United States Courses & Certifications

Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics

24 ratings

Learn to write song lyrics using prosody: develop a song idea's point of view, shape stable and unstable line groupings, apply rhyme schemes, and set lyrics to melody.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

• Best of All Time

Probabilistic Graphical Models 2: Inference

491 ratings at Coursera

Answer queries with probabilistic graphical models: variable elimination, clique tree belief propagation, MAP message passing, and sampling methods like Gibbs and Metropolis-Hastings.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

C++ For C Programmers, Part A

26 ratings

This course is for experienced C programmers who want to program in C++. The examples and exercises require a basic understanding of algorithms and object-oriented software.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Data Visualization

21 ratings

Design effective data visualizations: assign data to chart elements, use glyphs, parallel coordinates and streamgraphs, visualize graph relationships, and build interactive dashboards with Tableau.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Mechanics of Materials III: Beam Bending

20 ratings

Analyze and design beams: sketch shear force and bending moment diagrams, work through elastic and inelastic bending, and shear stresses under non-uniform loading.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Policy for Science, Technology and Innovation

14 ratings

This course will examine the science and technology innovation system, including case studies on energy, computing, advanced manufacturing and health sectors, with an emphasis on public policy and the

• edX
• 8 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

FinTech: Shaping the Financial World

14 ratings

This course about financial technology, or FinTech, is for students wishing to explore the ways in which new technologies are disrupting the financial services industry

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 14 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Signals and Systems

14 ratings

This course covers the fundamentals of signal and system analysis, focusing on representations of discrete-time and continuous-time signals and representations of linear, time-invariant systems.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 20 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Pattern Discovery in Data Mining

21 ratings

Mine frequent, closed, and sequential patterns from massive transactional data with Apriori, SPADE, and PrefixSpan, evaluate them using null-invariant measures, and apply pattern mining to text and trajectories.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Algorithms for DNA Sequencing

17 ratings

Implement algorithms and data structures in Python to analyze real DNA sequencing data: exact and approximate matching with Boyer-Moore, edit distance, read alignment, and genome assembly.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Developing Data Products

17 ratings

Build data products in R: create Shiny applications, interactive graphics with GoogleVis, Plotly and Leaflet maps, R Markdown presentations, and your own R packages.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Antibiotic Stewardship

804 ratings at Coursera

Learn principles of appropriate antibiotic use, apply them to common infections through clinical cases, and build and run an antimicrobial stewardship program.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1

17 ratings

Learn the probability behind biostatistics: mass and density functions, expectations, Bayes' rule, likelihood, asymptotics, confidence intervals, bootstrapping, and binomial proportions.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

CS50's Introduction to Programming with Scratch

4 ratings

Learn programming fundamentals by creating animations, games, interactive art, and stories with Scratch’s visual, block-based language.

• Independent
• 9 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

First Nights - Beethoven's 9th Symphony and the 19th Century Orchestra

13 ratings at edX

Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music.

• edX
• 3 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)