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The Science of Well-Being
Laurie Santos's Yale course on what psychology says really makes us happy, with practical exercises.
Paid certificateHealth & Psychology13 hrsBeginnerCoursera
Creative Problem Solving
University of Minnesota course on divergent and convergent thinking to boost everyday creativity.
Paid certificatePersonal Development14 hrsBeginnerCoursera
Financial Markets
Nobel laureate Robert Shiller's Yale course on how financial markets, insurance, banking and regulation work.
Paid certificateFinance & Accounting34 hrsBeginnerCoursera
Fundamentals of Graphic Design
CalArts' popular introduction to graphic design: imagemaking, typography, shape and colour, and composition.
Paid certificateDesign & UX15 hrsBeginnerUniversity of Chicago course explaining the physics of climate change and simple climate models.
Paid certificateScience40 hrsBeginnerCoursera
Introduction to Marketing
Wharton's popular marketing course on branding, customer centricity and go-to-market strategy, taught by three senior professors.
Paid certificateBusiness & Marketing12 hrsBeginnerCoursera
Introduction to Philosophy
University of Edinburgh tour of big philosophical questions: knowledge, morality, mind and free will.
Paid certificateWriting & Humanities18 hrsBeginnerCoursera
Introduction to Psychology
Paul Bloom's Yale introduction to the science of the mind and behaviour.
Paid certificateHealth & Psychology17 hrsBeginnerCoursera
Introduction to Public Speaking
University of Washington course on crafting and delivering clear, memorable speeches.
Paid certificateWriting & Humanities13 hrsBeginnerFollow-up to Learning How to Learn on reinventing yourself and adopting a lifelong learning habit.
Paid certificatePersonal Development10 hrsBeginnerUniversity of Florida course on building a personal financial plan: tax, credit, insurance and investing.
Paid certificatePersonal Development20 hrsBeginnerCoursera
Psychological First Aid
Johns Hopkins course on supporting people in the aftermath of a crisis using the RAPID model.
Paid certificateHealth & Psychology6 hrsBeginnerUC Irvine course on planning, delegation, scheduling and focus for better productivity.
Paid certificatePersonal Development9 hrsBeginnerCoursera
Writing in the Sciences
Kristin Sainani's Stanford course on clear, effective scientific and professional writing.
Paid certificateWriting & Humanities23 hrsBeginnerCoursera
Cryptography I
Stanford's well-known course on how cryptographic primitives work and how to use them correctly, taught by Dan Boneh.
Paid certificateCyber Security24 hrsIntermediateMacquarie University's course on preparing and analysing data in Excel: text and date functions, named ranges, tables and lookups.
Paid certificateCareer Skills20 hrsIntermediateKeith Devlin's Stanford course on how mathematicians think: logic, quantifiers and proofs.
Paid certificateMathematics37 hrsIntermediate
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Coursera free courses: questions
Are Coursera courses free?
The 18 Coursera courses listed here can be studied for free. Many courses offer a free 'Full Course, No Certificate' or audit option, but availability varies by course; Google Career Certificates have no free audit path, and certificates are paid.
Does Coursera give a free certificate?
None of the Coursera courses we list give a free certificate; the learning itself is free.