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This online course explores the roles that microbes play in the production, preservation, and enhancement of foods in a variety of culinary traditions, and discovers the history...

This online course explores the science behind weather systems by teaching the observational skills needed to make a forecast the without using instruments or computer models.

This online course addresses Einstein's engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology, and raises basic questions...

In this online course, students will learn about the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, the People´s Republic under Mao Zedong, and the beginning of China´s reopening and...

This online course explores handwriting’s role in the later Middle Ages as Europe was in the midst of the "paper revolution” and the quantity of documents was exploding.

This online course, the third installment of the multi-part Poetry in America series, focuses on the poetry of Walt Whitman, a quintessentially American writer whose work...

This online course explores the archaeology, history, art, and hieroglyphs surrounding the famous Egyptian Pyramids at Giza.

This online course explores a diverse array of American Modernist poets and poems.

This online course (MOOC) teaches about the history and development of world literature. The course explores how literature developed within cultures and how literary works and...

This online course explores the moral limits of markets. It draws upon philosophy and contemporary moral and political controversies to consider what moral limits, if any, the...

This short online course takes an in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic and its importance for the field of epidemiology.

This online course explores ancient Chinese philosophy and ethics, including Confucianism and Daoism. It also discusses how this might challenge Western assumptions of what it...

This online course explores the science behind climate change. It discusses the likely impact of continued greenhouse gas emissions, emphasizing the scientific uncertainties...

This course seeks to prepare learners to recognize and analyze emerging challenges in the humanitarian field. The course explores the ethical and professional principles that...

This online course (MOOC) is the first of ten parts of a course series that collectively spans over 6,000 years of Chinese history.This first part of the series gives an...

This online course teaches how to think algorithmically and solve problems efficiently.

This online course gives an introduction to programming using the language "R", a popular language for statistical computing and graphics in data science and other domains.

This online course teaches about opioid use and addiction and how it has evolved over time, leading to the current public health crisis in the United States. The course includes...

In this online course, students will learn about how in the 13th century the Mongols created the greatest empire in human history by force of arms and yet by the end of the Ming...

Through a combination of carefully selected readings, both scriptural and informational, as well as exposure to various forms of Buddhist practice such as art, devotional acts,...