University of Rochester Courses

History of Rock, Part One

18 ratings

Trace rock from Tin Pan Alley to psychedelia: Elvis, Chuck Berry, the Beatles, Motown and Stax soul, and the business and technology shaping each style.

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

The Music of the Beatles

18 ratings

Trace the Beatles' musical development from Liverpool and Hamburg covers through Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road, examining song authorship, studio techniques and 1960s culture.

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

History of Rock, Part Two

7 ratings

Trace rock's splintering from 1970s blues-rock, funk and disco through punk, MTV, heavy metal and rap to Nirvana, with listening guides for Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Run-DMC.

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

Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics

5 ratings

Learn how acoustics and electronics make musical sound: sound waves and resonance, DC/AC circuits and filters, microphones and pickups, loudspeaker enclosures, and building a guitar amplifier.

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

The Music of the Rolling Stones, 1962-1974

172 ratings at Coursera

This course will survey the music of the Rolling Stones, beginning with the roots and first formation of the band in the early 1960s, and following the group through the release of It's Only Rock 'n' Roll in late 1974.

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

Introduction to Translational Science

120 ratings at Coursera

Trace how lab discoveries reach patients: explore the T1–T4 stages of translational research, clinical trial phases, common roadblocks, and ways to join studies as professional or volunteer.

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

The Blues: Understanding and Performing an American Art Form

611 ratings at Coursera

Master the 12-bar blues: analyze progressions in standards like "Blues for Alice," build guide-tone lines and chord voicings, and improvise with blues and pentatonic scales.

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

Introduction to Self-Determination Theory: An approach to motivation, development and wellness

529 ratings at Coursera

Learn Self-Determination Theory's mini-theories — cognitive evaluation, organismic integration, basic psychological needs, goal contents — and apply autonomy support in education, work, sport, healthcare, and psychotherapy.

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

Technology Commercialization, Part 1: Setting up your Idea Filtering System

67 ratings at Coursera

Build an Innovation Creed and a customized Idea Filter to prioritize concept-stage technology commercialization, and examine why commercializing high-technology research so often fails.

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

The Power of Markets I: The Basics of Supply and Demand and Consumer Behavior

276 ratings at Coursera

Learn to use the supply-demand framework to predict market outcomes, measure elasticities, and analyze consumer choice through preferences and budget constraints, applying it to ObamaCare and school choice.

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

Confronting The Big Questions: Highlights of Modern Astronomy

501 ratings at Coursera

An introduction to modern astronomy's most important questions. The four sections of the course are Planets and Life in The Universe; The Life of Stars; Galaxies and Their Environments; The History of The Universe.

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

The Power of Markets II: Market Structure and Firm Behavior

128 ratings at Coursera

Learn how firms convert inputs into outputs, minimize production costs, and choose profit-maximizing price-output combinations under perfect competition and monopoly power.

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

The Power of Markets III: Input Markets and Promoting Efficiency

42 ratings at Coursera

Analyze price discrimination, monopolistic competition and oligopoly, then apply input market theory to the minimum wage, Social Security, immigration and the NCAA cartel.

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

Community Engagement in Research and Population Health

10 ratings at Coursera

Examine why the US health system falls short on the triple aim, use population health data and evidence-based interventions, and engage communities through participatory research.

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

The Power of Markets I: The Basics of Supply and Demand and Consumer Behavior

276 ratings at Coursera

Learn microeconomic analysis through supply and demand, consumer choice, production and cost, profit maximization, monopoly pricing, oligopoly, input markets, and government intervention.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Not Currently Offered
• Paid Course