Global Diplomacy Courses

Career Certificate

Foundations of Global Health

1256 ratings at Coursera

Learn to plan, implement, and evaluate global health programs: strengthen health systems, deliver primary health care in humanitarian crises, diagnose health behaviors, and train volunteer community health workers.

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

The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910

6 ratings

Trace global history from 1905 to 2013: the collapse of old orders, total war, the Cold War, and the pivotal choices shaping the present.

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

Global Systemic Risk

466 ratings at Coursera

Analyze globalization with systems thinking, network theory, and risk analysis, applying them to trade, finance, COVID-19 governance, and scenarios of systemic collapse.

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

Global Quality Maternal and Newborn Care

261 ratings at Coursera

Learn to apply the Quality Maternal and Newborn Care Framework and the midwifery model of care across care delivery, organization, values, workforce, and policy in varied resource settings.

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

Research in Global Settings

2 ratings

An eight-principle framework for ethical biomedical research in global settings, addressing trials, culturally adapted consent, ancillary care, and post-trial obligations.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Fundamentals of Global Energy Business

6 ratings

Learn about diverse and integrated markets for primary energy, and the essential considerations driving business leaders and policy makers in development of global energy resources.

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

Global Shakespeares: Re-Creating the Merchant of Venice

Learn how performance of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice provides occasions for creative, thoughtful communication across personal, historical, and cultural boundaries on topics including

• edX
• 8 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

World Music: Global Rhythms

Learn to recognize, feel and play rhythms from around the world

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

Internet Technology in Local and Global Communities

Explore Java programming, entrepreneurship, and cross-cultural teaching through MIT-AITI’s technology education program in Africa.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Global Shakespeares: Re-Creating the Merchant of Venice

Study performances of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice to examine language and theatricality, gender relations and religious prejudice, responding in oral and written form.

• MITx Online
• 8 weeks, 3-4 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

The Challenges of Global Poverty

Examine global poverty with the tools of economics: poverty traps, food and nutrition, health care, schooling, microfinance, savings, and the politics of institutions.

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

Financial Regulation: From the Global Financial Crisis to Fintech and the COVID Pandemic

Analyze how financial regulation evolved after the 2008 crisis and applies to fintech, the COVID-19 pandemic, and emerging financial risks.

• MITx Online
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Water Diplomacy

Examines how negotiation and mediation can resolve conflicts over transboundary water resources and support effective water governance.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Global Social Entrepreneurship

12 ratings

Develop and launch a social venture: identify the problem to solve, write mission and vision statements, choose a legal structure, and measure financial health and social impact.

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

Teaching Impacts of Technology: Global Society

Explore how technology reshapes global society — censorship and VPNs, self-driving cars and IoT, phishing and bitcoin — and learn to teach these impacts to K-12 students.

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