Columbia University Courses

Crisis Resource Management

29 reviews

Learn the skills critical for effective teamwork in a crisis situation with focus on preparation, decision-making, and reflection across multidisciplinary teams.

• edX
• 3-6 hours a week, 12 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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The Civil War and Reconstruction – 1865-1890: The Unfinished Revolution

7 reviews

Examine the pivotal but misunderstood era of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War, the first effort in American history to construct an interracial democracy.

• edX
• 4-6 hours a week, 18 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Civil War and Reconstruction - 1850-1861: A House Divided

5 reviews

Discover how the issue of slavery came to dominate American politics, and how political leaders struggled and failed to resolve the growing crisis in the nation.

• edX
• 4-6 hours a week, 20 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Civil War and Reconstruction - 1861 - 1865: A New Birth of Freedom

6 reviews

Learn about the political, social, and economic changes in the Union and the Confederacy and the Civil War’s long-term economic and intellectual impact.

• edX
• 4-6 hours a week, 16 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1700 - 1920

2 reviews

In Part One of Women Have Always Worked, learn how women's work has changed the home, the workplace, and the nation from the Colonial Period through World War I.

• edX
• 4-6 hours a week, 8 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Seeking Women’s Rights: Colonial Period to the Civil War

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Learn about the emergence of women's history and its impact on the study of history as a whole. Then, examine the experiences of women in Colonial America. We will learn the ways that women struggled to loosen the constraints of family by proclaiming tha…

• edX
• 2-3 hours a week, 10 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Wage Work for Women Citizens: 1870-1920

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Departing from the Civil War years, examine how gender shaped women's work outside the home in the late 19th century. Explore efforts to affirm domesticity while providing women with paths to independence, and uncover how the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendme…

• edX
• 2-3 hours a week, 10 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Indian & Tibetan River of Buddhism

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Explore an overview of the history and philosophy of Buddhism throughout India, South and Southeast Asia, Tibet, and Central Asia, featuring the basics of the Buddhist view of reality and its educational principles of sciences, mind and social ethics.

• edX
• 2-4 hours a week, 12 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Target Audience This activity is intended for Medical Doctors/Nurses/Physician Assistants/Dietitians. Purpose Food is culture, love, sustenance, and can even be medicine. Talking about food and dietary interventions are essential components of the treatm…

• Independent
• 3-5 hours worth of material
• 6th May, 2022
• Free Certificate

Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1920 - 2016

In Part Two of Women Have Always Worked, learn how women's work has changed the home, the workplace, and the nation in the 20th century through the present.

• edX
• 4-6 hours a week, 8 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Negotiating a Changing World: 1920-1950

Beginning with the passing of the 19th Amendment and on through World War II, explore the new cultural and economic opportunities that emerged for women in this period while gaining an understanding of how racial, familial, and legal structures placed co…

• edX
• 2-3 hours a week, 10 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018

This course begins with an examination of how the Cold War reinforced the ideals of the suburban, nuclear family and how these ideals impacted women's trajectory towards independence and equality, and ends with the rise of the Me Too movement and a look…

• edX
• 2-3 hours a week, 12 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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The Civil War and Reconstruction

Civil War and Reconstruction introduces students to the most pivotal era in American history. This XSeries will examine the causes of the war, the road to secession, the conduct of the Civil War, the coming of emancipation, and the struggle after the war…

• edX
• 4-6 hours a week, 54 weeks long
• $150.00
• 3 courses