University of Colorado Boulder Courses

Gut Check: Exploring Your Microbiome

10 reviews

Imagine if there were an organ in your body that weighed as much as your brain, that affected your health, your weight, and even your behavior. Wouldn’t you want to know more about it? There is such an organ — the collection of microbes in and on your bo…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Science of Exercise

5 reviews

Learners who complete Science of Exercise will have an improved physiological understanding of how your body responds to exercise, and will be able to identify behaviors, choices, and environments that impact your health and training. You will explore a…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Giving Helpful Feedback

5 reviews

This course teaches you the simple principles expert managers use to improve and motivate employee performance. You’ll never have to avoid telling an employee “the truth” again, because the seven techniques we teach will not make employees defensive or a…

• Coursera
• 5-6 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 23rd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Business Writing

5 reviews

This course will teach you how to apply the top ten principles of good business writing to your work, how to deploy simple tools to dramatically improve your writing, and how to execute organization, structure, and revision to communicate more masterfull…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Power Electronics

3191 ratings at Coursera

This course introduces the basic concepts of switched-mode converter circuits for controlling and converting electrical power with high efficiency. Principles of converter circuit analysis are introduced, and are developed for finding the steady state vo…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic

17 ratings at Coursera

Why would hundreds of scientists from around the world intentionally freeze a ship in Arctic sea ice for an entire year, braving subzero temperatures and months of polar darkness? This may sound like a fictional adventure movie plot, but from September 2…

• Coursera
• 16 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Water in the Western United States

18 ratings at Coursera

This course combines an overview of the science behind water and climate in the Western United States with a survey of the major legal, political, and cultural issues focused on this precious resource.

• Coursera
• 24 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 23rd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Print and Digital Elements of Design: Branding and User Experience

237 ratings at Coursera

Graphic design projects can be delivered in either a printed format or a digital format, or both. This course will look at how to work with creative professionals to get the ideal usage out of a design to use in print medium such as logos, brochures and…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Graphic Elements of Design: Color Theory and Image Formats

493 ratings at Coursera

Examining and exploring the various types of images and graphic elements will be the focus of this course. We will start with color theory to distinguish between CMYK, Pantone and RGB color options and their usages. Then we will review the various types…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Textual Elements of Design: Fonts, Typography, and Spacing

231 ratings at Coursera

Graphic design is telling a story by using both images and text. With that definition in mind, this course will focus on the textual elements of graphic design. From the history of typography, the difference between type, fonts and text as well as exposu…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Basic Elements of Design: Design Principles and Software Overview

861 ratings at Coursera

Designing for an organization, while requiring technical skill, is not just about knowing how to use a pagination program such as InDesign or manipulate photos using Photoshop. A designer is a visual storyteller, a person who pairs words with images and…

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Excel/VBA for Creative Problem Solving, Part 1

3930 ratings at Coursera

"Excel/VBA for Creative Problem Solving, Part 1" is aimed at learners who are seeking to augment, expand, optimize, and increase the efficiency of their Excel spreadsheet skills by tapping into the powerful programming, automation, and customization capa…

• Coursera
• 20 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Cannabis, Mental Health, and Brain Disorders

136 ratings at Coursera

This Cannabis, Mental Health, and Brain Disorders course is designed to have you think critically about the health effects of cannabis in the context of several mental health and neurocognitive disorders. You'll be able to identify key features of severa…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Sun and the Total Eclipse of August 2017

67 ratings at Coursera

A total eclipse is one of the most spectacular sights you can ever see! It looks like the end of the world may be at hand. There is a black hole in the sky where the sun should be. Pink flames of solar prominences and long silver streamers of the sun's…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 23rd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Optical Efficiency and Resolution

53 ratings at Coursera

Optical instruments are how we see the world, from corrective eyewear to medical endoscopes to cell phone cameras to orbiting telescopes. This course will teach you how to design such optical systems with simple mathematical and graphical techniques. The…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)