People & Society Courses and Certifications

Career Certificate

Learn English: Intermediate Grammar

5447 ratings at Coursera

Work through perfect tenses, modals, adjectives and adjective clauses, and tricky English grammar points, then build a multimedia grammar scrapbook to keep.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

The Civil War and Reconstruction – 1865-1890: The Unfinished Revolution

8 ratings

Examine the pivotal but misunderstood era of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War, the first effort in American history to construct an interracial democracy.

• edX
• 18 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Career Certificate

Learn English: Beginning Grammar

5273 ratings at Coursera

Learn foundational English grammar: word forms, simple present and simple past tenses, present progressive and future tenses, and forming questions and answers.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

China’s First Empires and the Rise of Buddhism

6 ratings

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.

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

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

9 ratings

Explore how territorial divisions, geopolitics, and imperial rivalry shaped the modern state system and the borders of the Middle East.

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

Literati China: Examinations, Neo-Confucianism, and Later Imperial China

6 ratings

Explore China’s imperial period, with a focus on the Song dynasty and the role of the exam system in government.

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

Data Science Ethics

1306 ratings at Coursera

Weigh the ethics of big data: informed consent, data ownership, privacy and anonymity, algorithmic fairness, and a two-point code of ethics for practitioners.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being

939 ratings at Coursera

Design and test your own positive intervention: identify VIA signature strengths, target one of Peterson's 72 character weaknesses, and evaluate results with subjective and objective measures.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center;  Tel Aviv University

The Holocaust - An Introduction (II): The Final Solution

6 ratings

Examine how the Final Solution unfolded: decision-making and death camps, Jewish and non-Jewish responses, the end of the war, and questions of memory and commemoration.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Teach English Now! Second Language Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation

2085 ratings at Coursera

Learn to teach second language listening and speaking: paralinguistics, performance variables, reduced and regional forms, learner and teacher strategies, and ways to integrate pronunciation instruction.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Word Forms and Simple Present Tense

3941 ratings at Coursera

Learn English word forms — nouns, plurals, articles "a" and "an" — and form the simple present with BE and other verbs, including negatives and yes/no questions.

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

Career Certificate

Virtual Teacher

2383 ratings at Coursera

Learn to teach online in K-12 virtual classrooms: build student engagement and community, use synchronous and asynchronous technologies, and assess performance to individualize instruction.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

Writing READMEs

23 ratings at Udacity

Documentation is an important part of the development process. Learn to write READMEs using Markdown so your code can be used by other humans!

• Udacity
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Global Trends for Business and Society

927 ratings at Coursera

In this course, you’ll learn to analyze rapidly changing global trends, their effects on consumer and labor markets, financial systems, and geopolitical relationships among countries all over the world.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

American Accent Training - British Accent Training

19 ratings

This play list will help non-native speakers of English learn to speak with an American accent.

• YouTube
• 9 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video