15 free online courses in July to upgrade your knowledge

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Lifehacker has again collected the most interesting courses for you, which will start in July. They can help you come up with a cool business idea, improve your business English, and just get smarter.

1. Search and selection of a business idea

Course start: July 2017.

Scope of the course: 8 modules.

Area: "Universarium".

Organizer: Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Language: Russian.

Mark Zuckerberg once said: "If a person has brains, he simply does not have the moral right to work not for himself, giving most of his time and the results of his achievements to his employer." But how do you come up with a business idea as successful and profitable as Facebook? This course will tell you about it.

2. Take your business English to the next level

Course start: July 17, 2017.

Duration of the course: 4 weeks.

Area: Coursera.

Course organizer: Georgia Institute of Technology.

Language: English.

A course within the framework of improving the level of the English language. If you have already started to study it and want to improve your speaking and writing, this is what you need. It will be especially useful for startups working with foreign investors and clients, since the lectures focus on business communication.

3. Social media: marketing tools, services and SMM activities

Course start: July 3, 2017.

Duration of the course: 4 weeks.

Area: Coursera.

Course organizer: Tomsk State University.

Language: Russian.

A course for those who are (or are about to take) the first steps in social media marketing. You will learn what platforms are there for promotion, how to work with them, what blogs are from the point of view of SMM and what marketing tools have proven themselves well on social networks.

4. Journalism, the future and you

Course start: July 17, 2017.

Duration of the course: 5 weeks.

Area: Coursera.

Course organizer: Michigan State University.

Language: English.

What is modern journalism and what is its future? How to be successful in your profession and not change your conscience? What are the features of international journalism? You will receive answers to these and many other questions if you attend this English-language course.

5. How to write a resume

Course start: July 3, 2017.

Duration of the course: 4 weeks.

Area: Coursera.

Course organizer: State University of New York.

Language: English.

It doesn't matter if you are a graduate with no work experience or a competent professional who has decided to change jobs, you will need a resume. Capacious and effective. This course will help you compose it. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that at the end of the training you will have a good resume in your hands.

6. The Power of Macroeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World

Course start: July 3, 2017.

Duration of the course: 13 weeks.

Area: Coursera.

Course organizer: University of California, Irvine.

Language: English.

Macroeconomics studies the economy as a whole, economic phenomena in the aggregate and in the system. You will learn how demand creates supply, why taxes are collected, what unemployment, inflation and stagnation are. This knowledge will be useful even to non-economists, as it can be used to plan personal finances.

7. Operating systems

Course start: July 2017.

Scope of the course: 5 modules.

Area: "Stepik".

Course organizer: St. Petersburg National Research Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences in conjunction with the Computer Science Center.

Language: Russian.

If you have a little knowledge of C or C ++, basic data structures, skills in using Git and at least a little English, and also want to get acquainted with the internals of the OS kernel, you will easily master this course.

8. Physics in your pocket. Learning physics from experiments

Course start: July 2017.

Scope of the course: 1 module.

Area: "Universarium".

Organizer: Moscow State Pedagogical University.

Language: Russian.

In this course, you will learn how to set up physics experiments and explain the laws and phenomena of physics based on them. The course is focused primarily on teachers, but will be useful to everyone who is interested in this science.

9. How does a jet engine work

Course start: July 2017.

Scope of the course: 6 modules.

Area: "Stepik".

Course organizer: Samara State Aerospace University named after academician S. P. Korolev.

Language: Russian.

Jet engines are used to propel aircraft, rockets and spacecraft. After completing this course, you will understand how they work and even learn how to assess the degree of technical and technological excellence of such engines.

10. Stellar astronomy

Course start: July 2017.

Scope of the course: 8 lectures.

Area: "PostNauka".

Course author: Alexey Rastorguev, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Experimental Astronomy of the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University.

Language: Russian.

Stellar astronomy studies the composition, structure, dynamics and evolution of the stellar population of galaxies. How to measure the distance from one star to another? What was the era of star formation? Why do most galaxies have a spiral pattern? Get answers to these and other modern astronomy questions in this course.

11. Microorganisms and their communities

Course start: July 2017.

Scope of the course: 7 lectures.

Area: "PostNauka".

Course author: Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Hyperthermophilic Microbial Communities.

Language: Russian.

What are microorganisms? How do they differ from other living beings? What methods are used to study them? Why do microbes multiply rapidly in a warm environment? This and many other things will be discussed at the lectures of the Doctor of Biological Sciences Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya.

12. Brain and space

Course start: July 3, 2017.

Duration of the course: 6 weeks.

Area: Coursera.

Course organizer: Duke University.

Language: English.

Professor Jennifer Groh has written a book about how the human brain reads the space around. This work formed the basis of this course. You will learn how vision and hearing help us determine our location or, for example, find a phone in a room. The lectures are in English and will be of interest primarily to those who are fluent in this language.

13. Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills

Course start: July 3, 2017.

Duration of the course: 4 weeks.

Area: Coursera.

Course organizerUniversity of Pennsylvania.

Language: English.

This is one of the courses on the basics of positive psychology. Life is difficult. Sometimes you don't have time to recover from one blow, when you immediately get another. How can you not lose optimism and remain grateful? Karen Reivich, Ph. D., will tell you about this, promoting positive psychology as a way to change your personal and professional life.

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14. Latin language: grammatical constructor

Course start: July 1, 2017.

Scope of the course: 8 modules.

Area: "Stepik".

Course author: Alexey Chernorechensky.

Language: Russian.

The Latin language is not without reason considered difficult. But only if you approach its study haphazardly. The author of this course suggests mastering Latin using the principle of concentric circles. What is the peculiarity of this method, you will learn in the lectures. The course will be especially useful for medical students and lawyers who are taking Latin.

15. History of political thought of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages

Course start: July 2017.

Scope of the course: 13 lectures.

Area: "PostNauka".

Course author: Alexander Marey, Ph. D. in Law, Leading Research Fellow at the Center for Fundamental Sociology, IGITI HSE.

Language: Russian.

What is Plato's ideal policy? How did Aristotle understand justice? What meaning does Cicero give to the concept of "republic"? In what forms did power exist in the Middle Ages? Listen to a course of lectures on the history of political thought of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages, then you will understand the current political situation.