University of Iceland Courses

Sheep in the Land of Fire and Ice

55 reviews

What do sheep, volcanoes and glaciers have in common? Take this course to see how human land uses, like sheep grazing, over just a few centuries can be an equally strong driving force of landscapes as volcanoes and glaciers over millennia.

• edX
• 1-2 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Monitoring Volcanoes and Magma Movements

21 reviews

The course covers magma movements in volcanoes and how they can be inferred from ground based and satellite monitoring techniques, including studies of earthquakes, ground deformation, and volcanic gas release. Case studies are presented.

• edX
• 3-5 hours a week, 8 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Gender and Intersectionality

8 reviews

Gender intersects with everything. Using examples from popular culture, classical literature, and history, this course will teach you how to analyze religious texts and traditions, class divisions, racial inequality, sexualities and nationalism through a…

• edX
• 2-5 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Medieval Icelandic Sagas

2 reviews

Learn about the Icelandic Sagas, the characteristic literary genre of Medieval Iceland comprising roughly 40 texts.

• edX
• 2-3 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Gender and Development: Critical Theories and Approaches

1 review

Learn about critical theories and topics in the field of gender and development

• edX
• 5-8 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Intercultural Competency in Education

Do you want to learn practical skills to become interculturally competent and aware as an educator? Take this course and learn to develop strategies to deal with identities in a fairer and more coherent way.

• edX
• 2-4 hours a week, 5 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Friendship machine: forming a new type of human connections

Did you know that there are now 2.6 billion gamers in the world? By 2021, that number is expected to rise by 125 million. In terms of revenue, the video game industry has become bigger than the movie and music industries put together. Video games are swe…

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

Gender, Violence and Post-Conflict States

Learn the core theories, case studies and policy frameworks necessary for understanding the interplay between gender and violence in post-conflict contexts.

• edX
• 5-8 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Paths to Peace and Conflict: From the Body to the International

Do you want to strengthen your understanding of peace and conflict processes? Join our course, where we explore peacebuilding with an inclusive and intersectional lens to shed light on ways we can strengthen peace processes.

• edX
• 2-5 hours a week, 5 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Small States and Leadership

Do you want to learn about leadership in small states? Join our course, where we explore how small states can use clever leadership to transform smallness into an asset when promoting their interests at home and abroad.

• edX
• 2-5 hours a week, 5 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Personalised Medicine from a Nordic Perspective

The technical revolution has generated large amounts of data in healthcare and research, and a rapidly increasing knowledge about factors of importance for the individual’s health. This holds great potential to support a change from the one-size-fits-all…

• Coursera
• 6 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

High Performance Computing

1 review

2021 High Performance Computing Lecture 0.1 Short Introduction to UNIX and SSH Part1 ‍.2021 highperformancecomputing.org. Lecture 1.1 Intro C Programming and Scheduling. Part2.1 Parallel Programming with MPI. Part1.2.3.4 Advanced MPI Techniques. Part 2.1…

• YouTube
• 26 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course