Wesleyan University Courses

Social Psychology

88 ratings

This course offers a brief introduction to classic and contemporary social psychology, covering topics such as decision making, persuasion, group behavior, personal attraction, and factors that promote health and well-being.

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

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The Ancient Greeks

31 ratings

This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. Along with studying the most important events and personalities, we will consider broader issues such as political and cultural values and methods of histo…

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

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The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 1)

21 ratings

Trace how "the modern" took shape: read Rousseau, Kant, Marx, Flaubert, Darwin, Baudelaire and Nietzsche, plus painting's turn toward the surface of the canvas.

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

Creative Writing: The Craft of Plot

15 ratings

Learn to outline and structure a plot: narrative arc, Freytag's pyramid and five-act structure, scene-building with showing over telling, and a twenty-one point revision checklist.

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

Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description

12 ratings

In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to the techniques that masters of fiction use to ground a story in a concrete world. From the most realist settings to the most fantastical, writers will learn how to describe the physical world in shar…

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

Creative Writing: The Craft of Style

8 ratings

Put pressure on your prose: sharpen meaning and clarity, build sentences on nouns and verbs, cut for economy, and ground ideas in concrete things.

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

Creative Writing: The Craft of Character

7 ratings

At the center of a good story are the characters in it. In this course aspiring writers will discover how to build and bring to life complex, vivid and unforgettable characters.

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

How to Change the World

6 ratings

Examine what we hold in common, then work through poverty and foreign aid, climate change and sustainability, global health care, and women's education as routes to positive change.

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

Data Management and Visualization

5 ratings

Develop a research question from an existing data set, then write SAS or Python programs to examine frequency distributions, manage missing data and variable groups, and graph relationships.

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

Machine Learning for Data Analysis

328 ratings at Coursera

Apply decision trees, random forests, lasso regression, and k-means cluster analysis to your own data set, using k-fold cross-validation to select and interpret predictive models.

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

Data Analysis Tools

417 ratings at Coursera

Test relationships in your own data set: run and interpret ANOVA, Chi-Square tests of independence, Pearson correlation, and moderation analyses using SAS or Python.

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

Writing a Personal Essay

92 ratings at Coursera

This class is the chance to create your personal essay or extend into a full memoir -- from planning and structure to bold narrative brushstrokes to the layering of significant detail.

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

Regression Modeling in Practice

274 ratings at Coursera

Build and interpret linear, multiple, and logistic regression models in SAS or Python, testing confounding variables, checking assumptions, and evaluating fit with regression diagnostic plots.

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

Introduction to Complex Analysis

1095 ratings at Coursera

Work with functions of a complex variable: compute in the complex plane, apply the Cauchy-Riemann equations, conformal mappings, path integrals, power and Laurent series, and residues.

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

The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2)

377 ratings at Coursera

Read Freud, Woolf, Wittgenstein, Adorno, Foucault, Butler and Zizek to trace how modernism gives way to postmodern identities, critical theory and a renewed pragmatism.

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