University of Alberta Courses

Mountains 101

630 ratings

Mountains 101­­ is a broad and integrated overview of the mountain world. This 12-lesson course covers an interdisciplinary field of study focusing on the physical, biological, and human dimensions of mountain places in Alberta, Canada, and around the wo…

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

• Best of All Time

Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology

179 ratings

Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology is a 12-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of non-avian dinosaurs.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

Paleontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds

54 ratings

Paleontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds is a five-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of the origins of birds. This course examines the anatomy, diversity, and evolution of theropod dinosaurs in relation to the origin of bird…

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

• Best of All Time

Sample-based Learning Methods

44 ratings

Learn near-optimal policies from trial-and-error experience: implement Monte Carlo prediction and control, TD learning, Expected Sarsa, Q-learning, and the Dyna model-based architecture.

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

Object-Oriented Design

42 ratings

Design modular, reusable software using CRC cards, abstraction, encapsulation, coupling and cohesion, and express the models as UML class, sequence, and state diagrams tied to Java code.

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

Paleontology: Ancient Marine Reptiles

35 ratings

The aquatic problem: trace how air-breathing land animals readapted to the sea through the diversity, convergence, and phylogeny of ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs.

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

Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution

33 ratings

Trace the origin of vertebrates through Palaeozoic lineages, the evolution of fins, jaws and tetrapod limbs, and fossils from the Burgess Shale and Miguasha.

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

Design Patterns

32 ratings

Apply creational, structural, and behavioural design patterns in Java and UML, use model-view-controller, and refactor code smells in an Android codebase.

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

• Best of All Time

A Complete Reinforcement Learning System (Capstone)

28 ratings

Build a complete reinforcement learning system: formalize a word problem as an MDP, implement an Expected Sarsa or Q-learning agent with neural networks and RMSProp, then run a parameter study.

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

Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning

25 ratings

Reinforcement Learning is a subfield of Machine Learning, but is also a general purpose formalism for automated decision-making and AI. This course introduces you to statistical learning techniques where an agent explicitly takes actions and interacts wi…

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

• Best of All Time

Prediction and Control with Function Approximation

24 ratings

Scale reinforcement learning to infinite state spaces: implement TD, expected Sarsa, Q-learning and Actor-Critic with tile-coding and neural network function approximation.

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

Software Architecture

22 ratings

Compare architectural styles like pipes and filters, event-based and n-tier, express systems in UML package, component and deployment diagrams, and evaluate architectures with ATAM.

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

Introduction to Software Product Management

12 ratings

Explore the software product manager's role and the Agile philosophy, plus four foundations: establishing process, defining requirements, planning work, and monitoring development.

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

Astro 101: Black Holes

9 ratings

Black holes as a gateway to modern physics: learn stellar life cycles, curved spacetime, event horizons, accretion discs and jets, wormholes, and gravitational-wave detection.

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

Indigenous Canada

9 ratings

Explore Indigenous histories and realities in Canada: worldviews and storytelling, the fur trade, numbered treaties and the Indian Act, residential schools, Red Power, and contemporary Indigenous art.

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