Online Courses for College Students and Lifelong Learners

Engineering Project Management Specialization

Today’s professional environment is highly competitive, continuously changing, and difficult to manage. Employees rarely reach positions of leadership without managing one or more projects or a projec...

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The English and Academic Preparation – Grad Track course is for students with a (minimum) advanced level of English. It is designed to help international students strengthen their English while develo...

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The English and Academic Preparation - Pre-Collegiate course is for students with a (minimum) high-intermediate level of English. It is designed to help international students develop the academic ski...

Finance for Non-Finance Professionals

This short course surveys all the major topics covered in a full semester MBA level finance course, but with a more intuitive approach on a very high conceptual level. The goal here is give you a road...

Foundations of Mindfulness

This course provides a broad overview of the fundamental concepts, principles, and practices of mindfulness. With interactive exercises to help students explore their own attitudes, mental habits and ...

Fundamentals of Computing Specialization

This specialization covers much of the material that first-year Computer Science students take at Rice University. Students learn sophisticated programming skills in Python from the ground up and appl...

Fundamentals of Immunology Specialization

This specialization is designed to equip students with the basic concepts and vocabulary of immunology. The goal is to provide students from different backgrounds with a fundamental understanding of i...

Fundamentals of Immunology: Death by Friendly Fire

Course 3 of the three course Fundamentals of Immunology Specialization. Each course in the specialization presents material that builds on the previous course’s material. Fundamentals of Immunology: D...

DNA: Biology’s Genetic Code

Fundamentals of Immunology, Course 4: Dueling with the Dark Side, covers the constant battle between your immune system and threats to your health. The first two lectures discuss viral and cellular pa...

Fundamentals of Immunology: Innate Immunity and B Cell Function

Course 1 of the three course Fundamentals of Immunology Specialization. Each course in the specialization presents material that builds on the previous course’s material. Fundamentals of Immunology: I...

Fundamentals of Immunology: T Cells and Signaling

Course 2 of the three course Fundamentals of Immunology Specialization. Each course in the specialization presents material that builds on the previous course’s material. Fundamentals of Immunology: T...

General Chemistry: Concept Development and Application

This course will cover the topics of a full year, two semester General Chemistry course. We will use a free on-line textbook, Concept Development Studies in Chemistry, available via Rice’s Connexions ...

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