Free online courses on Coursera, you can go in August

True layfhaker constantly cultivators. Therefore, each month we do for you a selection of informative courses on Coursera. Take a look at what can be learned in August.

Start of the course: August 3, 2015.
Course duration: 5 weeks.
Organizer: University of Edinburgh.
Tongue: English.

Ordinary musician knows the music and play an instrument. Maestro feels the music heart and understands all its theoretical aspects. Dreaming of a career distinguished pianist or a violinist? Then go through this course. From it you will learn what the height of the sound scale, harmonies and chords that are a musical form and composition, as well as what music harmony.

Start of the course: August 3, 2015.
Course duration: 6 weeks.
Organizer: University of London.
Tongue: English.

The course is for techies who want to bring their activities in more than creativity (eg, the development of video games or mobile applications), as well as "artists", who want to use in the creation of programming. Each week, students will receive two lectures: one - the technical and the second - for the development of creative skills. Students who do not have programming experience, will be able to engage further.

Start of the course: August 2015.
Course duration: 4 weeks.
Organizer: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Tongue: English.

What is Digital? Why Digital Marketing Business? What is the converged media? How to Develop Digital-strategy? Which digital channels form the modern marketing landscape? Answers to these and many other questions you will get in this course. Professor Rhiannon Clifton (Rhiannon Clifton) knows about advertising and promotion in the digital environment, everything, and even more. Each week you will receive a video lecture from her, and to participate in the quiz. Attention! The exact date of the beginning of the course you must check with the organizers.

Start of the course: August 10, 2015.
Course duration: 6 weeks.
Organizer: University of Maryland.
Tongue: English.

University of Maryland, led by Professor of the Department of Computer Science Michael Hicks (Michael Hicks) teaching profession "Safety in Cyberspace». One of the courses that you need to go through to get a certificate, is dedicated to the protection of software. To successfully master this discipline, students need to own at least one programming language such as C.

Start of the course: August 10, 2015.
Course duration: 8 weeks.
Organizer: Duke University.
Tongue: English.

The course is for those who are interested in chemistry and is planning to associate with this science his future career. As will be familiar with concepts such as atoms, molecules, ions within eight weeks students using short video lectures or interactive quiz. You will learn the periodic table and the types of chemical reactions. And at the end of the course you will be able to obtain a certificate signed by a professor.

Start of the course: August 15, 2015.
Course duration: 6 weeks.
Organizer: Duke University.
Tongue: English.

This is one of the courses in the specialty "Neurology: perception, action, and the human brain». Find a phone in the apartment, to orient in a hypermarket, to play the guitar - all this requires launching and coordination of different sensory-motor areas of the brain. What exactly, you will learn from this course. The authors argue that spatial attention is directly related to thinking, memory and other cognitive abilities.

Start of the course: August 17, 2015.
Course duration: 4 weeks.
Organizer: University of Virginia.
Tongue: English.

An important part of the management system of any company - Project management. Without it is impossible to solve business problems. Set goals, allocate resources, assign realistic deadlines and anticipating risks - all this must be able to project management specialists. All this can be learned in this course. A great option for those who want to improve their skills or change the scope of activities.

Start of the course: August 17, 2015.
Course duration: 6 weeks.
Organizer: University of Colorado system.
Tongue: English.

Through familiarity with the ancient manuscripts you can learn the history of the Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in Spain in the XV century. You will learn the positive and negative aspects of the inter-religious neighborhood. Students will also have the skills to work with historical documents. The course will be interesting and useful to historians, as well as those who study Spanish language and culture of this country is interested.

Start of the course: August 17, 2015.
Course duration: 8 weeks.
Organizer: University of Melbourne.
Tongue: English.

For many years, the main sources of information were newspapers, radio and television. We are acquainted with the news and affect our opinion the official representatives of the media. Today, thanks to the Internet, anyone can become newsmen or analyst. But whether it is journalism? Quite often such publications do not correspond to the canons and contrary to the ethical and legal principles of journalism. This course will help bloggers and web writers to become more competent and professional.

Start of the course: August 31, 2015.
Course duration: 13 weeks.
Organizer: University of Melbourne.
Tongue: English.

What is climate change? For biology, this evolution, migration or extinction of living beings. To an economist, it is connected with the reorganization of markets or financial problems. Politicians look at it through the prism of society. The interdisciplinary approach taken by the authors of the course, will provide the most objective picture of the process. You will understand what climate change poses to you as a person, citizen and member of society.

In addition, in August at Coursera courses are expected on investment, financial Accounting, digital story and many other things. Come on site site and choose.