MITx Online Courses

Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Part 3: Time Dependent Behavior and Failure

Solve problems in viscoelasticity, plasticity, high-temperature creep, fracture and fatigue, linking atomistic behavior of crystalline solids to their continuum mechanical response.

• MITx Online
• 6 weeks, 11-13 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Microeconomics

Prices and markets allocate scarce resources: model supply and demand, consumer choice, production and costs, competitive firms, monopoly and oligopoly, and capital markets.

• MITx Online
• 14 weeks, 12-14 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy

Learn microeconomic theory and its empirical testing: consumer choice, demand functions, general equilibrium, comparative advantage, externalities, risk and signaling, applied to policy debates like the minimum wage.

• MITx Online
• 14 weeks, 10-14 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Microstructural Evolution of Materials: Defects and Diffusion

Learn how point defects govern diffusion in solids: microscopic diffusion mechanisms, chemical strengthening of glass by ion exchange, and charge carrier concentrations via the Brouwer approximation.

• MITx Online
• 3 weeks, 10 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Microstructural Evolution of Materials: Phase Transformations

Learn how phase transformation kinetics shape microstructure: crystal nucleation, vapor-liquid-solid nanowire growth, precipitate growth from a binary solution, and dendritic growth from a melt.

• MITx Online
• 3 weeks, 10 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Microstructural Evolution of Materials: Statistical Mechanics

Apply statistical mechanics to materials phenomena: derive the entropy of a solid solution quantum mechanically, explain heat capacity trends, and use the canonical distribution for Curie's law.

• MITx Online
• 3 weeks, 10 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Microstructural Evolution of Materials: Surfaces & Surface-Driven Reactions

Predict surface energy along crystalline planes, see how it is exploited in nanoparticle synthesis, and explain Ostwald ripening in solid solutions.

• MITx Online
• 3 weeks, 10 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Minds and Machines

Explore philosophy of mind: weigh arguments for and against machine thinking, compare theories of mental states and physical states, and confront the hard problem of consciousness.

• MITx Online
• 12 weeks, 4-6 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Molecular Biology - Part 1: DNA Replication and Repair

Compare DNA replication in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, trace enzymatic repair and damage-tolerance mechanisms, infer function from protein structures, and design and interpret replication experiments.

• MITx Online
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Molecular Biology - Part 2: Transcription and Transposition

Compare transcription in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, work through mechanisms of transposition, infer protein function from structure, and design experiments to interpret molecular data.

• MITx Online
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Molecular Biology – Part 3: RNA Processing and Translation

Compare translation in bacteria and eukaryotes, examine protein–RNA interactions and RNA turnover mechanisms, and design experiments to interpret data from translation and RNA processing studies.

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• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Moral Problems and the Good Life

Learn to reason rigorously about ethical questions, exploring well-being, objectivity, key historical figures and approaches, and what we owe to others.

• MITx Online
• 10 weeks, 5-7 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Multivariable Calculus 1: Vectors and Derivatives

Extend the derivative to higher dimensions: visualize functions with level curves and surfaces, compute partial derivatives, directional derivatives and gradients, and optimize under constraints.

• MITx Online
• 15 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Organic and Biomaterials Chemistry Part 1: An Introduction to Polymer Chemistry

Learn how step-growth and chain-growth polymerizations work, and how molecular weight, dispersity, topology, temperature and solvent choice control polymer properties for engineering materials.

• MITx Online
• 5 weeks, 7-9 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Paradox and Infinity

Prove Cantor's Theorem, the Banach-Tarski Theorem and Gödel's Theorem, and reason rigorously about infinity and paradoxes where standard mathematical tools break down.

• MITx Online
• 12 weeks, 5-6 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course