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Cosmopolitan Tang: Aristocratic Culture in China (edX)

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Cosmopolitan Tang: Aristocratic Culture in China (edX)
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Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature. By the Tang period, China was divided into northern and southern dynasties with different rulers and political systems. The north was conquered by relatively unsophisticated barbarians, but in [...]

The Role of Culture in Teaching English Learners (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
The Role of Culture in Teaching English Learners (Coursera)
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This course is designed for early career teachers (0-3 years of experience) to learn about the foundations of culture and the key role that culture plays in teaching English learners. You will also learn about the connection between language and culture and how to appropriately incorporate cultural topics into [...]

India-US Relations: Geopolitics, Culture, and Business (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
India-US Relations: Geopolitics, Culture, and Business (Coursera)
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Welcome to the India-US Relations: Geopolitics, Culture, and Business course! This course seeks to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the intense ties between India and the US. The government-to-government interactions are elaborated by focusing on the strategic ties between the two countries and the business relationship. You [...]

Race, Gender, and Culture (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
Race, Gender, and Culture (Coursera)
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This course will explore baseball through the lenses of race, gender, and culture. For good and for ill, baseball has been at the forefront of how the United States has dealt with these issues. Does baseball leading the way with desegregation negate that the sport was at the forefront [...]

DevOps Culture and Mindset (Coursera)

This course gives you the basic foundational principles of DevOps with a particular focus on culture and the DevOps mindset. We’ll learn about how DevOps is grounded in lean principles, and how it can help improve collaboration between developers and operations team members.

The Cycle: Management of Successful Arts and Cultural Organizations (Coursera)

What makes a successful arts and cultural organization? Led by DeVos Institute Chairman Michael M. Kaiser and President Brett Egan, this course will introduce you to a management theory called the Cycle which supports thriving arts and cultural organizations. Learning from our work with managers from over 80 countries [...]

Organizational Behavior: How to Manage People (Coursera)

Peter Drucker, a pioneer in the field of management, once said that people have a perverse tendency to behave like human beings. Of course, we are not machines, and certainly not programmable. But through the study of organizational behavior, we can gain insights into what makes people tick within [...]

Scandinavian Film and Television (Coursera)

IIn many ways Scandinavian film and television is a global cultural brand, connected with and exporting some of the cultural and social values connected to a liberal and progressive welfare society. This course deals with the social, institutional and cultural background of film and television in Scandinavia and in [...]

The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2) (Coursera)

This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have [...]

Consumption, Marketing and Culture (Coursera)

May 13th 2024
Consumption, Marketing and Culture (Coursera)
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What does it mean to be a consumer in a consumer society? In this MOOC we think about marketing in terms of what marketing does rather than how we do it. It's not just a case of how we buy the products that are sold to us, but how [...]