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

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
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

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
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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

The Brain and Space

15 reviews

This course is about how the brain creates our sense of spatial location from a variety of sensory and motor sources, and how this spatial sense in turn shapes our cognitive abilities. Knowing where things are is effortless. But “under the hood,” your…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 6th 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
• 27th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments

11 reviews

How to Understand Arguments Think Again: How to Reason and Argue Reasoning is important. This series of four short courses will teach you how to do it well. You will learn simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and common an…

• Coursera
• 25 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Copyright for Educators & Librarians

8 reviews

Fear and uncertainty about copyright law often plagues educators and sometimes prevents creative teaching. This course is a professional development opportunity designed to provide a basic introduction to US copyright law and to empower teachers and lib…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Visual Perception and the Brain

6 reviews

Learners will be introduced to the problems that vision faces, using perception as a guide. The course will consider how what we see is generated by the visual system, what the central problem for vision is, and what visual perception indicates about how…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Advertising and Society

6 reviews

This course examines the relation of advertising to society, culture, history, and the economy. Using contemporary theories about visual communications, we learn to analyze the complex levels of meaning in both print advertisements and television commer…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 13th 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
• 6th 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
• 6th 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
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Think Again II: How to Reason Deductively

5 reviews

How to Reason Deductively Think Again: How to Reason and Argue Reasoning is important. This series of four short courses will teach you how to do it well. You will learn simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and common and…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)