Anthropology Courses

Tangible Things: Discovering History Through Artworks, Artifacts, Scientific Specimens, and the Stuff Around You

7 reviews

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

• edX
• 1-3 hours a week, 10 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Indigenous Canada

9 reviews

Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material
• 3 days from now (11th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

PredictionX: Omens, Oracles & Prophecies

2 reviews

This course is an overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

• edX
• 3-5 hours a week, 1 week long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Egiptología (Egyptology)

4 reviews

¿Sientes curiosidad por la civilización del antiguo Egipto? ¿Eres un apasionado de su cultura e historia? En este curso nos acercaremos a los templos de los antiguos faraones, a sus complejos funerarios, a sus ciudades, a su escritura jeroglífica, a su…

• Coursera
• 36 hours worth of material, 9 weeks long
• 1 week from now (18th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Book: Making and Meaning in the Medieval Manuscript

3 reviews

Explore the process of creation, and the relationship between making and meaning, in the illuminated manuscripts of the western Middle Ages.

• edX
• 2-4 hours a week, 8 weeks long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

The Book: Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries, Part 1: Reading the Late Medieval Marseille Archive

3 reviews

Understand handwriting’s role in the later Middle Ages as Europe was in the midst of the "paper revolution” and the quantity of documents was exploding.

• edX
• 1-2 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

The Book: Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries, Part 2: Introduction to the Transitional Gothic Script

2 reviews

Get an introduction to European handwriting of the so-called “twelfth-century renaissance,” when manuscript production skyrocketed as never before.

• edX
• 2-3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

The Book: The History of the Book in the 17th and 18th Century Europe

2 reviews

Learn about the role of books during the Enlightenment and how literature emerged as a modern form of culture.

• edX
• 1-2 hours a week, 1 week long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

Deciphering Secrets: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe

1 review

Perhaps no other relic of the European Middle Ages captures our imagination more than illuminated medieval manuscripts, or those documents decorated with images and colored pigments. Serving as windows unto a lost world of kings, ladies, faith, war, and…

• Coursera
• 45 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 1 week from now (18th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Book: Scrolls in the Age of the Book

1 review

Examine Medieval scrolls in detail, and gain an understanding of their uses and historical significance.

• edX
• 2-4 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

The Book: Print and Manuscript in Western Europe, Asia and the Middle East (1450-1650)

1 review

Learn how book printing first developed and shaped the modern book by examining some examples of rare materials from Harvard's collections.

• edX
• 1-2 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

Sapienza

Recovering the Humankind's Past and Saving the Universal Heritage

2 reviews

Archaeology is, among human sciences, the discipline with the strongest importance for the rediscovery, but also for the preservation and protection of cultural heritage, as Humankind’s universal patrimony. You will be introduced to the way we ourselves…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 3 days from now (11th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Microcredential

PredictionX

How did explorers navigate the world before the creation of meridians? What does astrology have to do with modern computer simulations? How did a 19th-century doctor end an epidemic and create epidemiology as we know it today? In PredictionX, learners w…

• edX
• 1-3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• $207.00
• 3 courses

Iniciación a los jeroglíficos egipcios

¿Te apasiona la historia y la cultura del antiguo Egipto? ¿Sientes fascinación por las lenguas y los sistemas de escritura de las civilizaciones de la Antigüedad? ¿Te atrae la idea de adentrarte en el secreto de los jeroglíficos egipcios y comprender las…

• Coursera
• 38 hours worth of material, 9 weeks long
• 1 week from now (18th Apr)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UC3M

Deciphering Secrets: Unlocking the Manuscripts of Medieval Toledo (Spain)

12 reviews

Explore the medieval city of Toledo (Spain) and assess its history of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religious and cultural coexistence.

• edX
• 2-3 hours a week, 7 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)