University of California, Santa Cruz Courses

C++ For C Programmers, Part A

26 reviews

This course is for experienced C programmers who want to program in C++. The examples and exercises require a basic understanding of algorithms and object-oriented software.

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 27th Jun, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry

2 reviews

In this course, you will explore the Holocaust from the overlapping perspectives of literature and history—through memoirs, historical documents, poetry, documentary footage, filmic representations, and novels.

• Coursera
• 30 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 4 days from now (4th Jul)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

C for Everyone: Structured Programming

In the new world we live in, coding is a universally valuable skill, whether you're a scientist, artist, or a humanist. Algorithms are everywhere, and we all have to understand how they work. The C language is particularly well suited as an introduction…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 4 days from now (4th Jul)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally

In this short course you will explore the possibility that children might acquire written language in a way that is similar to how they acquire spoken language—without instruction.

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 1 week from now (11th Jul)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Cyber-Physical Systems: Modeling and Simulation

Cyber-physical systems (CPS for short) combine digital and analog devices, interfaces, networks, computer systems, and the like, with the natural and man-made physical world. The inherent interconnected and heterogeneous combination of behaviors in these…

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

Bayesian Statistics: Mixture Models

Bayesian Statistics: Mixture Models introduces you to an important class of statistical models. The course is organized in five modules, each of which contains lecture videos, short quizzes, background reading, discussion prompts, and one or more peer-re…

• Coursera
• 22 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 4 days from now (4th Jul)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Bayesian Statistics: Time Series Analysis

This course for practicing and aspiring data scientists and statisticians. It is the fourth of a four-course sequence introducing the fundamentals of Bayesian statistics. It builds on the course Bayesian Statistics: From Concept to Data Analysis, Techniq…

• Coursera
• 22 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 4 days from now (4th Jul)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Conspiracy Planet

This course is for anyone interested in conspiracy theories. Millions of people around the world believe in conspiracy theories like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or that AIDS was deliberately created by governments and pharmaceutical companies, o…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 1 week from now (11th Jul)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Bayesian Statistics: From Concept to Data Analysis

10 reviews

This course introduces the Bayesian approach to statistics, starting with the concept of probability and moving to the analysis of data. We will learn about the philosophy of the Bayesian approach as well as how to implement it for common types of data.…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Jun, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Earth 101 (Invertebrate paleobiology)

Syllabus: Taphonomy (time averaging). Species composition and diversity. Substrate Adaptations. Functional morphology: reef-building. Species concepts and classification. Phenetics and cladistics. Ontogeny and heterochrony. Landmark morphometrics. Biostr…

• YouTube
• 3-4 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Earth 120 (Sedimentology/stratigraphy)

Syllabus: 1 - Fluvial type.2 - Sediment transport.3 - Unidirectional bedforms.4 - Unidirectional sedimentary structures.5 - Facies models.6 - Fluvial sequence stratigraphy.7 - Provenance.8 - Alluvial fans.9 - Basin Analysis.10 - Aeolian environments.11 -…

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

Earth 125 (Stats and data analysis)

Syllabus: 1: Central tendency (mean and median). 2: Data dispersion. 3: Standard error/confidence intervals. Statistical testing procedures and the p value. 6: The t test. 7: the F test. 8: ANOVA. Shapiro-Wilk test. 10: Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. 11: Mann-…

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

C for Everyone: Programming Fundamentals

3 reviews

This course is for everyone. In the new world we live in, coding is a universally valuable skill, whether you're a scientist, artist, or a humanist. Algorithms are everywhere, and we all have to understand how they work. The C language is particularly we…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 2 weeks from now (18th Jul)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Feminism and Social Justice

2 reviews

In the course, Professor Aptheker presents a broad definition of feminism that serves to frame three significant events in the history of feminism and social justice.

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Jun, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Russian History: from Lenin to Putin

2 reviews

In this course, Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, explains the events of modern Russian history and introduces its most significant actors—from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin.

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 2 weeks from now (18th Jul)
• Free Online Course (Audit)