Duke University Courses

A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior

554 reviews

Behavioral economics couples scientific research on the psychology of decision making with economic theory to better understand what motivates financial decisions. In A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior, you will learn about some of the many ways i…

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• 7-11 hours a week
• Finished
• Free Certificate

Medical Neuroscience

48 reviews

In this course, you will discover the organization of the neural systems in the brain and spinal cord that mediate sensation, motivate bodily action, and integrate sensorimotor signals with memory, emotion and related faculties of cognition.

• Coursera
• 71 hours worth of material, 13 weeks long
• 1 week from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Introduction to Genetics and Evolution

31 reviews

This course provides the basic biology you need to understand all of these issues better, tries to clarify some misconceptions, and tries to prepare students for future, more advanced coursework in Biology (and especially evolutionary genetics).

• Coursera
• 25 hours worth of material, 11 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Introductory Human Physiology

29 reviews

In this course, students learn to recognize and to apply the basic concepts that govern integrated body function (as an intact organism) in the body's nine organ systems.

• Coursera
• 33 hours worth of material, 10 weeks long
• 1 week from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Mastering Data Analysis in Excel

26 reviews

Important: The focus of this course is on math - specifically, data-analysis concepts and methods - not on Excel for its own sake. We use Excel to do our calculations, and all math formulas are given as Excel Spreadsheets, but we do not attempt to cover…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Dog Emotion and Cognition

19 reviews

Dog Emotion and Cognition will introduce you to the exciting new study of dog psychology, what the latest discoveries tell us about how dogs think and feel about us, and how we can use this new knowledge to further strengthen our relationship with our be…

• Coursera
• 22 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 1 week from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

English Composition I

19 reviews

You will gain a foundation for college-level writing valuable for nearly any field.

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• 25 hours worth of material, 10 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Brain and Space

15 reviews

This course is about how the brain creates our sense of spatial location from a variety of sensory and motor sources, and how this spatial sense in turn shapes our cognitive abilities. Knowing where things are is effortless. But “under the hood,” your…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 1 week from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Java Programming: Solving Problems with Software

15 reviews

Learn to code in Java and improve your programming and problem-solving skills. You will learn to design algorithms as well as develop and debug programs. Using custom open-source classes, you will write programs that access and transform images, websites…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTML and CSS

12 reviews

Learn foundational programming concepts (e.g., functions, for loops, conditional statements) and how to solve problems like a programmer. In addition, learn basic web development as you build web pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript. By the end of the cours…

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• 33 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Bayesian Statistics

12 reviews

This course describes Bayesian statistics, in which one's inferences about parameters or hypotheses are updated as evidence accumulates. You will learn to use Bayes’ rule to transform prior probabilities into posterior probabilities, and be introduced to…

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• 35 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Challenges of Global Health

11 reviews

Taught by Dr. David Boyd, an award-winning professor at Duke University’s Global Health Institute the course combines lectures with videos shot around the world and interviews with some of the world’s foremost Global Health experts.

• Coursera
• 20 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 1 week from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments

11 reviews

How to Understand Arguments Think Again: How to Reason and Argue Reasoning is important. This series of four short courses will teach you how to do it well. You will learn simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and common an…

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• 25 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Data Science Math Skills

10 reviews

Data science courses contain math—no avoiding that! This course is designed to teach learners the basic math you will need in order to be successful in almost any data science math course and was created for learners who have basic math skills but may no…

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• 13 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Business Metrics for Data-Driven Companies

10 reviews

In this course, you will learn best practices for how to use data analytics to make any company more competitive and more profitable. You will be able to recognize the most critical business metrics and distinguish them from mere data. You’ll get a cle…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)