edX Courses

Introduction to Optimization

A self-contained course on the fundamentals of modern optimization with equal emphasis on theory, implementation, and application. We consider linear and nonlinear optimization problems, including net

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

Introduction to Economics: Macroeconomics

Learn how a national economy works, including the determination of equilibrium levels of national income and prices

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• 7 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Introduction to Economics: Microeconomics

Learn the basics of microeconomics, including supply and demand of commodities and how equilibrium in the market affects price.

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• 8 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Mathematical understanding of uncertainty

This lecture series discusses how the concept of probability can be used to handle, control, and exploit uncertainty in the real-world. It is an undergraduate-level lecture series on probability, but

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

Demystifying Biomedical Big Data: A User’s Guide

Whether you are a student, basic scientist, researcher, clinician, or librarian, this course is designed to help you understand, analyze, and interpret biomedical big data.

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• 8 weeks, 3-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Sign Language Science: Factors Contributing to Natural Learning

This course promotes a better understanding of the factors that may affect how people learn signed language.

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

Career Certificate

Ethical Decision-Making for Global Managers

Analyze real-world global business ethics cases: corporate influence on domestic politics, supplier labor and production standards, manipulative marketing abroad, and cultural and environmental impacts of extraction.

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• 26 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $483.00
• 3 courses

Career Certificate

Foundations of Quantum Sensing

The program teaches the mathematics (in a physics context) needed for quantum mechanics, and the quantum mechanics needed for quantum sensing. It uses a novel approach that greatly reduces the math ba

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• 36 weeks, 7-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $556.00
• 2 courses

Career Certificate

American Sign Language Science

The program will introduce students to the science of sign language research and, for the fluent ASL signer, the history and structure of their own language.

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• 16 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $464.00
• 4 courses

Foundations of Ethical Decision-Making: Government and Political Issues

Globalization has dramatically increased the influence of international corporations in political, economic, and sociocultural spheres. More than ever, global managers are faced with profound choices

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

Sign Language Science: Factors Contributing to Nature Structure

This course details the development of the type of grammar that occurs whenever a group of people develops and uses a signed language.

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

Sign Language Science: Emergence and Evolution of Sign Language

This course connects the emergence and evolution of signed languages to the history of the people who use these languages. You will learn this concept in depth, especially the legacy and heritage of A

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

Sign Language Science: Factors Contributing to Natural Change

This course describes how we use historical data to demonstrate language change. While earliest indications suggest that the origin of a signed language began as a gestural form, it has evolved as it

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

The Business of Aging in the Longevity Economy

The Business of Aging in the Longevity Economy will introduce you to the interdisciplinary field of aging, important concepts of senior living administration, and to the master of science degree at Ge

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

Global Business in Practice

Get an overall view of the increasingly complex challenges of global business from the insights, perspectives and experience of Georgetown faculty and senior executives currently working in multinatio

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• 30 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate