10 free online courses on Coursera, you can go in June
Forming / / December 19, 2019
Died down the last calls. But who said that it is necessary to postpone the textbooks? In self-education and self-development is not a vacation. Especially, Coursera and June had prepared a lot of interesting courses for you.
Get to know some of them and spend the summer not only fun, but also to good use.
Start of the course: June 1st
durationcourse: 6 weeks
Organizer: Princeton University
Tongue: English
This course will teach you how to understand the historical, psychological and sociological nature of organized conflict. According to teachers, the war - it is a paradoxical expression animal is human, a splash of his emotions. The study of military conflicts helps to better understand the processes taking place in modern society. In addition to the usual video lectures, students are waiting for a debate on the military-social issues.
Start of the course: 2 June
Course duration: 15 weeks
Organizer: University of Michigan
Tongue: English + Ukrainian (subtitle)
You know how to count money? If not, then, after passing this course will learn. It is dedicated to the fundamental principles of finance assessment (both corporate and personal). You'll learn the concept of evaluating the value of money, learn how price is formed. The course, in addition to the theory, is rich in practical examples.
Start of the course: 2 June
Course duration: 10 weeks
Organizer: University of Michigan
Tongue: English + Ukrainian (subtitle)
Lectures, quizzes and the final exam of this course are intended to turn you from a thinking person in the great thinker. Course author - Professor Scott Page (Scott E. Page), specializing in complex political and economic systems. The study of different models of thinking helps to better organize information, to predict, to make more informed and effective decisions.
Start of the course: 2 June
Course duration: 11 weeks
Organizer: University of Michigan
Tongue: English
With each passing year technology affect our lives more and more. The mere fact that you will be able to pass the course, no matter where you are, anywhere in the world, says a lot. In this regard, the organizers are confident in the information-oriented world, everyone should know how to network technologies work. What is the Internet and how it works now? Answers to these and other questions - in this course.
Start of the course: 2 June
Course duration: 8 weeks
Organizer: University of Michigan
Tongue: English
Thermodynamics - the science of the most general properties of macroscopic systems in a state of thermodynamic equilibrium, and the processes of transition between these states. The University of Michigan offers to get acquainted with its basics. In particular, you will learn the principles of conservation of mass and energy, which is the thermodynamic system and much more.
Start of the course: 2 June
Course duration: 11 weeks
Organizer: University of Michigan
Tongue: English
Another course in June at Michigan State University is dedicated to science fiction, fantasy and more precisely. In its basis - mythology, fairy tales and fantasy. According to Professor of English Language and Literature Eric Rabkin (Eric Rabkin), imagination creates human needs and desires. This course examines the role of imagination in science fiction and fantasy. Before his passing is recommended to read the "younger brother" Cory Doctorow's "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury, "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley and other books (see the full list. in the course of the description).
Start of the course: 2 June
Course duration: 4 weeks
Organizer: Johns Hopkins University
Tongue: English
If Naive Bayes classifier, random forests Leo Breiman and Adele Cutler and forecasting is not an empty word for you, then this course will suit you. It is dedicated to machine learning and statistics. Programmers and statisticians will be interesting. This is the 8 th year in the framework of the author of "Information Science".
Start of the course: 2 June
Course duration: 8 weeks
Organizer: University of Melbourne
Tongue: English
Fond of biology? What is your favorite channel - Discovery? Then this course is for you. You will learn to understand the behavior of wild animals. Learn what role is played by the forces of evolution and natural selection. How do animals find food, how to choose a partner for mating and hide from enemies. In addition, among the most interesting of the course - education and parental behavior of fauna.
Start of the course: 2 June
Course duration: 6 weeks
Organizer: The University of Manchester
Tongue: English
What is the driving force of chemical reactions? Why do some of them occur in the geological time scale, but others are so fast that for their study requires femtosecond lasers? What happens at the atomic level? This course, which includes the "three pillars" of physical chemistry - thermodynamics, kinetics and quantum mechanics - will give you the answers to these (and other) questions.
Start of the course: 30 June
Course duration: 11 weeks
Organizer: High School of Economics
Tongue: Russian
Corporate finance - a relatively new discipline for Russia. But at the Higher School of Economics we have developed a special course that will help you understand the specifics of the Russian capital market, as well as master the methodology of analysis of the company. Also, you will learn how to select and generate investment projects.