Wesleyan University Courses

Social Psychology

84 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
• 38 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 8th Aug, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

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
• 12 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• tomorrow (15th Aug)
• 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 learn how to…

• Coursera
• 5-6 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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
• 2 weeks from now (29th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

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
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Understanding Memory: Explaining the Psychology of Memory through Movies

10 reviews

Welcome to Understanding Memory. Someone once said that memory is fascinating because sometimes we forget what we want to remember, sometimes we remember what we want to forget, and sometimes we remember events that never happened or never happened the w…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 1 week from now (22nd Aug)
• 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
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Creative Writing: The Craft of Character

7 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.

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

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 (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Machine Learning for Data Analysis

313 ratings at Coursera

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 (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Data Analysis Tools

404 ratings at Coursera

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 (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Complex Analysis

973 ratings at Coursera

This course provides an introduction to complex analysis which is the theory of complex functions of a complex variable. We will start by introducing the complex plane, along with the algebra and geometry of complex numbers, and then we will make our way…

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

Regression Modeling in Practice

272 ratings at Coursera

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
• 11 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5 days from now (19th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Schizophrenia

1716 ratings at Coursera

The main goal of this class are to gain an introductory exposure to the nature of the psychiatric disorder known as schizophrenia as revealed by the scientific method. We will discuss a broad range of findings from the scientific investigation of biologi…

• Coursera
• 5-6 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 1 week from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2)

339 ratings at Coursera

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
• 14 hours worth of material, 9 weeks long
• tomorrow (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)