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AI Product Management (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ai-product-management-duke Offered by Duke University. Manage the Design & Development of ML Products. Understand how machine learning works and when and how it can be ... |
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Applied Python Data Engineering (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/python-data-engineering Offered by Duke University. Elevate your coding skills with data engineering. Use big data for decision-making, analysis, AI and machine ... |
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Art of the MOOC: Experiments with Sound (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/experiments-with-sound Students of this course may try their hand at their own sound interventions and musical compositions, or simply focus on learning more about diverse musical traditions, sonic experimentation, and acoustic phenomena in everyday life. Designed by artist and Duke professor, Pedro Lasch, and UdK composer Mathias Hinke, this course is also co-taught by scholar and musician Jace Clayton (DJ Rupture) and curator Candice Hopkins (Documenta 14). The lectures link major artistic developments of recent dec |
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ART of the MOOC: Activism and Social Movements (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/activism-social-movements This course is for activists, artists, and thinkers who wish to better understand and participate in social change. We will focus on the prolific and exciting overlap between socially engaged art and cultural practices generated by recent social movements around the world. Rather than assess the political efficacy of activities like mourning, listening, organizing, dancing, or partying, the lectures examine such cultural activities next to, and within, contemporary art practice. Included in th |
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ART of the MOOC: Activismo y Movimientos Sociales (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/activismo-movimientos-sociales Este curso es para activistas, artistas y pensadores que deseen entender mejor el cambio social y participar en él. El contenido del curso enfoca en la coincidencia prolífica y emocionante entre el arte socialmente comprometido y prácticas culturales generadas por recientes movimientos sociales en todo el mundo. Más que evaluar la eficacia política de actividades como el luto, la escucha, la organización, el baile, o la fiesta, las conferencias examinan tales actividades culturales al lado y den |
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ART of the MOOC: Arte Público y Pedagogía (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/arte-publico-pedagogia Los alumnos de este curso aprenderán a hacer sus propias obras de arte social y público si así lo desean, o podrán simplemente estudiar la teoría e historia reciente del medio. Diseñado por el artista y profesor de Duke, Pedro Lasch, e impartido con el director artístico de Creative Time, Nato Thompson, este curso presenta el arte y la cultura pública en sus formas contemporáneas radicalmente re-inventadas. Las conferencias enlazan acontecimientos claves de las últimas décadas en este campo con |
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ART of the MOOC: Public Art and Pedagogy (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/public-art-pedagogy Students of this course may try their hand at their own public art interventions, or simply focus on learning from the theory of public practice and its recent history. Designed by artist and Duke professor, Pedro Lasch, and co-taught by Creative Time artistic director, Nato Thompson, this course presents public culture and art in their radically reinenvented contemporary forms. The lectures link major developments of recent decades to wider topics like spatial politics, everyday social structur |
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https://www.coursera.org/learn/duke-behavioral-finance We make thousands of decisions every day. Do I cross the road now, or wait for the oncoming truck to pass? Should I eat fries or a salad for lunch? How much should I tip the cab driver? We usually make these decisions with almost no thought, using what psychologists call “heuristics” – rules of thumb that enable us to navigate our lives. Without these mental shortcuts, we would be paralyzed by the multitude of daily choices. But in certain circumstances, these shortcuts lead to predictable error |
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Blockchain Business Models (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/blockchain-business-models Blockchain is an emerging and highly disruptive technology that is poorly understood. In this course you will learn what blockchain is and how it can create value by tokenization in cryptocurrencies and in many other practical applications. The applications include: stablecoins (like Facebook’s Libra and JP Morgan’s JPMCoin), machine to machine payments, identity protection, supply chain management (Walmart, Maersk, IBM), secure voting, distributed exchanges, decentralized finance, property tran |
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Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/building-cloud-computing-solutions-at-scale Offered by Duke University. Launch Your Career in Cloud Computing. Master strategies and tools to become proficient in developing data ... |
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Business Metrics for Data-Driven Companies (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/analytics-business-metrics In this course, you will learn best practices for how to use data analytics to make any company more competitive and more profitable. You will be able to recognize the most critical business metrics and distinguish them from mere data. You’ll get a clear picture of the vital but different roles business analysts, business data analysts, and data scientists each play in various types of companies. And you’ll know exactly what skills are required to be hired for, and succeed at, these high-deman |
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Chimpanzee Behavior and Conservation (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/chimp Chimpanzees are one of our closest living relatives, yet almost nothing was known about their behavior in the wild until Jane Goodall started her groundbreaking study of the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania in 1960. This study continues today, following the same chimpanzee families that Jane Goodall first encountered over 55 years ago. Guided by three course instructors who have lived and worked with the Gombe chimpanzees, you will learn how Goodall’s early discoveries changed our view of human un |
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Church Administration Theology and Time Management (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/theology-church-administration As church pastors and leaders, how should you manage Christian church administration? Shouldn’t Christian theology matter in church administration? If so, how? At the same time, how should you utilize management principles and techniques to make your church a more faithful church, rather than turning it into a secular enterprise? In this Duke Divinity+ non-credit course for church pastors and leaders, you will learn the importance of approaching church administration theologically. More specif |
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Civic Engagement in American Democracy (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/civic-engagement-american-democracy So how does the American political system work? Who are some of the key actors? What are key concepts for a student trying to understand what’s going on? How can I as a citizen influence politics? Civic Engagement in American Democracy takes on these and other key questions. We’re Dr. Nicholas Carnes and Dr. Bruce Jentleson, the principal course instructors. Along with our Duke faculty colleagues who also contributed modules, we’ve designed the course to provide a strong foundational introduct |
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Cloud Machine Learning Engineering and MLOps (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/cloud-machine-learning-engineering-mlops-duke Welcome to the fourth course in the Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale Specialization! In this course, you will build upon the Cloud computing and data engineering concepts introduced in the first three courses to apply Machine Learning Engineering to real-world projects. First, you will develop Machine Learning Engineering applications and use software development best practices to create Machine Learning Engineering applications. Then, you will learn to use AutoML to solve problems mo |
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Cloud Virtualization, Containers and APIs (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/cloud-virtualization-containers-api-duke Welcome to the second course in the Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale Specialization! In this course, you will learn to design Cloud-native systems with the fundamental building blocks of Cloud computing. These building blocks include virtual machines and containers. You will also learn how to build effective Microservices using technologies like Flask and Kubernetes. Finally, you will analyze successful patterns in Operations including: Effective alerts, load testing and Kaizen. Thi |
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Copyright for Educators & Librarians (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/copyright-for-education Fear and uncertainty about copyright law often plagues educators and sometimes prevents creative teaching. This course is a professional development opportunity designed to provide a basic introduction to US copyright law and to empower teachers and librarians at all grade levels. Course participants will discover that the law is designed to help educators and librarians. |
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Copyright for Multimedia (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/copyright-for-multimedia Copyright questions about different formats (data, images, music and video) can be especially difficult. Sometimes the law specifically distinguishes between these different formats, and in most cases there are media-specific considerations that impact a copyright analysis. In this course we will look at four different media, paying special attention to the unique issues for each one and the kinds of information that is important when making copyright decisions for each type of material. We w |
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Data Analysis with R (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/statistics Offered by Duke University. Master Data Analysis with R. Statistical mastery of data analysis including basic data visualization, ... |
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Data Science Math Skills (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/datasciencemathskills Data science courses contain math—no avoiding that! This course is designed to teach learners the basic math you will need in order to be successful in almost any data science math course and was created for learners who have basic math skills but may not have taken algebra or pre-calculus. Data Science Math Skills introduces the core math that data science is built upon, with no extra complexity, introducing unfamiliar ideas and math symbols one-at-a-time. Learners who complete this course wi |
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Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/analytics-tableau One of the skills that characterizes great business data analysts is the ability to communicate practical implications of quantitative analyses to any kind of audience member. Even the most sophisticated statistical analyses are not useful to a business if they do not lead to actionable advice, or if the answers to those business questions are not conveyed in a way that non-technical people can understand. In this course you will learn how to become a master at communicating business-relevan |
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Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Deep Dive (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/decentralized-finance-deep-dive-duke DeFi and the Future of Finance is a set of four courses that focus on decentralized finance. The third course is called DeFi Deep Dive. It is essential that you do the first two courses I. DeFi Infrastructure and II. DeFi Primitives before doing this course. It is the longest of the four courses and focuses on some of the leading protocols in the DeFi space. We will look at Credit and Lending (and feature MakerDAO, Compound and Aave), Decentralized Exchange with an analysis of how protocols like |
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Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Infrastructure (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/decentralized-finance-infrastructure-duke Decentralized Finance: The Future of Finance is a set of four courses taught by Campbell R. Harvey (Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research) that focus on decentralized finance (DeFi). In this first course, we begin by exploring the origins of DeFi and take a broad historical view from the earliest barter economies, such as the first peer-to-peer exchanges of bartering, to present day. The course |
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Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Opportunities and Risks (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/decentralized-finance-opportunities-and-risk-duke DeFi and the Future of Finance is a set of four courses that focus on decentralized finance. The final course is called DeFi Opportunities and Risks. It is essential that you complete the first three courses: I. DeFi Infrastructure; II. DeFi Primitives; and III. DeFi Deep Dive before beginning the fourth course. The course starts with the premise that an analysis of any new technology must clearly gauge the risks and challenges. Given that DeFi is only a few years old there are plenty of risks. |
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Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Primitives (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/decentralized-finance-primitives-duke DeFi and the Future of Finance is a set of four courses that focus on decentralized finance. The second course is called DeFi Primitives. It is recommended that you take the first course, DeFi Infrastructure, before this course. In this course, we talk about transaction mechanics and introduce both fungible and non-fungible tokens – or NFTs. The course explores the important issue of custody (holding private keys). The course then explores supply adjustment which includes the minting and burning |
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Decentralized Finance (DeFi): The Future of Finance (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/decentralized-finance-duke Offered by Duke University. Learn more about decentralized finance.. Understand the infrastructure of decentralized finance and assess ... |
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DevOps, DataOps, MLOps (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/devops-dataops-mlops-duke Learn how to apply Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) to solve real-world problems. The course covers end-to-end solutions with Artificial Intelligence (AI) pair programming using technologies like GitHub Copilot to build solutions for machine learning (ML) and AI applications. This course is for people working (or seeking to work) as data scientists, software engineers or developers, data analysts, or other roles that use ML. By the end of the course, you will be able to use web frameworks (e |
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Dog Emotion and Cognition (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/dog-emotion-and-cognition Dog Emotion and Cognition will introduce you to the exciting new study of dog psychology, what the latest discoveries tell us about how dogs think and feel about us, and how we can use this new knowledge to further strengthen our relationship with our best friends. |
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Drones for Environmental Science (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/drones-for-environmental-science How can drones be used for good in environmental science? What types of data can scientists collect, and how should they go about collecting it using drones? Why should someone integrate drones into their existing career or pursue this field? This Duke Environment+ course serves as an introduction for anyone interested in learning more about drone use in the environmental sciences. No background knowledge in drones is assumed or necessary. Over the course of four weeks, you will discover the |
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Electric Industry Operations and Markets (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/electricity This is a two week course. In the first week you will learn about the core activities that the Industry executes to bring electricity to customers. We will review what electricity is, how it is generated, how it is transmitted, how it comes into buildings, and how consumption of electricity instantly feeds back on the transmission and generation of electricity. You will learn to: Define what electricity is; Describe how electricity is generated, transmitted and distributed; Describe how electric |
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English Composition I (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/english-composition You will gain a foundation for college-level writing valuable for nearly any field. Students will learn how to read carefully, write effective arguments, understand the writing process, engage with others' ideas, cite accurately, and craft powerful prose. Course Learning Objectives • Summarize, analyze, question, and evaluate written and visual texts • Argue and support a position • Recognize audience and disciplinary expectations • Identify and use the stages of the writing process • Identify |
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Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/entrepreneurial-finance Offered by Duke University. |
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Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/excel-mysql Offered by Duke University. Turn Data Into Value. Drive business process change by identifying & analyzing key metrics in 4 ... |
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Financial Risk Management with R (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-risk-management-with-r This course teaches you how to calculate the return of a portfolio of securities as well as quantify the market risk of that portfolio, an important skill for financial market analysts in banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, and other financial services and investment firms. Using the R programming language with Microsoft Open R and RStudio, you will use the two main tools for calculating the market risk of stock portfolios: Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES). You will need a be |
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Financing for Startup Businesses (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/financing-startup-businesses This course will teach you how to manage a startup’s financing strategy, where you will learn how to build capitalization tables (or “cap tables”) in Excel. Cap tables will help you explore different financing strategies for your startup company and determine which financing decisions are best for your entrepreneurial venture. You will also learn about innovations in the digital space that allow new ways to finance entrepreneurial ventures. These include different forms of crowdfunding, and alte |
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FinTech Law and Policy (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/fintechlawandpolicy Being a successful FinTech firm requires more than just great technology; it also requires an understanding of the laws and regulations applicable to your business. This course will provide you with that understanding. You will learn about the critical legal, regulatory, and policy issues associated with cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings, online lending, new payments and wealth management technologies, and financial account aggregators. In addition, you will learn how regulatory agencies |
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Image and Video Processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a Stop at the Hospital (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/image-processing In this course, you will learn the science behind how digital images and video are made, altered, stored, and used. We will look at the vast world of digital imaging, from how computers and digital cameras form images to how digital special effects are used in Hollywood movies to how the Mars Rover was able to send photographs across millions of miles of space. The course starts by looking at how the human visual system works and then teaches you about the engineering, mathematics, and compute |
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Impact Measurement & Management for the SDGs (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/impact-for-sdgs How can businesses and investors help fill the multi-trillion-dollar gap needed for sustainable development? Simply put: by incorporating sustainability and social impact factors on people and planet into management decisions. Through this course, anyone can learn to improve their organization's practice of impact measurement and management and align their ESG or impact activities and reporting with emerging global standards. Impact Measurement and Management for the SDGs is a collaboration be |
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Increasing Real Estate Management Profits: Harnessing Data Analytics (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/analytics-capstone In this final course you will complete a Capstone Project using data analysis to recommend a method for improving profits for your company, Watershed Property Management, Inc. Watershed is responsible for managing thousands of residential rental properties throughout the United States. Your job is to persuade Watershed’s management team to pursue a new strategy for managing its properties that will increase their profits. To do this, you will: (1) Elicit information about important variables rel |
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Inferential Statistics (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/inferential-statistics-intro This course covers commonly used statistical inference methods for numerical and categorical data. You will learn how to set up and perform hypothesis tests, interpret p-values, and report the results of your analysis in a way that is interpretable for clients or the public. Using numerous data examples, you will learn to report estimates of quantities in a way that expresses the uncertainty of the quantity of interest. You will be guided through installing and using R and RStudio (free statisti |
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Interacting with the System and Managing Memory (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/interacting-system-managing-memory The final course in the specialization Introduction to Programming in C will teach you powerful new programming techniques for interacting with the user and the system and dynamically allocating memory. You will learn more sophisticated uses for pointers, such as strings and multidimensional arrays, as well as how to write programs that read and write files and take input from the user. Learning about dynamic memory allocation will allow your programs to perform complex tasks that will be applie |
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Introduction to Chemistry: Reactions and Ratios (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/intro-chemistry This is an introductory course for students with limited background in chemistry; basic concepts involved in chemical reactions, stoichiometry, the periodic table, periodic trends, nomenclature, and chemical problem solving will be emphasized with the goal of preparing students for further study in chemistry as needed for many science, health, and policy professions. |
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Introduction to Chemistry: Structures and Solutions (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/basic-chemistry This is an introductory course for students with limited background in chemistry; basic concepts such as atomic and molecular structure, solutions, phases of matter, and quantitative problem solving will be emphasized with the goal of preparing students for further study in chemistry. |
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Introduction to Genetics and Evolution (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/genetics-evolution Introduction to Genetics and Evolution is a college-level class being offered simultaneously to new students at Duke University. The course gives interested people a very basic overview of some principles behind these very fundamental areas of biology. We often hear about new "genome sequences," commercial kits that can tell you about your ancestry (including pre-human) from your DNA or disease predispositions, debates about the truth of evolution, why animals behave the way they do, and how pe |
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Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/logic-critical-thinking-duke Offered by Duke University. Think Again: How to Reason and Argue. Learn how to recognize and make well reasoned arguments. |
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Introduction to Machine Learning (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning-duke This course will provide you a foundational understanding of machine learning models (logistic regression, multilayer perceptrons, convolutional neural networks, natural language processing, etc.) as well as demonstrate how these models can solve complex problems in a variety of industries, from medical diagnostics to image recognition to text prediction. In addition, we have designed practice exercises that will give you hands-on experience implementing these data science models on data sets. T |
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Introduction to Probability and Data with R (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/probability-intro This course introduces you to sampling and exploring data, as well as basic probability theory and Bayes' rule. You will examine various types of sampling methods, and discuss how such methods can impact the scope of inference. A variety of exploratory data analysis techniques will be covered, including numeric summary statistics and basic data visualization. You will be guided through installing and using R and RStudio (free statistical software), and will use this software for lab exercises an |
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Introduction to Programming and Animation with Alice (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/introtoalice This course is an introductory programming course that combines programming with animation, using the programming environment Alice. You will first learn to tell 3D animated stories by programming Aliceʼs 3D objects. In particular you will learn how to set up a scene, to tell a story using storyboarding, to move the camera, and how to move and rotate objects. You will learn programming concepts such as writing your own instructions, repetition, making decisions, and grouping similar objects toge |
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Introductory C Programming (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/c-programming Offered by Duke University. Learn Essential Programming Fundamentals. Master programming skills to solve complex problems. |
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Introductory Human Physiology (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/physiology Explore the fascinating world of human physiology and learn about the body's organ systems, their functions, and how they maintain health. In this comprehensive course, you will: - Master key concepts in human physiology and homeostasis - Delve into the nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, and urinary systems - Examine the role of senses, muscles, gastrointestinal, and reproductive systems - Apply knowledge to real-life situations and medical conditions This course is perfect for s |