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COURSE DESCRIPTION Transmedia storytelling is the practice of designing, sharing, and participating in a cohesive story experience across multiple traditional and digital delivery platforms - for entertainment, advertising and marketing, or social change. The course provides you with a unique...

COURSE DESCRIPTION The course highlights both major poets—from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson through T.S. Eliot, H.D., Amy Lowell, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, and many others—and influential movements. The course mixes historical overview with close readings of individual...

COURSE DESCRIPTION This short literature course, based on the first half of the Masterpieces of World Literature edX MOOC, examines how civilizations and cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how that literature has continued to contribute to our understanding...

COURSE DESCRIPTION Based on the second half of the Masterpieces of World Literature edX MOOC, this short literature course examines how writers reach beyond national and linguistic boundaries as worldly readers and travelers, and how their modern fictions rise to the status of world literature...

COURSE DESCRIPTION This literature course explores how great writers refract their world and how their works are transformed when they intervene in our global cultural landscape today. Length: 12 Weeks Effort: 5-7 hours per week Price: FREE (Add a verified certificate for $149 USD)) Provider...

COURSE DESCRIPTION This literature course, the sixth module in the Poetry in America series, explores a diverse array of American Modernist poets and poems.While “Modernism” is notoriously difficult to define, the movement spanned the decades from the 1910s to the mid-1940s, and the poetry of...

COURSE DESCRIPTION This module, the third installment of the multi-part _Poetry in America _series, focuses on the poetry of Walt Whitman, a quintessentially American writer whose work continues to bear heavily upon the American poetic tradition. We will explore Whitman’s relationship to the...

COURSE DESCRIPTION This module, the fifth installment of the multi-part Poetry in America series, explores the Poetry of the Civil War and its Aftermath. We will: Encounter such poets as Herman Melville, Julia Ward Howe, Walt Whitman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James...

COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is part of Global Freshman Academy (GFA), which means you can earn transferable ASU credit toward your college degree. Language, and the ability to communicate effectively are critical skills in the global economy. Writing and composition are vital to...

COURSE DESCRIPTION This course teaches scientists to become more effective writers, using practical examples and exercises. Topics include: principles of good writing, tricks for writing faster and with less anxiety, the format of a scientific manuscript, peer review, grant writing, ethical...

COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is an introduction to Logic from a computational perspective. It shows how to encode information in the form of logical sentences; it shows how to reason with information in this form; and it provides an overview of logic technology and its applications - in...

COURSE DESCRIPTION This course covers mathematical topics in trigonometry. Trigonometry is the study of triangle angles and lengths, but trigonometric functions have far reaching applications beyond simple studies of triangles. This course is designed to help prepare students to enroll for a...

COURSE DESCRIPTION This course covers mathematical topics in college algebra, with an emphasis on functions. The course is designed to help prepare students to enroll for a first semester course in single variable calculus. Length: 8 Weeks Price: FREE (Add a verified certificate for £36)...

COURSE DESCRIPTION This brisk course covers the core ideas of single-variable Calculus with emphases on conceptual understanding and applications. The course is ideal for students beginning in the engineering, physical, and social sciences. Distinguishing features of the course include: 1) the...

COURSE DESCRIPTION In this second part--part two of five--we cover derivatives, differentiation rules, linearization, higher derivatives, optimization, differentials, and differentiation operators. Length: 3 Weeks Effort: 6-8 hours per week Price: FREE Provider: University of Pennsylvania via...

COURSE DESCRIPTION In this third part--part three of five--we cover integrating differential equations, techniques of integration, the fundamental theorem of integral calculus, and difficult integrals. Length: 4 Weeks Effort: 6-8 hours per week Price: FREE Provider: University of Pennsylvania...

COURSE DESCRIPTION In this fourth part--part four of five--we cover computing areas and volumes, other geometric applications, physical applications, and averages and mass. We also introduce probability. Length: 5 Weeks Effort: 6-8 hours per week Price: FREE Provider: University of...

COURSE DESCRIPTION In this fifth part--part five of five--we cover a calculus for sequences, numerical methods, series and convergence tests, power and Taylor series, and conclude the course with a final exam. Learners in this course can earn a certificate in the series by signing up for...

COURSE DESCRIPTION Discrete mathematics forms the mathematical foundation of computer and information science. It is also a fascinating subject in itself. Learners will become familiar with a broad range of mathematical objects like sets, functions, relations, graphs, that are omnipresent in...

COURSE DESCRIPTION In this intermediate course, Steve Huffman will teach you everything he wished he knew when he started building Reddit and, more recently, Hipmunk, as a lead engineer. Starting from the basics of how the web works, this course will walk you through core web development...