English Courses

U.S. Public Policy: Social, Economic, and Foreign Policies

119 ratings at edX

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.

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

Greedy Algorithms, Minimum Spanning Trees, and Dynamic Programming

1278 ratings at Coursera

The primary topics in this part of the specialization are: greedy algorithms (scheduling, minimum spanning trees, clustering, Huffman codes) and dynamic programming (knapsack, sequence alignment, optimal search trees).

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

The Einstein Revolution

15 ratings at edX

Traces Albert Einstein’s engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology.

• edX
• 14 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Data Science: Probability

64 ratings at edX

Learn probability theory -- essential for a data scientist -- using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007-2008.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Poetry in America: Modernism

2 ratings

Reading works by Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens, among others, learn how American Modernist poetry departed from past tradition

• edX
• 8 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

The Ancient Greek Hero

10 ratings at edX

Discover the literature and heroes of ancient Greece through the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey , the tragedies of Sophocles, the dialogues of Plato, and more.

• edX
• 18 weeks, 8-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

PredictionX: Omens, Oracles & Prophecies

177 ratings at edX

This course is an overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

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

Stanford Webinar - Leaders Make the Future

5 ratings

Explores ten future-facing leadership skills—such as rapid prototyping, dilemma flipping, bio-empathy, and quiet transparency—for navigating uncertainty.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

From Nanodevices to Nanosystems - The Carbon Nanotube Case Study

5 ratings

Explores how carbon nanotubes can move from nanoscale devices to practical computing systems through CNFET design, robust processing, variation management, and monolithic 3D integration.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Thinking Critically: Interpreting Randomized Clinical Trials

5 ratings

Enhance your research skills with this course on critically evaluating clinical studies. Learn key research methodology principles, including randomization and blinding, to improve clinical practice,

• edX
• 1 week, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Partnering with the Public and Patients in Medical Research

5 ratings

There are many benefits to partnering with patients in medical research. Yet despite much to be gained, patients and researchers often fail to meaningfully partner to advance medical science. How migh

• edX
• 5 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Product Management 101 - The Product Lifecycle

5 ratings

An introduction to product management centered on the product lifecycle.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Universe or Multiverse?

5 ratings

Theoretical physicist Andrei Linde was responsible for proposing the ideas of an inflationary multiverse and eternal inflation. In this Master Class, Linde discusses the evolution of these ideas over the past decades and what the future of cosmology hold…

• World Science U
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Introduction to Bioconductor

10 ratings at edX

The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.

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

Introduction to Healthcare

1545 ratings at Coursera

Explore how the U.S. healthcare system works: physician practices, hospitals, prescription drugs, insurance and financing, plus cost, access, quality measurement, and ethics challenges.

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