Our Courses

One Health: A Ten-Thousand-Year-Old View into the Future

Learn to see the connections between human, animal, and environmental. Understanding these connections allows us to approach challenges in a holistic and constructionist approach and address problems at their root causes rather than treating their outcomes.

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• 30
• English

Pathways to Exploring and Understanding One Health Connections

This course will present several “Wicked Problems” and explore them from a One Health approach. This process will help students see how using a multi-disciplinary, cross cultural approach to understanding the root causes of these issues supports a construction of resilient and sustainable solutions.

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• 30
• English

Approaches to Operationalizing One Health

Learn how to put One Health into practice. While One Health is broadly accepted as an approach to understanding issues at the interface of human, animal, and environmental health, its interdisciplinary nature can make operationalizing the approach challenging. Students will learn how to use several tools in a community-based participatory approach to build solutions from the bottom up. Such an approach improves the likelihood of sustainable success and it engages the support and priorities of the communities involved at every step.

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• 28
• English

Remote Sensing of Wildfires

Learn how satellite imagery and the science of remote sensing allows us to detect wildfires, help manage their spread, and guide ecological restoration.

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• 28
• English

Data Science: Capstone

Show what you've learned from the Professional Certificate Program in Data Science.

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• 44
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Data Science: Linear Regression

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

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• 35
• English

Data Science: Wrangling

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.

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• 24
• English

Data Science: Probability

Learn probability theory -- essential for a data scientist -- using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007-2008.

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• 12
• English

Applied Storytelling

In this interactive and dynamic course, you will learn how to establish and integrate the art of storytelling more powerfully into your career and everyday life.

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• 36
• English

Introduction to Family Engagement in Education

Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

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• English

Religious Literacy: Traditions and Scriptures

Learn how to better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

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• 30
• English

Christianity Through Its Scriptures

Learn about Christianity through a study of its sacred scriptures. We will explore how diverse Christians have interpreted these writings and practiced their teachings over a 2000 year, global history.

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• 30
• English

Buddhism Through Its Scriptures

Learn about the rich and diverse beliefs and practices of Buddhists across time and place. Experience Buddhism through its scriptures, both relationally as well as academically.

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• 30
• English

Islam Through Its Scriptures

Learn about the Quran, the central sacred text of Islam, through an exploration of the rich diversity of roles and interpretations in Muslim societies.

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• 30
• English

Hinduism Through Its Scriptures

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

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• 30
• English

Judaism Through Its Scriptures

Learn about the key beliefs and practices of Judaism through an examination of its sacred texts and their interpretation.

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• 15
• English

Sikhism Through Its Scriptures

This course examines the Sikh scripture from a doctrinal and historical perspective by providing an overview of Sikh teachings as well as the historical context within which the scripture evolved and became canonized.

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• 12
• English

Data Science: Inference and Modeling

Learn inference and modeling, two of the most widely used statistical tools in data analysis.

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• 12
• English

Antarctica in a Changing Climate

Explores the exceptional aspects of the Antarctic climate and its ecosystems, looking at the current and future impacts of environmental change, including climate change.

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• 12
• English

Be a Better Learner Using Psychology

Many people report engaging in study habits that are not very effective or very efficient. How do we know what strategies are best? Cognitive psychologists have been doing research to ask this very question for multiple decades. It turns out that many strategies that people use extensively are not the ones that cognitive psychology research shows to be the most effective or efficient for learning. In this course, you will learn how to apply research-based principles from cognitive psychology to become a more effective and efficient learner.

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• 15
• English

Foundational Field Skills for Earth and Environmental Sciences

This course focusses on the proficiency of fundamental field skills required for most graduate degrees and entry-level jobs in the earth and environmental sciences. The course combines instructional demonstrations and scaffolded learning activities in the New Zealand outdoors.

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• 21
• English

Beer: the science of brewing

Ever wondered why your beer tastes the way it does? Learn how the ingredients, different biochemical reactions and process parameters in beer brewing influence the taste and aroma of beer.

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• 14
• English

Machine Learning at the Edge on Arm: A Practical Introduction

****This course will provide you with the hands-on experience you’ll need to create innovative machine learning applications using ubiquitous Arm-based microcontrollers.

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• 8
• English

Medical Terminology

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• 72
• English

How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse (and Other Emergencies)

Be prepared when disaster strikes. This free online course will teach you to recognize and successfully manage crisis events.

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• 28
• English