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, 12 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• 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)

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

140 ratings at Coursera

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
• 23rd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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

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

Yale anthropology

1 review

Anthropology is the systematic study of humanity, with the goal of understanding our evolutionary origins, our distinctiveness as a species, and the great diversity in our forms of social existence across the world and through time.

• YouTube
• 28 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Sapienza University of Rome

Recovering the Humankind's Past and Saving the Universal Heritage

254 ratings at Coursera

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
• 16th Jan, 2023
• 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

University of Kashmir;  CEC

Anthropology_Human Genetics

The course on “Human Genetics” is a Discipline Specific Elective Course in Anthropology at undergraduate (UG) level under the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS). This is an introductory course designed primarily for students in the undergradua…

• Swayam
• 12 weeks long
• 15th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course

Universidad Carlos iii de Madrid

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)