English Courses

Chinese Language in Culture: Level 1

Learn both cultural competence and language proficiency for successful participation in Mandarin-speaking societies.

• edX
• 7 weeks, 5-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Making a Cell Therapy: Principles and Practice of Manufacturing

Cell therapies, such as CAR-T and stem cell therapies, are an exciting new class of therapeutics with the potential to revolutionize medicine. Learn the biology, engineering, and analytical chemistry behind how these amazing new products are manufactured.

• edX
• 9 weeks, 5-7 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Manufacturing Process Control II

Learn how to control process variation, including methods to design experiments that capture process behavior and understand means to control variability.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 10-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Socially-Responsible Real Estate Development

Explore socially responsible real estate development, including the role of impact assessment and public consultation.

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

Principles of Modeling, Simulations, and Control for Electric Energy Systems

Apply a dynamic systems-level approach and engage emerging research on efficient, sustainable, and physically and economically feasible electric power systems of the future.

• edX
• 12 weeks, 8-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Entrepreneurial Land Redevelopment Approach: Land Readjustment

Explore land readjustment as an alternative to conventional approaches of assembling land for urbanization.

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

Adaptive Markets: Financial Market Dynamics and Human Behavior

A completely new way of thinking about financial markets, institutions, and innovation that reconciles human behavior with market efficiency using concepts from evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

• edX
• 13 weeks, 6-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

World Music: Global Rhythms

Learn to recognize, feel and play rhythms from around the world

• edX
• 5 weeks, 5-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Engineering the Space Shuttle

Learn all about the world’s first reusable spacecraft - the Space Shuttle - from the very people who designed, built, and operated it for 30 years.

• edX
• 12 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

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This is the second of four courses which comprise the course Learning to teach. Traditionally student teachers are supported by a mentor in school and a tutor from a university. Both play ...

• OpenLearn
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Product and Service Creation in the Internet Age

Explore internet-age innovation processes, focusing on user-developed innovations and their impact on product development. Learn strategies for leaders to leverage and profit from these innovations.

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

Visualizing the Birth of Modern Tokyo

See Tokyo’s modernization through the “100 views” tradition, from the gas-lit 1870s to the jazz era 1930s. From MIT Visualizing Cultures, with the Smithsonian Institution.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 1-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Envisioning the Graduate of the Future

Embark on a collaborative and exploratory design process to reflect on the purpose of secondary school. Create a shareable artifact that conveys what you and your community believe a secondary school graduate should know and be able to do.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Global Shakespeares: Re-Creating the Merchant of Venice

Learn how performance of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice provides occasions for creative, thoughtful communication across personal, historical, and cultural boundaries on topics including language and theatricality, gender relations, and rel…

• edX
• 8 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Chemical Thermodynamics I: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Based on 5.601 Thermodynamics I, this course introduces learners to fundamental concepts in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Learners will develop an understanding of fundamental thermodynamic principles and how they arise from molecular scale s…

• edX
• 12 weeks, 8-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)