Anthropology Courses

Tangible Things: Discovering History Through Artworks, Artifacts, Scientific Specimens, and the Stuff Around You

7 reviews

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

• edX
• 1-3 hours a week, 10 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Indigenous Canada

9 reviews

Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material, 12 weeks long
• 1 week from now (29th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

PredictionX: Omens, Oracles & Prophecies

2 reviews

This course is an overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

• edX
• 3-5 hours a week, 1 week long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Carolina

The American South: Its Stories, Music, and Art

7 reviews

From small farms to urban neighborhoods, from the region itself to the more distant worlds of the southern diaspora, we discover the stories, music, and art of the American South.

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 3 days from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Book: Making and Meaning in the Medieval Manuscript

3 reviews

Explore the process of creation, and the relationship between making and meaning, in the illuminated manuscripts of the western Middle Ages.

• edX
• 2-4 hours a week, 8 weeks long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

The Book: Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries, Part 1: Reading the Late Medieval Marseille Archive

3 reviews

Understand handwriting’s role in the later Middle Ages as Europe was in the midst of the "paper revolution” and the quantity of documents was exploding.

• edX
• 1-2 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

The Book: Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries, Part 2: Introduction to the Transitional Gothic Script

2 reviews

Get an introduction to European handwriting of the so-called “twelfth-century renaissance,” when manuscript production skyrocketed as never before.

• edX
• 2-3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

The Book: The History of the Book in the 17th and 18th Century Europe

2 reviews

Learn about the role of books during the Enlightenment and how literature emerged as a modern form of culture.

• edX
• 1-2 hours a week, 1 week long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

The Book: Print and Manuscript in Western Europe, Asia and the Middle East (1450-1650)

1 review

Learn how book printing first developed and shaped the modern book by examining some examples of rare materials from Harvard's collections.

• edX
• 1-2 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

The Book: Scrolls in the Age of the Book

1 review

Examine Medieval scrolls in detail, and gain an understanding of their uses and historical significance.

• edX
• 2-4 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

Yale anthropology

1 review

Syllabus: 3. From Ape to Human. 4. When Humans Were Scarce. 5. Why Is Africa Different?. 6. Malthusian Times. 7. Demographic Transition in Europe; Mortality Decline. 8. Demographic Transition in Europe; Fertility Decline. 9. Demographic Transition in Eur…

• YouTube
• 28 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Sapienza

Recovering the Humankind's Past and Saving the Universal Heritage

247 ratings at Coursera

Archaeology is, among human sciences, the discipline with the strongest importance for the rediscovery, but also for the preservation and protection of cultural heritage, as Humankind’s universal patrimony. You will be introduced to the way we ourselves…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 1 week from now (29th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Microcredential

PredictionX

How did explorers navigate the world before the creation of meridians? What does astrology have to do with modern computer simulations? How did a 19th-century doctor end an epidemic and create epidemiology as we know it today? In PredictionX, learners w…

• edX
• 1-3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• $207.00
• 3 courses

UC3M

Deciphering Secrets: Unlocking the Manuscripts of Medieval Toledo (Spain)

12 reviews

Explore the medieval city of Toledo (Spain) and assess its history of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religious and cultural coexistence.

• edX
• 2-3 hours a week, 7 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Anthropology of Current World Issues

10 reviews

Learn to use anthropological ideas to see the world from a range of perspectives and points of view.

• edX
• 2-4 hours a week, 9 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)