players, mobile phones and countless other devices."
  -Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies,sanitation,https://coursera.org/learn/sanitation,Physical Science and Engineering,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"Do you want to learn how to plan affordable and context-specific sanitation solutions? Do you want to be updated on the newest developments in urban sanitation planning and programming? Do you want to get insights about best practices examples of urban sanitation systems in low- and middle-income countries? If yes, this course is for you! The course starts with an introduction about integrated sanitation planning, dealing with citywide planning as well as with planning for specific contexts such as informal settlements."
  -Machine Design Part I,machine-design1,https://coursera.org/learn/machine-design1,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"“Machine Design Part I” is the first course in an in-depth three course series of “Machine Design.” The “Machine Design” Coursera series covers fundamental mechanical design topics, such as static and fatigue failure theories, the analysis of shafts, fasteners, and gears, and the design of mechanical systems such as gearboxes. Throughout this series of courses we will examine a number of exciting design case studies, including the material selection of a total hip implant, the design and testing of the wing on the 777 aircraft, and the impact of dynamic loads on the design of an bolted pressure vessel."
  -AstroTech: The Science and Technology behind Astronomical Discovery,astronomy-technology,https://coursera.org/learn/astronomy-technology,Physical Science and Engineering,The University of Edinburgh,"Modern astronomy has made some astonishing discoveries - how stars burn and how black holes form; galaxies from the edge of the universe and killer rocks right next door; where the elements come from and how the expanding universe is accelerating. But how do we know all that? The truth is that astronomy would be impossible without technology, and every advance in astronomy is really an advance in technology. But the technology by itself is not enough. We have to apply it critically with a knowledge of physics to unlock the secrets of the Universe."
   Wireless Communications for Everybody,wireless-communications,https://coursera.org/learn/wireless-communications,Physical Science and Engineering,Yonsei University,"This course will provide an introduction and history of cellular communication systems that have changed our lives during the recent four decades and will become an essential and inseparable part of human life. The principles of wireless communication theory are covered with emphasis on the essential concept delivery to non-major learners in the easiest way. Then, it will be covered how such principles are realized and how multimedia services can be delivered in practical LTE cellular systems by which learners are connected and enjoys together in their lives."
  -Big History - From the Big Bang until Today,bighistory,https://coursera.org/learn/bighistory,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Amsterdam,"Welcome to this Big History course! In this course, renowned scientists and scholars from the University of Amsterdam and beyond will take you on a journey from the Big Bang until today while addressing key questions in their fields. After completing this journey you will have developed a better understanding of how you and everything around you became the way they are today. You will also have gained an understanding of the underlying mechanisms that have helped shape the history of everything and how they wil help shape the future. Last but not least, you will have developed the skill to use this knowledge to put smaller subjects into a bigger perspective with the aid of the little big history approach, which can help you develop some new ideas on these smaller subjects."
  -The Finite Element Method for Problems in Physics,finite-element-method,https://coursera.org/learn/finite-element-method,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Michigan,"This course is an introduction to the finite element method as applicable to a range of problems in physics and engineering sciences. The treatment is mathematical, but only for the purpose of clarifying the formulation. The emphasis is on coding up the formulations in a modern, open-source environment that can be expanded to other applications, subsequently. The course includes about 45 hours of lectures covering the material I normally teach in an introductory graduate class at University of Michigan. The treatment is mathematical, which is natural for a topic whose roots lie deep in functional analysis and variational calculus. It is not formal, however, because the main goal of these lectures is to turn the viewer into a competent developer of finite element code. We do spend time in rudimentary functional analysis, and variational calculus, but this is only to highlight the mathematical basis for the methods, which in turn explains why they work so well."
  -Building Arduino robots and devices,arduino,https://coursera.org/learn/arduino,Physical Science and Engineering,Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,"For many years now, people have been improving their tools, studying the forces of nature and bringing them under control, using the energy of the nature to operate their machines. Last century is noted for the creation of machines which can operate other machines. Nowadays the creation of devices that interact with the physical world is available to anyone. Our course consists of a series of practical problems on making things that work independently: they make their own decisions, act, move, communicate with each other and people around, and control other devices. We will demonstrate how to assemble such devices and programme them using the Arduino platform as a basis."
  -Geodesign: Change Your World,geodesign,https://coursera.org/learn/geodesign,Physical Science and Engineering,The Pennsylvania State University,"This course includes well-illustrated lectures by the instructor, but also guest lectures each week to ensure you are hearing a variety of viewpoints. Each week you will also be able to examine what geodesign is through interactive mapping that showcases real-word Case Study examples of geodesign from around the globe. As you move along in the course, you will discover the interrelationships of both the physical and human aspects that contribute to how geodesign strategies are composed. The course concludes with you outlining your own Geodesign Challenge, and receiving feedback about that from your peers."
  -Archaeoastronomy,archaeoastronomy,https://coursera.org/learn/archaeoastronomy,Physical Science and Engineering,Politecnico di Milano,"Archaeoastronomy is the “science of stars and stones”: it studies the relationships between the ancient monuments and the sky, in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and of their religious and symbolic world. The course provides the first complete, easy introduction to this fascinating discipline. During the course, many spectacular ancient sites – such as Stonehenge in England, Giza and Karnak in Egypt, Chichen Itzá in the Yucatan, Macchu Picchu in Peru and the Pantheon in Rome – will be visited and the fascinating events occurring there in special days of the year (such as solstices, equinoxes, or the day of the foundation of Rome) will be shown and explained. The course also provides the necessary background on Astronomy with the naked eye and a general introduction to the role of Astronomy in religion and in the management of power among ancient cultures."
  -Digital Thread: Implementation,digital-thread-implementation,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-thread-implementation,Physical Science and Engineering,"University at Buffalo, The State University of New York","There are opportunities throughout the design process of any product to make significant changes, and ultimately impact the future of manufacturing, by embracing the digital thread. In this course, you will dig into the transformation taking place in how products are designed and manufactured throughout the world. It is the second of two courses that focuses on the ""digital thread"" – the stream that starts at the creation of a product concept and continues to accumulate information and data throughout the product life cycle."
  -Digital Thread: Components,digital-thread-components,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-thread-components,Physical Science and Engineering,"University at Buffalo, The State University of New York","This course will help you recognize how the ""digital thread"" is the backbone of the digital manufacturing and design (DM&D) transformation, turning manufacturing processes from paper-based to digital-based. You will have a working understanding of the digital thread – the stream that starts at product concept and continues to accumulate information and data throughout the product’s life cycle – and identify opportunities to leverage it."
  -Ecosystem Services: a Method for Sustainable Development,ecosystem-services,https://coursera.org/learn/ecosystem-services,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Geneva,"Ecosystem services are a way of thinking about – and evaluating – the goods and services provided by nature that contribute to the well-being of humans. This MOOC will cover scientific (technical), economic, and socio-political dimensions of the concept through a mix of theory, case-studies, interviews with specialists and a serious-game."
  -Digital Manufacturing & Design,digital-manufacturing-design,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-manufacturing-design,Physical Science and Engineering,"University at Buffalo, The State University of New York","This course will expose you to the transformation taking place, throughout the world, in the way that products are being designed and manufactured. The transformation is happening through digital manufacturing and design (DM&D) – a shift from paper-based processes to digital processes in the manufacturing industry. By the end of this course, you’ll understand what DMD is and how it is impacting careers, practices and processes in companies both large and small."
  -Analyzing the Universe,analyze,https://coursera.org/learn/analyze,Physical Science and Engineering,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Using publicly available data from NASA of actual satellite observations of astronomical x-ray sources, we explore some of the mysteries of the cosmos, including neutron stars, black holes, quasars and supernovae. We will analyze energy spectra and time series data to understand how these incredible objects work. We utilize an imaging tool called DS9 to explore the amazing diversity of astronomical observations that have made x-ray astronomy one of the most active and exciting fields of scientific investigation in the past 50 years. Each week we will explore a different facet of x-ray astronomy. Beginning with an introduction to the nature of image formation, we then move on to examples of how our imaging program, DS9, can aid our understanding of real satellite data."
  -The Sun and the Total Eclipse of August 2017,eclipse,https://coursera.org/learn/eclipse,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado Boulder,"A total eclipse is one of the most spectacular sights you can ever see! It looks like the end of the world may be at hand. There is a black hole in the sky where the sun should be. Pink flames of solar prominences and long silver streamers of the sun's corona stretch across the sky. It gets cold, and animals do strange things. People scream and shout and cheer, and remember the experience their whole life. But total eclipses are important scientifically as well. They let us see parts of the sun’s atmosphere that are otherwise invisible. A total eclipse presented the first chance to test Einstein’s prediction that matter can bend space – like near a black hole. The best total eclipse in the US in 40 years happens Aug. 21, 2017. This course will prepare you to see it, to help people watch safely and even make money by leading a “neighborhood watch” of the eclipse, and to learn about the sun: how astronomers study it, how it formed, and how we know what’s inside it where the energy that supports life on earth is generated."
   Wood Science: Beyond Building,wood-science,https://coursera.org/learn/wood-science,Physical Science and Engineering,West Virginia University,"The central question of this course: “why study wood?” If “why study wood” is the question, one answer would be that it is the only raw material available to us that is truly renewable in human life span terms. Wood is as important to society today as it ever was, despite the development of many man-made substitute materials, changing resource availability, and the changing needs of society. Some items on the list of wood products stay the same (lumber, plywood and veneer for building construction, furniture, shipping pallets & crates and other containers & packaging materials, railroad ties, utility poles, chemical feed stocks, etc), but the list also keeps changing to meet new needs and challenges as the resource changes."
  -Sustainability through Soccer: Systems-Thinking in Action,sustainability-through-soccer,https://coursera.org/learn/sustainability-through-soccer,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Virginia,"This course takes learners on a journey through a progression of systems-thinking and sustainability concepts. Using the beautiful game of soccer as an analogy, we'll work together to illuminate real-world interdependencies (such as between climate change and human rights), building the chain of concepts in a fun, accessible way. Soccer nerds and newbies alike will be entertained and, ultimately, rewarded with the epiphanies that come from seeing in systems more clearly. Those who complete the course will: create examples of systems parts, boundaries, and behaviors related to sustainability (and soccer); practice evaluating the sustainability of systems they care about using several complementary methods; generate ideas to improve the sustainability of a system they care about; and explain a mindset shift that would enhance the sustainability of a system they care about."
  -Advanced Manufacturing Process Analysis,advanced-manufacturing-process-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-manufacturing-process-analysis,Physical Science and Engineering,"University at Buffalo, The State University of New York","Variability is a fact of life in manufacturing environments, impacting product quality and yield. Through this course, students will learn why performing advanced analysis of manufacturing processes is integral for diagnosing and correcting operational flaws in order to improve yields and reduce costs. Gain insights into the best ways to collect, prepare and analyze data, as well as computational platforms that can be leveraged to collect and process data over sustained periods of time. Become better prepared to participate as a member of an advanced analysis team and share valuable inputs on effective implementation."
  -Linear Circuits 1: DC Analysis,linear-circuits-dcanalysis,https://coursera.org/learn/linear-circuits-dcanalysis,Physical Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course explains how to analyze circuits that have direct current (DC) current or voltage sources. A DC source is one that is constant. Circuits with resistors, capacitors, and inductors are covered, both analytically and experimentally. Some practical applications in sensors are demonstrated."
  -Quantum Optics 1 : Single Photons,quantum-optics-single-photon,https://coursera.org/learn/quantum-optics-single-photon,Physical Science and Engineering,École Polytechnique,"This course gives you access to basic tools and concepts to understand research articles and books on modern quantum optics. You will learn about quantization of light, formalism to describe quantum states of light without any classical analogue, and observables allowing one to demonstrate typical quantum properties of these states. These tools will be applied to the emblematic case of a one-photon wave packet, which behaves both as a particle and a wave. Wave-particle duality is a great quantum mystery in the words of Richard Feynman. You will be able to fully appreciate real experiments demonstrating wave-particle duality for a single photon, and applications to quantum technologies based on single photon sources, which are now commercially available."
  -Particle Physics: an Introduction,particle-physics,https://coursera.org/learn/particle-physics,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Geneva,"This course introduces you to subatomic physics, i.e. the physics of nuclei and particles. More specifically, the following questions are addressed: - What are the concepts of particle physics and how are they implemented? - What are the properties of atomic nuclei and how can one use them? - How does one accelerate and detect particles and measure their properties? - What does one learn from particle reactions at high energies and particle decays? - How do electromagnetic interactions work and how can one use them? - How do strong interactions work and why are they difficult to understand? - How do weak interactions work and why are they so special?"
  -Data Driven Astronomy,data-driven-astronomy,https://coursera.org/learn/data-driven-astronomy,Physical Science and Engineering,The University of Sydney,"Science is undergoing a data explosion, and astronomy is leading the way. Modern telescopes produce terabytes of data per observation, and the simulations required to model our observable Universe push supercomputers to their limits. To analyse this data scientists need to be able to think computationally to solve problems. In this course you will investigate the challenges of working with large datasets: how to implement algorithms that work; how to use databases to manage your data; and how to learn from your data with machine learning tools. The focus is on practical skills - all the activities will be done in Python 3, a modern programming language used throughout astronomy."
  -Intelligent Machining,intelligent-machining,https://coursera.org/learn/intelligent-machining,Physical Science and Engineering,"University at Buffalo, The State University of New York","Manufacturers are increasingly utilizing machine tools that are self-aware – they perceive their own states and the state of the surrounding environment – and are able to make decisions related to machine activity processes. This is called intelligent machining, and through this course students will receive a primer on its background, tools and related terminology. Learn how the integration of smart sensors and controls are helping to improve productivity. You’ll be exposed to various sensors and sensing techniques, process control strategies, and open architecture systems that can be leveraged to enable intelligent machining."
  -Electric Utilities Fundamentals and Future,electric-utilities,https://coursera.org/learn/electric-utilities,Physical Science and Engineering,University of Colorado System,"THIS COURSE GIVES YOU THE INSIDE TRACK TO A COMPLICATED INDUSTRY. The approach of this course is truly unique in how it approaches and engages learners. It looks at the electric utility industry, which has remained critical to our quality of life, health and comfort from the eyes of numerous industry experts through on-location interviews, compelling visuals, and animation. You will benefit from having the inside track because you see some behind-the-scenes information not covered in news stories, social media or even if we are in the business ourselves. 
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  -EACH WEEK YOU NOT ONLY LEARN WHAT IS CHANGING, BUT WHY. As this industry continues to unfold at an unprecedented pace, you will be armed with knowledge and insights to form informed opinions supporting decisions you will increasingly make for your energy-dependent homes and businesses.
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  -This course kicks off with animated crash course on industry history, highlighting aspects of the structure, governance, and technology that remain today, despite the passage of time. Then, throughout the modules, you will build some basics about how electricity gets to you, who watches over decisions, including setting rates. This information establishes a knowledge foundation so that when we explore some of the most critical topics, like renewable energy, smart grid, battery storage, and you can think about it from a much more analytical and critical viewpoint. 
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  -YOU WILL DEVELOP A FRAMEWORK FOR MAKING SENSE OF THIS INDUSTRY THAT WILL BENEFIT YOU BEYOND THIS COURSE. This industry can get pretty complicated, and this course will help you make more sense of it. Electric Utilities Fundamentals and Future is the course for you whether you’re just curious about the industry or an industry veteran looking to grow – or, thinking about joining the industry. (Hint: now is a good time. You'll learn why in this course.)  No prior education or experience required. You just need a healthy curiosity and an open mind to learn about an industry that I think a lot of us, including myself sometimes, take for granted."
  +A Law Student's Toolkit,alawstudentstoolkit,https://coursera.org/learn/alawstudentstoolkit,Social Sciences,Yale University,"Whether you are an advanced law student looking to review the basics, or an aspiring law student looking for head start, this course will help you build the foundation you will need to succeed in law school and beyond. This course will introduce you to terminology, concepts, and tools lawyers and legal academics use to make their arguments. It will help you follow these arguments—and make arguments of your own."
  +A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment,happiness,https://coursera.org/learn/happiness,Social Sciences,Indian School of Business,"This course, based on the award-winning class offered both at the Indian School of Business and at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, developed by Prof. Raj Raghunathan (aka ""Dr. Happy-smarts"") draws content from a variety of fields, including psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral decision theory to offer a tested and practical recipe for leading a life of happiness and fulfillment."
  +Aboriginal Worldviews and Education,aboriginal-education,https://coursera.org/learn/aboriginal-education,Social Sciences,University of Toronto,"Intended for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal learners, this course will explore indigenous ways of knowing and how they can benefit all students. Topics include historical, social, and political issues in Aboriginal education; terminology; cultural, spiritual and philosophical themes in Aboriginal worldviews; and how Aboriginal worldviews can inform professional programs and practices, including but not limited to the field of education."
  +ADHD: Everyday Strategies for Elementary Students,adhd-everyday-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/adhd-everyday-strategies,Social Sciences,"The State University of New York, The University at Buffalo","This course will provide an overview of ADHD diagnosis and treatment. Course participants can expect to learn about ADHD as a developmental disorder that begins early in childhood, and participants will also learn about evidence-based approaches for diagnosing ADHD. Following that, two evidence-based treatment approaches (the Daily Report Card and Parenting Strategies) will be introduced. (Note these course activities are informational and are not intended to replace working with a licensed/trained professional)."
  +Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom,teaching-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-strategies,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","This course will help you ‘up’ your game and develop the advanced level skills and techniques that elude even some of the most experienced virtual teachers. We will examine the pitfalls beginning teachers run into and learn how to overcome them by focusing on the fundamentals that have the greatest impact on student learning in a blended or online environment. Throughout the course, you will be challenged to assess your own skills and apply what you are learning by creating a guide, assignment, or resource that you will be able to use in a class that you teach or hope to teach someday soon."
  +Advertising and Society,role-of-advertising,https://coursera.org/learn/role-of-advertising,Social Sciences,Duke University,"The course covers a wide range of topics, including the origins of advertising, the creation of ads, the interpretation of ads, the depiction of race, class, gender, and sexuality in advertising, sex and selling, adverting and ethics, and the future of advertising. The lectures will discuss theoretical frameworks and apply them to specific advertisements."
  +"Agriculture, Economics and Nature",agriculture-economics-nature,https://coursera.org/learn/agriculture-economics-nature,Social Sciences,University of Western Australia,"Sound economic thinking is crucial for farmers because they depend on good economic decision making to survive. Governments depend on economic information to make good policy decisions on behalf of the community. This course will help you to contribute to better decision making by farmers, or by agencies servicing agriculture, and it will help you to understand why farmers respond to policies and economic opportunities in the ways they do."
  +America's Unwritten Constitution,unwritten-constitution,https://coursera.org/learn/unwritten-constitution,Social Sciences,Yale University,An introduction to basic techniques of constitutional interpretation.
  +America's Written Constitution,written-constitution,https://coursera.org/learn/written-constitution,Social Sciences,Yale University,"An introduction to the main themes of the American Constitution—popular sovereignty, separation of powers, federalism, and rights."
  +An Introduction to American Law,american-law,https://coursera.org/learn/american-law,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"This course will give you a glimpse into six different areas of American law: Tort Law, Contract Law, Property, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and Civil Procedure. You will gain insight into the complexities and dilemmas that arise from the application of law in different settings, and what is distinctive about American approaches"
  +Art and Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom ,artinquiry,https://coursera.org/learn/artinquiry,Social Sciences,The Museum of Modern Art,Explore how to integrate works of art into your classroom with inquiry-based teaching methods originally developed for in-gallery museum education.
  +Arts and Culture Strategy,arts-culture-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/arts-culture-strategy,Social Sciences,"University of Pennsylvania, National Arts Strategies","Arts and culture leaders have a tough but rewarding task: creating and leading sustainable organizations that deliver real social value. There is a lot of competition out there. Being an effective leader means constantly adapting, cleverly using the best tools to reach as many people as possible. This course is designed to help leaders at any level do just that."
  +Assessing Achievement with the ELL in Mind,ell-assessment,https://coursera.org/learn/ell-assessment,Social Sciences,Arizona State University,"In this course, you will learn how to design assessments around the needs of your ELL students and their language level. You will learn how to incorporate language and content requirements for both formative and summative assessment types. You will learn to assess your ELL students through the use of project and task-based assignments. You will learn to use and modify rubrics to align to and measure student achievement of your language and content learning objectives. The course will also briefly cover strategies for supporting ELL students during standardized testing."
  +Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills,atc21s,https://coursera.org/learn/atc21s,Social Sciences,The University of Melbourne,"This MOOC is designed principally for practicing teachers who are wondering exactly how they can incorporate teaching and assessment of 21st century skills into their classrooms, labs or workshops. It will also be useful to trainee teachers, school leaders, teacher educators and curriculum and assessment specialists, providing them with an understanding of the challenges associated with teaching and assessment of 21st century skills. This course explains the social and cognitive skills that are known as 21st century skills. It reviews how they can be represented in the curriculum, in terms of developmental progressions."
  +Be Persuasive: Write a Convincing Position Paper or Policy Advice (Project-Centered Course),persuasive-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/persuasive-writing,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"In this project-centered course, you will learn everything you need to research and present an effective and persuasive position paper or policy advice. We recommend you sign up for a certificate as this course is on premium grading and you will only enjoy the full benefit of the project if you can join in with the assignments. In addition this course contains the exciting opportunity to research and analyze historical decisionmaking, international relations, business cases and battles in an effort to truly understand constructing a convincing argument."
  +Becoming a Sports Agent,sports-agent,https://coursera.org/learn/sports-agent,Social Sciences,Case Western Reserve University,"An immersive experience in the world of sports that will take students through the four stages of a professional athlete's career. Utilizing lectures, guest speakers, reading assignments and hypothetical walkthroughs, students will learn how the best sports agents manage clients at each of these four stages. This course will provide each student with the skills necessary to guide an athlete through the difficult decisions that can make or lose the athlete millions of dollars, as well as affect their public image and career. Walking through the four stages of an athlete's career, we will provide a broad scope of the landscape of amateur and professional sports so that you can avoid the pitfalls and traps that so many have fallen into in the past; not to mention, bringing you updates throughout the course regarding the rapidly changing sports world that we live in today."
  +Blended Learning: Personalizing Education for Students,blended-learning,https://coursera.org/learn/blended-learning,Social Sciences,"New Teacher Center, Silicon Schools Fund, Clayton Christensen Institute","Plenty of buzz exists about blended learning and its transformational potential. But what does blended learning really mean? In this course we will explore the different models of blended learning and dive into key issues that impact students, teachers, and schools. Specifically, we will look at these issues through the lens of three high-performing schools that each use a different type of blended learning."
  +Buddhism and Modern Psychology ,science-of-meditation,https://coursera.org/learn/science-of-meditation,Social Sciences,Princeton University,"The Dalai Lama has said that Buddhism and science are deeply compatible and has encouraged Western scholars to critically examine both the meditative practice and Buddhist ideas about the human mind. A number of scientists and philosophers have taken up this challenge. There have been brain scans of meditators and philosophical examinations of Buddhist doctrines. There have even been discussions of Darwin and the Buddha: Do early Buddhist descriptions of the mind, and of the human condition, make particular sense in light of evolutionary psychology?"
  +Chemerinsky on Constitutional Law - The Structure of Government,chemerinsky-on-constitutional-law-structure-of-government,https://coursera.org/learn/chemerinsky-on-constitutional-law-structure-of-government,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","This course will highlight the construction and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution through the centuries. You'll learn the history behind the Constitution, cases that formed important precedent, and how changes in interpretation have been dependent on shifts in cultural and political climate as well as the composition of the Supreme Court. We'll start with an overview of the Constitution where we'll consider questions such as ""Why the Constitution?"" and ""What function does the Constitution serve?"" Next we'll examine how the Constitution and its subsequent interpretation established the powers of the federal, legislative, and judicial branches of government and allocated powers to the states."
  +Chemerinsky on Constitutional Law – Individual Rights and Liberties,chemerinsky-individual-rights,https://coursera.org/learn/chemerinsky-individual-rights,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","In this course we will investigate the protection of individual rights and liberties and take a look at what rights are and are not protected and investigate several important shifts in jurisprudence. We'll begin by examining the structure of the Constitution's protection of individual rights. We'll then examine the circumstances under which, various rights and liberties can be regulated by the federal, state, and local government. We'll examine when the government can permissibly treat people unequally and when it can't. In our final two lectures, we'll take a close look at what is probably the most famous amendment to the Constitution, the First Amendment."
  +Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally,children-literacy,https://coursera.org/learn/children-literacy,Social Sciences,"University of California, Santa Cruz","In this short course you will explore the possibility that children might acquire written language in a way that is similar to how they acquire spoken language—without instruction. You will encounter various aspects of behavioral science and technology that are relevant to this proposition. You will have the opportunity to learn the the perceptual, cognitive, and neurological capacities of children during their first years of life. You will advance your understanding of children and how they learn language. You will also be more attuned to current advances in the technology of human machine interactions, and what these phenomena imply for learning to read at an early age."
  +Children's Human Rights - An Interdisciplinary Introduction,childrens-rights,https://coursera.org/learn/childrens-rights,Social Sciences,University of Geneva,"Drawing on the contributions of several academic disciplines including law, psychology, sociology, history, educational and health sciences, economy and anthropology, an interdisciplinary approach guides the student into a selection of critical issues concerning children’s rights. Participants will gain insight relative to the development of this specific human rights category, as well as to the evolution of the challenges faced by children over time and society’s efforts to respond. Successful international strategies and programs promoting children’s rights will be highlighted, as well as the role of key actors involved in international organizations working in this field. This open online course provides an overview of the most important features of children’s human rights."
  +China’s Economic Transformation Part 1: Economic Reform and Growth in China,econtransform1,https://coursera.org/learn/econtransform1,Social Sciences,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,"This course will examine in detail the reforms that have contributed to China’s economic development and the current challenges facing the Chinese economy. After completing this course, you will be able to: - describe the origin and consequences of China’s key economic reforms since 1978; - explain how features of China’s fiscal and financial systems have impacted development outcomes; - assess the extent to which China has integrated itself into the global economy and the consequences of such integration for China and other countries; - explain the importance of different sources of economic growth during different periods since 1978; and - critically assess the economic and policy challenges facing China going forward."
  +Chinese Politics Part 1 – China and Political Science,chinesepolitics1,https://coursera.org/learn/chinesepolitics1,Social Sciences,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,"This course offers a conceptual framework for understanding China that highlights the intersection of politics and economics. It shows that rather than develop into a full blown market economy, state and party officials at all levels of the political system maintain significant influence in economic development. Such a “political” economy has had both positive and negative outcomes, which we will assess in detail. We also look at the origins, views, backgrounds and relations among leaders, and how those leaders make decisions about public policy and try to get those decisions implemented down through the system. China has few formal institutions through which citizens can participate in politics, but we will study the strategies Chinese people use to try to influence their leaders’ decisions."
  +Chinese Politics Part 2 – China and the World,chinesepolitics2,https://coursera.org/learn/chinesepolitics2,Social Sciences,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,"One of the most significant changes in the world in the past 30 years is the opening of China to the outside world and its engagement with that world. In the initial years of the opening, external forces influenced China’s economy, regional balances, bureaucracy, as well as the political authority of local leaders in the coastal areas. More recently, the world is feeling the effects of a rising China which seeks resources and talent from all around the globe and uses its financial wealth to strengthen its position in the world. This course tracks the opening of China up from 1978 until it joins the WTO, focusing on how the world affected China’s internal development."
  +Cities are back in town : urban sociology for a globalizing urban world ,urban-development,https://coursera.org/learn/urban-development,Social Sciences,Sciences Po,Urbanization is reaching a new peak in the contemporary world with the rise of mega cities. Researchers try to make sense of these large urban areas using a variety of concepts. The class will review debates and present social science models of cities to analyse and compare contemporary developments.
  +Cities are back in town : urban sociology for a globalizing urban world (Spanish),desarrollo-urbano,https://coursera.org/learn/desarrollo-urbano,Social Sciences,Sciences Po,"Los procesos de globalización y europeización respaldan el rápido desarrollo de las ciudades en distintas partes del mundo. En el mundo contemporáneo, el proceso de urbanización está alcanzando un nuevo pico con el incremento de las megalópolis (más de 15 millones de habitantes) como Calcuta, Los Ángeles, Daca, El Cairo, Tokio, Nueva York, Shanghái, Ciudad de México. o Seúl. Más allá de las metrópolis modernas, los investigadores intentan entender estas grandes zonas urbanas con el uso de distintos conceptos, tales como ""posmetrópolis"", ""ciudades globales"" y ""ciudades-regiones globales"". La clase estudiará debates y modelos de ciencias sociales de ciudades y metrópolis, para así analizar y comparar los desarrollos actuales. ¿Cómo podemos estudiar dichas ciudades cuando se convierten en megalópolis? ¿El tamaño importa, y para qué? ¿Acaso vemos la creación de un mundo urbano extenso o, en cambio, vemos más allá de la convergencia aparente de procesos complejos de globalización comprendidos en relación con el capitalismo globalizado? ¿"
  +Classical Sociological Theory ,classical-sociological-theory,https://coursera.org/learn/classical-sociological-theory,Social Sciences,University of Amsterdam,"This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) will offer the participants an introduction into the most important classical sociological readings between the 18th and 20th century. Highly influential social science scholars, such as Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim, will be discussed during 8 sessions. Combined with small tests, based on the video’s and recommended readings, the"
  +Coaching Teachers: Promoting Changes that Stick ,coaching-teachers,https://coursera.org/learn/coaching-teachers,Social Sciences,Match Teacher Residency,"Learn and practice strategies for coaching teachers to make meaningful, long-lasting improvements in their instruction."
  +Communication Skills for University Success,communication-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/communication-skills,Social Sciences,The University of Sydney,"This Specialization is aimed at preparing students for undergraduate study in an English-speaking university. The course equips you for full participation and engagement with your studies by building awareness and understanding of the core values and expectations of academic culture, and providing you with practical strategies to apply to your studies. In this course, you will learn how to develop your Communication Skills to help you achieve success in your university studies. After completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Recognise the importance of communication in communities of practice at university 2. Understand contexts of communication at university and associated expectations 3. Communicate clearly across a variety of different contexts and to a wide range of audiences by adapting communicative styles appropriately"
  +"Configuring the World, part 1: Comparative Political Economy",comparative-political-economy,https://coursera.org/learn/comparative-political-economy,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"In today’s world, politics and economics are inextricably interconnected, but what is the nature of this connectivity? What are the power relationships that shape the world economy today and create new challenges for international institutions facing globalization? What makes some countries wealthier than others? Do we face cultural diversity or fragmentation? Does the type of governance effect economic development and social change or is it the other way around? How do we measure it and how trustworthy is the data? These issues and many more will be examined in this course along with up-to-date sources and biting criticism."
  +Confronting Gender Based Violence: Global Lessons with Case Studies from India,gbv,https://coursera.org/learn/gbv,Social Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"This course introduces participants from the healthcare sector to gender based violence (GBV), including global epidemiology of GBV; health outcomes; seminal research; and clinical best practices for GBV prevention, support, and management. A core curriculum is supplemented by lectures that contextualize the content with specific examples and programs from around the world. The core curriculum introduces learners to a global perspective on gender based violence (GBV), and includes a review with Dr. Claudia Garcia-Moreno of the new WHO guidelines on responding to violence."
  +Constitutional Struggles in the Muslim World,muslim-world,https://coursera.org/learn/muslim-world,Social Sciences,University of Copenhagen,"Learn what motivates the restive Muslim youth from Tunis to Tehran, what political positions Islamists from Mali to Chechnya are fighting for, where the seeming obsession with Islamic law comes from, where the secularists have vanished to, and whether it makes sense to speak of an Islamic state."
  +Contemporary India ,india,https://coursera.org/learn/india,Social Sciences,The University of Melbourne,"This course presents some important vignettes of a complex, highly diverse India that is also witnessing unprecedented changes since its formal independence in 1947 from Great Britain. The lectures revolve around social dimensions of change, the continuing influence of ancient texts on contemporary India, political democracy, economic transition from the state to the market, gender relations, India's economic globalisation and changing world view."
  +Copyright for Educators & Librarians,copyright-for-education,https://coursera.org/learn/copyright-for-education,Social Sciences,"Duke University, Emory University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill",Fear and uncertainty about copyright law often plagues educators and sometimes prevents creative teaching. This course is a professional development opportunity designed to provide a basic introduction to US copyright law and to empower teachers and librarians at all grade levels. Course participants will discover that the law is designed to help educators and librarians.
  +Corruption,wharton-corruption,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-corruption,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"You can't understand the world today if you don't understand corruption. Every day, we see high-level government officials resigning, governments changing, hundreds of thousands of people standing in squares, holding up signs, and often risking their lives to protest the corruption in the world. It's critically important to the health of our societies to understand what people are protesting against. We want to understand corruption. This course is designed to teach you about what corruption is, what causes corruption, the effects of corruption, and how to control corruption. We'll be talking about this from a global perspective using examples from all over the world."
  +Critical Issues in Urban Education,urban-education,https://coursera.org/learn/urban-education,Social Sciences,The University of Chicago,"Urban school reform in the United States is characterized by contentious, politicized debate. This course explores a set of critical issues in the education and educational reform space, with a focus on aspects of the field that have sparked controversy and polarized views. We will dig into these debates, situating them within the larger history of public education and school reform, and considering the viewpoints, the evidence, and translation of issues into educational policy."
  +Critical Thinking Skills for University Success,critical-thinking-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/critical-thinking-skills,Social Sciences,The University of Sydney,"In this course, you will learn how to develop your Critical Thinking Skills to help you achieve success in your university studies. After completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Use critical thinking and argumentation in university contexts to improve academic results 2. Understand the importance and function of critical thinking in academic culture 3. Use a variety of thinking tools to improve critical thinking 4. Identify types of argument, and bias within arguments, in order to better evaluate the strength of arguments 5. Use evidence to support claims in arguments 6. Apply critical thinking and argumentation to real world problems and issues"
  +"Data Collection: Online, Telephone and Face-to-face",data-collection-methods,https://coursera.org/learn/data-collection-methods,Social Sciences,University of Michigan,"This course presents research conducted to increase our understanding of how data collection decisions affect survey errors. This is not a “how–to-do-it” course on data collection, but instead reviews the literature on survey design decisions and data quality in order to sensitize learners to how alternative survey designs might impact the data obtained from those surveys."
  +Disability Awareness and Support,disability-awareness,https://coursera.org/learn/disability-awareness,Social Sciences,University of Pittsburgh,"The goal of this course is to promote equal opportunity and the full participation of students with disabilities in higher education by helping participants advance their awareness of the meaning of accessibility in education. Participants will gain competence and confidence in working with students by focusing on legislation, universal design, and assistive technologies."
  +"Doping : Sports, Organizations and Sciences",doping,https://coursera.org/learn/doping,Social Sciences,University of Lausanne,"The objective of this course is to encourage a critical understanding of doping. To achieve this goal, this course will rely on a multidisciplinary approach that allow you to see how different disciplines get into a single object, in different perspectives and in often complementary ways. This approach will also allow us to appreciate the complexity of a subject like doping."
  +e-Learning Ecologies: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning for the Digital Age,elearning,https://coursera.org/learn/elearning,Social Sciences,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"For three decades and longer we have heard educators and technologists making a case for the transformative power of technology in learning. However, despite the rhetoric, in many ways and at most institutional sites, education is still relatively untouched by technology. Even when technologies are introduced, the changes sometimes seem insignificant and the results seem disappointing. If the print textbook is replaced by an e-book, do the social relations of knowledge and learning necessarily change at all or for the better? If the pen-and-paper test is mechanized, does this change the nature of our assessment systems? Technology, in other words, need not necessarily bring significant change."
  +Economic Growth and Distributive Justice - Maximize Social Wellbeing,economic-growth-part-2,https://coursera.org/learn/economic-growth-part-2,Social Sciences,Tel Aviv University,"If you really care about the big questions in the economies and societies of the 21st century, such as distributive justice - namely, inequality of income or wealth, and its correlation with economic growth - this course is meant for you. The knowledge you will gain can truly change your outlook on our world. ""Economic Growth and Distributive Justice - Maximizing Social Wellbeing"" is the second part of a two part course"
  +Economic Growth and Distributive Justice Part I -The Role of the State,economic-growth-part-1,https://coursera.org/learn/economic-growth-part-1,Social Sciences,Tel Aviv University,"If you really care about the big questions in the economies and societies of the 21st century, such as distributive justice - namely, inequality of income or wealth, and its correlation with economic growth - this course is meant for you. The knowledge you will gain can truly change your outlook on our world. ""Economic Growth and Distributive Justice - the Role of the State"" is the first part of a two part course"
  +Economics from a pluralist perspective,economicsfromapluralistperspective,https://coursera.org/learn/economicsfromapluralistperspective,Social Sciences,Erasmus University Rotterdam,"This is the first online course that teaches economics from a pluralist perspective. Economic pluralism means that a plurality of theoretical and methodological viewpoints is regarded as valuable in itself and is simply the best way in which economics can make progress in understanding the world. This MOOC will illustrate economic pluralism not only in substance but also in form. You will see not only me, a Professor of Economics, but also a pop-up Prof of our business school, who illustrates the actor perspective of firms, government and civil society. And you will meet an online student, based in Greece, who will help you through the tutorial videos in which I will explain key concepts, tools and techniques."
  +Economics of Money and Banking,money-banking,https://coursera.org/learn/money-banking,Social Sciences,Columbia University,"The last three or four decades have seen a remarkable evolution in the institutions that comprise the modern monetary system. The financial crisis of 2007-2009 is a wakeup call that we need a similar evolution in the analytical apparatus and theories that we use to understand that system. Produced and sponsored by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, this course is an attempt to begin the process of new economic thinking by reviving and updating some forgotten traditions in monetary thought that have become newly relevant."
  +Economics of Transition and Emerging Markets,economics-transition-emerging-markets,https://coursera.org/learn/economics-transition-emerging-markets,Social Sciences,Higher School of Economics,"The course analyzes challenges faced by transition and emerging-market economies, i.e., those middle- and low-income countries, which have conducted market-oriented economic reforms and become integrated into the global economy since 1990s. It starts from a brief history of communist economic system based on central planning in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe, its evolution and collapse at the end of 1980s/ early 1990s and subsequent transition to a market system in 1990s and 2000s."
  +Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom,k-12-education,https://coursera.org/learn/k-12-education,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","Emerging technologies are quickly gaining momentum in the field of virtual K-12 instruction. In this course, we will explore how the latest trends in the use of technology affect student learning and engagement. What innovative learning spaces and tools are available to instructors? How can instructors best utilize free and open resources to more deeply engage students in their learning? What impact can the use of emerging technologies have on student retention and performance?"
  +Engaging ELLs and Their Families in the School and Community,ell-families,https://coursera.org/learn/ell-families,Social Sciences,Arizona State University,"In this course, you will learn how to better and more successfully engage your ELL(s) and their families in the school and community. You will learn how to engage your ELL student in the classroom setting as well as in various aspects of the school including extracurricular activities and the inner workings of the school and education system. You will also be introduced to strategies for engaging the families of your ELL students in the school community and the wider community of your city and state."
  +English Common Law: Structure and Principles,common-law,https://coursera.org/learn/common-law,Social Sciences,University of London,"The Common Law of England and Wales is one of the major global legal traditions. In order to understand the common law, we need to deal with its history, and the development of its characteristic institutions like the jury, judge made law, parliamentary sovereignty and due process. We also need to ask some critical questions. What role does democracy play in the development of the common law? To what extent are human rights central to the modern common law? How does the common law of England and Wales relate to the law of the European Union? Answering these questions will give us insights into the current challenges the law faces and its possible futures."
  +"Epidemics, Pandemics and Outbreaks",epidemic-pandemic-outbreak,https://coursera.org/learn/epidemic-pandemic-outbreak,Social Sciences,University of Pittsburgh,"In this course, you’ll learn the facts about infectious diseases and medical responses. We'll focus on the public health laws and policies that provide the framework for effective prevention, like quarantine laws, drug development policies, and bioterrorism and biodefense."
  +"Espace mondial, a French vision of Global studies",global-studies,https://coursera.org/learn/global-studies,Social Sciences,Sciences Po,"To explain how globalization rebuilt public policy and social behavior, we study the different political, economic, and social actors - public or private, individual or collective - and the exchanges and interactions between them that are remaking international relations. This course is inspired by a French sociological and historical approach to international relations."
  +Ethical Social Media ,ethical-social-media,https://coursera.org/learn/ethical-social-media,Social Sciences,The University of Sydney,"Social media connects us across space and time, allowing us to find like-minded communities and participate creatively in public life as never before. We may often use social media without thinking much about the possible consequences. But there is a shadow side associated with social media use, which takes the form of hate speech, increased surveillance, lack of anonymity and questionable use of our data. What do we need to know to use social media spaces effectively, in a way that is safe and productive for all? This course will guide you into a deeper exploration of online identity, social media communities and their users."
  +EU policy and implementation: making Europe work! ,eu-making-europe-work,https://coursera.org/learn/eu-making-europe-work,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"People have become more critical of European policy and often seem to prefer local policy solutions in response to globalisation problems. How do you experience EU policy? Does it help? And if not, how can we change this? In this course, we learn how EU policy is made, and how policy is transferred to member states and implemented by various authorities, including regional and local governments. We discuss the challenges of the European multi-level governance structure. We also focus on the main causes of policy failure or success. On this journey, we focus on actual policy and present the views of various experts: how easy is it to establish yourself in another EU-country? How do governments make sure that the air you breathe is clean? And who is responsible?"
  +Federalism & Decentralization: Evaluating Africa's Track Record,decentralization-africa,https://coursera.org/learn/decentralization-africa,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"In this political science course you will learn about the twin concepts of federalism and decentralization. You will develop an understanding of the core ideas that federalism and decentralization rest on, and study the building blocks that make them both work. Following a general overview of both federalism and decentralization, we will examine a number of case-studies from Africa where federalism and decentralization have been changing the continent’s political landscape in the last twenty years, coinciding with unprecedented levels of economic growth."
   First Year Teaching (Elementary Grades) - Success from the Start,teaching-elementary,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-elementary,Social Sciences,New Teacher Center,"Developing mastery in establishing and maintaining a rich learning environment is one of the great joys of being a teacher. This course will provide high leverage strategies, resources, and support for professional growth so that you can provide students with the engaging, safe environment essential for student learning. This course is aligned to the needs of Elementary Grade teachers (self-contained K-6, or teaching the same set of students usually under 12 years old)."
  +First Year Teaching (Secondary Grades) - Success from the Start,teaching-secondary,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-secondary,Social Sciences,New Teacher Center,"Success with your students starts on Day 1. Learn from NTC's 25 years developing key skills and strategies to create positive, productive classroom environments where students thrive. Build relationships with Secondary Grade (6-12) students, establish and maintain behavioral expectations, implement classroom procedures and routines, and use instructional time effectively."
  +Foundations of Teaching for Learning 1: Introduction,teaching,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,"Curriculum is a framework for guiding teaching and learning. This course provides an opportunity for you to consider the relationship between the teacher, the learner and the curriculum."
  +Foundations of Teaching for Learning 2: Being a Teacher,being-a-teacher,https://coursera.org/learn/being-a-teacher,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,How we teach has its foundation in how we were taught and how we learned. This course provides an opportunity for you to reflect on your personal and professional development as a teacher. Through reflection and portfolio development you will enhance your knowledge and understanding of how to promote learning.
  +Foundations of Teaching for Learning 3: Learners and Learning,teaching-learning,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-learning,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,"The teacher’s work becomes meaningful when it is informed by research and theories of learning, and their relationship to actual practice. This course provides an opportunity for you to identify and understand students’ expectations and prior learning."
  +Foundations of Teaching for Learning 4: Curriculum,teacher-curriculum,https://coursera.org/learn/teacher-curriculum,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,"Foundations of Teaching for Learning is a program of study primarily for people who are currently teaching but have had no formal teacher education. This course is an introductory one that considers the three domains of being a teacher: Professional Knowledge and Understanding; Professional Practice; and Professional Values, Relationships and Engagement."
  +Foundations of Teaching for Learning 5: Planning for Teaching and Learning,teaching-plan,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-plan,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,"This course will help you consider how to develop appropriate learning goals for individual and groups of students. You will learn how to plan learning activities to engage your students in ways that will achieve these goals. Announcement for US based teachers: Coursera and its partners are proud to offer eligible teachers in the US free Course Certificates for this course and other high-quality teacher professional development courses, through the Connected effort announced by President Obama"
  +Foundations of Teaching for Learning 6: Introduction to Student Assessment,learning-assessment,https://coursera.org/learn/learning-assessment,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,This course is part of the Foundations of Teaching for Learning program which is designed to assist people who are currently teaching but have had no formal teacher education improve their understanding of their role and work as a teacher. This set of courses will enhance your knowledge and understanding about learning and teaching and what makes a teacher a professional.
  +Foundations of Teaching for Learning 7: Being a Professional,professional-teacher,https://coursera.org/learn/professional-teacher,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,"This course will emphasise what you can do to act professionally. This includes developing your own philosophy of teaching and making sure that you continue to improve your knowledge and skills. It also considers what it means to be part of a community of professionals, working with others to improve what happens in your school, community and profession."
   Foundations of Teaching for Learning 8: Developing Relationships,teacher-relationships,https://coursera.org/learn/teacher-relationships,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,One focus of the course is to help you develop strong relationships with families to enable them to support children’s learning. Positive relationships with your students enable you not only to teach them but also to get to know them as individuals. Positive relationships with colleagues and school leaders are necessary to help the school improve.
  +Foundations of Virtual Instruction ,virtual-school,https://coursera.org/learn/virtual-school,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","This course provides teachers with the foundation for understanding the movement towards virtual instruction. It introduces fundamental knowledge needed by teachers to succeed in a technology-dependent, instructional environment. You will explore the history of online learning and understand how a variety of delivery models are evolving in the K-12"
  +From Freedom Rides to Ferguson: Narratives of Nonviolence in the American Civil Rights Movement,nonviolence,https://coursera.org/learn/nonviolence,Social Sciences,Emory University,"The Modern Civil Rights Movement is a significant landmark in United States history. This movement was a struggle for human rights directly challenging the nation to extend its democratic principles to African Americans and all peoples. This course sheds light on the often overlooked strategic planning that supported the direction of the events and is told by a voice intimately involved in the organization of movement—Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. Topics include the history of the campaigns, the different coalitions and groups, philosophy and methods of nonviolent direct action, and the contemporary application of nonviolent conflict transformation."
  +Game Theory,game-theory-1,https://coursera.org/learn/game-theory-1,Social Sciences,"Stanford University, The University of British Columbia","Popularized by movies such as ""A Beautiful Mind,"" game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Beyond what we call `games' in common language, such as chess, poker, soccer, etc., it includes the modeling of conflict among nations, political campaigns, competition among firms, and trading behavior in markets such as the NYSE. How could you begin to model keyword auctions, and peer to peer file-sharing networks, without accounting for the incentives of the people using them?"
  +Game Theory II: Advanced Applications,game-theory-2,https://coursera.org/learn/game-theory-2,Social Sciences,"Stanford University, The University of British Columbia","Popularized by movies such as ""A Beautiful Mind"", game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Over four weeks of lectures, this advanced course considers how to design interactions between agents in order to achieve good social outcomes. Three main topics are covered: social choice theory (i.e., collective decision making and voting systems), mechanism design, and auctions."
  +"Gender, Family, and Social Change in Contemporary South Korea",social-change-korea,https://coursera.org/learn/social-change-korea,Social Sciences,Yonsei University,"This course examines the transformation of Korean society beginning around the turn of the 20th century to contemporary times. In particular, it explores how shifting categories of masculinity, and by contrast, femininity have impacted upon, and in turn been influenced by social, cultural, and political change. Using multiple disciplinary lenses, we will critically examine how gender intersects with political, social, and economic developments starting with the Confucianization of Korean society during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) up to the contemporary moment of globalization and neoliberal reform. The class will draw on a variety of topics such as traditional views of women, religion, race, class, education, patriarchy, sexuality, imperialism, modernity, war, globalization, the diaspora, among others. Special attention will be placed on the historical, transnational and transdisciplinary connections."
  +Geopolitics of Europe,geopolitics-europe,https://coursera.org/learn/geopolitics-europe,Social Sciences,Sciences Po,"""Geopolitics of Europe"" offers a dynamic program on both tensions and issues within the European Union, as well as its interactions with the rest of the world. Through maps, iconography, videos, computer graphics and role playing, the Mooc renders the main geopolitical issues appropriate to Europe while focusing on its representations around the world. Definitely multi-disciplinary, this Mooc offers the learners a real tool box built up through a combination of History, Geopolitics, Economics, Political science, Geography and Law."
  +Get Organized: How to be a Together Teacher,together-teacher,https://coursera.org/learn/together-teacher,Social Sciences,Relay Graduate School of Education,"This course is designed for classroom teachers who juggle time-sensitive tasks and often-exhausting teaching schedules. With an eye toward long-term sustainability, The Together Teacher examines the purpose for planning ahead, provides tools for tracking time commitments, deadlines and tasks, and helps teachers develop a personal organization system that interacts with their day-by-day practices."
  +Global Diplomacy – Diplomacy in the Modern World,global-diplomacy,https://coursera.org/learn/global-diplomacy,Social Sciences,"University of London, SOAS University of London","The Global Diplomacy course is a unique offering to the MOOC environment. Bringing together cutting edge research in the broad fields of Diplomatic and International Studies, award winning distance learning delivery and the instructors previous experience of delivering a successful MOOC. Please see the volume Global Diplomacy: Theories, Types and Models authored with Dr Alison Holmes, (Westview, 2016), and the Understanding Research Methods MOOC from Coursera."
  +Global Health Diplomacy,global-health-diplomacy,https://coursera.org/learn/global-health-diplomacy,Social Sciences,The State University of New York,"Having completed this course, learners will be able to: Describe and analyze the opportunities, challenges and limits of Global Health Diplomacy. Examine the diplomatic, financial, and geopolitical context that underlies global health decision-making. Explain the role of the many players in the space, including governments, philanthropists, and multilateral institutions ."
  +How To Teach Us,how-to-teach-us,https://coursera.org/learn/how-to-teach-us,Social Sciences,High Tech High Graduate School of Education,Join High Tech High in this groundbreaking new course that follows the educational experiences of various students in our schools. We will will listen to them as they tell us How To Teach Us.
  +How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper (Project-Centered Course),how-to-write-a-scientific-paper,https://coursera.org/learn/how-to-write-a-scientific-paper,Social Sciences,École Polytechnique,"In this project-based course, you will outline a complete scientific paper, choose an appropriate journal to which you'll submit the finished paper for publication, and prepare a checklist that will allow you to independently judge whether your paper is ready to submit."
  +Human Rights for Open Societies,humanrights,https://coursera.org/learn/humanrights,Social Sciences,Utrecht University,"Human rights are under pressure in many places across the globe. Peaceful protests are violently quashed. Voting is tampered with. And minorities are often excluded from decision-making. All of this threatens the ideal of an open society in which each of us can be free and participate equally. A solid protection of human rights is needed for an open society to exist and to flourish. But it is often an uphill battle to work towards that ideal. Equip yourself and learn more about what human rights are and how they work. In this course, we will introduce you to one of the world’s most intricate human rights systems: the European Convention on Human Rights. You will see when and how people can turn to the European Court of Human Rights to complain about human rights violations."
  +Humanitarian communication : Addressing key challenges,humanitarian-communication,https://coursera.org/learn/humanitarian-communication,Social Sciences,University of Geneva,Learn how to address the main challenges of communication in humanitarian settings and how to implement a communication plan in the midst of humanitarian action.
  +ICT in Primary Education: Transforming children's learning across the curriculum,ict-primary-education,https://coursera.org/learn/ict-primary-education,Social Sciences,university of London,"Why and how are teachers integrating ICT (Information and Communication Technology) into primary education? In this course we analyse examples from schools in different parts of the world, and bring professional teachers, headteachers and policymakers together to share their best ideas and inspiring stories. The materials in the course are based on studies carried out for the UNESCO Institute of IT in Education, Moscow. Learning Outcomes: to be aware of the range of reasons for using ICT to critique the strategies for developing ICT over time to analyse the strengths and weakness of different decision-making mechanisms"
  +iMOOC102: Mastering American e-Learning,e-learning,https://coursera.org/learn/e-learning,Social Sciences,The State University of New York,"This competency-based, skill-building course will help non-U.S. students, first generation immigrants and foreign-born professionals better understand and master American e-Learning, as well as other U.S. virtual environments, for college and career success. To excel in American online learning and work environments, international students and foreign-born professionals need to know how American universities and companies use the Internet to organize study and work, develop and execute projects, communicate ideas, collaborate, and solve organizational and technical problems."
  +Information & Digital Literacy for University Success,digital-literacy,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-literacy,Social Sciences,The University of Sydney,"This Specialization is aimed at preparing students for undergraduate study in an English-speaking university. The course equips you for full participation and engagement with your studies by building awareness and understanding of the core values and expectations of academic culture, and providing you with practical strategies to apply to your studies. In this course, you will learn how to develop your Information & Digital Literacy Skills to help you achieve success in your university studies."
  +International Law in Action: A Guide to the International Courts and Tribunals in The Hague,international-law-in-action,https://coursera.org/learn/international-law-in-action,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"International Law in Action explains the functions of each international court and tribunal present in The Hague, and it looks at how these institutions address contemporary problems. On the basis of selected cases, and through interviews with judges and lawyers, you will explore the role of these courts and tribunals and their potential to contribute to global justice."
  +International Law In Action: Investigating and Prosecuting International Crimes,international-law-in-action-2,https://coursera.org/learn/international-law-in-action-2,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,‘Investigating and Prosecuting International Crimes’ is the second course in Leiden University’s new series on International Law in Action. The first course covered international courts and tribunals in The Hague in general. This second course provides an insider perspective into the work of international criminal courts and tribunals. You will learn about the investigation and prosecution of international crimes in The Hague. Atrocities produce unspeakable forms of violence. We will explore whether and how international criminal justice contribute to what UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon called the ‘age of accountability’.
  +Internet Giants: The Law and Economics of Media Platforms,internetgiants,https://coursera.org/learn/internetgiants,Social Sciences,The University of Chicago,"This seven-week course will explore the relationship between law and technology with a strong focus on the law of the United States with some comparisons to laws around the world, especially in Europe. Tech progress is an important source of economic growth and raises broader questions about the human condition, including how culture evolves and who controls that evolution. Technology also matters in countless other ways as it often establishes the framework in which governments interact with their citizens, both in allowing speech and blocking it and in establishing exactly what the boundaries are between private life and the government. And technology itself is powerfully shaped by the laws that apply in areas as diverse as copyright, antitrust, patents, privacy, speech law and the regulation of networks."
  +Introduction to Communication Science,communication,https://coursera.org/learn/communication,Social Sciences,University of Amsterdam,"Since Antiquity, scholars have appreciated the importance of communication: as social beings, we cannot exist without communication. We need to interact with people around us, to make sense of the world and to position ourselves in a wider social and cultural reality. In this course, we look at how and why communication evolved as a science and reflect on today’s dominant paradigms. The course also extends beyond the boundaries of communication science itself, exploring dimensions of history, sociology and psychology. Join our class, together with people all over the world."
  +Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy,environmental-law,https://coursera.org/learn/environmental-law,Social Sciences,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"Environmental law may be the one institution standing between us and planetary exhaustion. It is also an institution that needs to be reconciled with human liberty and economic aspirations. This course considers these issues and provides a tour though existing legal regimes governing pollution, water law, endangered species, toxic substances, environmental impact analyses, and environmental risk."
  +Introduction to Human Behavioral Genetics,behavioralgenetics,https://coursera.org/learn/behavioralgenetics,Social Sciences,University of Minnesota,Behavioral genetic methodologies from twin and adoption studies through DNA analysis will be described and applied to address longstanding questions about the origins of individual differences in behavioral traits.
  +Introduction to International Criminal Law,international-criminal-law,https://coursera.org/learn/international-criminal-law,Social Sciences,Case Western Reserve University,"From the Nuremberg trial to the case against Saddam Hussein, from the prosecution of Al-Qaeda terrorists to the trial of Somali pirates – no area of law is as important to world peace and security as international criminal law. Taught by one of the world’s leading experts in the field, this course will educate students about the fundamentals of international criminal law and policy. We will explore the contours of international crimes such as genocide, war crimes, terrorism, and piracy."
  +Introduction to Key Constitutional Concepts and Supreme Court Cases,constitution,https://coursera.org/learn/constitution,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"This course offers an introduction to the U.S. Constitution and landmark Supreme Court cases interpreting it. It explores the Constitution’s origins, its amendment over the years, and methods of constitutional interpretation. Topics include the nature and structure of the federal government, the powers of the federal government, and individual rights."
  +Introduction to Psychology,introduction-psych,https://coursera.org/learn/introduction-psych,Social Sciences,University of Toronto,"This course will highlight the most interesting experiments within the field of psychology, discussing the implications of those studies for our understanding of the human mind and human behavior. We will explore the brain and some of the cognitive abilities it supports like memory, learning, attention, perception and consciousness. We will examine human development - both in terms of growing up and growing old - and will discuss the manner in which the behavior of others affect our own thoughts and behavior. Finally we will discuss various forms of mental illness and the treatments that are used to help those who suffer from them."
  +Introduction to the Orbital Perspective,orbitalperspective,https://coursera.org/learn/orbitalperspective,Social Sciences,"University of Arizona, University of Florida, Drexel University","The goals of this course are to develop the student’s critical thinking skills, global awareness, and ability to work as an integral part of a team in an increasingly complex global job market. The course provides a foundation in such skills as team building, collaboration, and elevated empathy using real-world scenarios from some of world’s most effective collaborative projects including the Earthrise-2068 Project. Living on the International Space Station was a powerful, transformative experience—one that could hold the key to solving our problems here on Earth. On space walks and through windows, course instructor Ron Garan was struck by the stunning beauty of the Earth from space but sobered by knowing how much needed to be done to help this troubled planet."
  +Israel State and Society ,israel,https://coursera.org/learn/israel,Social Sciences,Hebrew University of Jerusalem,"Israel is a country that draws a lot of public attention around the globe. Nevertheless, both those who support Israel and those who are critical of its geopolitical standing and policies, usually have a very limited knowledge about the Israeli society and its political system. This course presents Israel from multiple perspectives - political, social, economic and cultural - in an attempt to expose the learners to a cutting edge academic research on the country."
  +Jewish Diaspora in Modern China,jews-in-china,https://coursera.org/learn/jews-in-china,Social Sciences,Nanjing University,"Jewish Diaspora in China is a unique experience for world Jewry, as China is the only country in Far East that has had Jews living in its society for over 1,000 years. Documentary evidence shows that Jews started to live in China no later than the Tang Dynasty (618–907). The famous Kaifeng Jewish community, which was established in Kaifeng, the Chinese capital of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), is but a best-known example. However, the largest Jewish Diaspora in China appeared in modern times."
  +Journalism Skills for Engaged Citizens,citizenjournalism,https://coursera.org/learn/citizenjournalism,Social Sciences,The University of Melbourne,"This is a course in basic journalism skills, designed for the many people who are now taking advantage of new media to publish news, views and information. For five hundred years, the privilege of being able to publish was enjoyed by very few people – those who had access to a printing press or a radio microphone or a television camera. Now, almost anyone can publish to the world within minutes of being able to do so. But is it journalism?"
  +K-12 Blended & Online Learning,k-12-online-education,https://coursera.org/learn/k-12-online-education,Social Sciences,University System of Georgia,This course introduces teachers and interested adults to K12 blended and online learning. Participants will design a blended or online unit and develop one module to use with K12 students.
  +Learning Mindsets & Skills,learning-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/learning-skills,Social Sciences,High Tech High Graduate School of Education,"The Learning Mindsets & Skills MOOC is designed to explore underlying concepts behind Learning Mindsets & Skills as well as the the practical applications of those concepts in various educational environments. Course Participants will hypothesize a learning mindset-related change to be implemented within their educational environment, test their theory, and present their findings to a wider"
  +Learning to Teach Online,teach-online,https://coursera.org/learn/teach-online,Social Sciences,UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales),Are you an educator? Have you ever wanted to understand more about how to design your class to make better use of educational technology – whether fully online or in blended contexts? Would you like to learn from those who have extensive practical experience with online technologies? The Learning to Teach Online (LTTO) MOOC will help you develop a working understanding of successful online teaching strategies that you can apply in your own practice. The course is based upon the multi award winning open educational resource developed by Dr Simon McIntyre and Karin Watson.
  +Lesson Planning with the ELL in Mind,ell-lesson,https://coursera.org/learn/ell-lesson,Social Sciences,Arizona State University,In this course you will learn how to design lesson plans around the needs of your ELL students and their language level through the analysis of content language and cognitive demands. You will learn how to align language objectives to the adopted standards of your school and content area. You will learn how to modify existing course materials as well as develop graphic organizers and languages frames to support ELLs’ access to content. Analysis of second language acquisition theories will be applied to lesson planning.
  +"Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies",literacy-teaching-learning,https://coursera.org/learn/literacy-teaching-learning,Social Sciences,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course opens with an exploration of the social context and aims of literacy teaching and learning. It goes on to describe a range of historical and contemporary approaches to literacy pedagogy, including didactic, authentic, functional, and critical approaches. The course takes has a 'Multiliteracies' perspective, which aims to expand the definition of literacy to encompass today's multimodal communications, and the diversity of literacies across different social and culltural contexts."
  +Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens,news-literacy,https://coursera.org/learn/news-literacy,Social Sciences,"The University of Hong Kong, The State University of New York","Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent. As news consumers are bombarded with a constant stream of fake news, propaganda, hoaxes, rumors, satire, and advertising — that often masquerade as credible journalism — it is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. While the public’s faith in the news media erodes, purveyors of misinformation have helped give rise to troubling cultural trends and alarming political movements. This six-week course will help learners develop their critical thinking skills to enable them to better identify reliable information in news reports and to become better informed about the world in which we live. The course will discuss the key elements of journalism from the viewpoint of the news audience."
  +Measuring Causal Effects in the Social Sciences,causaleffects,https://coursera.org/learn/causaleffects,Social Sciences,University of Copenhegan,"How can we know if the differences in wages between men and women are caused by discrimination or differences in background characteristics? In this PhD-level course we look at causal effects as opposed to spurious relationships. We will discuss how they can be identified in the social sciences using quantitative data, and describe how this can help us understand social mechanisms."
  +Memory and Movies: Explaining the Psychology of Memory Through Films,memory-and-movies,https://coursera.org/learn/memory-and-movies,Social Sciences,Wesleyan University,"Welcome to Understanding Memory: Explaining the Psychology of Memory through Movies. Someone once said that memory is fascinating because sometimes we forget what we want to remember, sometimes we remember what we want to forget, and sometimes we remember events that never happened or never happened the way we remember them. I want to show you how memory works, why it sometimes fails, and what we can do to enhance memory function, especially as we get older."
  +Microeconomics Principles,microeconomics,https://coursera.org/learn/microeconomics,Social Sciences,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course offers an introduction to the functions of individual decision-makers—both consumers and producers—within the larger economic system. Emphasis is on the nature and functions of product markets, the theory of the firm under varying conditions of competition and monopoly, and the role of government in promoting efficiency in the economy. Most people make the incorrect assumption that economics is ONLY the study of money. My primary goal in this course is to shatter this belief."
  +Microeconomics: The Power of Markets,microeconomics-part1,https://coursera.org/learn/microeconomics-part1,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"We make economics decisions every day: what to buy, whether to work or play, what to study. We respond to markets all the time: prices influence our decisions, markets signal where to put effort, they direct firms to produce certain goods over others. Economics is all around us. This course is an introduction to the microeconomic theory of markets: why we have them, how they work, what they accomplish. We will start with the concept of scarcity and how specialization according to comparative advantage helps us achieve more than we could alone."
  +Microeconomics: When Markets Fail,microeconomics-part2,https://coursera.org/learn/microeconomics-part2,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"Perfect markets achieve efficiency: maximizing total surplus generated. But real markets are imperfect. In this course we will explore a set of market imperfections to understand why they fail and to explore possible remedies including as antitrust policy, regulation, government intervention. Examples are taken from everyday life, from goods and services that we all purchase and use. We will apply the theory to current events and policy debates through weekly exercises. These will empower you to be an educated, critical thinker who can understand, analyze and evaluate market outcomes."
  +Mindware: Critical Thinking for the Information Age ,mindware,https://coursera.org/learn/mindware,Social Sciences,University of Michigan,"Most professions these days require more than general intelligence. They require in addition the ability to collect, analyze and think about data. Personal life is enriched when these same skills are applied to problems in everyday life involving judgment and choice. This course presents basic concepts from statistics, probability, scientific methodology, cognitive psychology and cost-benefit theory and shows how they can be applied to everything from picking one product over another to critiquing media accounts of scientific research. Concepts are defined briefly and breezily and then applied to many examples drawn from business, the media and everyday life."
  +Model Thinking,model-thinking,https://coursera.org/learn/model-thinking,Social Sciences,University of Michigan,"We live in a complex world with diverse people, firms, and governments whose behaviors aggregate to produce novel, unexpected phenomena. We see political uprisings, market crashes, and a never ending array of social trends. How do we make sense of it? Models. Evidence shows that people who think with models consistently outperform those who don't. And, moreover people who think with lots of models outperform people who use only one. Why do models make us better thinkers? Models help us to better organize information - to make sense of that fire hose or hairball of data (choose your metaphor) available on the Internet."
  +Moral Foundations of Politics ,moral-politics,https://coursera.org/learn/moral-politics,Social Sciences,Yale University,"This course explores the main answers that have been given to this question in the modern West. We start with a survey of the major political theories of the Enlightenment: Utilitarianism, Marxism, and the social contract tradition. In each case we begin with a look of classical formulations, locating them in historical context, but then shift to the contemporary debates as they relate to politics today."
  +Moralities of Everyday Life,moralities,https://coursera.org/learn/moralities,Social Sciences,Yale University,How can we explain kindness and cruelty? Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? Why do people so often disagree about moral issues? This course explores the psychological foundations of our moral lives.
  +Multimodal Literacies: Communication and Learning in the Era of Digital Media ,multimodal-literacies,https://coursera.org/learn/multimodal-literacies,Social Sciences,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course introduces innovative approaches to learning and teaching, with a focus on the use of e-learning and social web technologies."
  +Orchestrating Whole Classroom Discussion,classdiscussion,https://coursera.org/learn/classdiscussion,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"This course offers strategies that can lead to richer, more productive, whole-class discussions in their classrooms. Focusing on how to prepare for discussion, this course is for anyone who leads, wants to lead, or is interested in how teachers lead discussion. Across the 4 sessions in this course, we’ll learn more about what teachers and students need to do to prepare for rich discussions, including understanding: 1. What is (and isn't) discussion, and why discussion is important 2. How teachers set goals for discussion, and establish explicit norms that support these objectives 3. How teachers select texts and prepare text-based questions to guide the conversation 4. How teachers – based on these goals, norms, texts, and questions – then prepare students for the whole-class discussion"
   Paradoxes of War,war,https://coursera.org/learn/war,Social Sciences,Princeton University,"The Paradoxes of War teaches us to understand that war is not only a normal part of human existence, but is arguably one of the most important factors in making us who we are. Through this course, I hope that you will come to appreciate that war is both a natural expression of common human emotions and interactions and a constitutive part of how we cohere as groups. That is, war is paradoxically an expression of our basest animal nature and the exemplar of our most vaunted and valued civilized virtues. You will learn some basic military history and sociology in this course as a lens for the more important purpose of seeing the broader social themes and issues related to war. I want you to both learn about war, but more importantly, use it as way of understanding your everyday social world. So, for example, the discussion of war and gender will serve to start you thinking about how expectations of masculinity are created and our discussion of nationalism will make clear how easy “us-them” dichotomies can be established and (ab)used. I will suggest some readings for you to complement the class and assign some activities through which you will be able to apply the theoretical insights from the course to your observations of everyday life. At the end of the course, you will start to see war everywhere and come to appreciate how much it defines our life."
  -Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory and Practice,terrorism,https://coursera.org/learn/terrorism,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"These are just a handful of questions that will be addressed in this course that consists of three parts. First it focuses on the essence of terrorism as an instrument to achieve certain goals, in addition to an exploration of this phenomenon and the difficulties in defining it. The second part provides an overview of the state of the art in (counter) terrorism studies. Since ‘9/11’ terrorism studies have grown exponentially, reflecting the rise in perceived threats."
  -Foundations of Teaching for Learning 5: Planning for Teaching and Learning,teaching-plan,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-plan,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,"This course will help you consider how to develop appropriate learning goals for individual and groups of students. You will learn how to plan learning activities to engage your students in ways that will achieve these goals. Announcement for US based teachers: Coursera and its partners are proud to offer eligible teachers in the US free Course Certificates for this course and other high-quality teacher professional development courses, through the Connected effort announced by President Obama"
  -"Epidemics, Pandemics and Outbreaks",epidemic-pandemic-outbreak,https://coursera.org/learn/epidemic-pandemic-outbreak,Social Sciences,University of Pittsburgh,"In this course, you’ll learn the facts about infectious diseases and medical responses. We'll focus on the public health laws and policies that provide the framework for effective prevention, like quarantine laws, drug development policies, and bioterrorism and biodefense."
  -Foundations of Teaching for Learning 6: Introduction to Student Assessment,learning-assessment,https://coursera.org/learn/learning-assessment,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,This course is part of the Foundations of Teaching for Learning program which is designed to assist people who are currently teaching but have had no formal teacher education improve their understanding of their role and work as a teacher. This set of courses will enhance your knowledge and understanding about learning and teaching and what makes a teacher a professional.
  -"Espace mondial, a French vision of Global studies",global-studies,https://coursera.org/learn/global-studies,Social Sciences,Sciences Po,"To explain how globalization rebuilt public policy and social behavior, we study the different political, economic, and social actors - public or private, individual or collective - and the exchanges and interactions between them that are remaking international relations. This course is inspired by a French sociological and historical approach to international relations."
  -A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment,happiness,https://coursera.org/learn/happiness,Social Sciences,Indian School of Business,"This course, based on the award-winning class offered both at the Indian School of Business and at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, developed by Prof. Raj Raghunathan (aka ""Dr. Happy-smarts"") draws content from a variety of fields, including psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral decision theory to offer a tested and practical recipe for leading a life of happiness and fulfillment."
  -Foundations of Teaching for Learning 2: Being a Teacher,being-a-teacher,https://coursera.org/learn/being-a-teacher,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,How we teach has its foundation in how we were taught and how we learned. This course provides an opportunity for you to reflect on your personal and professional development as a teacher. Through reflection and portfolio development you will enhance your knowledge and understanding of how to promote learning.
  -Get Organized: How to be a Together Teacher,together-teacher,https://coursera.org/learn/together-teacher,Social Sciences,Relay Graduate School of Education,"This course is designed for classroom teachers who juggle time-sensitive tasks and often-exhausting teaching schedules. With an eye toward long-term sustainability, The Together Teacher examines the purpose for planning ahead, provides tools for tracking time commitments, deadlines and tasks, and helps teachers develop a personal organization system that interacts with their day-by-day practices."
  +Performance Assessment in the Virtual Classroom,performance-assessment,https://coursera.org/learn/performance-assessment,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","Effective measures of performance and assessment are a crucial component of any virtual program. Teachers and administrators must understand both the myths and challenges of assessing performance virtually, administering standardized testing with geographical challenges, and complying with state and local requirements to make sure students are meeting requirements. This course will discuss student performance in a virtual classroom, formats of virtual assessments, assessing special populations, including at-risk, gifted, and special needs students, data analysis of virtual course gradebooks, and learning management systems as related to performance and assessment."
  +Politics and Economics of International Energy,global-energy,https://coursera.org/learn/global-energy,Social Sciences,Sciences Po,"Energy issues have always been important in international relations, but in recent years may have become even more important than in the past due to the widespread awareness of existing limits to energy sources and negative climate impacts. The course discusses global trends in energy consumption and production, various available scenarios for potential developments in the coming decades, the availability of oil reserves and the evolution of the oil industry. It then discusses natural gas and highlights the differences between oil and gas."
   Positive Psychology ,positive-psychology,https://coursera.org/learn/positive-psychology,Social Sciences,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"This course discusses research findings in the field of positive psychology, conducted by Barbara Fredrickson and her colleagues. It also features practical applications of this science that you can put to use immediately to help you live a full and meaningful life."
  -Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences - Unit 3: How Does It All End?,soulbeliefs3,https://coursera.org/learn/soulbeliefs3,Social Sciences,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"The course consists mainly of 70 to 80 minute lectures, typically broken up into 3 segments, recorded from a course offered by Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences. These videos include slides and some embedded video clips. Most lectures are accompanied by slides used during the lecture, also including recommended reading assignment which may provide additional opportunities to reflect on your studies."
  -Jewish Diaspora in Modern China,jews-in-china,https://coursera.org/learn/jews-in-china,Social Sciences,Nanjing University,"Jewish Diaspora in China is a unique experience for world Jewry, as China is the only country in Far East that has had Jews living in its society for over 1,000 years. Documentary evidence shows that Jews started to live in China no later than the Tang Dynasty (618–907). The famous Kaifeng Jewish community, which was established in Kaifeng, the Chinese capital of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), is but a best-known example. However, the largest Jewish Diaspora in China appeared in modern times."
  -"Revolutionary Ideas:  An Introduction to Legal and Political Philosophy, Part 1",political-philosophy,https://coursera.org/learn/political-philosophy,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"What is the purpose of government? Why should we have a State? What kind of State should we have? Even within a political community, there may be sharp disagreements about the role and purpose of government. Some want an active, involved government, seeing legal and political institutions as the means to solve our most pressing problems, and to help bring about peace, equality, justice, happiness, and to protect individual liberty."
  -Model Thinking,model-thinking,https://coursera.org/learn/model-thinking,Social Sciences,University of Michigan,"We live in a complex world with diverse people, firms, and governments whose behaviors aggregate to produce novel, unexpected phenomena. We see political uprisings, market crashes, and a never ending array of social trends. How do we make sense of it? Models. Evidence shows that people who think with models consistently outperform those who don't. And, moreover people who think with lots of models outperform people who use only one. Why do models make us better thinkers? Models help us to better organize information - to make sense of that fire hose or hairball of data (choose your metaphor) available on the Internet."
  -Supporting children with difficulties in reading and writing,dyslexia-difficulties,https://coursera.org/learn/dyslexia-difficulties,Social Sciences,"University of London, UCL Institute of Education, Dyslexia International","This course is for teachers to learn why some children have so much difficulty with reading and writing, often called 'dyslexia', and to learn more about best practice in teaching literacy to all in light of recent scientific discoveries."
  -Foundations of Teaching for Learning 4: Curriculum,teacher-curriculum,https://coursera.org/learn/teacher-curriculum,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,"Foundations of Teaching for Learning is a program of study primarily for people who are currently teaching but have had no formal teacher education. This course is an introductory one that considers the three domains of being a teacher: Professional Knowledge and Understanding; Professional Practice; and Professional Values, Relationships and Engagement."
  -Foundations of Teaching for Learning 1: Introduction,teaching,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,"Curriculum is a framework for guiding teaching and learning. This course provides an opportunity for you to consider the relationship between the teacher, the learner and the curriculum."
  -Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences - Unit 1: Historical Foundations,soulbeliefs,https://coursera.org/learn/soulbeliefs,Social Sciences,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Throughout history, the vast majority of people around the globe have believed they have, however defined, a “soul.” While the question of whether the soul exists cannot be answered by science, what we can study are the causes and consequences of various beliefs about the soul and its prospects of surviving the death of the body."
  -Foundations of Teaching for Learning 7: Being a Professional,professional-teacher,https://coursera.org/learn/professional-teacher,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,"This course will emphasise what you can do to act professionally. This includes developing your own philosophy of teaching and making sure that you continue to improve your knowledge and skills. It also considers what it means to be part of a community of professionals, working with others to improve what happens in your school, community and profession."
  -Copyright for Educators & Librarians,copyright-for-education,https://coursera.org/learn/copyright-for-education,Social Sciences,"Duke University, Emory University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill",Fear and uncertainty about copyright law often plagues educators and sometimes prevents creative teaching. This course is a professional development opportunity designed to provide a basic introduction to US copyright law and to empower teachers and librarians at all grade levels. Course participants will discover that the law is designed to help educators and librarians.
  -Arts and Culture Strategy,arts-culture-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/arts-culture-strategy,Social Sciences,"University of Pennsylvania, National Arts Strategies","Arts and culture leaders have a tough but rewarding task: creating and leading sustainable organizations that deliver real social value. There is a lot of competition out there. Being an effective leader means constantly adapting, cleverly using the best tools to reach as many people as possible. This course is designed to help leaders at any level do just that."
  -Teaching Character and Creating Positive Classrooms ,teaching-character,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-character,Social Sciences,Relay Graduate School of Education,"Positive psychology meets K-12 pedagogy. This course explores key ideas of positive psychology and shows how great teachers apply those lessons to maximize student engagement and accomplishment. Through lectures, discussions, interviews and footage of great educators in action, you’ll learn how to integrate character-based objectives into your own teaching."
  -Disability Awareness and Support,disability-awareness,https://coursera.org/learn/disability-awareness,Social Sciences,University of Pittsburgh,"The goal of this course is to promote equal opportunity and the full participation of students with disabilities in higher education by helping participants advance their awareness of the meaning of accessibility in education. Participants will gain competence and confidence in working with students by focusing on legislation, universal design, and assistive technologies."
  -Property and Liability: An Introduction to Law and Economics,property-law-and-economics,https://coursera.org/learn/property-law-and-economics,Social Sciences,Wesleyan University,"Think about the oldest and most familiar principles of American law, property and proportional liability, in a new and surprising way, and learn to apply economic reasoning to an especially important and interesting aspect of life."
  -An Introduction to American Law,american-law,https://coursera.org/learn/american-law,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"This course will give you a glimpse into six different areas of American law: Tort Law, Contract Law, Property, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and Civil Procedure. You will gain insight into the complexities and dilemmas that arise from the application of law in different settings, and what is distinctive about American approaches"
  -Coaching Teachers: Promoting Changes that Stick ,coaching-teachers,https://coursera.org/learn/coaching-teachers,Social Sciences,Match Teacher Residency,"Learn and practice strategies for coaching teachers to make meaningful, long-lasting improvements in their instruction."
  -Lesson Planning with the ELL in Mind,ell-lesson,https://coursera.org/learn/ell-lesson,Social Sciences,Arizona State University,In this course you will learn how to design lesson plans around the needs of your ELL students and their language level through the analysis of content language and cognitive demands. You will learn how to align language objectives to the adopted standards of your school and content area. You will learn how to modify existing course materials as well as develop graphic organizers and languages frames to support ELLs’ access to content. Analysis of second language acquisition theories will be applied to lesson planning.
  -America's Unwritten Constitution,unwritten-constitution,https://coursera.org/learn/unwritten-constitution,Social Sciences,Yale University,An introduction to basic techniques of constitutional interpretation.
  -Psychology of Popularity,popularity,https://coursera.org/learn/popularity,Social Sciences,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"The level of popularity you experienced in childhood and adolescence is still affecting you today in ways that you may not even realize. Learn about how psychologists study popularity and how these same concepts can be used in adulthood to be more successful at work, become better parents, and have a happier life."
  -Foundations of Teaching for Learning 3: Learners and Learning,teaching-learning,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-learning,Social Sciences,Commonwealth Education Trust,"The teacher’s work becomes meaningful when it is informed by research and theories of learning, and their relationship to actual practice. This course provides an opportunity for you to identify and understand students’ expectations and prior learning."
  -Understanding economic policymaking,economic-policy,https://coursera.org/learn/economic-policy,Social Sciences,IE Business School,"This course will employ a non-technical approach to analyze how governments use policy to influence a country's economy. Upon completing the course you should be able to discuss national debts and deficits, examine fiscal and monetary policy and their appropriateness to the situation of an economy, and anticipate the results of fiscal and monetary policies and structural reform on a country. These concepts will give you the tools to develop your own position in many current economic debates, such as fiscal stimulus vs. austerity, the merits of quantitative easing, the need for higher interest rates or the future growth path of many modern economies."
  -Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy,environmental-law,https://coursera.org/learn/environmental-law,Social Sciences,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"Environmental law may be the one institution standing between us and planetary exhaustion. It is also an institution that needs to be reconciled with human liberty and economic aspirations. This course considers these issues and provides a tour though existing legal regimes governing pollution, water law, endangered species, toxic substances, environmental impact analyses, and environmental risk."
  -Social Computing,social-computing,https://coursera.org/learn/social-computing,Social Sciences,"University of California, San Diego",People are social creatures and the modern Internet reflects that. Technology has made collaboration at a distance possible in new ways that present their own set of challenges. This course will introduce you to the major challenges and opportunities for creating online communities. What does the future hold? Learn how social computing can create collaboration experiences that go beyond what’s possible face to face.
  -Surviving Your Rookie Year of Teaching: 3 Key Ideas & High Leverage Techniques,rookie-teaching,https://coursera.org/learn/rookie-teaching,Social Sciences,Match Teacher Residency,Learn 3 high leverage ideas and techniques to thrive in your first (or fifteenth) year of teaching.
  -Classical Sociological Theory ,classical-sociological-theory,https://coursera.org/learn/classical-sociological-theory,Social Sciences,University of Amsterdam,"This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) will offer the participants an introduction into the most important classical sociological readings between the 18th and 20th century. Highly influential social science scholars, such as Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim, will be discussed during 8 sessions. Combined with small tests, based on the video’s and recommended readings, the"
  -Internet Giants: The Law and Economics of Media Platforms,internetgiants,https://coursera.org/learn/internetgiants,Social Sciences,The University of Chicago,"This seven-week course will explore the relationship between law and technology with a strong focus on the law of the United States with some comparisons to laws around the world, especially in Europe. Tech progress is an important source of economic growth and raises broader questions about the human condition, including how culture evolves and who controls that evolution. Technology also matters in countless other ways as it often establishes the framework in which governments interact with their citizens, both in allowing speech and blocking it and in establishing exactly what the boundaries are between private life and the government. And technology itself is powerfully shaped by the laws that apply in areas as diverse as copyright, antitrust, patents, privacy, speech law and the regulation of networks."
  -Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century,public-policy,https://coursera.org/learn/public-policy,Social Sciences,University of Virginia,"This course introduces class participants to the political significance and societal consequences of challenges facing U.S. and international policymakers. It is designed to help participants develop skills to analyze policy proposals and advocate for their preferred options for issues on the public policy agenda ahead. The class assumes basic knowledge about governing institutions and democratic processes, while recommending supplemental materials for further study to complement reading links provided. The course focuses on future policy challenges, while examining the broad historical context in which policies are adopted and implemented."
  -Questionnaire Design for Social Surveys,questionnaire-design,https://coursera.org/learn/questionnaire-design,Social Sciences,University of Michigan,"This course will cover the basic elements of designing and evaluating questionnaires. We will review the process of responding to questions, challenges and options for asking questions about behavioral frequencies, practical techniques for evaluating questions, mode specific questionnaire characteristics, and review methods of standardized and conversational interviewing."
  -How To Teach Us,how-to-teach-us,https://coursera.org/learn/how-to-teach-us,Social Sciences,High Tech High Graduate School of Education,Join High Tech High in this groundbreaking new course that follows the educational experiences of various students in our schools. We will will listen to them as they tell us How To Teach Us.
  -Art and Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom ,artinquiry,https://coursera.org/learn/artinquiry,Social Sciences,The Museum of Modern Art,Explore how to integrate works of art into your classroom with inquiry-based teaching methods originally developed for in-gallery museum education.
  -"Time to Reorganize! Understand Organizations, Act, and Build a Meaningful World.",orgology,https://coursera.org/learn/orgology,Social Sciences,HEC Paris,"We are in constant relationship with many organizations. Our world is submitted to regular changes as organizations evolve, come and go. Understanding your memberships and attachments to organizations will help you act on your world. You'll learn how to evaluate the influence of organizations around you and how to transform your relationships to reach a stronger coherence."
  -Introduction to Communication Science,communication,https://coursera.org/learn/communication,Social Sciences,University of Amsterdam,"Since Antiquity, scholars have appreciated the importance of communication: as social beings, we cannot exist without communication. We need to interact with people around us, to make sense of the world and to position ourselves in a wider social and cultural reality. In this course, we look at how and why communication evolved as a science and reflect on today’s dominant paradigms. The course also extends beyond the boundaries of communication science itself, exploring dimensions of history, sociology and psychology. Join our class, together with people all over the world."
  -Buddhism and Modern Psychology ,science-of-meditation,https://coursera.org/learn/science-of-meditation,Social Sciences,Princeton University,"The Dalai Lama has said that Buddhism and science are deeply compatible and has encouraged Western scholars to critically examine both the meditative practice and Buddhist ideas about the human mind. A number of scientists and philosophers have taken up this challenge. There have been brain scans of meditators and philosophical examinations of Buddhist doctrines. There have even been discussions of Darwin and the Buddha: Do early Buddhist descriptions of the mind, and of the human condition, make particular sense in light of evolutionary psychology?"
  -Blended Learning: Personalizing Education for Students,blended-learning,https://coursera.org/learn/blended-learning,Social Sciences,"New Teacher Center, Silicon Schools Fund, Clayton Christensen Institute","Plenty of buzz exists about blended learning and its transformational potential. But what does blended learning really mean? In this course we will explore the different models of blended learning and dive into key issues that impact students, teachers, and schools. Specifically, we will look at these issues through the lens of three high-performing schools that each use a different type of blended learning."
  -Teach English Now! Foundational Principles,english-principles,https://coursera.org/learn/english-principles,Social Sciences,Arizona State University,"Through a series of engaging metaphors and stories, prospective and current EFL/ESL teachers will identify, summarize, and evaluate 7 basic language learning paradigms. Learners will be presented information on such foundational principles as motivation, risk taking, two different modes of learning, and balancing the teacher profession. Learners are also given an understanding of basic techniques founded on those principles, such as teacher talk, looking “ridiculous” in order to lower the affective filter, and networking."
  -The Power of Macroeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World,principles-of-macroeconomics,https://coursera.org/learn/principles-of-macroeconomics,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","In this course, you will learn all of the major principles of macroeconomics normally taught in a quarter or semester course to college undergraduates or MBA students. Perhaps more importantly, you will also learn how to apply these principles to a wide variety of situations in both your personal and professional lives. In this way, the Power of Macroeconomics will help you prosper in an increasingly competitive and globalized environment."
  -Federalism & Decentralization: Evaluating Africa's Track Record,decentralization-africa,https://coursera.org/learn/decentralization-africa,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"In this political science course you will learn about the twin concepts of federalism and decentralization. You will develop an understanding of the core ideas that federalism and decentralization rest on, and study the building blocks that make them both work. Following a general overview of both federalism and decentralization, we will examine a number of case-studies from Africa where federalism and decentralization have been changing the continent’s political landscape in the last twenty years, coinciding with unprecedented levels of economic growth."
  -Learning Mindsets & Skills,learning-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/learning-skills,Social Sciences,High Tech High Graduate School of Education,"The Learning Mindsets & Skills MOOC is designed to explore underlying concepts behind Learning Mindsets & Skills as well as the the practical applications of those concepts in various educational environments. Course Participants will hypothesize a learning mindset-related change to be implemented within their educational environment, test their theory, and present their findings to a wider"
  -Constitutional Struggles in the Muslim World,muslim-world,https://coursera.org/learn/muslim-world,Social Sciences,University of Copenhagen,"Learn what motivates the restive Muslim youth from Tunis to Tehran, what political positions Islamists from Mali to Chechnya are fighting for, where the seeming obsession with Islamic law comes from, where the secularists have vanished to, and whether it makes sense to speak of an Islamic state."
  -America's Written Constitution,written-constitution,https://coursera.org/learn/written-constitution,Social Sciences,Yale University,"An introduction to the main themes of the American Constitution—popular sovereignty, separation of powers, federalism, and rights."
  -First Year Teaching (Secondary Grades) - Success from the Start,teaching-secondary,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-secondary,Social Sciences,New Teacher Center,"Success with your students starts on Day 1. Learn from NTC's 25 years developing key skills and strategies to create positive, productive classroom environments where students thrive. Build relationships with Secondary Grade (6-12) students, establish and maintain behavioral expectations, implement classroom procedures and routines, and use instructional time effectively."
  -Understanding Europe: Why It Matters and What It Can Offer You,europe,https://coursera.org/learn/europe,Social Sciences,HEC Paris,"Regardless of where you live, the European Union not only affects your life, but may also transform it. By learning how Europe works, a new world will open up to you and discover new jobs you never heard of. The European Union has a large, yet often unnoticed, impact on many aspects of everybody’s life. We will analyze what the EU is doing for YOU regardless of where you live. We will also look at what YOU can do for and in Europe."
  -Moral Foundations of Politics ,moral-politics,https://coursera.org/learn/moral-politics,Social Sciences,Yale University,"This course explores the main answers that have been given to this question in the modern West. We start with a survey of the major political theories of the Enlightenment: Utilitarianism, Marxism, and the social contract tradition. In each case we begin with a look of classical formulations, locating them in historical context, but then shift to the contemporary debates as they relate to politics today."
  -The Power of Microeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World,principles-of-microeconomics,https://coursera.org/learn/principles-of-microeconomics,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","In this course, you will learn all of the major principles of microeconomics normally taught in a quarter or semester course to college undergraduates or MBA students. Perhaps more importantly, you will also learn how to apply these principles to a wide variety of real world situations in both your personal and professional lives. In this way, the Power of Microeconomics will help you prosper in an increasingly competitive environment."
  -Introduction to International Criminal Law,international-criminal-law,https://coursera.org/learn/international-criminal-law,Social Sciences,Case Western Reserve University,"From the Nuremberg trial to the case against Saddam Hussein, from the prosecution of Al-Qaeda terrorists to the trial of Somali pirates – no area of law is as important to world peace and security as international criminal law. Taught by one of the world’s leading experts in the field, this course will educate students about the fundamentals of international criminal law and policy. We will explore the contours of international crimes such as genocide, war crimes, terrorism, and piracy."
  -What future for education?,future-education,https://coursera.org/learn/future-education,Social Sciences,"University of London, UCL Institute of Education","Through this course you will start to critically examine your own ideas about education, teaching and learning. The critique will be developed through engagement with theories and ideas developed through educational research. You will be encouraged to use these ideas to challenge or support your own ideas about education."
  -Qualitative Research Methods,qualitative-methods,https://coursera.org/learn/qualitative-methods,Social Sciences,University of Amsterdam,"In this course you will be introduced to the basic ideas behind the qualitative research in social science. You will learn about data collection, description, analysis and interpretation in qualitative research. Qualitative research often involves an iterative process. We will focus on the ingredients required for this process: data collection and analysis. You won't learn how to use qualitative methods by just watching video's, so we put much stress on collecting data through observation and interviewing and on analysing and interpreting the collected data in other assignments."
  -From Freedom Rides to Ferguson: Narratives of Nonviolence in the American Civil Rights Movement,nonviolence,https://coursera.org/learn/nonviolence,Social Sciences,Emory University,"The Modern Civil Rights Movement is a significant landmark in United States history. This movement was a struggle for human rights directly challenging the nation to extend its democratic principles to African Americans and all peoples. This course sheds light on the often overlooked strategic planning that supported the direction of the events and is told by a voice intimately involved in the organization of movement—Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. Topics include the history of the campaigns, the different coalitions and groups, philosophy and methods of nonviolent direct action, and the contemporary application of nonviolent conflict transformation."
  -The Global Financial Crisis,global-financial-crisis,https://coursera.org/learn/global-financial-crisis,Social Sciences,Yale University,"Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner and Professor Andrew Metrick survey the causes, events, policy responses, and aftermath of the recent global financial crisis."
  -A Law Student's Toolkit,alawstudentstoolkit,https://coursera.org/learn/alawstudentstoolkit,Social Sciences,Yale University,"Whether you are an advanced law student looking to review the basics, or an aspiring law student looking for head start, this course will help you build the foundation you will need to succeed in law school and beyond. This course will introduce you to terminology, concepts, and tools lawyers and legal academics use to make their arguments. It will help you follow these arguments—and make arguments of your own."
  -U101: Understanding College and College Life,college-life,https://coursera.org/learn/college-life,Social Sciences,University of Washington,"College can be confusing and intimidating, but U101 can help. If you were just admitted to college and are nervous about what the next step in life might look like, this course is for you. If you are the parent of a newly admitted college student and curious about what college life is like, this course is also for you. While your specific college will, no doubt, provide additional orientation material, we wanted to give some basic information about what life might be like at a large American University."
  -iMOOC102: Mastering American e-Learning,e-learning,https://coursera.org/learn/e-learning,Social Sciences,The State University of New York,"This competency-based, skill-building course will help non-U.S. students, first generation immigrants and foreign-born professionals better understand and master American e-Learning, as well as other U.S. virtual environments, for college and career success. To excel in American online learning and work environments, international students and foreign-born professionals need to know how American universities and companies use the Internet to organize study and work, develop and execute projects, communicate ideas, collaborate, and solve organizational and technical problems."
  -Economic Growth and Distributive Justice - Maximize Social Wellbeing,economic-growth-part-2,https://coursera.org/learn/economic-growth-part-2,Social Sciences,Tel Aviv University,"If you really care about the big questions in the economies and societies of the 21st century, such as distributive justice - namely, inequality of income or wealth, and its correlation with economic growth - this course is meant for you. The knowledge you will gain can truly change your outlook on our world. ""Economic Growth and Distributive Justice - Maximizing Social Wellbeing"" is the second part of a two part course"
  -Rethinking International Tax Law,international-taxation,https://coursera.org/learn/international-taxation,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"In recent years, the international tax planning strategies of multinationals have become a source of – often heated – debate. This course provides learners with the tools to become fully informed participants in the debate by explaining the foundations and practice of international tax law as well as addressing current developments and the ethical aspects of tax planning."
  -International Law in Action: A Guide to the International Courts and Tribunals in The Hague,international-law-in-action,https://coursera.org/learn/international-law-in-action,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"International Law in Action explains the functions of each international court and tribunal present in The Hague, and it looks at how these institutions address contemporary problems. On the basis of selected cases, and through interviews with judges and lawyers, you will explore the role of these courts and tribunals and their potential to contribute to global justice."
  -Assessing Achievement with the ELL in Mind,ell-assessment,https://coursera.org/learn/ell-assessment,Social Sciences,Arizona State University,"In this course, you will learn how to design assessments around the needs of your ELL students and their language level. You will learn how to incorporate language and content requirements for both formative and summative assessment types. You will learn to assess your ELL students through the use of project and task-based assignments. You will learn to use and modify rubrics to align to and measure student achievement of your language and content learning objectives. The course will also briefly cover strategies for supporting ELL students during standardized testing."
  -Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom,teaching-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-strategies,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","This course will help you ‘up’ your game and develop the advanced level skills and techniques that elude even some of the most experienced virtual teachers. We will examine the pitfalls beginning teachers run into and learn how to overcome them by focusing on the fundamentals that have the greatest impact on student learning in a blended or online environment. Throughout the course, you will be challenged to assess your own skills and apply what you are learning by creating a guide, assignment, or resource that you will be able to use in a class that you teach or hope to teach someday soon."
  -Measuring Causal Effects in the Social Sciences,causaleffects,https://coursera.org/learn/causaleffects,Social Sciences,University of Copenhegan,"How can we know if the differences in wages between men and women are caused by discrimination or differences in background characteristics? In this PhD-level course we look at causal effects as opposed to spurious relationships. We will discuss how they can be identified in the social sciences using quantitative data, and describe how this can help us understand social mechanisms."
  -"Doping : Sports, Organizations and Sciences",doping,https://coursera.org/learn/doping,Social Sciences,University of Lausanne,"The objective of this course is to encourage a critical understanding of doping. To achieve this goal, this course will rely on a multidisciplinary approach that allow you to see how different disciplines get into a single object, in different perspectives and in often complementary ways. This approach will also allow us to appreciate the complexity of a subject like doping."
  -Teach English Now! Theories of Second Language Acquisition,language-theories,https://coursera.org/learn/language-theories,Social Sciences,Arizona State University,"In this course learners are introduced to second or foreign language theories and practices for teaching and assessing listening, speaking, and pronunciation. Learners will also be introduced to basic studies in second language acquisition and their pedagogical implications. Teachers will be invited to recognize the importance of grounding their own teaching philosophy through an examination of purpose, content, and technique"
  -Sports and Society,sports-society,https://coursera.org/learn/sports-society,Social Sciences,Duke University,"Sports play a giant role in contemporary society worldwide. But few of us pause to think about the larger questions of money, politics, race, sex, culture, and commercialization that surround sports everywhere. This course draws on the tools of anthropology, sociology, history, and other disciplines to give you new perspectives on the games we watch and play. It's the new and improved version of Professor Orin Starn's original ""Sports and Society"" for Coursera, which drew more than 40,000 students. We will focus on both popular sports like soccer (or “football,” as anyone outside America calls it), basketball, and baseball, and also lesser-known ones like mountain-climbing and fishing. You will never watch or think about sports in the same way again."
  -Welcome to Game Theory,game-theory-introduction,https://coursera.org/learn/game-theory-introduction,Social Sciences,The University of Tokyo,"This course provides a brief introduction to game theory. Our main goal is to understand the basic ideas behind the key concepts in game theory, such as equilibrium, rationality, and cooperation. The course uses very little mathematics, and it is ideal for those who are looking for a conceptual introduction to game theory."
  -Global Diplomacy – Diplomacy in the Modern World,global-diplomacy,https://coursera.org/learn/global-diplomacy,Social Sciences,"University of London, SOAS University of London","The Global Diplomacy course is a unique offering to the MOOC environment. Bringing together cutting edge research in the broad fields of Diplomatic and International Studies, award winning distance learning delivery and the instructors previous experience of delivering a successful MOOC. Please see the volume Global Diplomacy: Theories, Types and Models authored with Dr Alison Holmes, (Westview, 2016), and the Understanding Research Methods MOOC from Coursera."
  -Performance Assessment in the Virtual Classroom,performance-assessment,https://coursera.org/learn/performance-assessment,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","Effective measures of performance and assessment are a crucial component of any virtual program. Teachers and administrators must understand both the myths and challenges of assessing performance virtually, administering standardized testing with geographical challenges, and complying with state and local requirements to make sure students are meeting requirements. This course will discuss student performance in a virtual classroom, formats of virtual assessments, assessing special populations, including at-risk, gifted, and special needs students, data analysis of virtual course gradebooks, and learning management systems as related to performance and assessment."
  -Chinese Politics Part 1 – China and Political Science,chinesepolitics1,https://coursera.org/learn/chinesepolitics1,Social Sciences,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,"This course offers a conceptual framework for understanding China that highlights the intersection of politics and economics. It shows that rather than develop into a full blown market economy, state and party officials at all levels of the political system maintain significant influence in economic development. Such a “political” economy has had both positive and negative outcomes, which we will assess in detail. We also look at the origins, views, backgrounds and relations among leaders, and how those leaders make decisions about public policy and try to get those decisions implemented down through the system. China has few formal institutions through which citizens can participate in politics, but we will study the strategies Chinese people use to try to influence their leaders’ decisions."
  -Social Media in Public Relations,socmedpr,https://coursera.org/learn/socmedpr,Social Sciences,National University of Singapore,"Have you ever wondered why some videos go viral while others flop or how some companies have successfully leveraged Facebook and Twitter to reach out to their customers and clients? How are some companies able to effectively navigate the world of social media and build thriving online communities while others flounder, crash and burn? These questions along with many others concerning"
  -Water Resources Management and Policy,water-management,https://coursera.org/learn/water-management,Social Sciences,University of Geneva,"Water management today is faced with new challenges such as climate change or the effects of human activity. Public and private stakeholders who are active in this field must develop new ways to better manage the water cycle ""as a whole""."
  -Economic Growth and Distributive Justice Part I -The Role of the State,economic-growth-part-1,https://coursera.org/learn/economic-growth-part-1,Social Sciences,Tel Aviv University,"If you really care about the big questions in the economies and societies of the 21st century, such as distributive justice - namely, inequality of income or wealth, and its correlation with economic growth - this course is meant for you. The knowledge you will gain can truly change your outlook on our world. ""Economic Growth and Distributive Justice - the Role of the State"" is the first part of a two part course"
  -Be Persuasive: Write a Convincing Position Paper or Policy Advice (Project-Centered Course),persuasive-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/persuasive-writing,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"In this project-centered course, you will learn everything you need to research and present an effective and persuasive position paper or policy advice. We recommend you sign up for a certificate as this course is on premium grading and you will only enjoy the full benefit of the project if you can join in with the assignments. In addition this course contains the exciting opportunity to research and analyze historical decisionmaking, international relations, business cases and battles in an effort to truly understand constructing a convincing argument."
  -Engaging ELLs and Their Families in the School and Community,ell-families,https://coursera.org/learn/ell-families,Social Sciences,Arizona State University,"In this course, you will learn how to better and more successfully engage your ELL(s) and their families in the school and community. You will learn how to engage your ELL student in the classroom setting as well as in various aspects of the school including extracurricular activities and the inner workings of the school and education system. You will also be introduced to strategies for engaging the families of your ELL students in the school community and the wider community of your city and state."
  -Foundations of Virtual Instruction ,virtual-school,https://coursera.org/learn/virtual-school,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","This course provides teachers with the foundation for understanding the movement towards virtual instruction. It introduces fundamental knowledge needed by teachers to succeed in a technology-dependent, instructional environment. You will explore the history of online learning and understand how a variety of delivery models are evolving in the K-12"
  -Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom,k-12-education,https://coursera.org/learn/k-12-education,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","Emerging technologies are quickly gaining momentum in the field of virtual K-12 instruction. In this course, we will explore how the latest trends in the use of technology affect student learning and engagement. What innovative learning spaces and tools are available to instructors? How can instructors best utilize free and open resources to more deeply engage students in their learning? What impact can the use of emerging technologies have on student retention and performance?"
  -Memory and Movies: Explaining the Psychology of Memory Through Films,memory-and-movies,https://coursera.org/learn/memory-and-movies,Social Sciences,Wesleyan University,"Welcome to Understanding Memory: Explaining the Psychology of Memory through Movies. Someone once said that memory is fascinating because sometimes we forget what we want to remember, sometimes we remember what we want to forget, and sometimes we remember events that never happened or never happened the way we remember them. I want to show you how memory works, why it sometimes fails, and what we can do to enhance memory function, especially as we get older."
  -Microeconomics: The Power of Markets,microeconomics-part1,https://coursera.org/learn/microeconomics-part1,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"We make economics decisions every day: what to buy, whether to work or play, what to study. We respond to markets all the time: prices influence our decisions, markets signal where to put effort, they direct firms to produce certain goods over others. Economics is all around us. This course is an introduction to the microeconomic theory of markets: why we have them, how they work, what they accomplish. We will start with the concept of scarcity and how specialization according to comparative advantage helps us achieve more than we could alone."
  -How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper (Project-Centered Course),how-to-write-a-scientific-paper,https://coursera.org/learn/how-to-write-a-scientific-paper,Social Sciences,École Polytechnique,"In this project-based course, you will outline a complete scientific paper, choose an appropriate journal to which you'll submit the finished paper for publication, and prepare a checklist that will allow you to independently judge whether your paper is ready to submit."
  -Critical Issues in Urban Education,urban-education,https://coursera.org/learn/urban-education,Social Sciences,The University of Chicago,"Urban school reform in the United States is characterized by contentious, politicized debate. This course explores a set of critical issues in the education and educational reform space, with a focus on aspects of the field that have sparked controversy and polarized views. We will dig into these debates, situating them within the larger history of public education and school reform, and considering the viewpoints, the evidence, and translation of issues into educational policy."
  -Psychological First Aid,psychological-first-aid,https://coursera.org/learn/psychological-first-aid,Social Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"Learn to provide psychological first aid to people in an emergency by employing the RAPID model: Reflective listening, Assessment of needs, Prioritization, Intervention, and Disposition. Utilizing the RAPID model (Reflective listening, Assessment of needs, Prioritization, Intervention, and Disposition), this specialized course provides perspectives on injuries and trauma that are beyond those physical in nature."
  -Understanding Violence,violence,https://coursera.org/learn/violence,Social Sciences,Emory University,"We are so pleased to have you join us as we investigate this crucial topic. Violence is a leading cause of death, disability and health care use worldwide. Violence is a complex problem and can only be understood and reduced though a multidisciplinary approach. The course will cover patterns of violence including sexual violence; biological, psychological, and social causes (e.g., economic deprivation, religious factors); specific types of violence; how media and the arts portray violence; the economic impact of violence; physical and mental consequences; and ways to control and prevent violence in our communities."
  -Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task Based Approach,teaching-efl-esl-reading,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-efl-esl-reading,Social Sciences,"University of London, UCL Institute of Education",This course explores ways of teaching reading skills in English as Second and Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) using a task-based approach. You will be introduced to the concept of task and the key principles of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and learning. TBLT uses communicative tasks as the key unit for creating language learning activities. You will also examine the role of reading in real-life and in second and foreign language teaching and current thinking about the interface between TBLT and second language reading.
  -K-12 Blended & Online Learning,k-12-online-education,https://coursera.org/learn/k-12-online-education,Social Sciences,University System of Georgia,This course introduces teachers and interested adults to K12 blended and online learning. Participants will design a blended or online unit and develop one module to use with K12 students.
  -Serious Gaming,erasmus-seriousgaming,https://coursera.org/learn/erasmus-seriousgaming,Social Sciences,Erasmus University Rotterdam,"In this MOOC you will learn the ins and outs of games that are designed with exactly those purposes in mind: serious games. We will define serious games and discuss the different types that have been developed. We will explain why people like to play them and what impact they may have. State of the art theories from game studies, philosophy and media psychology will be used to help you understand how serious games work and how they appeal to players. The potential impact of gaming is addressed in detail by discussing persuasive games, which aim at changing the player's attitude."
  -Chinese Politics Part 2 – China and the World,chinesepolitics2,https://coursera.org/learn/chinesepolitics2,Social Sciences,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,"One of the most significant changes in the world in the past 30 years is the opening of China to the outside world and its engagement with that world. In the initial years of the opening, external forces influenced China’s economy, regional balances, bureaucracy, as well as the political authority of local leaders in the coastal areas. More recently, the world is feeling the effects of a rising China which seeks resources and talent from all around the globe and uses its financial wealth to strengthen its position in the world. This course tracks the opening of China up from 1978 until it joins the WTO, focusing on how the world affected China’s internal development."
  -ADHD: Everyday Strategies for Elementary Students,adhd-everyday-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/adhd-everyday-strategies,Social Sciences,"The State University of New York, The University at Buffalo","This course will provide an overview of ADHD diagnosis and treatment. Course participants can expect to learn about ADHD as a developmental disorder that begins early in childhood, and participants will also learn about evidence-based approaches for diagnosing ADHD. Following that, two evidence-based treatment approaches (the Daily Report Card and Parenting Strategies) will be introduced. (Note these course activities are informational and are not intended to replace working with a licensed/trained professional)."
  -Psychology at Work,work-psychology,https://coursera.org/learn/work-psychology,Social Sciences,University of Western Australia,"We can spend up to a third of our time at work. It is fair to say work is a highly significant part of our lives. How do we find a job that suits us? How do we carry out our work in a productive way? How do we keep ourselves motivated and engaged at work? How can we effectively design work for other people? If you have been thinking about at least some of these questions, then this course is for you. In this course, you will learn how to use psychology to understand and improve the work life of yourself and those around you."
  -Introduction to Key Constitutional Concepts and Supreme Court Cases,constitution,https://coursera.org/learn/constitution,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"This course offers an introduction to the U.S. Constitution and landmark Supreme Court cases interpreting it. It explores the Constitution’s origins, its amendment over the years, and methods of constitutional interpretation. Topics include the nature and structure of the federal government, the powers of the federal government, and individual rights."
  -Politics and Economics of International Energy,global-energy,https://coursera.org/learn/global-energy,Social Sciences,Sciences Po,"Energy issues have always been important in international relations, but in recent years may have become even more important than in the past due to the widespread awareness of existing limits to energy sources and negative climate impacts. The course discusses global trends in energy consumption and production, various available scenarios for potential developments in the coming decades, the availability of oil reserves and the evolution of the oil industry. It then discusses natural gas and highlights the differences between oil and gas."
  -Turn Down the Heat: From Climate Science to Action,climate-science,https://coursera.org/learn/climate-science,Social Sciences,The World Bank Group,This action-oriented MOOC gives you the opportunity to learn about regional climate change impacts and sector-specific strategies to increase resilience and move towards a low-carbon future. You will have the opportunity to explore these issues in depth and tailor your learning experience for one or more of the following regions:
  -English Common Law: Structure and Principles,common-law,https://coursera.org/learn/common-law,Social Sciences,University of London,"The Common Law of England and Wales is one of the major global legal traditions. In order to understand the common law, we need to deal with its history, and the development of its characteristic institutions like the jury, judge made law, parliamentary sovereignty and due process. We also need to ask some critical questions. What role does democracy play in the development of the common law? To what extent are human rights central to the modern common law? How does the common law of England and Wales relate to the law of the European Union? Answering these questions will give us insights into the current challenges the law faces and its possible futures."
  -The Korean Economic Development,korean-economy,https://coursera.org/learn/korean-economy,Social Sciences,Yonsei University,"You will review the evolution of the Korean economy decade by decade since Korea’s independence from Japan in 1945. Major policies of each decade will be explained and their effect on the Korean economy will be analyzed. Also, the backgrounds and limitations of important policies will be scrutinized. By doing so, you will be able to compare the Korea experience with the other developing countries’."
  -Contemporary India ,india,https://coursera.org/learn/india,Social Sciences,The University of Melbourne,"This course presents some important vignettes of a complex, highly diverse India that is also witnessing unprecedented changes since its formal independence in 1947 from Great Britain. The lectures revolve around social dimensions of change, the continuing influence of ancient texts on contemporary India, political democracy, economic transition from the state to the market, gender relations, India's economic globalisation and changing world view."
  -e-Learning Ecologies: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning for the Digital Age,elearning,https://coursera.org/learn/elearning,Social Sciences,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"For three decades and longer we have heard educators and technologists making a case for the transformative power of technology in learning. However, despite the rhetoric, in many ways and at most institutional sites, education is still relatively untouched by technology. Even when technologies are introduced, the changes sometimes seem insignificant and the results seem disappointing. If the print textbook is replaced by an e-book, do the social relations of knowledge and learning necessarily change at all or for the better? If the pen-and-paper test is mechanized, does this change the nature of our assessment systems? Technology, in other words, need not necessarily bring significant change."
  -Understanding Russian Economy. Problems of Transition,economy-russia-transition,https://coursera.org/learn/economy-russia-transition,Social Sciences,Higher School of Economics,The purpose of the course is to bring the basic knowledge on the specific aspects of Russian economy that had significant impact on the latest development trends in Russia. This course will provide you with knowledge on: 1) the basics of economy; 2) understanding the role of market reforms in developing the key features of modern Russian economy; 3) understanding specific aspects of Russian economy; 4) cause-effect relationship of the most significant trends in Russia’s economic development; 5) instruments for analysis of Russian economy;
  -Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat,understandingterror,https://coursera.org/learn/understandingterror,Social Sciences,"University of Maryland, College Park","The course will begin with a unit looking at widely held myths about terrorism and utilizing empirical data to discuss the realities of broad trends and patterns in terrorist attacks over time. The course will then review the psychological factors at play in individual radicalization and recruitment into terrorism, followed by an analysis of terrorist group dynamics. The course will next look at terrorist group operations, including their attacks and some of the supporting behaviors that allow them to carry out attacks, including use of media, financing, recruitment, and training."
  -Microeconomics Principles,microeconomics,https://coursera.org/learn/microeconomics,Social Sciences,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course offers an introduction to the functions of individual decision-makers—both consumers and producers—within the larger economic system. Emphasis is on the nature and functions of product markets, the theory of the firm under varying conditions of competition and monopoly, and the role of government in promoting efficiency in the economy. Most people make the incorrect assumption that economics is ONLY the study of money. My primary goal in this course is to shatter this belief."
  -Microeconomics: When Markets Fail,microeconomics-part2,https://coursera.org/learn/microeconomics-part2,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"Perfect markets achieve efficiency: maximizing total surplus generated. But real markets are imperfect. In this course we will explore a set of market imperfections to understand why they fail and to explore possible remedies including as antitrust policy, regulation, government intervention. Examples are taken from everyday life, from goods and services that we all purchase and use. We will apply the theory to current events and policy debates through weekly exercises. These will empower you to be an educated, critical thinker who can understand, analyze and evaluate market outcomes."
  -The Importance of India,passport-to-india,https://coursera.org/learn/passport-to-india,Social Sciences,The Ohio State University,"Join us as we explore India - the fastest growing economy in the world and one of the most diverse places on earth. India is an important player in the human story and is making a rapid return to centre stage. Learning about India has never been more relevant to our lives and possibly our careers. This course, developed through a grant from the U.S. Department of State’s Passport to India initiative, is designed to introduce people of all backgrounds and ages to India and its potential as a destination for study, research, work and entrepreneurship."
  -"Agriculture, Economics and Nature",agriculture-economics-nature,https://coursera.org/learn/agriculture-economics-nature,Social Sciences,University of Western Australia,"Sound economic thinking is crucial for farmers because they depend on good economic decision making to survive. Governments depend on economic information to make good policy decisions on behalf of the community. This course will help you to contribute to better decision making by farmers, or by agencies servicing agriculture, and it will help you to understand why farmers respond to policies and economic opportunities in the ways they do."
  -"Data Collection: Online, Telephone and Face-to-face",data-collection-methods,https://coursera.org/learn/data-collection-methods,Social Sciences,University of Michigan,"This course presents research conducted to increase our understanding of how data collection decisions affect survey errors. This is not a “how–to-do-it” course on data collection, but instead reviews the literature on survey design decisions and data quality in order to sensitize learners to how alternative survey designs might impact the data obtained from those surveys."
  -"Social Norms, Social Change",norms,https://coursera.org/learn/norms,Social Sciences,"University of Pennsylvania, Unicef","This is a course on social norms, the rules that glue societies together. It teaches how to diagnose social norms, and how to distinguish them from other social constructs, like customs or conventions. These distinctions are crucial for effective policy interventions aimed to create new, beneficial norms or eliminate harmful ones. The course teaches how to measure social norms and the expectations that support them, and how to decide whether they cause specific behaviors. The course is a joint Penn-UNICEF project, and it includes many examples of norms that sustain behaviors like child marriage, gender violence and sanitation practices."
  -Social and Economic Networks:  Models and Analysis,networksonline,https://coursera.org/learn/networksonline,Social Sciences,Stanford University,"Learn how to model social and economic networks and their impact on human behavior. How do networks form, why do they exhibit certain patterns, and how does their structure impact diffusion, learning, and other behaviors? We will bring together models and techniques from economics, sociology, math, physics, statistics and computer science to answer these questions."
  -Moralities of Everyday Life,moralities,https://coursera.org/learn/moralities,Social Sciences,Yale University,How can we explain kindness and cruelty? Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? Why do people so often disagree about moral issues? This course explores the psychological foundations of our moral lives.
  -Teach English Now! Course Design and Classroom Management,course-design,https://coursera.org/learn/course-design,Social Sciences,Arizona State University,"Learners will be introduced to designing lesson plans based on principles and knowledge of learning objectives, assessment plans, methods, materials, and learning activities. Learners will find and prepare appropriate teaching materials through careful analysis, adaptation and creation of professional resources."
  -Economics of Transition and Emerging Markets,economics-transition-emerging-markets,https://coursera.org/learn/economics-transition-emerging-markets,Social Sciences,Higher School of Economics,"The course analyzes challenges faced by transition and emerging-market economies, i.e., those middle- and low-income countries, which have conducted market-oriented economic reforms and become integrated into the global economy since 1990s. It starts from a brief history of communist economic system based on central planning in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe, its evolution and collapse at the end of 1980s/ early 1990s and subsequent transition to a market system in 1990s and 2000s."
  -Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling,digital-storytelling,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-storytelling,Social Sciences,University of Houston System,"Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling introduces educators to digital storytelling and explores ways to use digital stories to enhance students’ learning experiences. The course is designed to be comprehensive yet fundamental. By comprehensive we mean that the course provides a solid foundation for all of the components of a digital story and illustrates these components with tutorials, example stories, and links to additional readings. The course also provides a hands-on opportunity for learners to create their own digital stories. The course is fundamental because it covers the basic process of creating a digital story starting with just a simple script and as little as one image."
  -Cities are back in town : urban sociology for a globalizing urban world ,urban-development,https://coursera.org/learn/urban-development,Social Sciences,Sciences Po,Urbanization is reaching a new peak in the contemporary world with the rise of mega cities. Researchers try to make sense of these large urban areas using a variety of concepts. The class will review debates and present social science models of cities to analyse and compare contemporary developments.
  -Confronting Gender Based Violence: Global Lessons with Case Studies from India,gbv,https://coursera.org/learn/gbv,Social Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"This course introduces participants from the healthcare sector to gender based violence (GBV), including global epidemiology of GBV; health outcomes; seminal research; and clinical best practices for GBV prevention, support, and management. A core curriculum is supplemented by lectures that contextualize the content with specific examples and programs from around the world. The core curriculum introduces learners to a global perspective on gender based violence (GBV), and includes a review with Dr. Claudia Garcia-Moreno of the new WHO guidelines on responding to violence."
  -Information & Digital Literacy for University Success,digital-literacy,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-literacy,Social Sciences,The University of Sydney,"This Specialization is aimed at preparing students for undergraduate study in an English-speaking university. The course equips you for full participation and engagement with your studies by building awareness and understanding of the core values and expectations of academic culture, and providing you with practical strategies to apply to your studies. In this course, you will learn how to develop your Information & Digital Literacy Skills to help you achieve success in your university studies."
  -Cities are back in town : urban sociology for a globalizing urban world (Spanish),desarrollo-urbano,https://coursera.org/learn/desarrollo-urbano,Social Sciences,Sciences Po,"Los procesos de globalización y europeización respaldan el rápido desarrollo de las ciudades en distintas partes del mundo. En el mundo contemporáneo, el proceso de urbanización está alcanzando un nuevo pico con el incremento de las megalópolis (más de 15 millones de habitantes) como Calcuta, Los Ángeles, Daca, El Cairo, Tokio, Nueva York, Shanghái, Ciudad de México. o Seúl. Más allá de las metrópolis modernas, los investigadores intentan entender estas grandes zonas urbanas con el uso de distintos conceptos, tales como ""posmetrópolis"", ""ciudades globales"" y ""ciudades-regiones globales"". La clase estudiará debates y modelos de ciencias sociales de ciudades y metrópolis, para así analizar y comparar los desarrollos actuales. ¿Cómo podemos estudiar dichas ciudades cuando se convierten en megalópolis? ¿El tamaño importa, y para qué? ¿Acaso vemos la creación de un mundo urbano extenso o, en cambio, vemos más allá de la convergencia aparente de procesos complejos de globalización comprendidos en relación con el capitalismo globalizado? ¿"
  -"Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies",literacy-teaching-learning,https://coursera.org/learn/literacy-teaching-learning,Social Sciences,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course opens with an exploration of the social context and aims of literacy teaching and learning. It goes on to describe a range of historical and contemporary approaches to literacy pedagogy, including didactic, authentic, functional, and critical approaches. The course takes has a 'Multiliteracies' perspective, which aims to expand the definition of literacy to encompass today's multimodal communications, and the diversity of literacies across different social and culltural contexts."
  -Unethical Decision Making in Organizations,unethical-decision-making,https://coursera.org/learn/unethical-decision-making,Social Sciences,University of Lausanne,This course 'Unethical decision making in organizations : A seminar on the dark side of the force' will teach you how strong organizational contexts push good people towards unethical decisions. You will also learn how to protect yourself and your organization against such forces lurking in the dark.
  -Global Health Diplomacy,global-health-diplomacy,https://coursera.org/learn/global-health-diplomacy,Social Sciences,The State University of New York,"Having completed this course, learners will be able to: Describe and analyze the opportunities, challenges and limits of Global Health Diplomacy. Examine the diplomatic, financial, and geopolitical context that underlies global health decision-making. Explain the role of the many players in the space, including governments, philanthropists, and multilateral institutions ."
  -Game Theory II: Advanced Applications,game-theory-2,https://coursera.org/learn/game-theory-2,Social Sciences,"Stanford University, The University of British Columbia","Popularized by movies such as ""A Beautiful Mind"", game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Over four weeks of lectures, this advanced course considers how to design interactions between agents in order to achieve good social outcomes. Three main topics are covered: social choice theory (i.e., collective decision making and voting systems), mechanism design, and auctions."
  -Game Theory,game-theory-1,https://coursera.org/learn/game-theory-1,Social Sciences,"Stanford University, The University of British Columbia","Popularized by movies such as ""A Beautiful Mind,"" game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Beyond what we call `games' in common language, such as chess, poker, soccer, etc., it includes the modeling of conflict among nations, political campaigns, competition among firms, and trading behavior in markets such as the NYSE. How could you begin to model keyword auctions, and peer to peer file-sharing networks, without accounting for the incentives of the people using them?"
  -"Resilience in Children Exposed to Trauma, Disaster and War: Global Perspectives",resilience-in-children,https://coursera.org/learn/resilience-in-children,Social Sciences,University of Minnesota,"How do children overcome hazardous experiences to succeed in life? What can be done to protect young people at risk from trauma, war, disasters, and other adversities? Learn about the importance of fostering resilience in children at risk. During this course, participants will: learn how trauma can affect children and the systems they depend on, gain insight into core concepts, research methods and lessons learned in last 50 years of resilience research, learn how research is being applied in the real world through interventions that promote resilience, and engage in discussions with others who are working with children at risk around the world"
  -Humanitarian communication : Addressing key challenges,humanitarian-communication,https://coursera.org/learn/humanitarian-communication,Social Sciences,University of Geneva,Learn how to address the main challenges of communication in humanitarian settings and how to implement a communication plan in the midst of humanitarian action.
  -Multimodal Literacies: Communication and Learning in the Era of Digital Media ,multimodal-literacies,https://coursera.org/learn/multimodal-literacies,Social Sciences,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course introduces innovative approaches to learning and teaching, with a focus on the use of e-learning and social web technologies."
  -Corruption,wharton-corruption,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-corruption,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"You can't understand the world today if you don't understand corruption. Every day, we see high-level government officials resigning, governments changing, hundreds of thousands of people standing in squares, holding up signs, and often risking their lives to protest the corruption in the world. It's critically important to the health of our societies to understand what people are protesting against. We want to understand corruption. This course is designed to teach you about what corruption is, what causes corruption, the effects of corruption, and how to control corruption. We'll be talking about this from a global perspective using examples from all over the world."
  -Understanding Korean Politics,understanding-korean-politics,https://coursera.org/learn/understanding-korean-politics,Social Sciences,Yonsei University,"This course will select six most outstanding issues in contemporary Korean politics and will engage in an in-depth, interactive inquiry of those issue. They include Korean politics in history, institutional setting of Korean politics, and dynamics of political culture in Korea, profiles of political leadership, myth and reality of the developmental state and the Korean economic miracle, and debates on Korean unification. The course will expose students to contending theories and empirical reality at first hand."
  -Learning to Teach Online,teach-online,https://coursera.org/learn/teach-online,Social Sciences,UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales),Are you an educator? Have you ever wanted to understand more about how to design your class to make better use of educational technology – whether fully online or in blended contexts? Would you like to learn from those who have extensive practical experience with online technologies? The Learning to Teach Online (LTTO) MOOC will help you develop a working understanding of successful online teaching strategies that you can apply in your own practice. The course is based upon the multi award winning open educational resource developed by Dr Simon McIntyre and Karin Watson.
  -Economics of Money and Banking,money-banking,https://coursera.org/learn/money-banking,Social Sciences,Columbia University,"The last three or four decades have seen a remarkable evolution in the institutions that comprise the modern monetary system. The financial crisis of 2007-2009 is a wakeup call that we need a similar evolution in the analytical apparatus and theories that we use to understand that system. Produced and sponsored by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, this course is an attempt to begin the process of new economic thinking by reviving and updating some forgotten traditions in monetary thought that have become newly relevant."
  -Public Economics,public-economics,https://coursera.org/learn/public-economics,Social Sciences,Higher School of Economics,"This course offers an introduction into the public economics theory. It does not aspire to cover theories of taxation, public expenditures, regulation etc. at length and in-depth. Rather, our ambition is to give a bird's-eye view of central themes of public economics and related disciplines, and teach concepts, logic, and ideas, rather than methods of analysis, which would require an entirely different course format. Our choice of topics covered by the course reflects a trade-off between salience and centrality, on the one hand, and suitability for a brief online introductory course, on the other."
  -Problem Solving Skills for University Success,problem-solving-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/problem-solving-skills,Social Sciences,The University of Sydney,"In this course, you will learn how to develop your Problem Solving and Creativity Skills to help you achieve success in your university studies. After completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Recognise the importance and function of problem solving and creative thought within academic study and the role of critical thought in creative ideation. 2. Develop a toolkit to be able to identify real problems and goals within ill-defined problems 3. Recognize and apply analytical problem solving techniques 4. Recognise and apply creative problem solving techniques 5. Identify the use of creativity within and types of problems most common to your field 6. Apply learnt problem solving and creative ideation skills to a real-life context and reflect on personal learning processes"
  -Journalism Skills for Engaged Citizens,citizenjournalism,https://coursera.org/learn/citizenjournalism,Social Sciences,The University of Melbourne,"This is a course in basic journalism skills, designed for the many people who are now taking advantage of new media to publish news, views and information. For five hundred years, the privilege of being able to publish was enjoyed by very few people – those who had access to a printing press or a radio microphone or a television camera. Now, almost anyone can publish to the world within minutes of being able to do so. But is it journalism?"
  -"Configuring the World, part 1: Comparative Political Economy",comparative-political-economy,https://coursera.org/learn/comparative-political-economy,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"In today’s world, politics and economics are inextricably interconnected, but what is the nature of this connectivity? What are the power relationships that shape the world economy today and create new challenges for international institutions facing globalization? What makes some countries wealthier than others? Do we face cultural diversity or fragmentation? Does the type of governance effect economic development and social change or is it the other way around? How do we measure it and how trustworthy is the data? These issues and many more will be examined in this course along with up-to-date sources and biting criticism."
  -Ethical Social Media ,ethical-social-media,https://coursera.org/learn/ethical-social-media,Social Sciences,The University of Sydney,"Social media connects us across space and time, allowing us to find like-minded communities and participate creatively in public life as never before. We may often use social media without thinking much about the possible consequences. But there is a shadow side associated with social media use, which takes the form of hate speech, increased surveillance, lack of anonymity and questionable use of our data. What do we need to know to use social media spaces effectively, in a way that is safe and productive for all? This course will guide you into a deeper exploration of online identity, social media communities and their users."
  -Geopolitics of Europe,geopolitics-europe,https://coursera.org/learn/geopolitics-europe,Social Sciences,Sciences Po,"""Geopolitics of Europe"" offers a dynamic program on both tensions and issues within the European Union, as well as its interactions with the rest of the world. Through maps, iconography, videos, computer graphics and role playing, the Mooc renders the main geopolitical issues appropriate to Europe while focusing on its representations around the world. Definitely multi-disciplinary, this Mooc offers the learners a real tool box built up through a combination of History, Geopolitics, Economics, Political science, Geography and Law."
  -International Law In Action: Investigating and Prosecuting International Crimes,international-law-in-action-2,https://coursera.org/learn/international-law-in-action-2,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,‘Investigating and Prosecuting International Crimes’ is the second course in Leiden University’s new series on International Law in Action. The first course covered international courts and tribunals in The Hague in general. This second course provides an insider perspective into the work of international criminal courts and tribunals. You will learn about the investigation and prosecution of international crimes in The Hague. Atrocities produce unspeakable forms of violence. We will explore whether and how international criminal justice contribute to what UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon called the ‘age of accountability’.
  -Becoming a Sports Agent,sports-agent,https://coursera.org/learn/sports-agent,Social Sciences,Case Western Reserve University,"An immersive experience in the world of sports that will take students through the four stages of a professional athlete's career. Utilizing lectures, guest speakers, reading assignments and hypothetical walkthroughs, students will learn how the best sports agents manage clients at each of these four stages. This course will provide each student with the skills necessary to guide an athlete through the difficult decisions that can make or lose the athlete millions of dollars, as well as affect their public image and career. Walking through the four stages of an athlete's career, we will provide a broad scope of the landscape of amateur and professional sports so that you can avoid the pitfalls and traps that so many have fallen into in the past; not to mention, bringing you updates throughout the course regarding the rapidly changing sports world that we live in today."
  -The Social Context of Mental Health and Illness,mental-health,https://coursera.org/learn/mental-health,Social Sciences,University of Toronto,"This course explores how our understanding of mental health and illness has been influenced by social attitudes and social developments in North America and around the world. The course begins by situating our contemporary mental health practices in historical context, then looks at different aspects of mental health, mental illness and mental health services and their connections to what’s going on in our social environment."
  -Israel State and Society ,israel,https://coursera.org/learn/israel,Social Sciences,Hebrew University of Jerusalem,"Israel is a country that draws a lot of public attention around the globe. Nevertheless, both those who support Israel and those who are critical of its geopolitical standing and policies, usually have a very limited knowledge about the Israeli society and its political system. This course presents Israel from multiple perspectives - political, social, economic and cultural - in an attempt to expose the learners to a cutting edge academic research on the country."
  -Advertising and Society,role-of-advertising,https://coursera.org/learn/role-of-advertising,Social Sciences,Duke University,"The course covers a wide range of topics, including the origins of advertising, the creation of ads, the interpretation of ads, the depiction of race, class, gender, and sexuality in advertising, sex and selling, adverting and ethics, and the future of advertising. The lectures will discuss theoretical frameworks and apply them to specific advertisements."
  -Understanding Russians: Contexts of Intercultural Communication,intercultural-communication-russians,https://coursera.org/learn/intercultural-communication-russians,Social Sciences,Higher School of Economics,"In the course “Understanding Russians: Contexts of Intercultural Communications"": we will: 1) Build skills in the analysis of the intercultural communication process using Russian-Western communication as an example. 2) Apply the knowledge of interrelations between different contexts of communication (cultural, institutional, professional, social, interpersonal, etc.) to the cultural history and national psychology of Russians."
  -Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills,atc21s,https://coursera.org/learn/atc21s,Social Sciences,The University of Melbourne,"This MOOC is designed principally for practicing teachers who are wondering exactly how they can incorporate teaching and assessment of 21st century skills into their classrooms, labs or workshops. It will also be useful to trainee teachers, school leaders, teacher educators and curriculum and assessment specialists, providing them with an understanding of the challenges associated with teaching and assessment of 21st century skills. This course explains the social and cognitive skills that are known as 21st century skills. It reviews how they can be represented in the curriculum, in terms of developmental progressions."
  -Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Tools,teaching-learning-tools,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-learning-tools,Social Sciences,University of Houston System,"In this course you will learn about a wide variety of Web 2.0 tools to use in your teaching and learning. Web 2.0 tools provide innovative ways to communicate, present content, and collaborate with others in creative ways. Web 2.0 tools are easy to learn, use, and implement, and many are free. This course will not only introduce you to popular Web 2.0 tools like Edmodo, Twitter, Voicethread, and Skype in K-16 instruction, but you will also learn how to effectively integrate these technologies into your classroom practices and create engaging student activities."
  -Introduction to Psychology,introduction-psych,https://coursera.org/learn/introduction-psych,Social Sciences,University of Toronto,"This course will highlight the most interesting experiments within the field of psychology, discussing the implications of those studies for our understanding of the human mind and human behavior. We will explore the brain and some of the cognitive abilities it supports like memory, learning, attention, perception and consciousness. We will examine human development - both in terms of growing up and growing old - and will discuss the manner in which the behavior of others affect our own thoughts and behavior. Finally we will discuss various forms of mental illness and the treatments that are used to help those who suffer from them."
  -The Bilingual Brain,bilingual,https://coursera.org/learn/bilingual,Social Sciences,University of Houston System,"This course explores the brain bases of bilingualism by discussing literature relevant to differences in age of initial learning, proficiency, and control in the nonverbal, single language and dual-language literature. Participants will learn about the latest research related to how humans learn one or two languages and other cognitive skills."
  -Chemerinsky on Constitutional Law - The Structure of Government,chemerinsky-on-constitutional-law-structure-of-government,https://coursera.org/learn/chemerinsky-on-constitutional-law-structure-of-government,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","This course will highlight the construction and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution through the centuries. You'll learn the history behind the Constitution, cases that formed important precedent, and how changes in interpretation have been dependent on shifts in cultural and political climate as well as the composition of the Supreme Court. We'll start with an overview of the Constitution where we'll consider questions such as ""Why the Constitution?"" and ""What function does the Constitution serve?"" Next we'll examine how the Constitution and its subsequent interpretation established the powers of the federal, legislative, and judicial branches of government and allocated powers to the states."
  -"Social Norms, Social Change II",change,https://coursera.org/learn/change,Social Sciences,"University of Pennsylvania, Unicef","This course covers scripts and schemas, the cognitive structures in which social expectations are embedded, and their relationship with social norms. The course then examines the essentials of norm abandonment, including the relations between personal beliefs and social expectations. We will also evaluate existing intervention strategies, including legal reforms, information campaigns, economic incentives, and group deliberations. Finally, we look at a variety of tools policy makers may use to effect change, highlight the role of trendsetters in social change, and explore the conditions under which they can be successful. The course is a joint Penn-UNICEF project."""
  -Communication Skills for University Success,communication-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/communication-skills,Social Sciences,The University of Sydney,"This Specialization is aimed at preparing students for undergraduate study in an English-speaking university. The course equips you for full participation and engagement with your studies by building awareness and understanding of the core values and expectations of academic culture, and providing you with practical strategies to apply to your studies. In this course, you will learn how to develop your Communication Skills to help you achieve success in your university studies. After completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Recognise the importance of communication in communities of practice at university 2. Understand contexts of communication at university and associated expectations 3. Communicate clearly across a variety of different contexts and to a wide range of audiences by adapting communicative styles appropriately"
  -ICT in Primary Education: Transforming children's learning across the curriculum,ict-primary-education,https://coursera.org/learn/ict-primary-education,Social Sciences,university of London,"Why and how are teachers integrating ICT (Information and Communication Technology) into primary education? In this course we analyse examples from schools in different parts of the world, and bring professional teachers, headteachers and policymakers together to share their best ideas and inspiring stories. The materials in the course are based on studies carried out for the UNESCO Institute of IT in Education, Moscow. Learning Outcomes: to be aware of the range of reasons for using ICT to critique the strategies for developing ICT over time to analyse the strengths and weakness of different decision-making mechanisms"
  -Introduction to Human Behavioral Genetics,behavioralgenetics,https://coursera.org/learn/behavioralgenetics,Social Sciences,University of Minnesota,Behavioral genetic methodologies from twin and adoption studies through DNA analysis will be described and applied to address longstanding questions about the origins of individual differences in behavioral traits.
  -Human Rights for Open Societies,humanrights,https://coursera.org/learn/humanrights,Social Sciences,Utrecht University,"Human rights are under pressure in many places across the globe. Peaceful protests are violently quashed. Voting is tampered with. And minorities are often excluded from decision-making. All of this threatens the ideal of an open society in which each of us can be free and participate equally. A solid protection of human rights is needed for an open society to exist and to flourish. But it is often an uphill battle to work towards that ideal. Equip yourself and learn more about what human rights are and how they work. In this course, we will introduce you to one of the world’s most intricate human rights systems: the European Convention on Human Rights. You will see when and how people can turn to the European Court of Human Rights to complain about human rights violations."
  -Children's Human Rights - An Interdisciplinary Introduction,childrens-rights,https://coursera.org/learn/childrens-rights,Social Sciences,University of Geneva,"Drawing on the contributions of several academic disciplines including law, psychology, sociology, history, educational and health sciences, economy and anthropology, an interdisciplinary approach guides the student into a selection of critical issues concerning children’s rights. Participants will gain insight relative to the development of this specific human rights category, as well as to the evolution of the challenges faced by children over time and society’s efforts to respond. Successful international strategies and programs promoting children’s rights will be highlighted, as well as the role of key actors involved in international organizations working in this field. This open online course provides an overview of the most important features of children’s human rights."
  -The Changing Global Order,changing-global-order,https://coursera.org/learn/changing-global-order,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"How are international power relations changing and how can global peace and stability be maintained? This course familiarizes you with some main theories of international relations, shows how the global order is gradually changing and discusses how selected international and regional organizations contribute to the maintenance of global peace and security. You learn what research findings tell us in terms of the capacity of international organizations and actors to help prevent or stop violent conflict, what tools are used to negotiate agreements and how foundations for sustainable peace are best created. We will also focus on the role of the European Union in terms of diplomacy and efforts to prevent conflict, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the contribution of organizations such as the African Union to the prevention of conflict and war. We will study the United Nations Security Council and see in which ways its membership could be adapted to more accurately reflect the power relations of the current global order."
  -Chemerinsky on Constitutional Law – Individual Rights and Liberties,chemerinsky-individual-rights,https://coursera.org/learn/chemerinsky-individual-rights,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","In this course we will investigate the protection of individual rights and liberties and take a look at what rights are and are not protected and investigate several important shifts in jurisprudence. We'll begin by examining the structure of the Constitution's protection of individual rights. We'll then examine the circumstances under which, various rights and liberties can be regulated by the federal, state, and local government. We'll examine when the government can permissibly treat people unequally and when it can't. In our final two lectures, we'll take a close look at what is probably the most famous amendment to the Constitution, the First Amendment."
  -Economics from a pluralist perspective,economicsfromapluralistperspective,https://coursera.org/learn/economicsfromapluralistperspective,Social Sciences,Erasmus University Rotterdam,"This is the first online course that teaches economics from a pluralist perspective. Economic pluralism means that a plurality of theoretical and methodological viewpoints is regarded as valuable in itself and is simply the best way in which economics can make progress in understanding the world. This MOOC will illustrate economic pluralism not only in substance but also in form. You will see not only me, a Professor of Economics, but also a pop-up Prof of our business school, who illustrates the actor perspective of firms, government and civil society. And you will meet an online student, based in Greece, who will help you through the tutorial videos in which I will explain key concepts, tools and techniques."
  -Orchestrating Whole Classroom Discussion,classdiscussion,https://coursera.org/learn/classdiscussion,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"This course offers strategies that can lead to richer, more productive, whole-class discussions in their classrooms. Focusing on how to prepare for discussion, this course is for anyone who leads, wants to lead, or is interested in how teachers lead discussion. Across the 4 sessions in this course, we’ll learn more about what teachers and students need to do to prepare for rich discussions, including understanding: 1. What is (and isn't) discussion, and why discussion is important 2. How teachers set goals for discussion, and establish explicit norms that support these objectives 3. How teachers select texts and prepare text-based questions to guide the conversation 4. How teachers – based on these goals, norms, texts, and questions – then prepare students for the whole-class discussion"
  -Critical Thinking Skills for University Success,critical-thinking-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/critical-thinking-skills,Social Sciences,The University of Sydney,"In this course, you will learn how to develop your Critical Thinking Skills to help you achieve success in your university studies. After completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Use critical thinking and argumentation in university contexts to improve academic results 2. Understand the importance and function of critical thinking in academic culture 3. Use a variety of thinking tools to improve critical thinking 4. Identify types of argument, and bias within arguments, in order to better evaluate the strength of arguments 5. Use evidence to support claims in arguments 6. Apply critical thinking and argumentation to real world problems and issues"
  -Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens,news-literacy,https://coursera.org/learn/news-literacy,Social Sciences,"The University of Hong Kong, The State University of New York","Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent. As news consumers are bombarded with a constant stream of fake news, propaganda, hoaxes, rumors, satire, and advertising — that often masquerade as credible journalism — it is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. While the public’s faith in the news media erodes, purveyors of misinformation have helped give rise to troubling cultural trends and alarming political movements. This six-week course will help learners develop their critical thinking skills to enable them to better identify reliable information in news reports and to become better informed about the world in which we live. The course will discuss the key elements of journalism from the viewpoint of the news audience."
  -EU policy and implementation: making Europe work! ,eu-making-europe-work,https://coursera.org/learn/eu-making-europe-work,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"People have become more critical of European policy and often seem to prefer local policy solutions in response to globalisation problems. How do you experience EU policy? Does it help? And if not, how can we change this? In this course, we learn how EU policy is made, and how policy is transferred to member states and implemented by various authorities, including regional and local governments. We discuss the challenges of the European multi-level governance structure. We also focus on the main causes of policy failure or success. On this journey, we focus on actual policy and present the views of various experts: how easy is it to establish yourself in another EU-country? How do governments make sure that the air you breathe is clean? And who is responsible?"
  -Security & Safety Challenges in a Globalized World,security-safety-globalized-world,https://coursera.org/learn/security-safety-globalized-world,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"Security and safety challenges rank among the most pressing issues of modern times. Challenges such as, cyber-crime, terrorism, and environmental disasters impact the lives of millions across the globe. These issues also rank high on the agenda of politicians, international organizations and businesses. They also feature prominently in the public conscience and in governmental policies."
  -Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2: Developing Effective Interventions,water-part-2,https://coursera.org/learn/water-part-2,Social Sciences,University of Manchester,"Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2 is our second MOOC in a two-part sequence, and looks at ‘Developing Effective Interventions’. Here we invite you to develop analytical skills and deep understanding about a complex, controversial policy problem – one with no simple, easy answers. About half a billion people on our planet still lack access to improved water supplies and about two billion do not have improved sanitation services, leading to an unknown but very large number of avoidable deaths each year from water-related diseases. Millions of dollars are spent on avoidable health care expenditures, and people – mostly women – spend many billions of hours carrying water from sources outside the home. Reducing these costs is a major global challenge for us all in the 21st century."
  -Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 1: Understanding Complex Problems,water,https://coursera.org/learn/water,Social Sciences,University of Manchester,"Our course explores what can be done to solve the complex problem that half a billion people worldwide do not have improved water supplies and two billion do not have improved sanitation. We look forward to you joining us. We want to help you develop the skills you need to address this major global challenge of the 21st century. Our course has informative video lectures and guest interviews with leading water policy scholars and practitioners. We will provide you with discussion forum topic prompts, which will invite you to engage with other learners from around the globe."
  -世界空间、法国视角下的国际研究,espace-mondial-cn,https://coursera.org/learn/espace-mondial-cn,Social Sciences,Sciences Po,为了解释全球化是如何重构公共政策和再塑社会行为，我们将研究不同的政治、经济行为体、研究各类——公共或私人，个体或集体——社会行为体，并着眼关注到它们之间的交流和互动作用，这些行为
  -Smart Cities – Management of Smart Urban Infrastructures,smart-cities,https://coursera.org/learn/smart-cities,Social Sciences,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"Learn about Smart Cities within the context of management of urban infrastructures. The introduction of Smart urban technologies into legacy infrastructures has resulted in numerous challenges and opportunities for contemporary cities and will continue to do so. This course will help you to understand how to make the best of these smart technologies in your cities’ legacy infrastructures. Over the past few years, advances in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have significantly challenged the traditionally stable land scape of urban infrastructure service provision. This has resulted in increasing interest from both technology vendors and public authorities in the transition of cities towards so-called “Smart Cities”. Although such “Smart technologies” can provide immense opportunities for citizens and service providers alike, the ICTs often act as disruptive innovators of urban infrastructure service provision."
  -Mindware: Critical Thinking for the Information Age ,mindware,https://coursera.org/learn/mindware,Social Sciences,University of Michigan,"Most professions these days require more than general intelligence. They require in addition the ability to collect, analyze and think about data. Personal life is enriched when these same skills are applied to problems in everyday life involving judgment and choice. This course presents basic concepts from statistics, probability, scientific methodology, cognitive psychology and cost-benefit theory and shows how they can be applied to everything from picking one product over another to critiquing media accounts of scientific research. Concepts are defined briefly and breezily and then applied to many examples drawn from business, the media and everyday life."
  -Social Science Approaches to the Study of Chinese Society Part 1,soscapproachchina1,https://coursera.org/learn/soscapproachchina1,Social Sciences,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,"This course seeks to turn learners into informed consumers of social science research. It introduces concepts, standards, and principles of social science research to the interested non-expert. Learners who complete the course will be able to assess evidence and critically evaluate claims about important social phenomena. It reviews the origins and development of social science, describes the process of discovery in contemporary social science research, and explains how contemporary social science differs from apparently related fields. It describes the goals, basic paradigms, and methodologies of the major social science disciplines. It offers an overview of the major questions that are the focus of much contemporary social science research, overall and for China."
  -Introduction to the Orbital Perspective,orbitalperspective,https://coursera.org/learn/orbitalperspective,Social Sciences,"University of Arizona, University of Florida, Drexel University","The goals of this course are to develop the student’s critical thinking skills, global awareness, and ability to work as an integral part of a team in an increasingly complex global job market. The course provides a foundation in such skills as team building, collaboration, and elevated empathy using real-world scenarios from some of world’s most effective collaborative projects including the Earthrise-2068 Project. Living on the International Space Station was a powerful, transformative experience—one that could hold the key to solving our problems here on Earth. On space walks and through windows, course instructor Ron Garan was struck by the stunning beauty of the Earth from space but sobered by knowing how much needed to be done to help this troubled planet."
  -"Sampling People, Networks and Records",sampling-methods,https://coursera.org/learn/sampling-methods,Social Sciences,University of Michigan,"Good data collection is built on good samples. But the samples can be chosen in many ways. Samples can be haphazard or convenient selections of persons, or records, or networks, or other units, but one questions the quality of such samples, especially what these selection methods mean for drawing good conclusions about a population after data collection and analysis is done. Samples can be more carefully selected based on a researcher’s judgment, but one then questions whether that judgment can be biased by personal factors. Samples can also be draw in statistically rigorous and careful ways, using random selection and control methods to provide sound representation and cost control. It is these last kinds of samples that will be discussed in this course."
  -Aboriginal Worldviews and Education,aboriginal-education,https://coursera.org/learn/aboriginal-education,Social Sciences,University of Toronto,"Intended for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal learners, this course will explore indigenous ways of knowing and how they can benefit all students. Topics include historical, social, and political issues in Aboriginal education; terminology; cultural, spiritual and philosophical themes in Aboriginal worldviews; and how Aboriginal worldviews can inform professional programs and practices, including but not limited to the field of education."
  -"Gender, Family, and Social Change in Contemporary South Korea",social-change-korea,https://coursera.org/learn/social-change-korea,Social Sciences,Yonsei University,"This course examines the transformation of Korean society beginning around the turn of the 20th century to contemporary times. In particular, it explores how shifting categories of masculinity, and by contrast, femininity have impacted upon, and in turn been influenced by social, cultural, and political change. Using multiple disciplinary lenses, we will critically examine how gender intersects with political, social, and economic developments starting with the Confucianization of Korean society during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) up to the contemporary moment of globalization and neoliberal reform. The class will draw on a variety of topics such as traditional views of women, religion, race, class, education, patriarchy, sexuality, imperialism, modernity, war, globalization, the diaspora, among others. Special attention will be placed on the historical, transnational and transdisciplinary connections."
  +Positive Psychology: Applications and Interventions,positive-psychology-applications,https://coursera.org/learn/positive-psychology-applications,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"Positive interventions are one of the building blocks for the application of positive psychology in our day-to-day lives. Some existing positive interventions have emerged directly through research, while others emerged from the world of practice and are researched later. In this course we will explore positive interventions through theory, research and practice."
   "Positive Psychology: Character, Grit and Research Methods",positive-psychology-methods,https://coursera.org/learn/positive-psychology-methods,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"Through the study of Angela Duckworth's and Claire Robertson-Kraft's article ""True Grit"" along with viewing interviews with researchers and practitioners, students will learn how apply research methods to their study of Positive Psychology. Students will learn how to develop a research hypothesis and how to understand the difference between internal and external validity. Students will begin to understand and apply the strengths and weaknesses associated with different types of measurements and evaluation designs and interpret the results in an empirical study."
   Positive Psychology: Martin E. P. Seligman’s Visionary Science,positive-psychology-visionary-science,https://coursera.org/learn/positive-psychology-visionary-science,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"This course explores the past, present, and future of Positive Psychology as a journey through the key scientific leaps led by Dr. Seligman and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania."
  -Positive Psychology: Applications and Interventions,positive-psychology-applications,https://coursera.org/learn/positive-psychology-applications,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"Positive interventions are one of the building blocks for the application of positive psychology in our day-to-day lives. Some existing positive interventions have emerged directly through research, while others emerged from the world of practice and are researched later. In this course we will explore positive interventions through theory, research and practice."
  -China’s Economic Transformation Part 1: Economic Reform and Growth in China,econtransform1,https://coursera.org/learn/econtransform1,Social Sciences,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,"This course will examine in detail the reforms that have contributed to China’s economic development and the current challenges facing the Chinese economy. After completing this course, you will be able to: - describe the origin and consequences of China’s key economic reforms since 1978; - explain how features of China’s fiscal and financial systems have impacted development outcomes; - assess the extent to which China has integrated itself into the global economy and the consequences of such integration for China and other countries; - explain the importance of different sources of economic growth during different periods since 1978; and - critically assess the economic and policy challenges facing China going forward."
  -Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally,children-literacy,https://coursera.org/learn/children-literacy,Social Sciences,"University of California, Santa Cruz","In this short course you will explore the possibility that children might acquire written language in a way that is similar to how they acquire spoken language—without instruction. You will encounter various aspects of behavioral science and technology that are relevant to this proposition. You will have the opportunity to learn the the perceptual, cognitive, and neurological capacities of children during their first years of life. You will advance your understanding of children and how they learn language. You will also be more attuned to current advances in the technology of human machine interactions, and what these phenomena imply for learning to read at an early age."
  +Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling,digital-storytelling,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-storytelling,Social Sciences,University of Houston System,"Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling introduces educators to digital storytelling and explores ways to use digital stories to enhance students’ learning experiences. The course is designed to be comprehensive yet fundamental. By comprehensive we mean that the course provides a solid foundation for all of the components of a digital story and illustrates these components with tutorials, example stories, and links to additional readings. The course also provides a hands-on opportunity for learners to create their own digital stories. The course is fundamental because it covers the basic process of creating a digital story starting with just a simple script and as little as one image."
  +Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Tools,teaching-learning-tools,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-learning-tools,Social Sciences,University of Houston System,"In this course you will learn about a wide variety of Web 2.0 tools to use in your teaching and learning. Web 2.0 tools provide innovative ways to communicate, present content, and collaborate with others in creative ways. Web 2.0 tools are easy to learn, use, and implement, and many are free. This course will not only introduce you to popular Web 2.0 tools like Edmodo, Twitter, Voicethread, and Skype in K-16 instruction, but you will also learn how to effectively integrate these technologies into your classroom practices and create engaging student activities."
  +Problem Solving Skills for University Success,problem-solving-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/problem-solving-skills,Social Sciences,The University of Sydney,"In this course, you will learn how to develop your Problem Solving and Creativity Skills to help you achieve success in your university studies. After completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Recognise the importance and function of problem solving and creative thought within academic study and the role of critical thought in creative ideation. 2. Develop a toolkit to be able to identify real problems and goals within ill-defined problems 3. Recognize and apply analytical problem solving techniques 4. Recognise and apply creative problem solving techniques 5. Identify the use of creativity within and types of problems most common to your field 6. Apply learnt problem solving and creative ideation skills to a real-life context and reflect on personal learning processes"
  +Property and Liability: An Introduction to Law and Economics,property-law-and-economics,https://coursera.org/learn/property-law-and-economics,Social Sciences,Wesleyan University,"Think about the oldest and most familiar principles of American law, property and proportional liability, in a new and surprising way, and learn to apply economic reasoning to an especially important and interesting aspect of life."
   Protection of Intellectual Property: an International Prospective,intellectual-property-protection,https://coursera.org/learn/intellectual-property-protection,Social Sciences,Higher School of Economics,"Learn about legal framework of trademark registration, protection and enforcement in Russia. You can also compare Russian approach with international standards enshrined in relevant treaties and discover problematic arears of trademark protection in the Russia.
   
   This course is on legal regulation of trademark protection in Russia. It explains the process of acquiring trademark in Russia, alternatives to trademark protection (such as firm names, trade names, names of origins), requirements for trademark validity, conditions under which trademarks are protected in Russia, scope of excusive trademark rights protection, peculiarities of assignment and licensing practice in Russia. The course also focuses on issues of trademark infringement, criteria applied by the Russian courts and relevant practice of the Russian Intellectual Property Court. It describes different remedies available to the trademark holders, including calculation of statutory damages under the Russian law for trademark infringement. 
   
   Russian trademark legislation and case law do not have long historical roots. This is the reason why this area of the Russian law may be characterized as very dynamic. Examples will be given to illustrate successful legal solutions (for example, trademark protection in domain names, exhaustion of trademark rights) and ongoing search for proper and balanced regulation (for example, regulation of parallel imports, antitrust regulation in trademark law, application of fair use doctrine o trademarks)."
  +Psychological First Aid,psychological-first-aid,https://coursera.org/learn/psychological-first-aid,Social Sciences,Johns Hopkins University,"Learn to provide psychological first aid to people in an emergency by employing the RAPID model: Reflective listening, Assessment of needs, Prioritization, Intervention, and Disposition. Utilizing the RAPID model (Reflective listening, Assessment of needs, Prioritization, Intervention, and Disposition), this specialized course provides perspectives on injuries and trauma that are beyond those physical in nature."
  +Psychology at Work,work-psychology,https://coursera.org/learn/work-psychology,Social Sciences,University of Western Australia,"We can spend up to a third of our time at work. It is fair to say work is a highly significant part of our lives. How do we find a job that suits us? How do we carry out our work in a productive way? How do we keep ourselves motivated and engaged at work? How can we effectively design work for other people? If you have been thinking about at least some of these questions, then this course is for you. In this course, you will learn how to use psychology to understand and improve the work life of yourself and those around you."
  +Psychology of Popularity,popularity,https://coursera.org/learn/popularity,Social Sciences,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"The level of popularity you experienced in childhood and adolescence is still affecting you today in ways that you may not even realize. Learn about how psychologists study popularity and how these same concepts can be used in adulthood to be more successful at work, become better parents, and have a happier life."
  +Public Economics,public-economics,https://coursera.org/learn/public-economics,Social Sciences,Higher School of Economics,"This course offers an introduction into the public economics theory. It does not aspire to cover theories of taxation, public expenditures, regulation etc. at length and in-depth. Rather, our ambition is to give a bird's-eye view of central themes of public economics and related disciplines, and teach concepts, logic, and ideas, rather than methods of analysis, which would require an entirely different course format. Our choice of topics covered by the course reflects a trade-off between salience and centrality, on the one hand, and suitability for a brief online introductory course, on the other."
  +Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century,public-policy,https://coursera.org/learn/public-policy,Social Sciences,University of Virginia,"This course introduces class participants to the political significance and societal consequences of challenges facing U.S. and international policymakers. It is designed to help participants develop skills to analyze policy proposals and advocate for their preferred options for issues on the public policy agenda ahead. The class assumes basic knowledge about governing institutions and democratic processes, while recommending supplemental materials for further study to complement reading links provided. The course focuses on future policy challenges, while examining the broad historical context in which policies are adopted and implemented."
  +Qualitative Research Methods,qualitative-methods,https://coursera.org/learn/qualitative-methods,Social Sciences,University of Amsterdam,"In this course you will be introduced to the basic ideas behind the qualitative research in social science. You will learn about data collection, description, analysis and interpretation in qualitative research. Qualitative research often involves an iterative process. We will focus on the ingredients required for this process: data collection and analysis. You won't learn how to use qualitative methods by just watching video's, so we put much stress on collecting data through observation and interviewing and on analysing and interpreting the collected data in other assignments."
  +Questionnaire Design for Social Surveys,questionnaire-design,https://coursera.org/learn/questionnaire-design,Social Sciences,University of Michigan,"This course will cover the basic elements of designing and evaluating questionnaires. We will review the process of responding to questions, challenges and options for asking questions about behavioral frequencies, practical techniques for evaluating questions, mode specific questionnaire characteristics, and review methods of standardized and conversational interviewing."
  +"Resilience in Children Exposed to Trauma, Disaster and War: Global Perspectives",resilience-in-children,https://coursera.org/learn/resilience-in-children,Social Sciences,University of Minnesota,"How do children overcome hazardous experiences to succeed in life? What can be done to protect young people at risk from trauma, war, disasters, and other adversities? Learn about the importance of fostering resilience in children at risk. During this course, participants will: learn how trauma can affect children and the systems they depend on, gain insight into core concepts, research methods and lessons learned in last 50 years of resilience research, learn how research is being applied in the real world through interventions that promote resilience, and engage in discussions with others who are working with children at risk around the world"
  +Rethinking International Tax Law,international-taxation,https://coursera.org/learn/international-taxation,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"In recent years, the international tax planning strategies of multinationals have become a source of – often heated – debate. This course provides learners with the tools to become fully informed participants in the debate by explaining the foundations and practice of international tax law as well as addressing current developments and the ethical aspects of tax planning."
  +"Revolutionary Ideas:  An Introduction to Legal and Political Philosophy, Part 1",political-philosophy,https://coursera.org/learn/political-philosophy,Social Sciences,University of Pennsylvania,"What is the purpose of government? Why should we have a State? What kind of State should we have? Even within a political community, there may be sharp disagreements about the role and purpose of government. Some want an active, involved government, seeing legal and political institutions as the means to solve our most pressing problems, and to help bring about peace, equality, justice, happiness, and to protect individual liberty."
  +"Sampling People, Networks and Records",sampling-methods,https://coursera.org/learn/sampling-methods,Social Sciences,University of Michigan,"Good data collection is built on good samples. But the samples can be chosen in many ways. Samples can be haphazard or convenient selections of persons, or records, or networks, or other units, but one questions the quality of such samples, especially what these selection methods mean for drawing good conclusions about a population after data collection and analysis is done. Samples can be more carefully selected based on a researcher’s judgment, but one then questions whether that judgment can be biased by personal factors. Samples can also be draw in statistically rigorous and careful ways, using random selection and control methods to provide sound representation and cost control. It is these last kinds of samples that will be discussed in this course."
  +Security & Safety Challenges in a Globalized World,security-safety-globalized-world,https://coursera.org/learn/security-safety-globalized-world,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"Security and safety challenges rank among the most pressing issues of modern times. Challenges such as, cyber-crime, terrorism, and environmental disasters impact the lives of millions across the globe. These issues also rank high on the agenda of politicians, international organizations and businesses. They also feature prominently in the public conscience and in governmental policies."
  +Serious Gaming,erasmus-seriousgaming,https://coursera.org/learn/erasmus-seriousgaming,Social Sciences,Erasmus University Rotterdam,"In this MOOC you will learn the ins and outs of games that are designed with exactly those purposes in mind: serious games. We will define serious games and discuss the different types that have been developed. We will explain why people like to play them and what impact they may have. State of the art theories from game studies, philosophy and media psychology will be used to help you understand how serious games work and how they appeal to players. The potential impact of gaming is addressed in detail by discussing persuasive games, which aim at changing the player's attitude."
  +Smart Cities – Management of Smart Urban Infrastructures,smart-cities,https://coursera.org/learn/smart-cities,Social Sciences,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"Learn about Smart Cities within the context of management of urban infrastructures. The introduction of Smart urban technologies into legacy infrastructures has resulted in numerous challenges and opportunities for contemporary cities and will continue to do so. This course will help you to understand how to make the best of these smart technologies in your cities’ legacy infrastructures. Over the past few years, advances in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have significantly challenged the traditionally stable land scape of urban infrastructure service provision. This has resulted in increasing interest from both technology vendors and public authorities in the transition of cities towards so-called “Smart Cities”. Although such “Smart technologies” can provide immense opportunities for citizens and service providers alike, the ICTs often act as disruptive innovators of urban infrastructure service provision."
  +Social and Economic Networks:  Models and Analysis,networksonline,https://coursera.org/learn/networksonline,Social Sciences,Stanford University,"Learn how to model social and economic networks and their impact on human behavior. How do networks form, why do they exhibit certain patterns, and how does their structure impact diffusion, learning, and other behaviors? We will bring together models and techniques from economics, sociology, math, physics, statistics and computer science to answer these questions."
  +Social Computing,social-computing,https://coursera.org/learn/social-computing,Social Sciences,"University of California, San Diego",People are social creatures and the modern Internet reflects that. Technology has made collaboration at a distance possible in new ways that present their own set of challenges. This course will introduce you to the major challenges and opportunities for creating online communities. What does the future hold? Learn how social computing can create collaboration experiences that go beyond what’s possible face to face.
  +Social Media in Public Relations,socmedpr,https://coursera.org/learn/socmedpr,Social Sciences,National University of Singapore,"Have you ever wondered why some videos go viral while others flop or how some companies have successfully leveraged Facebook and Twitter to reach out to their customers and clients? How are some companies able to effectively navigate the world of social media and build thriving online communities while others flounder, crash and burn? These questions along with many others concerning"
  +"Social Norms, Social Change",norms,https://coursera.org/learn/norms,Social Sciences,"University of Pennsylvania, Unicef","This is a course on social norms, the rules that glue societies together. It teaches how to diagnose social norms, and how to distinguish them from other social constructs, like customs or conventions. These distinctions are crucial for effective policy interventions aimed to create new, beneficial norms or eliminate harmful ones. The course teaches how to measure social norms and the expectations that support them, and how to decide whether they cause specific behaviors. The course is a joint Penn-UNICEF project, and it includes many examples of norms that sustain behaviors like child marriage, gender violence and sanitation practices."
  +"Social Norms, Social Change II",change,https://coursera.org/learn/change,Social Sciences,"University of Pennsylvania, Unicef","This course covers scripts and schemas, the cognitive structures in which social expectations are embedded, and their relationship with social norms. The course then examines the essentials of norm abandonment, including the relations between personal beliefs and social expectations. We will also evaluate existing intervention strategies, including legal reforms, information campaigns, economic incentives, and group deliberations. Finally, we look at a variety of tools policy makers may use to effect change, highlight the role of trendsetters in social change, and explore the conditions under which they can be successful. The course is a joint Penn-UNICEF project."""
  +Social Science Approaches to the Study of Chinese Society Part 1,soscapproachchina1,https://coursera.org/learn/soscapproachchina1,Social Sciences,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,"This course seeks to turn learners into informed consumers of social science research. It introduces concepts, standards, and principles of social science research to the interested non-expert. Learners who complete the course will be able to assess evidence and critically evaluate claims about important social phenomena. It reviews the origins and development of social science, describes the process of discovery in contemporary social science research, and explains how contemporary social science differs from apparently related fields. It describes the goals, basic paradigms, and methodologies of the major social science disciplines. It offers an overview of the major questions that are the focus of much contemporary social science research, overall and for China."
  +Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences - Unit 1: Historical Foundations,soulbeliefs,https://coursera.org/learn/soulbeliefs,Social Sciences,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Throughout history, the vast majority of people around the globe have believed they have, however defined, a “soul.” While the question of whether the soul exists cannot be answered by science, what we can study are the causes and consequences of various beliefs about the soul and its prospects of surviving the death of the body."
  +Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences - Unit 3: How Does It All End?,soulbeliefs3,https://coursera.org/learn/soulbeliefs3,Social Sciences,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"The course consists mainly of 70 to 80 minute lectures, typically broken up into 3 segments, recorded from a course offered by Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences. These videos include slides and some embedded video clips. Most lectures are accompanied by slides used during the lecture, also including recommended reading assignment which may provide additional opportunities to reflect on your studies."
  +Sports and Society,sports-society,https://coursera.org/learn/sports-society,Social Sciences,Duke University,"Sports play a giant role in contemporary society worldwide. But few of us pause to think about the larger questions of money, politics, race, sex, culture, and commercialization that surround sports everywhere. This course draws on the tools of anthropology, sociology, history, and other disciplines to give you new perspectives on the games we watch and play. It's the new and improved version of Professor Orin Starn's original ""Sports and Society"" for Coursera, which drew more than 40,000 students. We will focus on both popular sports like soccer (or “football,” as anyone outside America calls it), basketball, and baseball, and also lesser-known ones like mountain-climbing and fishing. You will never watch or think about sports in the same way again."
  +Supporting children with difficulties in reading and writing,dyslexia-difficulties,https://coursera.org/learn/dyslexia-difficulties,Social Sciences,"University of London, UCL Institute of Education, Dyslexia International","This course is for teachers to learn why some children have so much difficulty with reading and writing, often called 'dyslexia', and to learn more about best practice in teaching literacy to all in light of recent scientific discoveries."
  +Surviving Your Rookie Year of Teaching: 3 Key Ideas & High Leverage Techniques,rookie-teaching,https://coursera.org/learn/rookie-teaching,Social Sciences,Match Teacher Residency,Learn 3 high leverage ideas and techniques to thrive in your first (or fifteenth) year of teaching.
  +Teach English Now! Course Design and Classroom Management,course-design,https://coursera.org/learn/course-design,Social Sciences,Arizona State University,"Learners will be introduced to designing lesson plans based on principles and knowledge of learning objectives, assessment plans, methods, materials, and learning activities. Learners will find and prepare appropriate teaching materials through careful analysis, adaptation and creation of professional resources."
  +Teach English Now! Foundational Principles,english-principles,https://coursera.org/learn/english-principles,Social Sciences,Arizona State University,"Through a series of engaging metaphors and stories, prospective and current EFL/ESL teachers will identify, summarize, and evaluate 7 basic language learning paradigms. Learners will be presented information on such foundational principles as motivation, risk taking, two different modes of learning, and balancing the teacher profession. Learners are also given an understanding of basic techniques founded on those principles, such as teacher talk, looking “ridiculous” in order to lower the affective filter, and networking."
  +Teach English Now! Theories of Second Language Acquisition,language-theories,https://coursera.org/learn/language-theories,Social Sciences,Arizona State University,"In this course learners are introduced to second or foreign language theories and practices for teaching and assessing listening, speaking, and pronunciation. Learners will also be introduced to basic studies in second language acquisition and their pedagogical implications. Teachers will be invited to recognize the importance of grounding their own teaching philosophy through an examination of purpose, content, and technique"
  +Teaching Character and Creating Positive Classrooms ,teaching-character,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-character,Social Sciences,Relay Graduate School of Education,"Positive psychology meets K-12 pedagogy. This course explores key ideas of positive psychology and shows how great teachers apply those lessons to maximize student engagement and accomplishment. Through lectures, discussions, interviews and footage of great educators in action, you’ll learn how to integrate character-based objectives into your own teaching."
  +Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task Based Approach,teaching-efl-esl-reading,https://coursera.org/learn/teaching-efl-esl-reading,Social Sciences,"University of London, UCL Institute of Education",This course explores ways of teaching reading skills in English as Second and Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) using a task-based approach. You will be introduced to the concept of task and the key principles of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and learning. TBLT uses communicative tasks as the key unit for creating language learning activities. You will also examine the role of reading in real-life and in second and foreign language teaching and current thinking about the interface between TBLT and second language reading.
  +Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory and Practice,terrorism,https://coursera.org/learn/terrorism,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"These are just a handful of questions that will be addressed in this course that consists of three parts. First it focuses on the essence of terrorism as an instrument to achieve certain goals, in addition to an exploration of this phenomenon and the difficulties in defining it. The second part provides an overview of the state of the art in (counter) terrorism studies. Since ‘9/11’ terrorism studies have grown exponentially, reflecting the rise in perceived threats."
  +The Bilingual Brain,bilingual,https://coursera.org/learn/bilingual,Social Sciences,University of Houston System,"This course explores the brain bases of bilingualism by discussing literature relevant to differences in age of initial learning, proficiency, and control in the nonverbal, single language and dual-language literature. Participants will learn about the latest research related to how humans learn one or two languages and other cognitive skills."
  +The Changing Global Order,changing-global-order,https://coursera.org/learn/changing-global-order,Social Sciences,Universiteit Leiden,"How are international power relations changing and how can global peace and stability be maintained? This course familiarizes you with some main theories of international relations, shows how the global order is gradually changing and discusses how selected international and regional organizations contribute to the maintenance of global peace and security. You learn what research findings tell us in terms of the capacity of international organizations and actors to help prevent or stop violent conflict, what tools are used to negotiate agreements and how foundations for sustainable peace are best created. We will also focus on the role of the European Union in terms of diplomacy and efforts to prevent conflict, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the contribution of organizations such as the African Union to the prevention of conflict and war. We will study the United Nations Security Council and see in which ways its membership could be adapted to more accurately reflect the power relations of the current global order."
  +The Global Financial Crisis,global-financial-crisis,https://coursera.org/learn/global-financial-crisis,Social Sciences,Yale University,"Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner and Professor Andrew Metrick survey the causes, events, policy responses, and aftermath of the recent global financial crisis."
  +The Importance of India,passport-to-india,https://coursera.org/learn/passport-to-india,Social Sciences,The Ohio State University,"Join us as we explore India - the fastest growing economy in the world and one of the most diverse places on earth. India is an important player in the human story and is making a rapid return to centre stage. Learning about India has never been more relevant to our lives and possibly our careers. This course, developed through a grant from the U.S. Department of State’s Passport to India initiative, is designed to introduce people of all backgrounds and ages to India and its potential as a destination for study, research, work and entrepreneurship."
  +The Korean Economic Development,korean-economy,https://coursera.org/learn/korean-economy,Social Sciences,Yonsei University,"You will review the evolution of the Korean economy decade by decade since Korea’s independence from Japan in 1945. Major policies of each decade will be explained and their effect on the Korean economy will be analyzed. Also, the backgrounds and limitations of important policies will be scrutinized. By doing so, you will be able to compare the Korea experience with the other developing countries’."
  +The Power of Macroeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World,principles-of-macroeconomics,https://coursera.org/learn/principles-of-macroeconomics,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","In this course, you will learn all of the major principles of macroeconomics normally taught in a quarter or semester course to college undergraduates or MBA students. Perhaps more importantly, you will also learn how to apply these principles to a wide variety of situations in both your personal and professional lives. In this way, the Power of Macroeconomics will help you prosper in an increasingly competitive and globalized environment."
  +The Power of Microeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World,principles-of-microeconomics,https://coursera.org/learn/principles-of-microeconomics,Social Sciences,"University of California, Irvine","In this course, you will learn all of the major principles of microeconomics normally taught in a quarter or semester course to college undergraduates or MBA students. Perhaps more importantly, you will also learn how to apply these principles to a wide variety of real world situations in both your personal and professional lives. In this way, the Power of Microeconomics will help you prosper in an increasingly competitive environment."
  +The Social Context of Mental Health and Illness,mental-health,https://coursera.org/learn/mental-health,Social Sciences,University of Toronto,"This course explores how our understanding of mental health and illness has been influenced by social attitudes and social developments in North America and around the world. The course begins by situating our contemporary mental health practices in historical context, then looks at different aspects of mental health, mental illness and mental health services and their connections to what’s going on in our social environment."
  +"Time to Reorganize! Understand Organizations, Act, and Build a Meaningful World.",orgology,https://coursera.org/learn/orgology,Social Sciences,HEC Paris,"We are in constant relationship with many organizations. Our world is submitted to regular changes as organizations evolve, come and go. Understanding your memberships and attachments to organizations will help you act on your world. You'll learn how to evaluate the influence of organizations around you and how to transform your relationships to reach a stronger coherence."
  +Turn Down the Heat: From Climate Science to Action,climate-science,https://coursera.org/learn/climate-science,Social Sciences,The World Bank Group,This action-oriented MOOC gives you the opportunity to learn about regional climate change impacts and sector-specific strategies to increase resilience and move towards a low-carbon future. You will have the opportunity to explore these issues in depth and tailor your learning experience for one or more of the following regions:
  +U101: Understanding College and College Life,college-life,https://coursera.org/learn/college-life,Social Sciences,University of Washington,"College can be confusing and intimidating, but U101 can help. If you were just admitted to college and are nervous about what the next step in life might look like, this course is for you. If you are the parent of a newly admitted college student and curious about what college life is like, this course is also for you. While your specific college will, no doubt, provide additional orientation material, we wanted to give some basic information about what life might be like at a large American University."
  +Understanding economic policymaking,economic-policy,https://coursera.org/learn/economic-policy,Social Sciences,IE Business School,"This course will employ a non-technical approach to analyze how governments use policy to influence a country's economy. Upon completing the course you should be able to discuss national debts and deficits, examine fiscal and monetary policy and their appropriateness to the situation of an economy, and anticipate the results of fiscal and monetary policies and structural reform on a country. These concepts will give you the tools to develop your own position in many current economic debates, such as fiscal stimulus vs. austerity, the merits of quantitative easing, the need for higher interest rates or the future growth path of many modern economies."
  +Understanding Europe: Why It Matters and What It Can Offer You,europe,https://coursera.org/learn/europe,Social Sciences,HEC Paris,"Regardless of where you live, the European Union not only affects your life, but may also transform it. By learning how Europe works, a new world will open up to you and discover new jobs you never heard of. The European Union has a large, yet often unnoticed, impact on many aspects of everybody’s life. We will analyze what the EU is doing for YOU regardless of where you live. We will also look at what YOU can do for and in Europe."
  +Understanding Korean Politics,understanding-korean-politics,https://coursera.org/learn/understanding-korean-politics,Social Sciences,Yonsei University,"This course will select six most outstanding issues in contemporary Korean politics and will engage in an in-depth, interactive inquiry of those issue. They include Korean politics in history, institutional setting of Korean politics, and dynamics of political culture in Korea, profiles of political leadership, myth and reality of the developmental state and the Korean economic miracle, and debates on Korean unification. The course will expose students to contending theories and empirical reality at first hand."
  +Understanding Russian Economy. Problems of Transition,economy-russia-transition,https://coursera.org/learn/economy-russia-transition,Social Sciences,Higher School of Economics,The purpose of the course is to bring the basic knowledge on the specific aspects of Russian economy that had significant impact on the latest development trends in Russia. This course will provide you with knowledge on: 1) the basics of economy; 2) understanding the role of market reforms in developing the key features of modern Russian economy; 3) understanding specific aspects of Russian economy; 4) cause-effect relationship of the most significant trends in Russia’s economic development; 5) instruments for analysis of Russian economy;
  +Understanding Russians: Contexts of Intercultural Communication,intercultural-communication-russians,https://coursera.org/learn/intercultural-communication-russians,Social Sciences,Higher School of Economics,"In the course “Understanding Russians: Contexts of Intercultural Communications"": we will: 1) Build skills in the analysis of the intercultural communication process using Russian-Western communication as an example. 2) Apply the knowledge of interrelations between different contexts of communication (cultural, institutional, professional, social, interpersonal, etc.) to the cultural history and national psychology of Russians."
  +Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat,understandingterror,https://coursera.org/learn/understandingterror,Social Sciences,"University of Maryland, College Park","The course will begin with a unit looking at widely held myths about terrorism and utilizing empirical data to discuss the realities of broad trends and patterns in terrorist attacks over time. The course will then review the psychological factors at play in individual radicalization and recruitment into terrorism, followed by an analysis of terrorist group dynamics. The course will next look at terrorist group operations, including their attacks and some of the supporting behaviors that allow them to carry out attacks, including use of media, financing, recruitment, and training."
  +Understanding Violence,violence,https://coursera.org/learn/violence,Social Sciences,Emory University,"We are so pleased to have you join us as we investigate this crucial topic. Violence is a leading cause of death, disability and health care use worldwide. Violence is a complex problem and can only be understood and reduced though a multidisciplinary approach. The course will cover patterns of violence including sexual violence; biological, psychological, and social causes (e.g., economic deprivation, religious factors); specific types of violence; how media and the arts portray violence; the economic impact of violence; physical and mental consequences; and ways to control and prevent violence in our communities."
  +Unethical Decision Making in Organizations,unethical-decision-making,https://coursera.org/learn/unethical-decision-making,Social Sciences,University of Lausanne,This course 'Unethical decision making in organizations : A seminar on the dark side of the force' will teach you how strong organizational contexts push good people towards unethical decisions. You will also learn how to protect yourself and your organization against such forces lurking in the dark.
  +Water Resources Management and Policy,water-management,https://coursera.org/learn/water-management,Social Sciences,University of Geneva,"Water management today is faced with new challenges such as climate change or the effects of human activity. Public and private stakeholders who are active in this field must develop new ways to better manage the water cycle ""as a whole""."
  +Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 1: Understanding Complex Problems,water,https://coursera.org/learn/water,Social Sciences,University of Manchester,"Our course explores what can be done to solve the complex problem that half a billion people worldwide do not have improved water supplies and two billion do not have improved sanitation. We look forward to you joining us. We want to help you develop the skills you need to address this major global challenge of the 21st century. Our course has informative video lectures and guest interviews with leading water policy scholars and practitioners. We will provide you with discussion forum topic prompts, which will invite you to engage with other learners from around the globe."
  +Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2: Developing Effective Interventions,water-part-2,https://coursera.org/learn/water-part-2,Social Sciences,University of Manchester,"Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2 is our second MOOC in a two-part sequence, and looks at ‘Developing Effective Interventions’. Here we invite you to develop analytical skills and deep understanding about a complex, controversial policy problem – one with no simple, easy answers. About half a billion people on our planet still lack access to improved water supplies and about two billion do not have improved sanitation services, leading to an unknown but very large number of avoidable deaths each year from water-related diseases. Millions of dollars are spent on avoidable health care expenditures, and people – mostly women – spend many billions of hours carrying water from sources outside the home. Reducing these costs is a major global challenge for us all in the 21st century."
  +Welcome to Game Theory,game-theory-introduction,https://coursera.org/learn/game-theory-introduction,Social Sciences,The University of Tokyo,"This course provides a brief introduction to game theory. Our main goal is to understand the basic ideas behind the key concepts in game theory, such as equilibrium, rationality, and cooperation. The course uses very little mathematics, and it is ideal for those who are looking for a conceptual introduction to game theory."
  +What future for education?,future-education,https://coursera.org/learn/future-education,Social Sciences,"University of London, UCL Institute of Education","Through this course you will start to critically examine your own ideas about education, teaching and learning. The critique will be developed through engagement with theories and ideas developed through educational research. You will be encouraged to use these ideas to challenge or support your own ideas about education."
  +世界空间、法国视角下的国际研究,espace-mondial-cn,https://coursera.org/learn/espace-mondial-cn,Social Sciences,Sciences Po,为了解释全球化是如何重构公共政策和再塑社会行为，我们将研究不同的政治、经济行为体、研究各类——公共或私人，个体或集体——社会行为体，并着眼关注到它们之间的交流和互动作用，这些行为
  +Advanced Java Concurrency,advanced-java-concurrency,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-java-concurrency,Unavailable,,
  +"Beauty, Form & Function: An Exploration of Symmetry",symmetry,https://coursera.org/learn/symmetry,Unavailable,,
  +"Cloud Computing Applications, Part 1",cloud-applications,https://coursera.org/learn/cloud-applications,Unavailable,,
  +Communicating in Math in the K-12 Classroom,communication-k12-math,https://coursera.org/learn/communication-k12-math,Unavailable,,
  +Creating Site-Specific Dance and Performance Works,sitedance,https://coursera.org/learn/sitedance,Unavailable,,
  +Developing Your Musicianship,musicianship,https://coursera.org/learn/musicianship,Unavailable,,
  +Fast Track Finance #1,fast-track-finance-1,https://coursera.org/learn/fast-track-finance-1,Unavailable,,
  +Financial Evaluation and Strategy: Corporate Finance,corporate-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-finance,Unavailable,,
  +Financial Evaluation and Strategy: Investments,investments,https://coursera.org/learn/investments,Unavailable,,
  +Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management,project-management,https://coursera.org/learn/project-management,Unavailable,,
  +GT-Linear Circuits 2: AC Analysis,gt-circuits-2,https://coursera.org/learn/gt-circuits-2,Unavailable,,
  +Innovate on Demand,innovate-on-demand,https://coursera.org/learn/innovate-on-demand,Unavailable,,
  +Integrating CCRS and Literacy K-12,literacy-k12,https://coursera.org/learn/literacy-k12,Unavailable,,
  +Integrating Technology in the K-12 Classroom,technology-k12,https://coursera.org/learn/technology-k12,Unavailable,,
   Introduction to Big Data,intro-to-big-data,https://coursera.org/learn/intro-to-big-data,Unavailable,,
  -"Beauty, Form & Function: An Exploration of Symmetry",symmetry,https://coursera.org/learn/symmetry,Unavailable,,
  -Developing Your Musicianship,musicianship,https://coursera.org/learn/musicianship,Unavailable,,
  -Managerial Accounting: Tools for Facilitating and Guiding Business Decisions,managerial-accounting-tools,https://coursera.org/learn/managerial-accounting-tools,Unavailable,,
  -Financial Evaluation and Strategy: Corporate Finance,corporate-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-finance,Unavailable,,
  -"Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis",managerial-accounting,https://coursera.org/learn/managerial-accounting,Unavailable,,
  -Introduction to Sustainable Development,sustainabledevelopment1,https://coursera.org/learn/sustainabledevelopment1,Unavailable,,
  -Songwriting,songwriting,https://coursera.org/learn/songwriting,Unavailable,,
  -Financial Evaluation and Strategy: Investments,investments,https://coursera.org/learn/investments,Unavailable,,
  -Superhero Entertainments,superhero,https://coursera.org/learn/superhero,Unavailable,,
  +Introduction to Big Data Analytics,bigdata-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/bigdata-analytics,Unavailable,,
  +Introduction to Graph Analytics,graph-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/graph-analytics,Unavailable,,
   Introduction to Music Production,music-production,https://coursera.org/learn/music-production,Unavailable,,
   Introduction to Recommender Systems,recommender-systems,https://coursera.org/learn/recommender-systems,Unavailable,,
  -Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management,project-management,https://coursera.org/learn/project-management,Unavailable,,
  +Introduction to Sustainable Development,sustainabledevelopment1,https://coursera.org/learn/sustainabledevelopment1,Unavailable,,
   LearnToMod For Educators,learntomod,https://coursera.org/learn/learntomod,Unavailable,,
  -Creating Site-Specific Dance and Performance Works,sitedance,https://coursera.org/learn/sitedance,Unavailable,,
  -Introduction to Big Data Analytics,bigdata-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/bigdata-analytics,Unavailable,,
   Machine Learning With Big Data,machinelearningwithbigdata,https://coursera.org/learn/machinelearningwithbigdata,Unavailable,,
  -Introduction to Graph Analytics,graph-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/graph-analytics,Unavailable,,
  +"Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis",managerial-accounting,https://coursera.org/learn/managerial-accounting,Unavailable,,
  +Managerial Accounting: Tools for Facilitating and Guiding Business Decisions,managerial-accounting-tools,https://coursera.org/learn/managerial-accounting-tools,Unavailable,,
  +Media Platforms,media-platforms,https://coursera.org/learn/media-platforms,Unavailable,,
   Relatività e Meccanica Quantistica: concetti e idee,relativita-meccanica-quantistica,https://coursera.org/learn/relativita-meccanica-quantistica,Unavailable,,
  -Fast Track Finance #1,fast-track-finance-1,https://coursera.org/learn/fast-track-finance-1,Unavailable,,
  -"Cloud Computing Applications, Part 1",cloud-applications,https://coursera.org/learn/cloud-applications,Unavailable,,
  -Integrating Technology in the K-12 Classroom,technology-k12,https://coursera.org/learn/technology-k12,Unavailable,,
  -Teaching Math Through Problem-Solving K-12,math-through-problem-solving,https://coursera.org/learn/math-through-problem-solving,Unavailable,,
  -Communicating in Math in the K-12 Classroom,communication-k12-math,https://coursera.org/learn/communication-k12-math,Unavailable,,
  -Integrating CCRS and Literacy K-12,literacy-k12,https://coursera.org/learn/literacy-k12,Unavailable,,
  -Advanced Java Concurrency,advanced-java-concurrency,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-java-concurrency,Unavailable,,
  -GT-Linear Circuits 2: AC Analysis,gt-circuits-2,https://coursera.org/learn/gt-circuits-2,Unavailable,,
  -Media Platforms,media-platforms,https://coursera.org/learn/media-platforms,Unavailable,,
  -Innovate on Demand,innovate-on-demand,https://coursera.org/learn/innovate-on-demand,Unavailable,,
  +Selenium Prod Authoring Left Hand Nav Pages Tests,selenium-prod-test-left-hand-nav-pages,https://coursera.org/learn/selenium-prod-test-left-hand-nav-pages,Unavailable,,
   Selenium Prod Private Group Sessions testing 1,selenium-prod-private-group-sessions-1,https://coursera.org/learn/selenium-prod-private-group-sessions-1,Unavailable,,
  -Selenium Prod Authoring Left Hand Nav Pages Tests,selenium-prod-test-left-hand-nav-pages,https://coursera.org/learn/selenium-prod-test-left-hand-nav-pages,Unavailable,,+Songwriting,songwriting,https://coursera.org/learn/songwriting,Unavailable,,
  +Superhero Entertainments,superhero,https://coursera.org/learn/superhero,Unavailable,,
  +Teaching Math Through Problem-Solving K-12,math-through-problem-solving,https://coursera.org/learn/math-through-problem-solving,Unavailable,,
positive.code: -- Leverage core value-based pricing techniques to inform pricing decisions
  -- Measure customer willingness to pay using models (surveys, conjoint analysis, other data)
  -- Use knowledge of consumer psychology to set prices beneficial to both consumers and sellers"
  Market and Competition in Pricing Strategy,uva-darden-pricing-strategy-market-competition,https://coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-pricing-strategy-market-competition,Business,"University of Virginia, BCG","If you haven’t considered what the competition is charging, you may not be maximizing your revenue. Spend time analyzing the market and you can influence price and improve margins. In this course, we'll show you how to implement competitive pricing and avoid common legal pitfalls of market-based pricing. You will also learn how to predict, influence and respond to competitors’ pricing moves. Led by Darden faculty and Boston Consulting Group global pricing experts, this course provides an in-depth understanding of market-based pricing and how to use it to capture more revenue."
  Leadership for Managers,leadership,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership,Business,Vanderbilt University,"Personal branding is critical for today’s executive—it distinguishes you as a competent authority, of course, but it also helps you establish your own goals for continuous improvement and develop your strengths as a business leader. If you’re looking to establish yourself more effectively in a leadership role and align your actions and behaviors with how you want to be perceived, this course is for you.
  
  This course is composed of three modules about managing self, managing others, and leading efforts for change. You’ll complete a capstone project on organizational change that tests your skills in a variety of simulated situations, and you’ll receive detailed feedback about your efforts. You’ll leave with a thorough understanding of how your leadership can make an impact on your organization—and a set of sharpened skills to help you accomplish your goals.
  
negative.code: Course Name,Folder on Disk,Course URL,Field ,Name of the University/Institute,Introduction
  A Brief History of Human Spaceflight,human-spaceflight,https://coursera.org/learn/human-spaceflight,Arts and Humanities,University of Houston System,"This course provides a view of the history of spaceflight, from early writings telling of human's fascination of space through the early Russian and American space stations. Developed as an interesting and entertaining slice of space history that is accessible to anyone with an interest in human spaceflight"
  A Journey through Western Christianity: from Persecuted Faith to Global Religion (200 - 1650),western-christianity-200-1650,https://coursera.org/learn/western-christianity-200-1650,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"This course follows the extraordinary development of Western Christianity from its early persecution under the Roman Empire in the third century to its global expansion with the Jesuits of the early modern world. We explore the dynamic and diverse character of a religion with an enormous cast characters. We will meet men and women who tell stories of faith as well as of violence, suppression, and division. Along the way, we encounter Perpetua and her martyrdom in Carthage; the struggles of Augustine the bishop in North Africa; the zeal of Celtic monks and missionaries; the viciousness of the Crusades; the visions of Brigit of Sweden; and the fracturing of Christianity by Martin Luther’s protest."
  Age of Jefferson,ageofjefferson,https://coursera.org/learn/ageofjefferson,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"This course provides an overview of Thomas Jefferson's work and perspectives presented by the University of Virginia in partnership with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Together, UVA and Monticello are recognized internationally as a UNESCO World Heritage Site."
  "Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1",algorithm-design-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/algorithm-design-analysis,Arts and Humanities,stanford,"Algorithms are the heart of computer science, and the subject has countless practical applications as well as intellectual depth. This specialization is an introduction to algorithms for learners with at least a little programming experience. The specialization is rigorous but emphasizes the big picture and conceptual understanding over low-level implementation and mathematical details. After completing this specialization, you will be well-positioned to ace your technical interviews and speak fluently about algorithms with other programmers and computer scientists."
  "Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2",algorithm-design-analysis-2,https://coursera.org/learn/algorithm-design-analysis-2,Arts and Humanities,stanford,"Algorithms are the heart of computer science, and the subject has countless practical applications as well as intellectual depth. This specialization is an introduction to algorithms for learners with at least a little programming experience. The specialization is rigorous but emphasizes the big picture and conceptual understanding over low-level implementation and mathematical details. After completing this specialization, you will be well-positioned to ace your technical interviews and speak fluently about algorithms with other programmers and computer scientists."
  America Through Foreign Eyes,america-through-foreign-eyes,https://coursera.org/learn/america-through-foreign-eyes,Arts and Humanities,Rice University,"The United States has always been a source of fascination — both attraction and repulsion — for the people of France, Mexico, China, and African countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, and Sudan. ""America Through Foreign Eyes"" is a rich, interdisciplinary, international course that features Rice University faculty from a variety of disciplines and area studies. Focused on perceptions of America abroad, the course is a cross between World Cultures and American Studies. The course features four modules, each covering the perceptions and interactions of particular regions with America, Americans and Americanization."
  "American Education Reform: History, Policy, Practice",edref,https://coursera.org/learn/edref,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"Discover what shapes how we talk about schools today by exploring the history of U.S. education reform. Engage with the main actors, key decisions, and major turning points in this history. See how social forces drive reform. Learn about how the critical tensions embedded in U.S. education policy and practice apply to schools nationally, globally— and where you live."
  Ancient Egypt,ancientegypt,https://coursera.org/learn/ancientegypt,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"Colossal pyramids, imposing temples, golden treasures, enigmatic hieroglyphs, powerful pharaohs, strange gods, and mysterious mummies are features of Ancient Egyptian culture that have fascinated people over the millennia. The Bible refers to its gods, rulers, and pyramids. Neighboring cultures in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean wrote about its god-like kings and its seemingly endless supply of gold. The Greeks and Romans describe aspects of Egypt's culture and history."
  Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors,aristotle,https://coursera.org/learn/aristotle,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, and other modes of human discourse? This course traces the origins of philosophy in the Western tradition in the thinkers of Ancient Greece. We begin with the Presocratic natural philosophers who were active in Ionia in the 6th century BCE and are also credited with being the first scientists. Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximines"
  Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors,plato,https://coursera.org/learn/plato,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, and other modes of human discourse? This course traces the origins of philosophy in the Western tradition in the thinkers of Ancient Greece. We begin with the Presocratic natural philosophers who were active in Ionia in the 6th century BCE and are also credited with being the first scientists. Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximines made bold proposals about the ultimate constituents of reality, while Heraclitus insisted that there is an underlying order to the changing world. Parmenides of Elea formulated a powerful objection to all these proposals, while later Greek theorists (such as Anaxagoras and the atomist Democritus) attempted to answer that objection."
  Arch of Titus: Rome and the Menorah,archoftitus,https://coursera.org/learn/archoftitus,Arts and Humanities,Yeshiva University,"The Arch of Titus: Rome and the Menorah explores one of the most significant Roman monuments to survive from antiquity, from the perspectives of Roman, Jewish and later Christian history and art. The Arch of Titus commemorates the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor Titus in 70 CE, an event of pivotal importance for the history of the Roman Empire, of Judaism, of Christianity and of modern nationalism."
  Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art,art-activity,https://coursera.org/learn/art-activity,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"Art can be a powerful catalyst for building skills and understanding a range of subjects. Intended for primary and secondary teachers of all disciplines, Art & Activity builds upon the inquiry-based approaches of Art and Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies for Your Classroom, while delving into activity-based strategies that will make your students empowered participants."
  Art & Ideas: Teaching with Themes,ideas,https://coursera.org/learn/ideas,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"This course is designed to help build critical skills that support theme-based teaching practices and build confidence in incorporating modern and contemporary art into interdisciplinary lesson plans. By addressing themes and questions that arise in relation to modern and contemporary art, the course will help you to think creatively about links to your curriculum and the ways that you can tap into students’ knowledge and life experience."
  ART of the MOOC: Activism and Social Movements,activism-social-movements,https://coursera.org/learn/activism-social-movements,Arts and Humanities,"Duke University, Creative Time","This course is for activists, artists, and thinkers who wish to better understand and participate in social change. We will focus on the prolific and exciting overlap between socially engaged art and cultural practices generated by recent social movements around the world. Rather than assess the political efficacy of activities like mourning, listening, organizing, dancing, or partying, the lectures examine such cultural activities next to, and within, contemporary art practice."
  ART of the MOOC: Arte Público y Pedagogía,arte-publico-pedagogia,https://coursera.org/learn/arte-publico-pedagogia,Arts and Humanities,"Duke University, Creative Time","Los alumnos de este curso aprenderán a hacer sus propias obras de arte social y público si así lo desean, o podrán simplemente estudiar la teoría e historia reciente del medio. Diseñado por el artista y profesor de Duke, Pedro Lasch, e impartido con el director artístico de Creative Time, Nato Thompson, este curso presenta el arte y la cultura pública en sus formas contemporáneas radicalmente re-inventadas. Las conferencias enlazan acontecimientos claves de las últimas décadas en este campo con temas más amplios como la política espacial, estructuras sociales cotidianas y la educación experimental."
  ART of the MOOC: Public Art and Pedagogy,moocs,https://coursera.org/learn/moocs,Arts and Humanities,"Duke University, Creative Time","Students of this course may try their hand at their own public art interventions, or simply focus on learning from the theory of public practice and its recent history. Designed by artist and Duke professor, Pedro Lasch, and co-taught by Creative Time artistic director, Nato Thompson, this course presents public culture and art in their radically reinenvented contemporary forms. The lectures link major developments of recent decades to wider topics like spatial politics, everyday social structures, and experimental education. 
  
  Also included are guest presentations from key thinkers and practitioners, like: Tania Bruguera, Claire Doherty, Tom Finkelpearl, Hans Haacke, Shannon Jackson, Suzanne Lacy, Rick Lowe, and many more. As the ‘ART of the MOOC’ title implies, learners and participants are encouraged to treat the MOOC itself as a public art medium. This happens mostly through the course’s practical components, local project productions, global exchanges, and critical feedback.
  
  While no prior art making experience is required, projects also offer challenging options for advanced learners.
  "
  Big History: Connecting Knowledge,big-history,https://coursera.org/learn/big-history,Arts and Humanities,Macquarie University,"We currently face unprecedented challenges on a global scale. These problems do not neatly fall into disciplines. They are complicated, complex, and connected. Join us on this epic journey of 13.8 billion years starting at the Big Bang and travelling through time all the way to the future. Discover the connections in our world, the power of collective learning, how our universe and our world has evolved from incredible simplicity to ever-increasing complexity. Experience our modern scientific origin story through Big History and discover the important links between past, current, and future events. You will find two different types of lectures. ‘Zooming In’ lectures from multiple specialists enable you to understand key concepts through the lens of different disciplines, whilst David Christian's ‘Big History Framework’ lectures provide the connective overview for a journey through eight thresholds of Big History."
  Camera Control,photocourse2,https://coursera.org/learn/photocourse2,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Welcome to Course Two of Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR! Now that you have a broad understanding of the various types of cameras, the importance of setting up Menus and Functions to gain control in your photography, and the difference between Auto and Program exposure modes, you are ready to move into even greater Camera Control!"
  "Cameras, Exposure, and Photography",exposure-photography,https://coursera.org/learn/exposure-photography,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Welcome to Course One of Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR! In these first 4 Modules you will gain the knowledge and the confidence that will help you make good choices as you consider qualities of the camera you own, and the qualities of the other types of digital cameras you might be considering. You will learn about the basic functions that most digital cameras have in common. You will also go beyond the ""technical"" matters and learn about how you can make exciting pictures by emphasizing the aspects of Frame and Vantage Point to interpret old subjects in new ways."
  Chinese Culture and Contemporary China ,china-culture-contemporary,https://coursera.org/learn/china-culture-contemporary,Arts and Humanities,Nanjing University,"This course of Chinese Culture and Contemporary China will explore the foundations of Chinese civilization and the dimensions of Chinese culture. It will pay particular attention to the relationship between Chinese culture and the present-day life of the Chinese people and to the different elements of the culture which are under the present social structures, belief systems, literature, arts, customs, etc. The course aims at providing students with a deeper knowledge of Chinese culture, thus enabling them to better understand China. The course will cover the following main areas of topics: (1) the foundations of Chinese civilization: its geography, language, and history; (2) the core concepts in Chinese philosophies and religions: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism; (3), literature and arts, including Chinese calligraphy, painting, Tang poetry, and classical fiction; (4) society and life, including education, the role of women, Chinese food, and traditional holidays; (5) travel and landscapes, including well-known Chinese cities, mountains, ethnic regions and customs; (6) Chinese media, culture and sports, including TV and movies, fashion, Chinese gongfu and taiji."
  Classics of Chinese Humanities: Guided Readings,classics-chinese-humanities,https://coursera.org/learn/classics-chinese-humanities,Arts and Humanities,The Chinese University of Hong Kong,"An introductory yet trenchant exploration of select Chinese classic texts that cover the domains of classical literature, history, philosophy, and fine arts."
  Conflict Transformation,conflict-transformation,https://coursera.org/learn/conflict-transformation,Arts and Humanities,Emory University,"This course introduces you to the concept of conflict transformation and how it differs from conflict resolution, management, and prevention. We’ll see how conflict offers opportunities for constructive change, and we'll explore different tools and methods for engaging conflict constructively.
  
  Regardless of your familiarity with the topic, you'll get insightful tips, portable handouts, lively demonstrations, and personalized assignments to bridge and enhance your own knowledge and history within the conflict narrative. In any area of your life, you'll benefit from the practical techniques and transferable information offered throughout this five-week journey."
  Confronting The Big Questions: Highlights of Modern Astronomy,astronomy,https://coursera.org/learn/astronomy,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,An introduction to modern astronomy's most important questions. The four sections of the course are Planets and Life in The Universe; The Life of Stars; Galaxies and Their Environments; The History of The Universe.
  Copyright for Multimedia,copyright-for-multimedia,https://coursera.org/learn/copyright-for-multimedia,Arts and Humanities,"Duke University, Emory University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill","Copyright questions about different formats (data, images, music and video) can be especially difficult. Sometimes the law specifically distinguishes between these different formats, and in most cases there are media-specific considerations that impact a copyright analysis. In this course we will look at four different media, paying special attention to the unique issues for each one and the kinds of information that is important when making copyright decisions for each type of material. We will work through fair use issues for each multimedia format, look at format-specific exceptions in the law, and consider unique issues for seeking permission for film, music, images and data."
  Creating Synthesizer Sounds for Electronic Music (Project-Centered Course),music-synthesizer,https://coursera.org/learn/music-synthesizer,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"In this project-centered course*, you will create sounds and use them in your own musical compositions. Whether you're an aspiring producer, composer, or hobbyist, this course will help you gain skills in music production and confidence using software synthesizers. Along with your classmates, you will create a massive database of designed sounds, or patches, to use in your compositions. As part of the course, you will work with a free version of FXpansion Strobe 2."
  Creative Writing: The Craft of Character,craft-of-character,https://coursera.org/learn/craft-of-character,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"At the center of a good story are the characters in it. In this course aspiring writers will discover how to build and bring to life complex, vivid and unforgettable characters. We will study the choices a writer makes to bring all characters to life on the page, and we will perform written exercises in order to develop a variety of writing and pre-writing techniques, in order to create a variety of characters. We will learn how to use our own life experiences, and the people we know (and how not to!)."
  Creative Writing: The Craft of Plot,craft-of-plot,https://coursera.org/learn/craft-of-plot,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to perhaps the most elemental and often the most challenging element of story: plot. We will learn what keeps it moving, how it manipulates our feelings, expectations, and desires. We will examine the choices storytellers make to snag our imaginations, drag them into a fictional world, and keep them there. We will learn how to outline and structure a plot, discuss narrative arc, pacing and reversals and reveal the inevitable surprise: connecting the beginning, middle and end."
  Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description,craft-of-setting-and-description,https://coursera.org/learn/craft-of-setting-and-description,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to the techniques that masters of fiction use to ground a story in a concrete world. From the most realist settings to the most fantastical, writers will learn how to describe the physical world in sharp, sensory detail. We will also learn how to build credibility through research, and to use creative meditation exercises to deepen our own understanding of our story worlds, so that our readers can see all that we imagine."
  Creative Writing: The Craft of Style,craft-of-style,https://coursera.org/learn/craft-of-style,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"Your style is as unique and distinctive as your face, your voice, except that you can choose it, you can can work on it, enhance it. In this course we will introduce aspiring writers to the art of putting pressure on written language. We will study the use of metaphor and imagery, and demonstrate how clarity, grace, and inventiveness in word choice are imperative to a story’s success. Writers will emerge with the revision skills essential to all writers of good stories and good prose."
  Cultural Competence - Aboriginal Sydney,cultural-competence-aboriginal-sydney,https://coursera.org/learn/cultural-competence-aboriginal-sydney,Arts and Humanities,The University of Sydney,"This course explores some of the key themes and capabilities of cultural competence by exploring Aboriginal experiences and narratives of Sydney. Australia was ‘claimed’ for the British Crown in 1770, by Captain James Cook, but the invasion began in earnest when the First Fleet of British arrived in 1788 and established a penal colony in Sydney. As a consequence Sydney is a city rich in diverse pre-colonial, colonial and contemporary sites of significance to Aboriginal peoples. Too often though our perceptions about Aboriginal peoples consign them to an ancient past or perpetuates stereotypical imaginations that Aboriginal peoples live in remote communities (Hinkson, 2010)."
  Deciphering Secrets: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe,medieval-europe,https://coursera.org/learn/medieval-europe,Arts and Humanities,University of Colorado System,"Perhaps no other relic of the European Middle Ages captures our imagination more than illuminated medieval manuscripts, or those documents decorated with images and colored pigments. Serving as windows unto a lost world of kings, ladies, faith, war, and culture, they communicate complex visual and textual narratives of Europe’s collective cultural heritage and patrimony. In this fashion, illuminated manuscripts are dynamic messages from our communal past that are still relevant today in fields like graphic design and typography. In this seven-week course, students will explore the material creation, content, and historical context of illuminated medieval European manuscripts. Students will acquire an introductory knowledge of their distinguishing characteristics, their cataloguing and periodization (when they were created), the methods utilized to produce them, and their historical context and value."
  Designing Cities,designing-cities,https://coursera.org/learn/designing-cities,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"Each module in Designing Cities will focus on a different aspect of city design including: How Today’s City Evolved; The Ideas That Shape Cities; Tools for Designing Cities; Making Cities Sustainable; Cities in the Information Age; Preserving Older Cities; Designing New Cities, Districts and Neighborhoods; The Challenges of Informal Cities and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods; and Visionary Cities. Materials will be presented by the instructors and guest faculty from PennDesign through a series of five or more lessons per module, each typically 10-12 minutes long."
  Developing Your Musicianship,develop-your-musicianship,https://coursera.org/learn/develop-your-musicianship,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"The course will teach you the major scale and minor pentatonic scale, and how they are constructed. You will learn what intervals are, how to sing them, and how to find them in music. The course explores tonal centers and how to find the key a song is in, in addition to common time signatures such as 4/4 and 3/4. You will learn how to build chords—major and minor triads, and major and dominant seventh chords—and how to build a common chord progression—the I IV V. You will also learn how to recognize the blues and AABA song forms, and write a basic chord sheet to express your song ideas."
  Effective Altruism,altruism,https://coursera.org/learn/altruism,Arts and Humanities,Princeton University,Effective altruism is built on the simple but unsettling idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good one can. In this course you will examine this idea's philosophical underpinnings; meet remarkable people who have restructured their lives in accordance with it; and think about how effective altruism can be put into practice in your own life.
  Effectively delivering the news to your audience,become-a-journalist3,https://coursera.org/learn/become-a-journalist3,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Being a successful journalist is more than hunting down information. How journalists process the information, then put it together, are key steps for news reports. You will learn the process, planning, requirements of how journalists develop their news reports. There are many ways to report news reports, and you will learn different forms of how to perform reporting and writing to serve different audiences."
  Emotions: a Philosophical Introduction,emotions,https://coursera.org/learn/emotions,Arts and Humanities,Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,"Philosophy is like sex: sure you can get some interesting results, but that's not why we do it. Going one step beyond…why do you FEEL pain or pleasure? Do plants have emotions? How is possible that some people do not understand other’s emotions? Emotions seem to be everywhere, giving meaning to all events of our lives. They are the backbone of social activities as well as they drive the cognitive processes of several living entities. Several animals, including humans, have emotions but…what about machines?...Do machine can have emotions? This course will help you to understand and to identify most important philosophical ideas and debates about emotions, as well as it will provide you a rich source of data about neurological, psychological or anthropological analysis of emotions."
  English Composition I,english-composition,https://coursera.org/learn/english-composition,Arts and Humanities,Duke University,"You will gain a foundation for college-level writing valuable for nearly any field. Students will learn how to read carefully, write effective arguments, understand the writing process, engage with others' ideas, cite accurately, and craft powerful prose."
  Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas,beethoven-piano-sonatas,https://coursera.org/learn/beethoven-piano-sonatas,Arts and Humanities,Curtis Institute of Music,"Our relationship to Beethoven is a deep and paradoxical one. For many musicians, he represents a kind of holy grail: His music has an intensity, rigor, and profundity which keep us in its thrall, and it is perhaps unequalled in the interpretive, technical, and even spiritual challenges it poses to performers. At the same time, Beethoven’s music is casually familiar to millions of people who do not attend concerts or consider themselves musically inclined. Two hundred years after his death, he is everywhere in the culture, yet still represents its summit."
  Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Part 2,exploring-beethoven-piano-sonatas-2,https://coursera.org/learn/exploring-beethoven-piano-sonatas-2,Arts and Humanities,Curtis Institute of Music,"Welcome to Part 2 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas! I'm delighted to launch another set of new lectures of this course as Part 2. As before, this class is meant for people of all levels of experience with Beethoven's music (including no experience at all!). Remember that you are able to watch the lectures as many times as you like, at whatever pace is comfortable for you. As I’ve done with the first set of Beethoven lectures, I look forward to meeting with students—online and in person, in various cities. The dates and locations will be posted in the Announcements and Events section, as part of the course content. So please remember to check back there for details. In these four new lectures, we will explore the following sonatas: • Sonata Op. 2, No. 3 • Sonata Op. 13 (“Pathetique”) • Sonata Op. 53 (“Waldstein”) • Sonata Op. 90"
  "Film, Images & Historical Interpretation in the 20th Century: The Camera Never Lies",film-images,https://coursera.org/learn/film-images,Arts and Humanities,"University of London, Royal Holloway, University of London","This course is a short taster on the topic of the use of Images, Film, and their use in historical interpretation in the 20th century. It is primarily provided for those who have a general interest in history that draws on photojournalism as primary evidence, and films based on historical events. Once you have completed this course we hope you will be equipped to: Appreciate the significance of photographs as historical evidence in the twentieth century. Understand the limitations of the medium, and how we can attribute meaning to these individual records of 'one moment in time' while taking into account the circumstances in which any particular image was taken."
  Fundamentals of Graphic Design,fundamentals-of-graphic-design,https://coursera.org/learn/fundamentals-of-graphic-design,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"Graphic Design is all around us! Words and pictures—the building blocks of graphic design—are the elements that carry the majority of the content in both the digital world and the printed world. As graphic design becomes more visible and prevalent in our lives, graphic design as a practice becomes more important in our culture."
  Fundamentals of Music Theory,edinburgh-music-theory,https://coursera.org/learn/edinburgh-music-theory,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"This course will introduce students to the theory of music, providing them with the skills needed to read and write Western music notation, as well as to understand, analyse, and listen informedly. It will cover material such as pitches and scales, intervals, clefs, rhythm, form, meter, phrases and cadences, and basic harmony."
  Fundamentals of Rehearsing Music Ensembles,music-ensembles,https://coursera.org/learn/music-ensembles,Arts and Humanities,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"Learn and practice the basic principles of running an effective music ensemble rehearsal. Techniques and strategies are applicable to a variety of ensembles, including bands, orchestras, choirs, and chamber groups."
  Gathering and Developing the News,gathering-the-news,https://coursera.org/learn/gathering-the-news,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Journalists develop information through interviews and sources. The most successful journalists quickly master these important skill sets. The production of journalism relies on several elements: newsgathering, interviewing sources, researching and trying to find as much information as possible. The course will also teach you how to where to find information, interviewing skills and how to process information from various sources for publication."
  Getting Started with Essay Writing,getting-started-with-essay-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/getting-started-with-essay-writing,Arts and Humanities,"University of California, Irvine","This is the second course in the Academic English: Writing specialization. By introducing you to three types of academic essays, this course will especially help prepare you for work in college classes, but anyone who wants to improve his or her writing skills can benefit from this course."
  Getting Started With Music Theory,music-theory,https://coursera.org/learn/music-theory,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"This course is a brief introduction to the elements of music theory for those with little or no music theory experience. We will explore pitch, rhythm, meter, notation, scales, keys, key signatures, meter signatures, triads, seventh chords, and basic harmony. If you listen to music or play music by ear, and you want to know more about how music is organized and notated, this course is for you. By the end of the course, you should know all major and minor keys, how to read and write in treble and bass clef using standard meters and rhythmic values, and how to notate and harmonize a simple melody. This course can serve as a stand-alone basic music theory course, or it can be a springboard to more advanced theory and composition courses."
  Greek and Roman Mythology,mythology,https://coursera.org/learn/mythology,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"Myths are traditional stories that have endured over a long time. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations."
  Heritage under Threat,heritage,https://coursera.org/learn/heritage,Arts and Humanities,Universiteit Leiden,"In this course you will learn to articulate your own concepts about (threatened) heritage and that of others. What is your heritage? Who defines heritage? Why is heritage under threat? How can we protect heritage? WW1, WW2, Cold war politics and contemporary conflicts as well as continuing political and socio-economic inequalities and colonial pasts are all factors playing a role in the global heritage discussions and approaches to (or lack of ) valorization and protection of heritage. Hence, issues behind destruction or threats to heritage are related to complex issues, often connected to complex landscapes of wars, the war-on-terror, fundamentalism, migration, global warming, financial crises, inequality and diverse interests of local communities. This course, sponsored by the LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development and the Honours Academy of Leiden University, and the Netherlands Commission for UNESCO gave its support to one of the sections of the MOOC, will explore these issues. We wish to engage global communities and widen the perspective on threatened heritage. You can help us with this."
  History of Graphic Design,history-of-graphic-design,https://coursera.org/learn/history-of-graphic-design,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"This condensed survey course focuses on four key periods or themes from the history of design. Together we’ll trace the emergence of design as a recognized practice, why things look the way they do, and how designers approached specific design problems in their work. Each week, a short quiz will test your knowledge of concepts, and a short reflective assignment will give you the opportunity to analyze the questions designers ask themselves today."
  "History of Rock, Part One",history-of-rock,https://coursera.org/learn/history-of-rock,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"This course, part 1 of a 2-course sequence, examines the history of rock, primarily as it unfolded in the United States, from the days before rock (pre-1955) to the end of the 1960s. This course covers the music of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, and many more artists, with an emphasis both on cultural context and on the music itself."
  "History of Rock, Part Two",history-of-rock-2,https://coursera.org/learn/history-of-rock-2,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"This course, part 2 of a 2-course sequence, examines the history of rock, primarily as it unfolded in the United States, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. This course covers the music of Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Carole King, Bob Marley, the Sex Pistols, Donna Summer, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Metallica, Run-DMC, and Nirvana, and many more artists, with an emphasis both on cultural context and on the music itself. We will also explore how developments in the music business and in technology helped shape the ways in which styles developed."
  How Music Can Change Your Life,music-life,https://coursera.org/learn/music-life,Arts and Humanities,The University of Melbourne,"This course provides free video, audio and journal resources that explain six basic principles about how music can influence individual and community health and wellbeing. From biology and neuroscience, to psychotherapy and politics, the ways we engage with music can make all the difference. Music has always played an integral role in the lives of individuals and communities all around the globe. This course explores the ways that music can be used to achieve positive changes with a particular emphasis on the most vulnerable persons."
  How to Change the World,changetheworld,https://coursera.org/learn/changetheworld,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"How can we use the things we share in common to address some of the most challenging problems facing the world? This course examines issues concerning poverty, the environment, technology, health care, gender, education and activism to helps us understand better how to initiate positive change."
  How to Make a Comic Book (Project-Centered Course),make-comic-books,https://coursera.org/learn/make-comic-books,Arts and Humanities,High Tech High Graduate School of Education,"In this project-centered course*, you will create an original four page minicomic designed around a short story of your choosing. What you’ll need to get started: This project-centered course is designed for all-age learners (high school age and above, at least 13 years of age) who are interested in learning how to make a comic book, but have never completed one before."
  In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting,painting,https://coursera.org/learn/painting,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"Want to know how some of the 20th century’s most celebrated artists made abstract paintings? This course offers an in-depth, hands-on look at the materials, techniques, and thinking of seven New York School artists, including Willem de Kooning, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, and Mark Rothko. Through studio demonstrations and gallery walkthroughs, you’ll form a deeper understanding of what a studio practice means and how ideas develop from close looking, and you’ll gain a sensitivity to the physical qualities of paint. Readings and other resources will round out your understanding, providing broader cultural, intellectual, and historical context about the decades after World War II, when these artists were active."
  Indigenous Canada,indigenous-canada,https://coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada,Arts and Humanities,University of Alberta,"Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations. Topics for the 12 lessons include the fur trade and other exchange relationships, land claims and environmental impacts, legal systems and rights, political conflicts and alliances, Indigenous political activism, and contemporary Indigenous life, art and its expressions."
  Introduction to Ableton Live,ableton-live,https://coursera.org/learn/ableton-live,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"In the past, Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) were programs used only by audio engineers with a highly specific knowledge base, on machines inaccessible to most people. But over the past 10-15 years, DAWs and the act of recording music have evolved from being a luxury of the few to being available to the masses. Ableton Live is one such application. Used by an extremely broad range of music creators, Ableton Live not only facilitates the work of engineers, producers, and writers in professional, home, and mobile studio settings, but it is also a powerful platform for musicians on stage, in the DJ booth, and elsewhere."
  Introduction to Classical Music,introclassicalmusic,https://coursera.org/learn/introclassicalmusic,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"Using a simple and enjoyable teaching style, this course introduces the novice listener to the wonders of classical music, from Bach fugues to Mozart symphonies to Puccini operas."
  Introduction to Guitar,guitar,https://coursera.org/learn/guitar,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Grasp the essentials needed to begin playing acoustic or electric guitar. You'll learn an easy approach to get you playing quickly, through a combination of exploring the instrument, performance technique, and basic music theory. For students who have long thought about picking up the acoustic or electric guitar, this course will provide an easy-access foundation that will get you playing. When first learning guitar, it is important to have the material presented in stages, in an enjoyable way that allows you to grasp the basics of the instrument and music."
  Introduction to Image Making,image-making,https://coursera.org/learn/image-making,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"During this course, we’ll be making exploratory images to expand your visual vocabulary. We'll create pieces that are expressive, meditative, or 'design-y' to instigate, evoke, experiment, record, explain, or to try out a media. The first two weeks are experimental and exploratory; we won’t be concerned with meaning or communication (although, to be honest, every image does exist in a context, and therefore communicates—or can convey—meaning, connotation, associations, and expressiveness)."
  Introduction to Philosophy,philosophy,https://coursera.org/learn/philosophy,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"This course will introduce you to some of the main areas of research in contemporary philosophy. Each module a different philosopher will talk you through some of the most important questions and issues in their area of expertise. We’ll begin by trying to understand what philosophy is – what are its characteristic aims and methods, and how does it differ from other subjects? Then we’ll spend the rest of the course gaining an introductory overview of several different areas of philosophy."
  Introduction to Research for Essay Writing,writing-college-research,https://coursera.org/learn/writing-college-research,Arts and Humanities,"University of California, Irvine","Course 4: Introduction to Research for Essay Writing This is the last course in the Academic Writing specialization before the capstone project. By the end of this course, you will be able to complete all the steps in planning a research paper. After completing this course, you will be able to: - choose appropriate research topics for college classes - write detailed outlines for research papers - find source material for research papers - take and organize good notes for research - use appropriate academic tone and language"
  Introduction to Typography,typography,https://coursera.org/learn/typography,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"Typography is the art of manipulating the visual form of language to enrich and control its meaning. It’s an essential area of skill and knowledge for graphic designers. Typography predates modern graphic design by around 500 years; it is rich in rules, conventions, and esoteric terminology—but it remains an exciting space for invention and expression."
  Jazz Improvisation,jazz-improvisation,https://coursera.org/learn/jazz-improvisation,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Learn the basic concepts of improvisation from Gary Burton, one of the most renowned improvisers in the jazz world, including the mental, melodic, and harmonic processes that contribute to the instinctive skills that an improviser puts to use when taking a solo. While many people are fans of jazz and understand that musicians are often “making up” the notes they are playing during a performance, most people—often including musicians, themselves, who are beginning to learn improvising—aren’t clear about what exact processes take place to enable this to happen. The purpose of this course is to introduce the basic concepts of modern improvisation and how to go about mastering the different musical and mental skills involved."
  "Journalism, the future, and you!",become-a-journalist4,https://coursera.org/learn/become-a-journalist4,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"You will learn about the career paths that are available in journalism, and what opportunities the skill sets of a journalist can offer in other fields. You will explore areas such as being an international correspondent, self-publishing in journalism, as well as how to freelance in the field. You will be empowered to develop your own path in journalism, from being an active and informed consumer, to being a journalist."
  Journey of the Universe: The Unfolding of Life,journey-unfolding-life,https://coursera.org/learn/journey-unfolding-life,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"Journey of the Universe weaves together the discoveries of the evolutionary sciences together with humanities such as history, philosophy, art, and religion. The course draws on the Emmy-award winning film, Journey of the Universe, and the book from Yale University Press."
  Luther and the West,luther-and-the-west,https://coursera.org/learn/luther-and-the-west,Arts and Humanities,Northwestern University,"In this course we will discuss the history of some ideas that have been hugely influential in the modern west and that were taken out to the rest of the world. The discussion centers on an extraordinary and historically important figure, a sixteenth century German man named Martin Luther. Luther is recognized today as the originator of many of the most significant ideas that continue to affect and shape who we as modern people are and how we see the world and ourselves for better and for worse."
  Magic in the Middle Ages,magicmiddleages,https://coursera.org/learn/magicmiddleages,Arts and Humanities,Universitat de Barcelona,"Magical thought has always attracted human imagination. In this course we will introduce you to the Middle Ages through a wide conception of magic. Students will have an approach to medieval culture, beliefs and practices from the perspective of History and History of Science. Popular magic, as well as learned magic (alchemy, geomancy and necromancy) will be addressed. Moreover, we will also deal with how eastern practices and texts influenced western culture."
  Making Architecture,making-architecture,https://coursera.org/learn/making-architecture,Arts and Humanities,"IE Business School, IE School of Architecture & Design","Making architecture offers a unique insight into the mind and work of an Architect, starting with the basics of the profession and culminating with the production of a scaled site model. The course should act as ideal preparation for those interested in undertaking an undergraduate degree in Architecture, although its flexible, intriguing and enjoyable content makes it accessible for all those looking to increase their knowledge in the field."
  Modern & Contemporary American Poetry,modpo,https://coursera.org/learn/modpo,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"ModPo is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experimental verse, from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to the present. Participants (who need no prior experience with poetry) will learn how to read poems that are supposedly ""difficult."" We encounter and discuss the poems one at a time. It's much easier than it seems! Join us and try it! Even though we are currently in our offseason (""SloPo""), you are welcome to enroll now. You will have access to the entire ModPo site. Explore; meet some ModPo'ers who are conversing in the site year-round; read poems and watch videos."
  Modern American Poetry,modern-american-poetry,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-american-poetry,Arts and Humanities,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Twelve experienced faculty members from across the United States present their analyses of ground-breaking modern American poets in richly illustrated video lectures. The course highlights both major poets—from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson through T.S. Eliot, H.D., Amy Lowell, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, and many others—and influential movements. The course mixes historical overview with close readings of individual poets and poems. Most courses give only one instructor’s point of view."
  Modern Art & Ideas,modern-art-ideas,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-art-ideas,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"This course is designed to help anyone interested in learning more about modern and contemporary art. Themes can provide an effective structure for engaging with art. In this course, you will explore four themes that educators at The Museum of Modern Art use frequently in their teaching: Places & Spaces, Art & Identity, Transforming Everyday Objects, and Art & Society. Through videos, slideshows, and a variety of resources, readings, and activities, you will explore the content and context of works of art in MoMA’s collection"
  Music & Society,musicandsociety,https://coursera.org/learn/musicandsociety,Arts and Humanities,"Universiteit Leiden, University of the Arts The Hague","Music plays an important role in our daily lives and is woven into the fabric of society. We listen to music while alone or in company, in a dance club or at home, through simple headphones or via high-end speakers, as background or as foreground, after we get up or before we go to bed. Music accompanies us when we are traveling, doing sports, shopping, working or relaxing. This omnipresence of music raises several questions: how does music affect our lives? What is the relation between the society we live in and the role, function, and position of music within that society? How is music influenced by and does music influence social, political, economic, technological, and multiple other developments?"
  Music and Social Action,music-and-social-action,https://coursera.org/learn/music-and-social-action,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"What is a musician’s response to the condition of the world? Do musicians have an obligation and an opportunity to serve the needs of the world with their musicianship? At a time of crisis for the classical music profession, with a changing commercial landscape, a shrinking audience base, and a contraction in the number of professional orchestras, how does a young musician construct a career today?"
  Music Business Foundations,music-business-foundations,https://coursera.org/learn/music-business-foundations,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"This course has been developed to provide students with the latest instruction on the best way for creators, consumers, and facilitators to navigate the resurgence of one of the world’s most exciting industries: the music business. Three things are clear about today’s music industry: The consumption of music is expanding at the greatest rate in history and from the most portals ever imagined, the cost of producing music is decreasing, and the number of artists creating and seeking to expose their work and develop careers through the Internet has increased dramatically."
  Music's Big Bang: The Genesis of Rock 'n' Roll,rock-and-roll-music,https://coursera.org/learn/rock-and-roll-music,Arts and Humanities,University of Florida,"Explores the factors — musical and cultural — that led to the birth of American rock 'n' roll music in the early 1950s. Covers in detail the genres, styles and people that converged to create this new music."
  "Musicianship: Chord Charts, Diatonic Chords, and Minor Keys",musicianship-chords,https://coursera.org/learn/musicianship-chords,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"After a tremendous response from learners on Coursera, Berklee Online has created a Developing Your Musicianship specialization, and this course is the second course in the series. If you have a basic knowledge of music theory or if you have completed Developing Your Musicianship I, this course will continue to help you understand key musical concepts, enabling you to create and perform contemporary music. Taught by Berklee College of Music professor George W. Russell, Jr., the course includes four lessons that delve into the next level of harmony and ear training."
  "Musicianship: Tensions, Harmonic Function, and Modal Interchange",musicianship-harmony,https://coursera.org/learn/musicianship-harmony,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"After a tremendous response from learners on Coursera, Berklee Online has created a Developing Your Musicianship specialization, and this course is the third course in the series. If you have a general understanding of music theory or if you have completed Developing Your Musicianship I and II, this course will continue to help you understand musical concepts, enabling you to create and perform contemporary music. Taught by Berklee College of Music professor George W. Russell, Jr., the course includes four lessons that delve into an intermediate level of harmony and ear training."
  "Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative",onlinegames,https://coursera.org/learn/onlinegames,Arts and Humanities,Vanderbilt University,"Intended for both newcomers who are curious about video games and experienced gamers who want to reflect on their passion, this course will explore what happens to stories, paintings, and films when they become the basis of massively multiplayer online games. The Lord of the Rings trilogy—the novels, films, and video game—are our central example of how “remediation” transforms"
  Philosophy and the Sciences: Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences,philosophy-cognitive-sciences,https://coursera.org/learn/philosophy-cognitive-sciences,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"What is our role in the universe as human agents capable of knowledge? What makes us intelligent cognitive agents seemingly endowed with consciousness? This is the second part of the course 'Philosophy and the Sciences', dedicated to Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences. Scientific research across the cognitive sciences has raised pressing questions for philosophers. The goal of this course is to introduce you to some of the main areas and topics at the key juncture between philosophy and the cognitive sciences."
  Philosophy and the Sciences: Introduction to the Philosophy of Physical Sciences,philosophy-physical-sciences,https://coursera.org/learn/philosophy-physical-sciences,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"This is the first part of the course 'Philosophy and the Sciences', dedicated to Philosophy of the Physical Sciences. Scientific research across the physical sciences has raised pressing questions for philosophers. The goal of this course is to introduce you to some of the main areas and topics at the key juncture between philosophy and the physical sciences. Each week we will introduce you to some of these important questions at the forefront of scientific research."
  "Philosophy, Science and Religion: Science and Philosophy",philosophy-science-religion-1,https://coursera.org/learn/philosophy-science-religion-1,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"Philosophy, Science and Religion mark three of the most fundamental modes of thinking about the world and our place in it. Are these modes incompatible? Put another way: is the intellectually responsible thing to do to ‘pick sides’ and identify with one of these approaches at the exclusion of others? Or, are they complementary or mutually supportive? As is typical of questions of such magnitude, the devil is in the details. For example, it is important to work out what is really distinctive about each of these ways of inquiring about the world. In order to gain some clarity here, we’ll be investigating what some of the current leading thinkers in philosophy, science and religion are actually doing."
  "Plagues, Witches, and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction",historical-fiction,https://coursera.org/learn/historical-fiction,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"A unique and exciting introduction to the genre and craft of historical fiction, for curious students, aspiring authors--anyone with a passion for the past. Read classics of the genre, encounter bestselling writers of historical fiction, and discover your own historical archive while interacting with a global community of interested readers."
  Principles of Photo Composition and Digital Image Post-Production,photocourse3,https://coursera.org/learn/photocourse3,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Welcome to Course THREE! In the first two Modules you will gain a more professional-level understanding of the Design Elements that artists have used throughout history to create successful compositions. Arranging the Elements in ways that lead viewers through their compositions is an essential craft for photographers no matter whether their subject matter is pure documentary or vividly exotic personal expression. In Modules 3 & 4 we survey the essential elements of post-photography image management, using Adobe(tm) LIGHTROOM(tm). Image adjustment software designed for Smartphone photographers rounds out the Course."
  ProTools Basics,protoolsbasics,https://coursera.org/learn/protoolsbasics,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Producing music is an incredibly creative process, and knowing the tools of the trade is essential in order to transmit the musical ideas in your head into the DAW in a creative and uninhibited way. Whether you have used a computer to create music before, or you have been curious about production for years, this 4-week course will give you an introductory look into the world of Avid Pro Tools and Pro Tools First."
  Reason and Persuasion: Thinking Through Three Dialogues By Plato,plato-dialogues,https://coursera.org/learn/plato-dialogues,Arts and Humanities,National University of Singapore,"In this course we study the ancient, Socratic art of blowing up your beliefs as you go, to make sure they're built to last. We spend six weeks studying three Platonic dialogues - ""Euthyphro"", ""Meno"", ""Republic"" Book I - then two weeks pondering a pair of footnotes to Plato: contemporary moral theory and moral psychology."
  Reasoning Across the Disciplines,critical-reasoning,https://coursera.org/learn/critical-reasoning,Arts and Humanities,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"This course will help you understand what critical thinking skills are and why they're so important. You will also learn how critical thinking skills vary across disciplines, as well as see them applied across several fields, including, chemistry, history, psychology, law, English, and American Studies. You will develop your own critical thinking skills by working through scenarios or problems posed by scholars across these fields, and you will better understand how your college courses will differ from your earlier education."
  Recovering the Humankind's Past and Saving the Universal Heritage,preserving-cultural-heritage,https://coursera.org/learn/preserving-cultural-heritage,Arts and Humanities,Sapienza University of Rome,"Archaeology is, among human sciences, the discipline with the strongest importance for the rediscovery, but also for the preservation and protection of cultural heritage, as Humankind’s universal patrimony. You will be introduced to the way we ourselves reflect on and are engaged with the study of human past: from the practical and material recovery of ancient traces in the field to the study and interpretation. On the other hand, the discovery of human past implies the correct conservation and presentation for both experts and general public: the study and protection of the past we share every day prevent from any possible destruction, misuse, abuse and thus cancellation of human memory."
  Religions and Society in China,religions-society-china,https://coursera.org/learn/religions-society-china,Arts and Humanities,Higher School of Economics,"This course provides an introduction to the study of the history, major teachings, and practices of the major Chinese religions and spiritual practices and is deigned to give conceptual tools to appreciate diverse religious practice in East. It covers the development of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and wide range of popular and local religions. From historical perspective we will also explore the development of key theological, religious and philosophical doctrines as well as associated practices. An effort will be made to spend time on each tradition according to its importance to Asia as a whole. 
  
  We will explore the role of religions in politics and social relations in East and South, South East Asia and China in particular, and will analyze the origins, central teachings, divisions and branches, rituals and practices, influences on culture, and responses to modern challenges for each tradition. 
  
  The emphasis throughout the course is on the hermeneutic difficulties attendant upon the study of religion in general, and Asian religions in particular. We will explore new Asian religions as dynamic, ongoing forces in the lives of individuals and in the collective experience of modern societies."
  "Revolutionary Ideas:  An Introduction to Legal and Political Philosophy, Part 2",political-philosophy-2,https://coursera.org/learn/political-philosophy-2,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"What is the purpose of government? Why should we have a State? What kind of State should we have? Even within a political community, there may be sharp disagreements about the role and purpose of government. Some want an active, involved government, seeing legal and political institutions as the means to solve our most pressing problems, and to help bring about peace, equality, justice, happiness, and to protect individual liberty. Others want a more minimal government, motivated, perhaps, by some of the disastrous political experiments of the 20th Century, and the thought that political power is often just a step away from tyranny. In many cases, these disagreements arise out of deep philosophical disagreements."
  Roman Architecture,roman-architecture,https://coursera.org/learn/roman-architecture,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"Roman Architecture is a course for people who love to travel and want to discover the power of architecture to shape politics, society, and culture."
  Roman Art and Archaeology,roman-art-archaeology,https://coursera.org/learn/roman-art-archaeology,Arts and Humanities,University of Arizona,"The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the culture of ancient Rome beginning about 1000 BCE and ending with the so-called ""Fall of Rome"". We will look at some of the key people who played a role in Rome, from the time of the kings through the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. We will also focus on the city of Rome itself, as well as Rome's expansion through Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond."
  Scandinavian Film and Television,scanfilmtv,https://coursera.org/learn/scanfilmtv,Arts and Humanities,University of Copenhagen,"In many ways Scandinavian film and television is a global cultural brand, connected with and exporting some of the cultural and social values connected to a liberal and progressive welfare society. This course deals with the social, institutional and cultural background of film and television in Scandinavia and in a broader European and global context."
  Script Writing: Write a Pilot Episode for a TV or Web Series (Project-Centered Course),script-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/script-writing,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"In this project-centered course*, you will design a series bible and write a complete pilot episode for your own unique television or web series, be it drama or comedy or something in between. You’ll learn to break down the creative process into components, and you’ll discover a structured process that allows you to produce a polished and pitch-ready script in just a few weeks. Completing this project will increase your confidence in your ideas and abilities, and you’ll feel prepared to pitch your first script and get started on your next."
  "Seeing the Light, Envisioning the Content, Sharing in Print & Online",photocourse4,https://coursera.org/learn/photocourse4,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Welcome to Course FOUR! In Modules 1-4 you will cover the final elements of the Specialization necessary to round out this introduction to the fundamentals of Photography, and prepare you for creating your own exciting project in the Capstone! You have come a long way since the beginning of this journey from Smartphone Basics to DSLR and Beyond."
  Seeing Through Photographs,photography,https://coursera.org/learn/photography,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"Although taking, sharing, and viewing photographs has become second nature for many of us, our regular engagement with images does not necessarily make us visually literate. This course aims to address the gap between seeing and truly understanding photographs by introducing a diversity of ideas, approaches, and technologies that inform their making. In this course you will look closely at photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art and hear a variety of perspectives on what a photograph is and the ways that photography has been used throughout its nearly 180 year history: as a means of artistic expression, as a tool for science and exploration; as an instrument of documentation; to tell stories and record histories; and as a mode of communication and critique in our ever increasingly visual culture."
  Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender,gender-art,https://coursera.org/learn/gender-art,Arts and Humanities,The University of Melbourne,"What do paintings tell us about sex? How is art gendered? In this course we will study some of the world’s most beloved pictures guided by expert curators and art historians who step outside of the square, bringing a gendered reading to the masterpieces contained in the magnificent collections that we have been lucky enough to bring to the Coursera platform."
  Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop,poetry-workshop,https://coursera.org/learn/poetry-workshop,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"This course is built on the notion that the most exciting writing begins after the first draft. It is specifically for folks who believe that writing poems just to express oneself is like using the Internet just for email. After all, poetry can change the way you and your readers think of the world and its inhabitants; it can break new ground for language; turn a blank sheet of paper into a teeming concert of voices and music."
  Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics,songwriting-lyrics,https://coursera.org/learn/songwriting-lyrics,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"There’s a songwriter lurking somewhere inside you, peeking around corners, wondering if it’s safe to come out. Now it is. This course is an invitation to let your inner songwriter step into the sunlight. All it takes is a simple “yes” and you’ll be climbing that windy hill, marveling at the view. If you haven’t written any or many songs, this course will show you an efficient, effective process for tailoring songs to express your ideas and emotions. If you have, you’ll look at your process differently, taking control of aspects of the process you may have not noticed. The course will start by examining the tools available to you, all revolving around the essential concept of prosody. You’ll learn to use your tools to enhance your message—to work compositionally at the same time you’re developing your ideas."
  "Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity",kierkegaard,https://coursera.org/learn/kierkegaard,Arts and Humanities,University of Copenhagen,"It is often claimed that relativism, subjectivism and nihilism are typically modern philosophical problems that emerge with the breakdown of traditional values, customs and ways of life. The result is the absence of meaning, the lapse of religious faith, and feeling of alienation that is so widespread in modernity."
  Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences - Unit 2: Belief Systems,soulbeliefs2,https://coursera.org/learn/soulbeliefs2,Arts and Humanities,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Throughout history, the vast majority of people around the globe have believed they have, however defined, a “soul.” While the question of whether the soul exists cannot be answered by science, what we can study are the causes and consequences of various beliefs about the soul and its prospects of surviving the death of the body. Why are soul and afterlife beliefs so common in human history? Are there adaptive advantages to assuming souls exist? Are there brain structures that have been shaped by environmental pressures that provide the foundation of body/mind dualism that is such a prominent feature of many religions?"
  Survey of Music Technology,music-technology,https://coursera.org/learn/music-technology,Arts and Humanities,Georgia Institute of Technology,"How can we use computers to create expressive, compelling music? And how can we write computer software to help us create and organize sounds in new ways? This course provides a hands-on introduction to the field of music technology as both a creative musical practice and an interdisciplinary technical research pursuit. Students will be able to compose music in digital audio workstation software using both audio and symbolic representations; to write code to algorithmically generate music, analyze sound, and design sound; and to describe the essential theory and history behind these activities as well as their connection to cutting-edge computer music research."
  Teaching the Violin and Viola: Creating a Healthy Foundation,teach-violin-lessons,https://coursera.org/learn/teach-violin-lessons,Arts and Humanities,Northwestern University,"fundamental principles and early stages of teaching violin and viola through a series of engaging video lectures and lesson demonstrations, including: 1) Master classes with some of the world’s top string pedagogues, 2) Individual lesson demos of teaching violin/viola set up, left and right hand technique and pieces from the early violin/viola repertoire, 3) Group lesson demos of teaching music theory, ear training and fun activities that encourage good playing habits, and 4) A “field trip” to the violin shop, where we will outfit a new beginning student with a proper instrument and bow. You’ll also engage in a series of discussions and reflections with colleagues and peers across the globe. Upon completion of this course, we hope you’ll return to your studio with confidence, a new curriculum, and a renewed approach to sharing with your students the joyful experience of making beautiful music."
  "The American South: Its Stories, Music, and Art",the-south,https://coursera.org/learn/the-south,Arts and Humanities,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"From small farms to urban neighborhoods, from the region itself to the more distant worlds of the southern diaspora, we discover the stories, music, and art of the American South."
  The Ancient Greeks,ancient-greeks,https://coursera.org/learn/ancient-greeks,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. Along with studying the most important events and personalities, we will consider broader issues such as political and cultural values and methods of historical interpretation."
  The Art of Music Production,producing-music,https://coursera.org/learn/producing-music,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Explore the art of record production and how to make recordings that other people will love listening to. This course will teach you how to make emotionally moving recordings on almost any recording equipment, including your phone or laptop. The emphasis is on mastering tangible artistic concepts; the gear you use is up to you. You will learn to develop the most important tool in the recording studio: your ears. You will learn to enhance every aspect of your own productions, both sonically and musically, by employing deeper listening skills."
  The Art of Vocal Production,vocal-production,https://coursera.org/learn/vocal-production,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"This course addresses recorded vocal performances and the technologies used to highlight and support them in modern record production and mixes. Most of us know that vocals serve as the focal point of modern recordings but many do not know the tools used or when the tools are used best in modern record production. The course begins with simple vocal placement in a mix, where you will also learn the fundamentals of compression and equalization. You’ll further study delays and reverbs before moving to advanced concepts in audio editing, synthetic processing, automatic & graphic pitch correction, time compression, time expansion, flex and elastic audio."
  The Beauty of Kunqu Opera,kunqu-opera,https://coursera.org/learn/kunqu-opera,Arts and Humanities,The Chinese University of Hong Kong,"This course will focus on the historical and cultural background, literary aesthetics, music, and performance of Kunqu, China’s classical opera. After viewing the lecture videos presented by scholars and renowned maestros in the field of Kunqu, students’ understanding and appreciation of Chinese performing arts, classical literature and traditional culture will be enhanced."
  "The Bible's Prehistory, Purpose, and Political Future",bible-history,https://coursera.org/learn/bible-history,Arts and Humanities,Emory University,"With its walls razed to ground by Babylon’s armies, Jerusalem joined a long line of ancient vanquished cities—from Ur and Nineveh and Persepolis to Babylon itself. While some recovered from the destruction, others did not. But none responded to political catastrophe by fashioning the kind of elaborate and enduring monument to their own downfall that we find in the Bible. Most conquered populations viewed their subjugation as a source of shame. They consigned it to oblivion, opting instead to extol the golden ages of the past."
  The Blues: Understanding and Performing an American Art Form,the-blues,https://coursera.org/learn/the-blues,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"The blues is an American art form and the most important musical form in jazz. Although there are other formal paradigms of the blues, such as 8-bar or 16-bar, this course focuses on different incarnations of the 12-bar blues. There are considerable differences between Early Jazz blues, Swing blues, Bebop blues, Modal blues, and Post Bop blues. Each type has its unique harmonic syntax, melodic vocabulary and, associated with them, improvisational techniques."
  The Cycle: Management of Successful Arts and Cultural Organizations,the-cycle,https://coursera.org/learn/the-cycle,Arts and Humanities,"University of Maryland, College Park","What makes a successful arts and cultural organization? Led by DeVos Institute Chairman Michael M. Kaiser and President Brett Egan, this course will introduce you to a management theory called the Cycle which supports thriving arts and cultural organizations. Learning from our work with managers from over 80 countries around the world, the DeVos Institute developed the Cycle as a simple, but powerful tool to assist managers in their effort to respond to an increasingly complex environment and propel their institutions to excellence. The Cycle explains how great art and strong marketing can create a family of supporters, who in turn help the organization produce the revenue required to support even more great art the next year. The Institute has seen the Cycle work in performing and presenting organizations, as well as museums, arts schools, and other nonprofit endeavors like service organizations, historical societies, public libraries, university programs, advocacy organizations, botanical gardens, and zoos."
  The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part I,modern-middle-east-1,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-middle-east-1,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"This course will discuss the emergence of the modern Middle East from the fall of the Ottoman Empire, at the end of the First World War to the present. It will discuss the Ottoman legacy in the region and the Western imperial impact on the creation of the Arab state system. The course will discuss the rise and retreat of Arab nationalism, the problems of internal cohesion of the Arab states, issues of religion and state, and the evolution of Islamist politics."
  The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part II,modernmiddleeast2,https://coursera.org/learn/modernmiddleeast2,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"This course will discuss the developments in the Middle East from the early 20th century to the present. It will discuss the rise and retreat of Arab nationalism, the problems of internal cohesion of the Arab states, issues of religion and state, and the evolution of Islamist politics. It will also focus on the evolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict and its impact on the region and will conclude with an in depth analysis of the “Arab Spring” by placing these contemporary revolutionary events in their historical context."
  The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem,jerusalem,https://coursera.org/learn/jerusalem,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"The destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and the Babylonian Exile were a great catastrophe in the history of the Jewish Nation. What really happened during that dark, fateful age, and how did new opportunities arise from the ashes?"
  The French Revolution,french-revolution,https://coursera.org/learn/french-revolution,Arts and Humanities,The University of Melbourne,"The French Revolution was one of the most important upheavals in world history. This course examines its origins, course and outcomes. This course is designed for you to work through successfully on your own. However you will not be alone on this journey. Use the resources included in the course and take part in the suggested learning activities to get the most out of your learning. To successfully complete this course, it is recommended that you devote at least six hours to every module over the six weeks of the course."
  The History of Modern Israel -  Part II: Challenges of Israel as a sovereign state,history-israel-sovereign-state,https://coursera.org/learn/history-israel-sovereign-state,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"This course deals with the Israeli politics, economy, society and culture, since its creation in 1948 till today. It analyzes the construction of the Israeli historical narrative as an identity-building narrative, intending to inculcate a collective memory to a diverse society. We will focus on key events and essential components that shaped the Israeli society from the fifties till the present. We will also discuss the changes that the Israeli society experiences in its almost seventy years of existence and how it affects its politics and culture."
  The History of Modern Israel - From an Idea to a State,history-israel-part-1,https://coursera.org/learn/history-israel-part-1,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"How did the State of Israel come to be? How is it that an idea, introduced in 19th century Europe, became a reality? And how does that reality prevail in the harsh complexities of the Middle East?"
  "The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World",holocaust-introduction-1,https://coursera.org/learn/holocaust-introduction-1,Arts and Humanities,"Tel Aviv University, Yad Vashem","The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its innocence. As civilized human beings, we fail to understand how events of such horror could have taken place, and how an idea so inhumanly warped could have spread like wildfire through an entire continent, instigating the systematic annihilation of millions of Jews."
  The Holocaust - An Introduction (II): The Final Solution,holocaust-introduction-2,https://coursera.org/learn/holocaust-introduction-2,Arts and Humanities,"Tel Aviv University, Yad Vashem","The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its innocence. As civilized human beings, we fail to understand how events of such horror could have taken place, and how an idea so inhumanly warped could have spread like wildfire through an entire continent, instigating the systematic annihilation of millions of Jews."
  The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry,the-holocaust,https://coursera.org/learn/the-holocaust,Arts and Humanities,"University of California, Santa Cruz","In this course, you will explore the Holocaust from the overlapping perspectives of literature and history—through memoirs, historical documents, poetry, documentary footage, filmic representations, and novels. You will expand your knowledge of the literature of the Holocaust, Eastern and Western European Jewish communities, the origins and development of antisemitism, the establishment of labor and extermination camps, resistance movements, and the Holocaust as a problem for world history."
  The Kennedy Half Century,kennedy,https://coursera.org/learn/kennedy,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"This course will explore the Presidency, assassination, and lasting legacy of President John F. Kennedy. Students will learn how JFK’s life, administration, and tragic death have influenced the general public, the media, and each of the nine U.S. presidents who followed. Understanding the Kennedy legacy and being able to identify elements of his legacy within the context of modern politics helps understand many of the vexing problems that developed over the last half century as well as many of the challenges that confront us today."
  The Making of the US President: A Short History in Five Elections,making-us-president,https://coursera.org/learn/making-us-president,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"As Donald Trump takes office as the forty-fifth president of the United States, this course explores presidential elections in historical perspective, via five case studies. It tells the story of key campaigns in US history, and by doing so it investigates how politics changed over time—and how understanding the past sheds light on the current campaign. From the arrival of ""dirty politics"" to the impact of the ""digital revolution,"" the course looks at the historical background to some of the key phenomena that shaped the controversy-laden campaign of 2016."
  The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 1),modern-postmodern-1,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-postmodern-1,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"This course examines how the idea of ""the modern"" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have we moved beyond the modern to the postmodern?"
  The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2),modern-postmodern-2,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-postmodern-2,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"This course examines how the idea of ""the modern"" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have we moved beyond the modern to the postmodern?"
  "The Modern World, Part One: Global History from 1760 to 1910",modern-world,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-world,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. Part One begins with the political and economic revolutions of the late 1700s and tracks the transformation of the world during the 1800s. Part One concludes as these bewildering changes seem to be running beyond the capacity of older institutions to handle them.
  "The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910",modern-world-2,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-world-2,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. Part Two begins early in the twentieth century, as older ways of doing things and habits of thought give way. What follows is an era of cataclysmic struggles over what ideas and institutions will take their place. The course concludes in the present day, as communities everywhere are transitioning into a new era of world history. Again we work hard to grasp what is happening and ask: Why? Again we are drawn to pivotal choices made at key moments by individuals and communities."
  The Music of the Beatles,the-beatles,https://coursera.org/learn/the-beatles,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"The Music of the Beatles will track the musical development of the band, starting from the earliest days in Liverpool and Hamburg, moving through the excitement of Beatlemania, the rush of psychedelia, and the maturity of Abbey Road. While the focus will be on the music, we will also consider how recording techniques, the music business, the music of other artists, and the culture of the 1960s affected John, Paul, George, and Ringo as they created the Beatles repertory."
  "The Music of the Rolling Stones, 1962-1974",rolling-stones,https://coursera.org/learn/rolling-stones,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"This course will survey the music of the Rolling Stones, beginning with the roots and first formation of the band in the early 1960s, and following the group through the release of It's Only Rock 'n' Roll in late 1974."
  The Place of Music in 21st Century Education,music-education-21st-century,https://coursera.org/learn/music-education-21st-century,Arts and Humanities,The University of Sydney,"What do children need from education now, and in the future? How is technology best used in teaching and learning? How can innovative approaches to education be reconciled with established, traditional ones? What does student-centred learning really mean? This five module course is not just for classroom or ensemble music educators. It’s suitable for anyone interested in creativity-infused education, in contemporary education issues, and in the integration and use of digital technology."
  The Rooseveltian Century,roosevelt,https://coursera.org/learn/roosevelt,Arts and Humanities,Universiteit Leiden,"This course uses the lives, ideals and achievements of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt to create the idea of a Rooseveltian century. It is about doing research, analyzing primary sources, and connecting all this information with a coherent and logical interpretation. It is an invitation to think critically and historically, and it wants to give you a glimpse of what it means to be a historian at work."
  The Talmud: A Methodological Introduction,the-talmud,https://coursera.org/learn/the-talmud,Arts and Humanities,Northwestern University,The Talmud is one of the richest and most complicated works of literature the world has ever known. Since being composed around 1500 years ago it has inspired not only religious reverence but significant intellectual engagement. In this course learners will be introduced to the unique characteristics of this text and the challenges that inhere in studying it while studying a chapter of the Talmud. Students of the course can expect to develop an appreciation for how the Talmud works and why it continues to inspire religious and intellectual devotion.
  The Technology of Music Production,technology-of-music-production,https://coursera.org/learn/technology-of-music-production,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Learn about the music production process—including recording, editing, and mixing—and the tools available to you to create contemporary music on your computer. With the recent introduction of high-quality-low-cost software and hardware, the tools of music production"
  The World of the String Quartet,string-quartet,https://coursera.org/learn/string-quartet,Arts and Humanities,Curtis Institute of Music,"Arnold Steinhardt, first violin of the internationally acclaimed Guarneri String Quartet, invites music listeners to the world of the string quartet repertoire and ensemble. Journey with him and interpretive analysis instructor Mia Chung through the history and features of quartet music, colored by stories of legendary quartets and insights from the stage."
  The Worldview of Thomas Berry:  The Flourishing of the Earth Community,thomas-berry,https://coursera.org/learn/thomas-berry,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was a historian of world religions and an early voice awakening moral sensibilities to the environmental crisis. He is known for articulating a “new story” of the universe that explores the implications of the evolutionary sciences and cultural traditions for creating a flourishing future. This course investigates Berry’s life and thought in relation to the Journey of the Universe project. It draws on his books, articles, and recorded lectures to examine such ideas as: the New Story, the Great Work, and the emerging Ecozoic era."
  Theatre and Globalization,global-theatre,https://coursera.org/learn/global-theatre,Arts and Humanities,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU),"Learn how theatre and globalization have affected each other over the past century, and how to conduct your own research on global theatre histories."
  Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World: Lesser Vehicle,buddhist-meditation,https://coursera.org/learn/buddhist-meditation,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World explores the immense variety of meditation practices past and present. We present their histories, their philosophical underpinnings, their transformations in the modern global world, and we give you a chance to reflect upon meditation practices through secular contemplations designed just for this course."
  "Transmedia Storytelling: Narrative worlds, emerging technologies, and global audiences",transmedia-storytelling,https://coursera.org/learn/transmedia-storytelling,Arts and Humanities,UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales),"Transmedia storytelling is the practice of designing, sharing, and participating in a cohesive story experience across multiple traditional and digital delivery platforms - for entertainment, advertising and marketing, or social change. Have you ever read a book, seen a movie, watched a television show, or played a game that centred around different aspects of a larger story or universe? You may be familiar with popular examples of such universes like Star Wars, Marvel, and The Walking Dead (to name a few)."
  Transmedia Writing,transmedia-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/transmedia-writing,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Do you have a desire to write a novel, write a screenplay, design a video game? In this project-centered course you will develop your own, original, intellectual property (IP) into a transmedia project containing written versions of your IP on various platforms. You will begin your novel, adapt the first chapters of your novel into the opening scenes of a film or TV show and create a game design concept of your IP. This is a course is based in ""Active Learning"" so that most of the actual learning takes place within your own activities - that is, writing! You will learn by doing."
  Understanding the Music Business: What is Music Worth?,musicbiz,https://coursera.org/learn/musicbiz,Arts and Humanities,Vanderbilt University,"This course will examine the music industry in the United States, with the unique perspective gained by Vanderbilt University’s location in Nashville, TN. Nashville is a major center of music in the United States, and the music created here has a global reach, particularly in the country, rock, pop, singer-songwriter, and Americana genres. However, students will learn that the basic principles of recording, marketing, copyright, licensing, and live performance are the same, regardless of musical style or genre."
  What is news? ,what-is-news,https://coursera.org/learn/what-is-news,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"This course will guide you through the basic elements of professional journalism and the news values and ethics of covering real-world issues and events. The overview and examples of the types of news coverage helps introduce the different types of journalism, such as social media, multimedia, print, visual and broadcast, and how professional journalists effectively use each format."
  World Design for Video Games,video-game-world,https://coursera.org/learn/video-game-world,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"Start creating your world. A game world is not just a backdrop for your game—be it minimal or detailed, contained or part of a much bigger universe, it provides the context for your player. Ultimately, a game world should feel alive and wholly unique to any player who will experience it."
  Write Like Mozart: An Introduction to Classical Music Composition,classical-composition,https://coursera.org/learn/classical-composition,Arts and Humanities,National University of Singapore,"This course introduces students to strategies for style writing of common practice European art music. The issues of harmonic progression, voice leading, and texture are addressed in addition to relevant compositional concepts like repetition, variation, and elaboration. The course aims to offer a creative space even within the restrictions of stylistic emulation."
  透过摄影看世界,photography-1,https://coursera.org/learn/photography-1,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,对于我们中的许多人来说，虽然拍照、分享和浏览照片已经成了日常生活中的习惯，但我们与图像的频繁接触并未培养我们在视觉表达上的素养。 这个课程的目的在于通过介绍影响摄影作品的创意、手段与技术，讨论观看照片与真正理解照片之间距离的问题。 在这个课程里，你将近距离观看纽约现代艺术博物馆收藏的照片，聆听从不同角度对照片的解读，以及摄影在将近180年历史中被使用的方式：作为艺术表现的途径、作为科学和探索的工具、作为纪实文献的媒介、作为讲述故事和记录历史的手段，以及作为日益视觉化的文化中一种交流和批评的模式。
   Business Model Canvas: A Tool for Entrepreneurs and Innovators (Project-Centered Course),business-model-canvas,https://coursera.org/learn/business-model-canvas,Business,University System of Georgia,"In this project-centered course*, you will use the Business Model Canvas innovation tool to approach either a personal or corporate challenge or opportunity. You’ll learn to identify and communicate the nine key elements of a business model: Customer Segments, Value Proposition, Channels, Customer Relationships, Key Resources, Key Activities, Key Partners, Revenue Streams, and Cost Structure."
   Effective Business Presentations with Powerpoint,powerpoint-presentations,https://coursera.org/learn/powerpoint-presentations,Business,PwC,"This course is all about presenting the story of the data, using PowerPoint. You'll learn how to structure a presentation, to include insights and supporting data. You'll also learn some design principles for effective visuals and slides. You'll gain skills for client-facing communication - including public speaking, executive presence and compelling storytelling. Finally, you'll be given a client profile, a business problem, and a set of basic Excel charts, which you'll need to turn into a presentation - which you'll deliver with iterative peer feedback."
  (Re)-invent your business model with the Odyssey 3.14 approach,newbusinessmodel,https://coursera.org/learn/newbusinessmodel,Business,HEC Paris,"This course gives you access to Odyssey 3.14 - an original approach developed to help you invent or reinvent a business model. This highly innovative approach has been developed by Laurence Lehmann-Ortega and Hélène Musikas and has been shown to be very effective. It is taught to top executives, entrepreneurs, and HEC students. You will learn about the concept and tools that combine innovation and strategy. Starting with the 3 pillars that make up the core business model, this approach recommends 14 directions to consider in order to invent or reinvent the business model."
  3D Printing Applications,3d-printing-applications,https://coursera.org/learn/3d-printing-applications,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course will help you understand how 3D printing is being applied across a number of domains, including design, manufacturing, and retailing. It will also demonstrate the special capabilities of 3D printing such as customization, self-assembly, and the ability to print complex objects. In addition to business applications, this course will also examine how individuals, including those in developing countries, are using this technology to create solutions to the problems they face. This course will also provide an overview of design thinking and how you can use this framework to develop ideas that can be turned into objects."
  3D Printing Revolution,3d-printing-revolution,https://coursera.org/learn/3d-printing-revolution,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course will demonstrate how 3D printers work, show what people make with them, and examine the 3D printing ecosystem. It will also explore the future of 3D printing and discuss how this technology will revolutionize our world. The course materials include informative video lectures, on-location interviews with a variety of 3D printing experts, and engaging hands-on exercises."
  3D Printing Software,3d-printing-software,https://coursera.org/learn/3d-printing-software,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course will demonstrate how to use 3D printing software to create digital designs that can be turned into physical objects. It will also demonstrate how 3D scanners work to turn physical objects into digital designs. This course is hands-on in nature and will provide step-by-step instructions to guide you through two popular 3D modeling programs, Tinkercad and Fusion 360. Learners who complete this course will be able to use 3D software to design a wide variety of objects for both personal and professional use. In addition, learners who enroll in the course certificate will receive extended free access to Fusion 360 (provided by Autodesk)."
  Accounting Analytics,accounting-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/accounting-analytics,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Accounting Analytics explores how financial statement data and non-financial metrics can be linked to financial performance. In this course, taught by Wharton’s acclaimed accounting professors, you’ll learn how data is used to assess what drives financial performance and to forecast future financial scenarios. While many accounting and financial organizations deliver data, accounting analytics deploys that data to deliver insight, and this course will explore the many areas in which accounting data provides insight into other business areas including consumer behavior predictions, corporate strategy, risk management, optimization, and more."
  Accounting and Finance for IT professionals,accounting-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/accounting-finance,Business,Indian School of Business,"This course presents an introduction to the basics of financial accounting and finance for IT professionals. The first part of the course will focus on understanding the most important financial statements, namely, the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flows. We will then focus on how we can understand the financial health and performance of the company by examining a number of important financial ratios that are derived from the financial statements of the company. The second part of the course will focus on the basics of finance. This includes the concept of time value of money, discounting cash flows, and capital budgeting."
  Accounting and Finance for Managers,finance-and-accounting,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-and-accounting,Business,Vanderbilt University,"The course will show you how to determine the value of an asset by the level and the riskiness of its expected after-tax cash flows. We’ll teach you the techniques used to discount cash flows and determine the value implications of investment decisions, as well as the guidelines used to construct after-tax cash flow forecasts. We’ll teach you to estimate risk in the context of modern portfolio theory and talk about the impact of capital structure (your firm’s mix of debt and equity) on the riskiness of financial instruments issued by your firm. In the accounting portion of the course, we’ll give you a basic introduction to financial accounting, including overviews of financial statements, income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows. You’ll learn about LIFO vs. FIFO accounting, accounting for inventory, and the valuation of long-term assets."
  Accounting for Business Decision Making: Part 1,business-accounting-1,https://coursera.org/learn/business-accounting-1,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course provides an introduction to accounting’s measurement role inside of an organization and how accountants communicate information that helps managers and employees make operational decisions. In particular, you will learn how cost information is created and organized to help managers and employees conduct profitability analyses, develop and choose products, make pricing decisions, and make common business decisions."
  Accounting for Business Decision Making: Part 2,business-accounting-2,https://coursera.org/learn/business-accounting-2,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Accounting information is the lifeblood of the organization, as it facilitates and influences operational and strategic decisions intended to achieve organizational goals. Organizations benefit from three decision-oriented roles of accounting: measurement, control, and communication. This course provides an introduction to accounting’s role in helping managers develop and implement, and improve the organization’s strategy. In particular, you will learn how non-financial and financial information is created, organized, and communicated to help managers make strategic decisions, as well as measure strategic success."
  Accounting: Making Sound Decisions,accounting-iese,https://coursera.org/learn/accounting-iese,Business,IESE Business School,"Financial Accounting is often called the language of business; it is the language that managers use to communicate the firm's financial and economic information to external parties such as shareholders and creditors. Nobody working in business can afford financial illiteracy. Whether you run your own business, work as a manager or are just starting your career, you want to understand financial information and be able to interact with accountants, controllers, and financial managers. You want to talk business!"
  Action Planning,action-planning,https://coursera.org/learn/action-planning,Business,Rice University,"Course 3 in the Leadership Development for Engineers Specialization and part of Rice University's Engineering Management and Leadership Certificate. An actionable leadership improvement plan enables you to leverage strengths and close the gaps on weaknesses. In this course, you will build your own plan that you can put into practice immediately and realize goals within the next two years. It lays the foundation for an evergreen process of selection and prioritization of skills, and action planning for sustained leadership development."
  Advanced Business Strategy,advanced-business-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-business-strategy,Business,University of Virginia,"Advance your strategic analysis skills in this follow-up to Foundations of Business Strategy. In this course, you'll learn the tools to analyze strategy across time (competitive dynamics), industries ( corporate strategy), geographies (international strategy), and institutions (non-market strategy). We'll introduce the tools you need to complete a comprehensive evaluation and understand the strategy dynamics of an industry: Competitive Lifecycle, Internationalization and Stakeholder Analyses, and Diversification Matrices."
  Advanced Content and Social Tactics to Optimize SEO,seo-tactics,https://coursera.org/learn/seo-tactics,Business,"University of California, Davis","Discover the content marketing and social media ecosystems and how these interconnected channels drive search results to a website. Leverage content marketing and social media as part of your SEO strategy, and how to use influence marketing to establish a website’s authority."
  Advanced Search Engine Optimization Strategies,advanced-seo-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-seo-strategies,Business,"University of California, Davis","This course focuses on technical, mobile and social strategies for increasing site traffic. Learn how to build SEO for international audiences through content localization, global team alignment and optimizing for local search engines. Discover techniques to optimize mobile-friendly websites, get mobile apps discovered, and leverage social media to drive organic SEO traffic."
  Alternative Approaches to Valuation and Investment,valuation,https://coursera.org/learn/valuation,Business,The University of Melbourne,"In this course, participants will develop an understanding of the intuitive foundations of asset and investment valuation, and how alternative valuation techniques may be used in practice. This is part of a Specialization in corporate finance created in partnership between the University of Melbourne and Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon)."
  An Introduction to Consumer Neuroscience & Neuromarketing ,neuromarketing,https://coursera.org/learn/neuromarketing,Business,Copenhagen Business School,"How do we make decisions as consumers? What do we pay attention to, and how do our initial responses predict our final choices? To what extent are these processes unconscious and cannot be reflected in overt reports? This course will provide you with an introduction to some of the most basic methods in the emerging fields of consumer neuroscience and neuromarketing. You will learn about the methods employed and what they mean. You will learn about the basic brain mechanisms in consumer choice, and how to stay updated on these topics. The course will give an overview of the current and future uses of neuroscience in business."
  Analysing Complexity,analysing-complexity,https://coursera.org/learn/analysing-complexity,Business,Macquarie University,"The first course of the specialization ANALYZING COMPLEXITY will teach you what unifying patterns lie at the core of all complex problems. It advances your knowledge of your own field by teaching you to look at it in new ways. ANALYZING COMPLEXITY is constructed in the following way: Week I. ""What is Complexity?"" - What is at the core of all complex problems Week II. ""Complex Physical Systems"" - What complex problems all have in common in the inanimate world Week III. ""Complex Adaptive Systems"" - What complex problems all have in common in nature Week IV."
  "Anticipating Your Next Battle, in Business and Beyond",anticipate,https://coursera.org/learn/anticipate,Business,HEC Paris,"In this MOOC, you will learn how to better anticipate the future, and reinvent yourself and your activity accordingly. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to account for the broader context and the possible convergence of long-term trends, and thus be able to develop a long-term, consistent strategy and vision, beyond mere day-to-day tactics. Thanks to this approach and mindset, you will become more agile and more resilient in a highly complex and uncertain landscape."
  Applications of Everyday Leadership,everyday-leadership-application,https://coursera.org/learn/everyday-leadership-application,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course covers the following topics: negotiation, feedback and coaching, conflict management, and leading change. The objectives are to learn how to use leadership skills to work more effectively with others, how to use leadership skills to organize others to work more effectively together, and to apply the foundations of effective leadership skills to everyday situations faced by leaders."
  Applying Investment Decision Rules for Startups,capital-budgeting,https://coursera.org/learn/capital-budgeting,Business,Yonsei University,"In the previous course, you learned financial statement analysis and how to make estimate of future financial status. In this course, you are going to learn capital budgeting. That is, how to make an investment decision. You would like to select the best project among various projects you can take. Then, you need to know the criteria. In this course, you are going to learn investment decision criteria such as NPV and IRR, which are most popular decision rules. Using financial analysis and discounted cash flow method, you can make pro forma financial statement and estimate project cash flows. Then, you apply investment criteria to determine whether to invest or not."
  Arts and Heritage Management,arts-heritage,https://coursera.org/learn/arts-heritage,Business,Università Bocconi,"Today cultural institutions are facing important dilemmas in many aspects of their management. Over the past decades, a new figure has emerged that of the art manager. Imagine you went to work every day to connect artists with audiences, vision with reality, and money with a mission. That is what managers in the arts do, they play an essential role in transforming the minds, lives, and communities through creative expression. This course has been conceptualized to address the need of skills and techniques to help professionals and managers in running art and cultural institutions."
  Becoming a changemaker: Introduction to Social Innovation,social-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/social-innovation,Business,University of Cape Town,"This free 6 week course is for anyone who wants to make a difference. Whether you are already familiar with the field of social innovation or social entrepreneurship, working for an organization that wants to increase its social impact, or just starting out, this course will take you on a journey of exploring the complex problems that surround us and how to start thinking about solutions."
  Behavioral Finance,duke-behavioral-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/duke-behavioral-finance,Business,Duke University,"We make thousands of decisions every day. Do I cross the road now, or wait for the oncoming truck to pass? Should I eat fries or a salad for lunch? How much should I tip the cab driver? We usually make these decisions with almost no thought, using what psychologists call “heuristics” – rules of thumb that enable us to navigate our lives. Without these mental shortcuts, we would be paralyzed by the multitude of daily choices. But in certain circumstances, these shortcuts lead to predictable errors – predictable, that is, if we know what to watch out for. Did you know, for example, that we are naturally biased towards selling investments that are doing well for us, but holding on to those that are doing poorly?"
  Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies,entrepreneurship-development,https://coursera.org/learn/entrepreneurship-development,Business,Case Western Reserve University,"The path for entrepreneurs to grow their companies outside of well-developed entrepreneurial ecosystems like Silicon Valley is challenging. Most markets around the world do not look like Silicon Valley, and they never will. But there are other models to support new businesses. In transitioning markets (where entrepreneurs do not have much access to private sector financing), government officials, donors, and business leaders are experimenting with creative approaches to support the growth of entrepreneurs. Northeast Ohio, whose largest city is Cleveland, is one such community."
  Biases and Portfolio Selection,biases-portfolio-selection,https://coursera.org/learn/biases-portfolio-selection,Business,Rice University,"Investors tend to be their own worst enemies. In this third course, you will learn how to capitalize on understanding behavioral biases and irrational behavior in financial markets. You will start by learning about the various behavioral biases – mistakes that investors make and understand their reasons. You will learn how to recognize your own mistakes as well as others’ and understand how these mistakes can affect investment decisions and financial markets. You will also explore how different preferences and investment horizons impact the optimal asset allocation choice. After this course, you will be more effective in overcoming biases to do the wrong things at the wrong times and tailoring an investment strategy that is best suited on your or your client’s profile and investment needs."
  Brand and Product Management,brand-management,https://coursera.org/learn/brand-management,Business,IE Business School,"Identify the critical information needed to develop a product and brand strategy that generates both quick-wins and long-term value. By completing this course, you will be in position to create an activity plan to bring your brand strategy to life - both externally towards consumers and internally to employees. You will be able to define the right metrics for determining success in the implementation of your product and brand strategy, considering any adjustments that may need to be made under a test and learn methodology."
  Budgeting and Scheduling Projects,schedule-projects,https://coursera.org/learn/schedule-projects,Business,"University of California, Irvine",A good project schedule helps all team members’ work together to meet project objectives. A project budget with realistic cost constraints is also an essential bedrock of any project. In this course you’ll learn to plan and stick to time and cost constraints in order to ensure the success of your projects.
  Building blocks of trading strategies,building-blocks,https://coursera.org/learn/building-blocks,Business,Indian School of Business,"The purpose of this course is to equip you with the knowledge required to comprehend the financial statements of a company and understand the various transactions that take place in the stock market so that you can replicate the strategies discovered by the extant academic literature. The first part of the course provides a brief introduction to financial statements and various common filings of firms. You will learn how to obtain information regarding a company's performance from them and use the information to build trading strategies. Next, you are taught basic asset pricing theories so that you will be able to calculate the expected returns of a stock or a portfolio."
  Building High-Performing Teams,high-performing-teams,https://coursera.org/learn/high-performing-teams,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Teams are essential to the modern organization, but most never reach their potential. Co-workers miscommunicate, and groups struggle to adapt to changes in the market or their organizations. When teams lack self-awareness about these challenges, performance suffers. Based on years of team culture research and consulting experience, this course will help you understand the problems that hurt productivity, and give you tools for creating positive change. This course will help you create the ground rules and structure to set your team up for success. You will gain the skills to diagnose issues such as conflicts, groupthink, and lack of commitment in your team before they get out of control."
  Building the Business Model for Corporate Entrepreneurs,corporate-entrepreneurs-business-model,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-entrepreneurs-business-model,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","Led by Dan Gordon, a University of Maryland faculty member who teaches business modeling in the National Science Foundation's I-Corps Program, this course enables you to develop and apply the Business Model Canvas tool to scope a corporate challenge or opportunity. You will learn how to identify and communicate the nine elements of a business model: Customer Segments, Value Propositions, Channels, Customer Relationships, Revenue Streams, Key Resources, Key Activities, Key Partners, and Cost Structure."
  Building Your Leadership Skills,leadership-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-skills,Business,HEC Paris,"When taking this course, you will raise your own self-awareness and gain self-confidence for a better leadership. You will discover a new approach to leadership based on trust and sense. The “Savoir-Relier” leadership, a new approach of leadership, taught to HEC MBA’s student and top executives, enables better team leadership and encourages relationships between people in spite of their differences of opinion."
  Business Growth Strategy,business-growth-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/business-growth-strategy,Business,University of Virginia,"Get the tools you need to analyze, evaluate and recommend specific actions organizations can take to grow their value and avoid common growth pitfalls. Learn to determine how best to build value, whether by scaling existing markets, entering established markets or creating new markets through innovation and acquisitions. Apply these concepts in case studies of industry leaders JetBlue, Starbucks, Intel Corporate Venturing and Tata Motors."
  Business of Games and Entrepreneurship,gamedev-business,https://coursera.org/learn/gamedev-business,Business,Michigan State University,"As well as a form of art and entertainment, games are about business. Whether you want to work at a game studio, start your own business or make games as a hobby, recognizing the dynamic landscape of the videogame industry is critical to finding your place. This course will introduce you to game production, project management, teamwork skills, and how to position your game ideas and yourself in the broader marketplace. By the end of the course, you will be able to develop an impactful portfolio of game work to get noticed and/or develop an effective business plan to bring your game to market."
  "Business Statistics, Data Analysis, and Decision Making: Part 2",business-statistics-2,https://coursera.org/learn/business-statistics-2,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course provides an analytical framework to help you evaluate key problems in a structured fashion and will equip you with tools to better manage the uncertainties that pervade and complicate business processes. The course aim to cover statistical ideas that apply to managers. We will consider two basic themes: first, is recognizing and describing variations present in everything around us, and then modeling and making decisions in the presence of these variations. The fundamental concepts studied in this course will reappear in many other classes and business settings."
  Business Strategies for Emerging Markets,business-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/business-strategies,Business,Higher School of Economics,"The course aims to transfer the fundamental knowledge and to form the basic competencies necessary for the development and the implementation of a business strategy in an emerging market. The students are going to improve their analyzing, decision making, and planning skills as well as the ability to recognize strategic opportunities and threats. The course requires the knowledge of basic economics concepts as the pre-requisite. It is preferable that the students have some practical entrepreneurial or marketing experience, but this is not obligatory."
  Business Strategy,strategy-business,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-business,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School"
  Business Strategy in Practice (Project-centered Course),uva-darden-business-strategy-capstone,https://coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-business-strategy-capstone,Business,University of Virginia,"A Capstone Project is an assignment designed specifically to apply and showcase the skills you learned in the Specialization. To this end, the Business Strategy Capstone Project, a comprehensive Strategic Analysis, provides an opportunity for you to synthesize concepts and knowledge from the four prerequisite courses in the specialization. You may continue with the organization you selected for previous assignments or select a new organization for this project. You will analyze the current state of the organization, strategic issues facing the organization, strategic paths the organization might pursue, make a recommendation of the best path for the organization to pursue, and write an Executive Summary."
  Business Writing,writing-for-business,https://coursera.org/learn/writing-for-business,Business,University of Colorado Boulder,"Writing well is one of the most important skills you can learn for success in the business world. Knowing how to write well allows you to deliver your ideas with the power they deserve. Good writing also conveys a sense of your professional excellence to the world around you. In this course, you'll master the simple, effective skills that drive all successful business writing."
  Capstone,bighistorycapstone,https://coursera.org/learn/bighistorycapstone,Business,Macquarie University,"From the very start of the specialization, your assignments will be geared toward tackling a complex issue of your choice that you face in your career path, industry, or field. Each phase of the course builds up to a briefing paper that analyzes, evaluates, and attempts to solve a highly complex problem. Not only does this course teach you a skill set, but it puts you further down the road in understanding the problems of your chosen field. It advances your knowledge of your own field by teaching you to look at it in new ways. This is the CAPSTONE where the scaffolding of our problem solving and innovation skills will bear fruit in a series of preparatory assignments to make your briefing paper as effective as possible."
  Channel Management and Retailing ,channel-management,https://coursera.org/learn/channel-management,Business,IE Business School,"Understand how channel management and retailing can improve performance in your business. Nowadays, a distribution strategy is part of the DNA of many companies and a correct channel management is key for the success of your product. Distribution plans need to be prepared for the long run, combining the following main areas: company profile, portfolio structure and price positioning, go-to-market policy, trade and retail marketing, e-commerce and global retail management."
  Coaching Conversations,coaching-conversations,https://coursera.org/learn/coaching-conversations,Business,"University of California, Davis","Throughout the Coaching Skills for Managers specialization, we’ve discussed many topics for improving coaching conversations with our employees. It is now time to put all of that theory and discussion into practice and examine great examples of common coaching conversations! Note: This course builds on all previous courses in the Coaching Skills for Managers specialization. It is highly recommended that students complete or be familiar with the topics covered in those courses before taking this course."
  Coaching Practices,coaching-practices,https://coursera.org/learn/coaching-practices,Business,"University of California, Davis","In order for coaching to be most effective, it’s important that there is strong culture of coaching and accountability which you will learn how to incorporate into your one-on-one meetings in this course. We’ll discuss strategies in coaching great employees who are highly motivated, consistent performers, and poor performers. We’ll explore specific tools, such as a coaching agenda, you can employ immediately in your coaching conversations. You will learn how to use the ""Coaching Algebra"" technique in typical performance scenarios managers encounter."
  Communication in the 21st Century Workplace,communication-in-the-workplace,https://coursera.org/learn/communication-in-the-workplace,Business,"University of California, Irvine","The focus of this course is to heighten students’ awareness of workplace communication, and add new interpersonal skills, with the end result of becoming a more competent communicator overall. Target areas include: the process and functions of communication, behavioral patterns, perceptions as reality, verbal and nonverbal cues and behaviors, confidence, assertiveness, tact, anger management, criticism and constructive feedback, conflict resolution, team building, leadership, interviewing, and communicating more effectively with technology (email, Skype, texting, etc.)."
  Competitive Strategy,competitivestrategy,https://coursera.org/learn/competitivestrategy,Business,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU),"In this six-module course, you will learn how businesses and organizations behave in situations in which strategic decisions are interdependent, i.e. where my actions affect my competitors' profits and vice versa. Using the basic tools of game theory, we will analyse how businesses choose strategies to attain competitive advantage."
  Conflict Resolution Skills,conflict-resolution-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/conflict-resolution-skills,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Resolving conflict in a positive manner is a skill than can be developed and practiced. Being heard can be one of the most important goals of someone engaged in conflict. Knowing how to listen and deploy appropriate communication tactics is determinative of whether a conflict will have a positive or negative resolution. Examine listening skills, appropriate and strategic verbal and non-verbal communication skills, and how to assemble a conflict management plan likely to yield positive resolutions."
  Construction Cost Estimating and Cost Control,construction-cost-estimating,https://coursera.org/learn/construction-cost-estimating,Business,Columbia University,"This course introduces the types of cost estimation from the conceptual design phase through the more detailed design phase of a construction project. In addition, the course highlights the importance of controlling costs and how to monitor project cash flow. Students will work on a break-even analysis of construction tasks in a project."
  Construction Finance,construction-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/construction-finance,Business,Columbia University,"The final course of the specialization expands the knowledge of a construction project manager to include an understanding of economics and the mathematics of money, an essential component of every construction project. Topics covered include the time value of money, the definition and calculation of the types of interest rates, and the importance of Cash Flow Diagrams."
  Construction Project Management,construction-project-management,https://coursera.org/learn/construction-project-management,Business,Columbia University,"Construction Project Management introduces you to Project Initiation and Planning. Industry experts join Columbia University professor, Ibrahim Odeh, to give an overview of the construction industry. Professor Odeh teaches the fundamentals of the Project Development Cycle while guest lecturers discuss Lean Project Delivery method and Lean Design Behaviors. Technological advances, such as Building Information Modeling, will be introduced with real world examples of the uses of BIM during the Lifecycle of the Project. The course concludes with Professor Odeh discussing the importance of project planning and scheduling and an opportunity to develop a Work Breakdown Structure."
  Construction Scheduling,construction-scheduling,https://coursera.org/learn/construction-scheduling,Business,Columbia University,"Learners will discover the key project scheduling techniques and procedures including; how to create a network diagram, how to define the importance of the critical path in a project network, and defining project activities float. Also covered are the fundamentals of Bar Charts, Precedence Diagrams, Activity on Arrow, PERT, Range Estimating, and linear project operations and the line of balance."
  Content Strategy for Professionals: Engaging Audiences,engagement-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/engagement-strategy,Business,Northwestern University,"In this course, professionals at all levels of an organization will learn the best ways to engage an audience they want and need by smartly implementing their important, strategic stories and information and by using proven tools and techniques to enhance an audience’s experiences and interest."
  Content Strategy for Professionals: Ensuring Your Content's Impact,effective-content-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/effective-content-strategy,Business,Northwestern University,"In the fourth course of the Content Strategy Specialization - Ensuring Your Content's Impact - you will look at visual communication and the ways you can be more effective with your font choices, photography, and video. You'll also dive deeper into social communities to help you understand how these communities form and what you can do to build your role within them. The last module is pivotal for Content Strategists. It will help you to understand how best to measure your content to maximize its effectiveness relative to the time you commit to it."
  Content Strategy for Professionals: Expanding Your Content’s Reach,increase-reach,https://coursera.org/learn/increase-reach,Business,Northwestern University,"In this, the third Content Strategy course, participants will learn actionable ways to grow internal and external audiences. They will deepen their understanding about those target individuals and will use a host of known and emerging tools and social networks to meaningfully reach them. As its name makes clear, this course will expand your content's impact and reach. You will begin by learning how to utilize content trends to jump-start your organization's influence. You'll also look at how to engage with multi-channel digital communities across all social media."
  Content Strategy for Professionals: Managing Content,content-management-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/content-management-strategy,Business,Northwestern University,"In the second course of the Content Strategy Specialization - ""Managing Content"" - you will dive deeper into Content Strategy by learning some great options for managing your important content once it's been created. You will look at media platforms and how best to tell an organization’s “content story” across those platforms using a human-centered design. Then, you'll take a close look at ways to best utilize social and mobile media, as well as some of the issues around insourcing/outsourcing content."
  "Content, Advertising & Social IMC",social-imc,https://coursera.org/learn/social-imc,Business,Northwestern University,"Want your content to go viral? Who doesn't! It takes a thoughtful, integrated approach to make content that stands out in our increasingly oversaturated world. In this fourth course of the Social Marketing Specialization - ""Content, Advertising & Social IMC"" - you will learn how marketers are successfully navigating today's media landscape. You will learn why developing engaging content for your audience is an essential component in effective social marketing. A panel of experts will unlock the paid/owned/earned media riddle and replace it with an integrated who/what/where approach that utilizes platform-specific messaging to grow your market share."
  "Conversations That Inspire: Coaching Learning, Leadership and Change",leadership-coaching,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-coaching,Business,Case Western Reserve University,"Coaching can inspire and motivate people to learn, change, and be effective leaders, among other roles in life. Although most attempts are “coaching for compliance” (coaching someone to your wishes or expectations), decades of behavioral and neuroscience research show us that “coaching with compassion” (coaching someone to their dreams and desires) is more effective."
  Corporate Finance Essentials,corporate-finance-essentials,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-finance-essentials,Business,IESE Business School,"Corporate Finance Essentials will enable you to understand key financial issues related to companies, investors, and the interaction between them in the capital markets. By the end of this course you should be able to understand most of what you read in the financial press and use the essential financial vocabulary of companies and finance professionals."
  Corporate Finance I: Measuring and Promoting Value Creation,corporate-finance-copy,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-finance-copy,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will learn how to use key finance principles to understand and measure business success and to identify and promote true value creation. You will learn how to use accounting information to form key financial ratios to measure a company’s financial health and to manage a company's short-term and long-term liquidity needs. You will also learn how to use valuation techniques to make sound business investment and acquisition decisions. Finally, you will learn how to incorporate risk and uncertainty into investment decisions and how to evaluate the performance of existing investments."
  Corporate Finance II: Financing Investments and Managing Risk,corporate-finance-two,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-finance-two,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will learn how companies decide on how much debt to take, and whether to raise capital from markets or from banks. You will also learn how to measure and manage credit risk and how to deal with financial distress. You will discuss the mechanics of dividends and share repurchases, and how to choose the best way to return cash to investors. You will also learn how to use derivatives and liquidity management to offset specific sources of financial risk, including currency risks. Finally, You will learn how companies finance merger and acquisition decisions, including leveraged buyouts, and how to incorporate large changes in leverage in standard valuation models."
  Corporate Financial Decision-Making for Value Creation,value-creation,https://coursera.org/learn/value-creation,Business,The University of Melbourne,"In this course, participants will learn about the key financial decisions modern corporations face, as well as the alternative methods that can be employed to optimize the value of the firm’s assets. This is part of a Specialization in corporate finance created in partnership between the University of Melbourne and Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon)."
  Corporate Strategy,strategy-corporate,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-corporate,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will learn how organizations create, capture, and maintain value, and how it is fundamental for sustainable competitive advantage. You will be able to better understand economic value creation and value appropriation, and learn the tools to analyze both competition and cooperation from a corporate level perspective, (e.g., through vertical integration, diversification, and geographic scope decisions)."
  Cost and Economics in Pricing Strategy,uva-darden-pricing-strategy-cost-economics,https://coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-pricing-strategy-cost-economics,Business,"University of Virginia, BCG","How much should you charge for your products and services? Traditionally, businesses have answered this question based on the cost to produce or provide their goods and services. This course shows you the economic factors behind pricing based on cost and the pros and cons of a cost-based pricing approach. Led by Darden faculty and Boston Consulting Group global pricing experts, the course provides the practical and research-based models and methods you need to set prices that maximize your profits. 
  
  By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
  