Wesleyan University Courses

Social Psychology

87 reviews

This course offers a brief introduction to classic and contemporary social psychology, covering topics such as decision making, persuasion, group behavior, personal attraction, and factors that promote health and well-being.

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

• Best of All Time

The Ancient Greeks

31 reviews

This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. Along with studying the most important events and personalities, we will consider broader issues such as political and cultural values and methods of histo…

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

• Best of All Time

Creative Writing: The Craft of Character

7 reviews

At the center of a good story are the characters in it. In this course aspiring writers will discover how to build and bring to life complex, vivid and unforgettable characters.

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 13th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 1)

21 reviews

This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural ch…

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

Data Management and Visualization

5 reviews

Whether being used to customize advertising to millions of website visitors or streamline inventory ordering at a small restaurant, data is becoming more integral to success. Too often, we’re not sure how use data to find answers to the questions that wi…

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

Machine Learning for Data Analysis

315 ratings at Coursera

Are you interested in predicting future outcomes using your data? This course helps you do just that! Machine learning is the process of developing, testing, and applying predictive algorithms to achieve this goal. Make sure to familiarize yourself with…

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

Data Analysis Tools

408 ratings at Coursera

In this course, you will develop and test hypotheses about your data. You will learn a variety of statistical tests, as well as strategies to know how to apply the appropriate one to your specific data and question. Using your choice of two powerful stat…

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

Creative Writing: The Craft of Plot

17 reviews

In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to perhaps the most elemental and often the most challenging element of story: plot. We will learn what keeps it moving, how it manipulates our feelings, expectations, and desires. We will learn how to…

• Coursera
• 5-6 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

History of Mental Illness

55 ratings at Coursera

Our lexicon of mental illness is immense: there currently are hundreds of classified disorders and an extensive assortment of medications and therapies. This course explores the history of this productive science its discoveries, classifications, and…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 13th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Abnormal Psychology

212 ratings at Coursera

This course presents an overview of the major domains of abnormal psychology. The course is made up of 5 modules, the first of which provides an introduction to the field through discussions of the concept of psychological abnormality, assessment and cla…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 13th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Creating Behavioral Change

63 ratings at Coursera

In this course you will learn about understanding and changing mental and physical health behavior. We will examine both the historical context and the current science. Major topics will include fundamental behavioral principles and basic elements of emp…

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

Designing and Building Institutional Anti-Racist Spaces

Designing and Building an Antiracist Institutional Space (D-BIAS) is a course whose mission is to teach and apply tenets of equity, anti-racism, and cultural justice to students from Institutions to achieve social change. The course is aimed at educator…

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

Take Action: From Protest to Policy

In Take Action, you will learn four strategies for transforming your activist work into policy change. First, we'll explore how to use the courts to mobilize constituents, raise awareness, gain information, and change the law. Second, we'll analyze the b…

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

Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description

12 reviews

In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to the techniques that masters of fiction use to ground a story in a concrete world. From the most realist settings to the most fantastical, writers will learn how to describe the physical world in shar…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Understanding Memory: Explaining the Psychology of Memory through Movies

10 reviews

Welcome to Understanding Memory. Someone once said that memory is fascinating because sometimes we forget what we want to remember, sometimes we remember what we want to forget, and sometimes we remember events that never happened or never happened the w…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)