Are you interested in learning more about professional Life Coaching? Do you want to become an expert life coach, consolidate your life coaching skills and gain access to an international support community to aid your growth? The Udemy Diploma course "Life Coaching Practitioner Diploma (Achology Certified)" encourages students to look introspectively and starts building the … [Read more...]
Learn Key Concepts and Theories in Psychology – A Free Diploma Course
The way your mind functions has a lot to do with the way you are, and the things you do. Studying psychology is one of the best ways to understand why things happen to us the way they do, and justify our reactions for the same. Psychology is a science and it studies both human behavior and how the human mind works at both conscious and unconscious levels of thought. … [Read more...]
Learn About Psychology: Perceiving the World Around You – Free Course
In the Alison free online course "Psychology – Perceiving the World Around You", you will learn about the psychology of perception, which is the process of recognizing and interpreting sensory stimuli. You will be introduced to the process of sensation that leads to perception. You will learn about various sensory mechanisms such as visual, auditory, olfactory etc. You will … [Read more...]
The Development of Psychology, Methods, and Schools of Thought – Free Course
Th Alison free online course "Psychology - Development of Its Major Areas, Methods, and Schools of Thought" will give you an overview of psychology and its history, showing many reasons why someone may choose to study psychology in greater detail. You will learn how studying psychology can benefit you in many different areas. You will be introduced to the divisions of the … [Read more...]
12 TED Talks for when you wish you could go back to college
Other people's interests or areas of research often seem more exciting than our own. That's why I've kept moving from one academic area to another throughout my academic life :-) Here is a playlist (compiled by "TED Talks") of talks by authors who inspire you to learn more about their topics. Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure Why do we like an original painting … [Read more...]
Good Brain, Bad Brain: Parkinson’s Disease
This free online course by the University of Birmingham is aimed at anyone who wants to find out the fundamentals of Parkinson’s disease. We will look at how Parkinson’s disease affects people; what causes it; what we can do to try to ameliorate the symptoms of Parkinson’s; and what we don’t yet know about it. Parkinson’s Disease Course Content As one of the most prevalent … [Read more...]
Adolescent Health and Development
The course consists of lectures, readings, discussions, a mid-term examination, and individual final papers. The purpose of the lectures, readings and discussions is to explore a variety of aspects of adolescence, health, and development. The papers are meant to help students develop skills to analyze the public health issues of adolescence through developing conceptual … [Read more...]
Introduction to Psychology (MIT)
This course is a survey of the scientific study of human nature, including how the mind works, and how the brain supports the mind. Topics include the mental and neural bases of perception, emotion, learning, memory, cognition, child development, personality, psychopathology, and social interaction. Students will consider how such knowledge relates to debates about nature … [Read more...]
Social Psychology – A Free Course
Social Psychology aims to discover the different ways in which people interact with other individuals, groups, and the larger society as a whole, as well as why people act in certain ways. As with an anthropology or sociology course, social psychology looks at the inner workings of groups of people. However, it differs from these courses in terms of its focus; social … [Read more...]
Great Big Ideas – A Free Course
The Floating University's first course, Great Big Ideas, is composed of 12 professionally produced video lectures ranging from 40-60 minutes in length. Below is a listing of every subject covered by Great Big Ideas, presented in the order suggested by the syllabus. You can take in the material in the same progression as students at Harvard, Yale, and Bard, or skip around to … [Read more...]
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