Courses

Learn how to better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

Learn about the rich and diverse beliefs and practices of Buddhists across time and place. Experience Buddhism through its scriptures, both relationally as well as academically.

Learn about the Quran, the central sacred text of Islam, through an exploration of the rich diversity of roles and interpretations in Muslim societies.

This course examines the Sikh scripture from a doctrinal and historical perspective by providing an overview of Sikh teachings as well as the historical context within which the scripture evolved and became canonized.

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

Build a foundation in R and learn how to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.

Learn inference and modeling: two of the most widely used statistical tools in data analysis.

Learn basic data visualization principles and how to apply them using ggplot2.

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

Keep your projects organized and produce reproducible reports using GitHub, git, Unix/Linux, and RStudio.

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

Build a movie recommendation system and learn the science behind one of the most popular and successful data science techniques.

Show what you’ve learned from the Professional Certificate Program in Data Science.

Explore the underlying structures of everyday arguments and develop the tools to communicate effectively.