Duke University Courses

A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior

554 reviews

Behavioral economics couples scientific research on the psychology of decision making with economic theory to better understand what motivates financial decisions. In A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior, you will learn about some of the many ways i…

• Coursera
• 7-11 hours a week
• 11th Mar, 2014
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Medical Neuroscience

51 reviews

In this course, you will discover the organization of the neural systems in the brain and spinal cord that mediate sensation, motivate bodily action, and integrate sensorimotor signals with memory, emotion and related faculties of cognition.

• Coursera
• 71 hours worth of material, 13 weeks long
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Introduction to Genetics and Evolution

31 reviews

This course provides the basic biology you need to understand all of these issues better, tries to clarify some misconceptions, and tries to prepare students for future, more advanced coursework in Biology (and especially evolutionary genetics).

• Coursera
• 25 hours worth of material, 11 weeks long
• 20th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

English Composition I

19 reviews

You will gain a foundation for college-level writing valuable for nearly any field.

• Coursera
• 25 hours worth of material, 10 weeks long
• 20th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introductory Human Physiology

29 reviews

In this course, students learn to recognize and to apply the basic concepts that govern integrated body function (as an intact organism) in the body's nine organ systems.

• Coursera
• 33 hours worth of material, 10 weeks long
• 3rd Apr, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Data Science Math Skills

12 reviews

Data science courses contain math—no avoiding that! This course is designed to teach learners the basic math you will need in order to be successful in almost any data science math course and was created for learners who have basic math skills but may no…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Mastering Data Analysis in Excel

26 reviews

Important: The focus of this course is on math - specifically, data-analysis concepts and methods - not on Excel for its own sake. We use Excel to do our calculations, and all math formulas are given as Excel Spreadsheets, but we do not attempt to cover…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 13th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Oil & Gas Industry Operations and Markets

9 reviews

The oil and gas industry has an enormous impact on all aspects of daily life. Individuals, corporations, and national governments make financial and policy decisions based on the cost, use, and availability of these two natural resources. This two-week c…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 2 weeks long
• 22nd Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Sports and Society

9 reviews

Sports play a giant role in contemporary society worldwide. But few of us pause to think about the larger questions of money, politics, race, sex, culture, and commercialization that surround sports everywhere. This course draws on the tools of anthropol…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 27th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Chemistry: Reactions and Ratios

9 reviews

This is an introductory course for students with limited background in chemistry; basic concepts involved in chemical reactions, stoichiometry, the periodic table, periodic trends, nomenclature, and chemical problem solving will be emphasized with the go…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 27th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Image and Video Processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a Stop at the Hospital

7 reviews

In this course, you will learn the science behind how digital images and video are made, altered, stored, and used. We will look at the vast world of digital imaging, from how computers and digital cameras form images to how digital special effects are u…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material, 9 weeks long
• 27th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Managing Big Data with MySQL

6 reviews

This course is an introduction to how to use relational databases in business analysis. You will learn how relational databases work, and how to use entity-relationship diagrams to display the structure of the data held within them. This knowledge will…

• Coursera
• 32 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Java Programming: Principles of Software Design

6 reviews

Solve real world problems with Java using multiple classes. Learn how to create programming solutions that scale using Java interfaces. Recognize that software engineering is more than writing code - it also involves logical thinking and design. By the e…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 20th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Probability and Data with R

6 reviews

This course introduces you to sampling and exploring data, as well as basic probability theory and Bayes' rule. You will examine various types of sampling methods, and discuss how such methods can impact the scope of inference. A variety of exploratory d…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 20th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Dog Emotion and Cognition

19 reviews

Dog Emotion and Cognition will introduce you to the exciting new study of dog psychology, what the latest discoveries tell us about how dogs think and feel about us, and how we can use this new knowledge to further strengthen our relationship with our be…

• Coursera
• 22 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 3rd Apr, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)