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Healthcare Marketplace Specialization

Healthcare Marketplace Specialization

Launch your career in the healthcare marketplace. Master your understanding of the complex and wealthy industry of healthcare. Courses Learn More

Sleep: Neurobiology, Medicine, and Society

Sleep: Neurobiology, Medicine, and Society

The objective of this course is to give students the most up-to-date information on the biological, personal, and societal relevance of sleep. Personal relevance is emphasized by the fact that the single best predictor of daytime performance is the quality of the...

Environmental Health: the Foundation of Global Public Health

Environmental Health: the Foundation of Global Public Health

This course is part of the Impacts of the Environment on Global Public Health Specialization. The first course of the Impacts of the Environment on Global Public Health specialization will provide you with a foundation in environmental health sciences (EHS). Syllabus...

Human Health Risks, Health Equity, and Environmental Justice

Human Health Risks, Health Equity, and Environmental Justice

This course is part of the Impacts of the Environment on Global Public Health Specialization. The fourth and final course of the Impacts of the Environment on Global Public Health specialization will cover two topics. The first is environmental justice – that is,...

Breastfeeding: Public Health Perspectives

Breastfeeding: Public Health Perspectives

Engaging in this course will provide you with the opportunity to think about breastfeeding and its public health implications. The Socio-Ecological Model will be the framework of the course as we think about how each level of the Model (individual, interpersonal,...

Michigan Sport-Related Concussion Training Certification

Michigan Sport-Related Concussion Training Certification

Welcome to the Michigan Sport-Related Concussion Training Certification. In this course, you will learn about five key components of sport-related concussions: identify medical emergencies, debrief the Michigan Youth Concussion Legislature, review rest and...

Assessing and Improving Community Health

Assessing and Improving Community Health

This course is part of the The Influence of Social Determinants on Health Specialization. This course is intended to serve as an introduction to population health from both the vantage point of both public health and healthcare. We will examine the key components of...

Data Manipulation in JavaScript

Data Manipulation in JavaScript

This course builds on the skills from the previous course and goes further into managing and manipulating data with JavaScript. Syllabus Learn More

DevOps Culture and Mindset

DevOps Culture and Mindset

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...

Computational Social Science Capstone Project

Computational Social Science Capstone Project

We will put these skills to work in this final integrative lab, where we are bringing it all together. We scrape data from a social media site (drawing on the skills obtained in the 1st course of this specialization). Syllabus Learn More

Interactivity with JavaScript and jQuery

Interactivity with JavaScript and jQuery

This course is the third in our JavaScript for Beginners Specialization. The scripts will become more complex and introduce more complex jQuery plugins. Syllabus Learn More