Vanderbilt University Courses

Introduction to Programming with MATLAB

207 reviews

This course teaches computer programming to those with little to no previous experience. It uses the programming system and language called MATLAB to do so because it is easy to learn, versatile and very useful for engineers and other professionals.

• Coursera
• 35 hours worth of material, 9 weeks long
• 9th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Android App Components - Intents, Activities, and Broadcast Receivers

766 ratings at Coursera

This 4 week MOOC builds upon the overview of Java and Android covered in Course 1 by delving deeper into core Android app components, such as intents, activities, and broadcast receivers. You will learn by example how to program these core Android compo…

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

Android App Components - Services, Local IPC, and Content Providers

391 ratings at Coursera

This 4 week MOOC builds upon the core Android app components and concurrency frameworks covered in Course 2 by focusing on started and bound services, local inter-process communication (IPC), and content providers. Case study apps will be examined from m…

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

Java for Android

2986 ratings at Coursera

This MOOC teaches you how to program core features and classes from the Java programming language that are used in Android, which is the dominant platform for developing and deploying mobile device apps. In particular, this MOOC covers key Java program…

• Coursera
• 39 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 17th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Leading Innovation in Arts and Culture

55 ratings at Coursera

Developed by David Owens at Vanderbilt University and customized for the cultural sector with National Arts Strategies, this course is designed to help arts and culture leaders create an environment where new ideas are constantly created, shared, evaluat…

• Coursera
• 28 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative

7 reviews

Intended for both newcomers who are curious about video games and experienced gamers who want to reflect on their passion, this course will explore what happens to stories, paintings, and films when they become the basis of massively multiplayer online g…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 9th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Data Management for Clinical Research

5 reviews

This course presents critical concepts and practical methods to support planning, collection, storage, and dissemination of data in clinical research. Understanding and implementing solid data management principles is critical for any scientific domain.…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 9th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Understanding the Music Business: What is Music Worth?

143 ratings at Coursera

This course will examine the music industry in the United States, with the unique perspective gained by Vanderbilt University’s location in Nashville, TN. Nashville is a major center of music in the United States, and the music created here has a global…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 9th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Case Studies in Personalized Medicine

438 ratings at Coursera

Learn how advances in biomedicine hold the potential to revolutionize drug development, drug treatments, and disease prevention: where are we now, and what does the future hold? This course will present short primers in genetics and mechanisms underlying…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 9th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Mastering Programming with MATLAB

323 ratings at Coursera

The course builds on the foundation laid by the first course of the Specialization called “Introduction to Programming with MATLAB.” It covers more advanced programming concepts such as recursion, vectorization, function handles, algorithm efficiency and…

• Coursera
• 56 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 9th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Engineering Maintainable Android Apps

277 ratings at Coursera

Engineering Maintainable Android Apps, which is a 4 week MOOC that shows by example various methods for engineering maintainable Android apps, including test-driven development methods and how to develop/run unit tests using JUnit and Robotium (or equiva…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 9th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Building Cloud Services with the Java Spring Framework

239 ratings at Coursera

This MOOC describes by example how to build cloud services via the use of object-oriented design techniques; Java programming language features; Java Servlets, the Java Spring Framework; and cloud computing platforms, such as Amazon Web Services. Due to…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 30th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Data, Signal, and Image Analysis with MATLAB

165 ratings at Coursera

Welcome to Introduction to Data, Signal, and Image Analysis with MATLAB! MATLAB is an extremely versatile programming language for data, signal, and image analysis tasks. This course provides an introduction on how to use MATLAB for data, signal, a…

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

Hot Topics in Criminal Justice

148 ratings at Coursera

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 t…

• Coursera
• 19 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 30th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Faster Together, Enhancing the Recruitment of Minorities in Clinical Trials

90 ratings at Coursera

This course aims to teach people how to enhance the recruitment of racial and ethnic minorities in clinical trials. Key topics include the importance of diversity in clinical trials, barriers and facilitators to participation in clinical research, commu…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 30th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)