Wesleyan University Courses

Social Psychology

83 reviews

This course offers a brief introduction to classic and contemporary social psychology, covering topics such as decision making, persuasion, group behavior, personal attraction, and factors that promote health and well-being.

• Coursera
• 37 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 18th Oct, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

The Ancient Greeks

30 reviews

This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. Along with studying the most important events and personalities, we will consider broader issues such as political and cultural values and methods of histo…

• Coursera
• 20 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• tomorrow (25th Oct)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Creative Writing: The Craft of Plot

17 reviews

In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to perhaps the most elemental and often the most challenging element of story: plot. We will learn what keeps it moving, how it manipulates our feelings, expectations, and desires. We will examine the…

• Coursera
• 5 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (1st Nov)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description

12 reviews

In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to the techniques that masters of fiction use to ground a story in a concrete world. From the most realist settings to the most fantastical, writers will learn how to describe the physical world in shar…

• Coursera
• 7 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (1st Nov)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Creative Writing: The Craft of Character

8 reviews

At the center of a good story are the characters in it. In this course aspiring writers will discover how to build and bring to life complex, vivid and unforgettable characters. We will study the choices a writer makes to bring all characters to life on…

• Coursera
• 6 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• tomorrow (25th Oct)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Creative Writing: The Craft of Style

8 reviews

Your style is as unique and distinctive as your face, your voice, except that you can choose it, you can can work on it, enhance it. In this course we will introduce aspiring writers to the art of putting pressure on written language. We will study the…

• Coursera
• 7 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (1st Nov)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 1)

21 reviews

This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural ch…

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 2 weeks from now (8th Nov)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Data Management and Visualization

5 reviews

Whether being used to customize advertising to millions of website visitors or streamline inventory ordering at a small restaurant, data is becoming more integral to success. Too often, we’re not sure how use data to find answers to the questions that wi…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• tomorrow (25th Oct)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Machine Learning for Data Analysis

4 reviews

Are you interested in predicting future outcomes using your data? This course helps you do just that! Machine learning is the process of developing, testing, and applying predictive algorithms to achieve this goal. Make sure to familiarize yourself with…

• Coursera
• 10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• tomorrow (25th Oct)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Data Analysis Tools

4 reviews

In this course, you will develop and test hypotheses about your data. You will learn a variety of statistical tests, as well as strategies to know how to apply the appropriate one to your specific data and question. Using your choice of two powerful stat…

• Coursera
• 10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• tomorrow (25th Oct)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Regression Modeling in Practice

3 reviews

This course focuses on one of the most important tools in your data analysis arsenal: regression analysis. Using either SAS or Python, you will begin with linear regression and then learn how to adapt when two variables do not present a clear linear rela…

• Coursera
• 10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5 days from now (29th Oct)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Memoir and Personal Essay: Managing Your Relationship with the Reader

1 review

The blank page can be the most daunting obstacle in writing. In this course, aspiring writers will assemble a “starter kit” for approaching the blank page by developing constructive ways to think about the writing process as a whole. While subsequent cou…

• Coursera
• 5 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (1st Nov)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Writing Stories About Ourselves

In this course, creative nonfiction writers will explore traditional storytelling methods, especially those which overlap between fiction and memoir. By looking at examples from a wide range of genres, including film, song, painting—even the theme music…

• Coursera
• 9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (1st Nov)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Writing a Personal Essay

This class is the chance to create your personal essay or extend into a full memoir -- from planning and structure to bold narrative brushstrokes to the layering of significant detail. You will develop the opportunity to find your voice and see it come a…

• Coursera
• 6 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (1st Nov)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Writing in First Person Point of View

If you have always wanted to tell your own story—in a memoir, first-person essay, or any other form of autobiographical non-fiction—but felt you lacked the tools or the framework, this is the class for you. We will learn how successful first-person writi…

• Coursera
• 5 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (1st Nov)
• Free Online Course (Audit)