Tel Aviv University Courses

HOPE: What Makes Us Human

334 ratings

What sets us apart, and brings us together, as humans? How can we live up to our humanity? HOPE is an open invitation to become better at being human, to realize our humanity. Join HOPE to discover wh

• edX
• 10 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Unlocking Information Security I: From Cryptography to Buffer Overflows

335 ratings

Learn core information security concepts: design flaws, implementation bugs and social engineering, cracking classic ciphers, hash functions, password, challenge-response and biometric authentication, and buffer overflow attacks.

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

• Best of All Time

Unlocking Information Security II: An Internet Perspective

55 ratings

Continue learning how systems are hacked and defended.

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

The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part I

26 ratings

This course will review the emergence of the modern Middle East from the fall of the Ottoman Empire, at the end of the First World War to the present. We will discuss the Ottoman legacy in the region and the Western imperial impact on the creation of the…

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

• Best of All Time

Arab-Islamic History: From Tribes to Empires

25 ratings

Learn about the history of the Arab and Muslim world during its first millennium, including political, social and cultural aspects.

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

• Best of All Time

The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part II

12 ratings

Trace the Middle East from the early 20th century to today: Arab nationalism, religion and state, Islamist politics, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the Arab Spring.

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

Understanding Plants - Part I: What a Plant Knows

12 ratings

Plants sense the world much as we do: explore phototropism and phytochrome, volatile signaling, the Venus flytrap's touch response, gravity sensing, and epigenetic plant memory.

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

The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem

10 ratings

The destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and the Babylonian Exile were a great catastrophe in the history of the Jewish Nation. What really happened during that dark, fateful age, and how did new opportunities arise from the ashes?

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

The History of Modern Israel - Part I: From an Idea to a State

8 ratings

Trace how a 19th-century European idea became a state: the rise of Zionism, the British Mandate in Palestine, the Holocaust, and Israel's 1948 declaration of independence.

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

The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World

7 ratings

Trace how Nazi ideology took root: analyze Nazi documents, the Weimar Republic's collapse into totalitarianism, and Jewish life under ghettos, badges and segregation during World War II.

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

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

Understanding Plants - Part II: Fundamentals of Plant Biology

1244 ratings at Coursera

Learn how plants are built and how they work: plant cell and whole-plant structure, growth and flowering, photosynthesis, and genetic engineering in agriculture.

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

The History of Modern Israel - Part II: Challenges of Israel as a sovereign state

343 ratings at Coursera

Trace Israeli society from 1948 to today: mass immigration, the wars of 1967 and 1973, religious Zionism and post-Zionism, privatization, and the Palestinian conflict.

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

Economic Growth and Distributive Justice Part I - The Role of the State

392 ratings at Coursera

The state exists to maximize residents' well-being: examine market failures and public goods, weigh efficiency against equity, compare theories of distributive justice, and measure inequality.

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

Economic Growth and Distributive Justice Part II - Maximize Social Wellbeing

136 ratings at Coursera

Design a tax and transfer system that maximizes social wellbeing, working through the excess burden of taxation, tax incidence, progressivity, and the optimal income tax model.

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