Humanities Courses and Certifications

United Arab Emirates University

EmSAT English Preparation - Level 2

Enhance reading, grammar, and writing skills for EmSAT exam success. Develop strategies for various question types, expand vocabulary, and improve critical thinking abilities.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 2-3 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Steps in Japanese for Beginners1 Part2

Learn how to acquire essential information, as well as how to convey information to others.

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

The Divine Comedy: Dante's Journey to Freedom, Part 2 (Purgatorio)

After his harrowing descent into the depths of despair, the Pilgrim Dante emerges with Virgil onto the Isle of Mount Purgatorio in the southern hemisphere. There he will be healed of sin and prepared for his climactic reunion with Beatrice.

• edX
• 7 weeks, 8-10 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

The American Renaissance and Frederick Douglass

Explore Frederick Douglass's powerful anti-slavery narrative and self-told life story while understanding his pivotal role in the American abolitionist movement and literary renaissance.

• Coursera
• 3 hours 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The American Renaissance and Walt Whitman

Explore Walt Whitman's transformation from printer to poet, examining his free verse style and literary evolution within post-Jacksonian America's working-class context.

• Coursera
• 3 hours 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The American Renaissance and Harriet Beecher Stowe

Explore Harriet Beecher Stowe's literary impact through melodrama, evangelicalism, and sentimentalism, examining her influence on American Renaissance literature and cultural traditions.

• Coursera
• 3 hours 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The American Renaissance and Mark Twain

Explore Mark Twain's literary impact through his rivalry with Stowe, the realism of Huckleberry Finn, and how his works reflect racial dynamics in American literature and society.

• Coursera
• 3 hours 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The American Renaissance and Nathaniel Hawthorne

Explore Hawthorne's literary journey, his mastery of romance writing, and deep analysis of The Scarlet Letter's key themes, plot development, and artistic techniques.

• Coursera
• 3 hours 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The American Renaissance and Herman Melville

Explore the cultural and historical depths of Moby-Dick through detailed analysis of key scenes, character dynamics, and narrative techniques that shaped this iconic American masterpiece.

• Coursera
• 4 hours 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Corporate Responsibility

This course from Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth offers a comprehensive look into the essence of corporate responsibility and how it shapes a business's positioning in the modern landscape.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 3-5 hours/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.

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

Ethics and Decision-Making in Modern Warfare

Explore the ethical and legal complexities of military conflict. Learn to analyse, evaluate, and resolve moral dilemmas in modern warfare.

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

Trinity College

The Conscious Mind - A Philosophical Road Trip

Explore the worlds of sense, thought and the mind, as revealed through the philosophical discipline of phenomenology.

• edX
• 12 hours
• 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.

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

Trinity College

The World History of Modern Wine

Explore wine through the eyes of a historian, as you learn about the "old" and "new" worlds of wine, including how its taste and quality has changed over time.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 2-5 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate