Our Courses
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet: An Actor's Perspective
Have you ever wanted to read Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? This course will provide a guided reading of the script and expose you to the perspectives of actors who've performed in the play. It primarily consists of interviews with 14 professional actors who have participated in at least one production of Romeo & Juliet somewhere in the US, at theaters and Shakespeare festivals including the American Shakespeare Center, American Players Theatre, and the Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals.
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- 10 hours
- English
Build and Utilize Forms in LibreOffice Base
By the end of this project you will have used LibreOffice to create and use a variety of forms for entering, updating, and browsing data in relational tables.
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- 2 hours
- English
Capstone: Connected Planning for Business Transformation
This course is the capstone project for learners completing the Connected Planning for Business Transformation specialization. In this project, you will develop a rationale and roadmap for Connected Planning implementation in your own organization.
By examining the current state of planning in the organization, identifying specific areas where Connected Planning will deliver significant benefits, and addressing organizational obstacles, you will prepare yourself to advocate for Connected Planning, drive its adoption in your organization, and help transform your business.
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- 5 hours
- English
Real-World Cloud PM 3 of 3: Security, AWS Well-Architected
Sponsored by AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS). Learn real-world technical and business skills for product managers or any job family involved in the rapidly expanding cloud computing industry. Ace the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam.
This course is the 3rd in a 3-course Specialization. Complete the first and second courses before attempting this one.
Featuring
* NANCY WANG, GM of AWS Data Protection Services, AWS; Founder and CEO, Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT)
* BOYD BISCHOFF, Director Software Development AWS
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- 10 hours
- English
Increase Student Buy in with Google Slides
By the end of this project, you will have created a student punchcard that will engage your students during virtual learning or as a more engaging way to encourage buy in during classroom learning.
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- 2 hours
- English
Sass Tutorial
Learn how to write efficient and modular CSS code with Sass, a popular preprocessor scripting language. Our course covers Sass fundamentals such as variables, nesting, partials, and mixins, as well as advanced features l…
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- 4 hours
- English
Business Operations Support in Google Sheets
By the end of this project, you will create a Google Sheet that receives customer requests, tracks employee workload, and provides a small business with an overview of current project status and historical data for completed projects.
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- 3 hours
- English
APIs Explorer: App Engine
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you will get hands-on practice configuring and deploying an App Engine instance with the APIs Explorer tool.
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- 1 hour
- English
Networking Fundamentals
Students start by learning basic network theory and terminology including network components, node functions, types of networks and network models. Students will gain an understanding of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and the TCP/IP Model including encapsulation and common network protocols. Students learn about data transmission methods and ethernet including CSMA/CD and CSMA/CA. The course covers wired and wireless networking standards, and networking hardware including switches and routers.
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- 26 hours
- English
The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry
The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry is an adaptation of an on-campus course that has been co-taught by Murray Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Literature Department), and Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus (History Department), for over 20 years at UC Santa Cruz.
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- 30 hours
- English
A Geometrical Approach to Genome Analysis: Skew & Z-Curve
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to analyze a complete viral genome using geometrical methods (skews and Z-curve), 2D- and 3D-plotting in Python, and how to use some important Python libraries (like Tkinter, Matplotlib, and NumPy) helping you accomplish this.
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- 3 hours
- English
The People, Power, and Pride of Public Health
The People, Power, and Pride of Public Health provides an engaging overview of the incredible accomplishments and promise of the public health field. The first module includes interviews with legendary public health figures whose work led to millions of lives saved with vaccines, air bags and car seats, and the federal Women Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition program. The second module brings key public health tools to life -- including use of data, communications, and policy - through discussions with experienced professionals who have used these tools to save lives.
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- 5 hours
- English
How to create a Facebook or Instagram Ad with Mailchimp
Here you will learn how to create a Facebook advert with MailChimp.
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- 3 hours
- English
Creating a Quiz Game using Vanilla JavaScript
By the end of this project, you will be able to create a multi app Quiz Game using Vanilla JavaScript.
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- 3 hours
- English
Hot Topics in Criminal Justice
The American criminal justice system is in need of reform. We incarcerate too many people. We pay insufficient attention to scientific advances that can help separate out the most and least culpable and dangerous. We grant the police far too much power to use force and technological surveillance.
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- 19 hours
- English
Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills
Learn how to incorporate resilience interventions into your personal and professional life with Dr. Karen Reivich. In this course, you are exposed to the foundational research in resilience, including protective factors such as mental agility and optimism. Several types of resilience interventions are explored including cognitive strategies; strategies to manage anxiety and increase positive emotions such as gratitude; and a critical relationship enhancement skill. Throughout the course, you will hear examples of individuals using resilience skills in their personal and professional lives.
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- 16 hours
- English
Position Elements on a Page with CSS
In this intermediate-level course you will explore how CSS (Cascading Stylesheets) can be used to control the position of objects on your web page.
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- 2 hours
- English
Housing Justice: A View from Indian Cities
This course will introduce learners to different approaches to thinking about housing justice, bringing together material, ecological, social and spatial approaches to thinking about housing. Rooting itself in Indian cities, but speaking more broadly to struggles for housing justice more globally, it will offer a diagnosis of what housing justice looks like as well as the modes and practices that can move us towards it ranging from activism and direct action to public policy and participatory governance.
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- 17 hours
- English
Generate a User Experience (UX) Onboarding Map in Miro
By the end of this project, you will be able to generate a user experience onboarding map to visualize the complete entry process that a user has at the start of their relationship with a brand so that an organization can grow longevity by ensuring that they get off on the right foot with users.
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- 2 hours
- English
Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 6
Welcome to Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 6! You’re joining thousands of learners currently enrolled in the course. I'm excited to have you in the class and look forward to your contributions to the learning community.
To begin, I recommend taking a few minutes to explore the course site. Review the material we’ll cover each week, and preview the assignments you’ll need to complete to pass the course. Click Discussions to see forums where you can discuss the course material with fellow students taking the class.
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- 6 hours
- English
Salesforce Reporting
Salesforce Reporting focuses on how the micro-level changes in Salesforce affect the macro level of the user experience. In this course, you will focus on creating custom objects, field dependencies, and work flows to track accounts or services. It is also important that you maintain data clean for your organization and you will work with creating reports, managing data, and creating full reports and dashboards. Lastly, you will focus on your customer base with Salesforce Service Cloud to maintain engagement through your services.
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- 24 hours
- English
Using Descriptive Statistics to Analyze Data in R
By the end of this project, you will create a data quality report file (exported to Excel in CSV format) from a dataset loaded in R, a free, open-source program that you can download.
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- 3 hours
- English
Facial Expression Classification Using Residual Neural Nets
In this hands-on project, we will train a deep learning model based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Residual Blocks to detect facial expressions.
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- 3 hours
- English
BigQuery: Qwik Start - Console
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. This lab shows you how to query public tables and load sample data into BigQuery using the Web UI. Watch the short videos Get Meaningful Insights with Google BigQuery and BigQuery: Qwik Start - Qwiklabs Preview.
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- 1 hour
- English
Data Warehousing with Oracle: Design a Database
This Guided Project Data Warehousing with Oracle: Design a Database for Business Intelligence is for learners who have database administration and data warehousing experience but want to learn more about designing databases and models for business intelligence.
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- 3 hours
- English