History online courses and MOOCs - student reviews
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The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
Explore what it means to be human today by studying what it meant to be a hero in ancient Greek times.
In this introduction to ancient Greek culture and literature, learners will experience, i...
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Dwayne Kennemore
3 years, 4 months ago
Professor Nagy and his teaching fellows bring this material alive. One could plausibly ask, what could the social norms of an ancient cultur...
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Deciphering Secrets: Unlocking the Manuscripts of Medieval Burgos (Spain)
This history course delves into the medieval history of the city of Burgos, from its inception in 884 c.e. as the homeland of the Spanish Kingdom of Castile and Leon, until the completion of the Sp...
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Angel-Luis DOMÍNGUEZ
2 years, 10 months ago
The excellent course entitled comes to my memory «Deciphering Secrets: Unlocking the Manuscripts of Medieval Spain "carried out two years ag...
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Pintura europea: Leonardo, Rembrandt, Goya
Conoce la obra inspiradora de los principales pintores europeos desde 1400 hasta 1800 aproximadamente, y descubre los problemas que encuentran su expresión en el arte de la pintura. En este amplio ...
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European Paintings: From Leonardo to Rembrandt to Goya
Learn about the inspirational work of the leading European painters from approximately 1400 to 1800, and explore the issues expressed through the art of painting. Included in this broad time frame ...
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First Nights: Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots
Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, sparking a riot and screaming so loud that the dancers could not hear the orchestra, and the choreographer had to shout numbers fr...
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Gládiston COELHO
1 year, 8 months ago
This Course was excellent. The videos are very good and the schedule is practice. I would like to obtain a certificate. Thank you very much!
Introduction to Italian Opera
Want to listen to an opera for the first time? Have you been listening to opera for your entire life? This course is suited for beginners and advanced opera listeners alike!
This co...
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Antarctica: From Geology to Human History
Explore the continent of Antarctica and more than 500 million years of geological history and 250 years of geographical discovery and scientific endeavour.
In this course, you will learn throu...
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Christopher van der Westhuizen
1 year, 11 months ago
The standout feature is the informative and sometimes cheesy videos filmed on location in Antarctica with a healthy dose of Antarctic histor...
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Introducción a la caligrafía y paleografía en archivos hispanos medievales y modernos
¿Desea comprender el contexto histórico de las culturas medievales hispánicas que crearon documentos como forma de comunicación manuscrita? ¿Le interesa alcanzar unas competencias profesionales par...
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War for the Greater Middle East
Over thirty years ago, confident in the superiority of American military power, the United States set out to "fix" the Greater Middle East. Since that time, U.S. troops, covert operatives and proxi...
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Paul Hundal
4 years, 5 months ago
This has been an excellent course on one of the most important issues of our
time. Prof Bacevich covered a lot of material quickly and thoro...
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The Bible's Prehistory, Purpose, and Political Future
How and why was the Bible written? Drawing on the latest archeological research and a wide range of comparative texts, this course synthesizes fascinating recent research in biblical studies and pr...
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Ricardo Teixeira
4 years, 9 months ago
If you're interested in history, this is a great course for you. I was kind of
apprehensive in the beginning, since it deals with religion. ...
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American Government
American politics has all the aspects of drama, but it has real meaning for people’s everyday lives.
What are the foundations of the U.S. political system? How do leading institutions such as ...
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jorge mendoza
3 years, 7 months ago
Me gusta la politica, y la economia estadounidense su forma de salir adelante.. como hace que sea una potencia mundial.. en fin muchas cosa...
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A History of Violence: From Middle Ages to Modern Times
What is violence? What do we mean by it? Is it innate or learned? Are we becoming more or less violent?
These are all questions that we will ask throughout this course. A History of Violence w...
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Shakespeare: On the Page and in Performance
Shakespeare wrote for a popular audience and was immensely successful. Shakespeare is also rightly regarded as one of the greatest playwrights the world has known. This course will try to understan...
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The Civil War and Reconstruction - 1850-1861: A Nation Divided
A House Divided: The Road to Civil War, 1850-1861 begins by examining how generations of historians have explained the crisis of the Union. After discussing the institution of slavery and its...
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student
4 years, 9 months ago
I, too, just registered for parts one and two. Some time ago I bought the book
on the Reconstruction era written by Professor Foner but have...
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The Conquest of Space: Space Exploration and Rocket Science
Space exploration plays a major role in the history of humankind. The cultural, political and sociological repercussions are extraordinary, and the amount of resources dedicated to space exploratio...
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The Science of Religion
Drawing on new scientific advances, this religion course examines foundational questions about the nature of religious belief and practice.
The course is based on the idea that religion is a n...
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1 year, 11 months ago
Anew way to go through the science rhino religion and rituals. Of all faiths around but mainly its relation to psychology, and history.
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PredictionX: John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854
In 1854, a cholera epidemic swept through the London neighborhood of Soho. In the course of about three weeks, over 600 people died. This incident was, tragically, not unusual in London or the rest...
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A Global History of Architecture
How do we understand architecture? One way of answering this question is by looking through the lens of history, beginning with First Societies and extending to the 16th century. This course in arc...
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Ayushi Agarwal
2 years, 4 months ago
This course changed my perspective of looking at history as a boring lengthy subject. The professor's way of teaching the subject kept the ...
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The Modern World, Part One: Global History from 1760 to 1910
This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. Part One begins with the political and economic revolutions of the late 1700s and tracks the transformation of the world during the 180...
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Global History Lab
In this global history course, you will learn not just by reading and watching lectures, but also by analyzing historical documents and applying your knowledge. The core of this course is a series ...
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Global Muckraking: Investigative Journalism and Global Media
Using examples of investigative and crusading journalism from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this course will help you understand how raising public awareness can create political and soci...
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Women and the Civil Rights Movement
Learn about women’s roles in the U.S. civil rights struggles of the 1890s to the 1990s.
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Bernice Watson
6 years ago
This is my first cousera class and am I glad I picked this one for my first
attempt at online study. I am so in awe of this course. The lect...
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China (Part 5): From a Global Empire under the Mongols to a Global Economy under the Ming Dynasty
China (Part 5): From a Global Empire under the Mongols to a Global Economy under the Ming Dynasty is the fifth of ten parts of ChinaX, that collectively span over 6,000 years of history. Each...
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First Nights: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the 19th Century Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th Symphony premiered in Vienna in 1824, and continues to be one of the most popular symphonies in the repertoire. The monumental symphony’s size and complexity stretches tr...
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À la découverte du théâtre classique français – Tome 1
Le théâtre classique du 17e siècle passe pour le sommet de l’art du théâtre en France. Ses trois représentants les plus connus, Corneille et Racine pour la tragédie et Molière pour la comédie ...
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The Meaning of Rome: The Renaissance and Baroque City
We can read a city in a number of ways: in its plan, in the buildings that make its streets and public spaces, in the skyline. We can ask, what are the buildings or spaces saying? How do they say i...
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Masterpieces of World Literature
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.
No national literature has...
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Kermit Andrews
1 year, 9 months ago
Great course. I would emphatically disagree with the reviewer who did not like the format. This is my second EDX course, and this format (le...
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China (Part 6): The Manchus and the Qing Dynasty
China (Part 6): The Manchus and the Qing Dynasty is the sixth of ten parts of ChinaX, that collectively span over 6,000 years of history. Each part consists of 4 to 8 weekly "modules," each with v...
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The Architectural Imagination
Architecture engages a culture’s deepest social values and expresses them in material, aesthetic form. In this course, you will learn how to “read” architecture as a cultural expression as well as ...
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Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 1
Tokyo emerged out of the ruins of war to become a large city of 10 million people in only a quarter of a century. During this process of change, the capital of a military empire that once invaded E...
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La España de El Quijote
En un lugar de la UAM, cuyo nombre merece recordar, habita la España de El Quijote .
Un espacio en el que su monarquía creó el primer imperio global de la Historia. Un tiempo, entr...
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Modern Japanese Architecture: From Meiji Restoration to Today
Examine how architecture reflects Japan’s history, starting with its emergence as a new nation in the 19th century and the building of the Western-style capital city of Tokyo on the foundations of ...
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The Journey of Writing and Scripts in Egypt
In this history course, you will learn about the diversity and multilingualism that existed in Egypt, and how it had a bearing on the history of the country and its people.
Through the introdu...
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China (Part 2): The Creation and End of Centralized Empire
China (Part 2): The Creation and End of Centralized Empire is the second of ten parts of ChinaX, that collectively span over 6,000 years of history. Each part consists of 4 to 8 weekly "modules," ...
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Shylock’s Bond
Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt (John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities) guides learners through an exploration of Shakespeare’s unforgettable character Shylock in The Merchant of V...
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Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes
Develop a greater appreciation for how the air, water, land, and life formed and have interacted over the last 4.5 billion years.
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3 years, 9 months ago
This is an excellent foundation course in Geology. Covers a very wide range of geology from planet formation, plate tectonics, formation of...
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Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Terrorism has gone from a persistent yet marginal security concern to one of the most important security problems of our day. There are few countries that do not suffer from some form of terrorism....
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Habib Nasar
2 years, 9 months ago
I am a security officer ,and working in an insurgency environment Where counter terrorism initiatives on a broad level is still necessary es...
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First Nights: Handel’s Messiah and Baroque Oratorio
While Italian opera set the standard in the Baroque era, German composer George Frederic Handel quickly gained popularity for his oratorios, which put operatic techniques to work in the service of ...
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Découvrir la science politique
Le politique nous concerne tous : chaque jour, des décisions publiques sont adoptées qui impactent notre quotidien. Dans quel contexte ces décisions sont-elles adoptées ? Au 21ème siècle, de nombre...
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2 years ago
Première introduction très solide pour moi qui était complètement néophyte en science politique. Les bases sont bien expliquées, sans céder ...
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DemoX
This overview course is designed to show new students how to take a course on edx.org. You will learn how to navigate the edX platform and complete your first course! From there, we will help you g...
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Ghada Alrawi
3 years, 7 months ago
Hello every one my name is Ghada 4th year student,university of Baghdad.I'm so happy 4being here and eager to start the courses with you to ...
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The Book: The History of the Book in the 17th and 18th Century Europe
This module of The Book: Histories Across Time and Space focuses on the physical qualities of books, the role of books in 17th and 18th century France, and the emergence of literature as a m...
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Understanding China, 1700-2000: A Data Analytic Approach, Part 1
The purpose of this course is to summarize new directions in Chinese history and social science produced by the creation and analysis of big historical datasets based on newly opened Chinese archiv...
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The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910
This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. Part Two begins early in the twentieth century, as older ways of doing things and habits of thought give way. What follows is an era ...
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Internet History, Technology, and Security
The impact of technology and networks on our lives, culture, and society continues to increase. The very fact that you can take this course from anywhere in the world requires a technological infra...
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3 years, 5 months ago
I loved this course so much I took it twice! The first time I stuck mainly to the lecture notes but the second, I delved more into the recom...
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Democratic to Authoritarian Rule
This event is part of Michigan’s Teach-Out Series which provides just-in-time community learning opportunities for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus...
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China (Part 1): Political and Intellectual Foundations: From the Sage Kings to Confucius and the Legalists
China (Part 1): Political and Intellectual Foundations: From the Sage Kings to Confucius and the Legalists is the first of ten parts of ChinaX, that collectively span over 6,000 years of history. ...
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From Goddard to Apollo – Part 1: The Rockets’ Red Glare
Learn about one of the greatest engineering efforts in human history: NASA’s Project Apollo and the space race to put a man on the moon.
Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969, just eleven years...
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The Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture
Join the Smithsonian, and comic book industry legend Stan Lee, in this self-paced course to explore the history of the comic book and the rise of superheroes.
The ancient gods of Egyptian, Gre...
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Bin Jeremiah Barba
3 years, 10 months ago
It's a really interesting course. But upon looking at the course description, there's a distinct lack of representation of female superheroe...
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China (Part 10): Greater China Today: The People's Republic, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
China (Part 10): Greater China Today: The People's Republic, Taiwan, and Hong Kong is the tenth of ten parts of ChinaX, that collectively span over 6,000 years of history. Each part consists of 4 ...
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Introduction to Human Evolution
As contemporary humans, we are a product of our evolutionary past. That past can be directly observed through the study of the human fossil record, the materials preserved for archaeological study,...
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