Computer Architecture Courses

Database Architecture, Scale, and NoSQL with Elasticsearch

In this fourth and final course in PostgreSQL for Everybody, learners will explore database architectures, CRUD operations and how ACID requirements are implemented in PostgreSQL. Learners will compar

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

Career Certificate

Dark Data Migration and Architecture

Learn to work with dark data: understand the unknown data organizations hold, apply the ULEADD approach to extract it, and build strategies for creating value.

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

Proactive Computer Security

268 ratings at Coursera

Test your own defenses: deploy deterrents and honeypots, follow a penetration testing methodology with common pen testing tools, and exploit OWASP Top 20 controls.

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

VMware

Networking and Security Architecture with VMware NSX

464 ratings at Coursera

Learn network virtualization with VMware NSX: architecture components, micro-segmentation and in-kernel firewalling, stretched clusters and disaster recovery designs, and automation with OpenStack and vRealize.

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

Career Certificate

Fundamentals of Computer Network Security

604 ratings at Coursera

Design secure networked systems, create and verify certificates, program with Crypto API, hack and patch web applications, run penetration tests, and configure firewalls and IDS.

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

Bigger Is Better - The Baths of Caracalla and Roman Architecture in the 2nd-3rd Centuries

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A lecture on how second- and third-century Rome expressed a “bigger is better” ideal through tombs, monuments, arches, and the Baths of Caracalla.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Rome Redux: The Tetrarchic Renaissance - Roman Architecture

1 rating

Examines how Diocletian’s Tetrarchy revived Roman building through monuments, baths, palaces, and villas across the empire.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Civic Life Interrupted: Pompeii's Architecture and Fate on August 24, A.D. 79

1 rating

Explore Pompeii’s civic, commercial, and religious architecture—and the daily life preserved by Mount Vesuvius’s eruption in A.D. 79.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Creation of an Icon: The Colosseum and Contemporary Architecture in Rome

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How the Flavian dynasty used monumental architecture—from the Colosseum to imperial baths—to shape public policy and redefine Rome.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Notorious Nero and His Amazing Architectural Legacy - Roman Architecture

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A lecture on how Julio-Claudian emperors transformed Roman architecture through concrete, interior space, and innovations from Villa Jovis to Nero’s Golden House.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Roman Architecture: Making Mini Romes on the Western Frontier - Lecture 21

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Explore how Rome transformed western provinces into miniature versions of the imperial capital through colonies, urban planning, temples, aqueducts, and monuments.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Roman Architecture: Timgad and Leptis Magna in North Africa - Lecture 18

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A lecture on Roman imperial architecture in Timgad and Leptis Magna, tracing planned colonization, urban growth, and Septimius Severus’s monumental hometown renovation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Accessing Afterlife: Tombs of Roman Aristocrats, Freedmen, and Slaves - Roman Architecture

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Explore how Roman tombs reflected status, identity, and architectural innovation from Augustus to the wider population.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Technology and Revolution in Roman Architecture

1 rating

A lecture on how Roman concrete transformed architecture from practical construction into an expressive art, culminating in the terraced sanctuary at Palestrina.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Founding of Rome and the Beginnings of Urbanism in Italy - Roman Architecture

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Trace Rome’s early urbanism and architecture from Romulus’s foundation through the emergence of late Republican temple forms.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video