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Introduction to Marketing: Tools to Set Enterprises Apart

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Want to learn how successful businesses use marketing to increase revenue, share and profitability? </div>
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In an increasingly competitive market, marketing skills are vital to help organizations stand out, win customers, build loyalty and sustain long term impact and returns.</div>
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This business and management course will help you understand the role of marketing and introduce you to the latest tools to help create value and competitive advantage for an enterprise. In an exciting age where innovation and new business models are required to stay ahead of competitors, we explore how new players in a market can achieve impact through marketing, providing you with unique insight to even apply within your own business venture.</div>
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Learn how to build a compelling value proposition, establish presence in a market, and compete effectively against rivals.  Learn how marketers use segmentation, targeting, positioning, branding, design, pricing, channels and integrated marketing communications to win against competitors, attract customers and build brand loyalty.</div>
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Introduction to Marketing: Tools to Set Enterprises Apart

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Pricing Options with Mathematical Models

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Title: Pricing Options with Mathematical Models
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Starts on September 18, 2016 Enroll Now About this course This is an introductory course on options and other financial derivatives, and the...

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We will start with discrete-time, binomial trees models, but most of the course will be in the framework of continuous-time, Brownian Motion driven models. A basic introduction to Stochastic, Ito Calculus will be given. The benchmark model will be the Black-Scholes-Merton pricing model, but we will also discuss more general models, such as stochastic volatility models. We will discuss both the Partial Differential Equations approach, and the probabilistic, martingale approach. We will also cover an introduction to modeling of interest rates and fixed income derivatives.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">I teach the same class at Caltech, as an advanced undergraduate class. This means that the class may be challenging, and demand serious effort. On the other hand, successful completion of the class will provide you with a full understanding of the standard option pricing models, and will enable you to study the subject further on your own, or otherwise. You should have a working knowledge of basic calculus, statistics, and probability and be interested in the use of mathematical modeling. 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Pricing Options with Mathematical Models

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The Evolving Universe

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Title: The Evolving Universe
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Check back often to see when new course start dates are announced.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">This is an introductory astronomy survey class that covers our understanding of the physical universe and its major constituents, including planetary systems, stars, galaxies, black holes, quasars, larger structures, and the universe as a whole. We will learn how modern astronomical observations and applications of physics we know from the planet Earth reveal the nature of these objects and explain their observed properties, and tell us how they form and evolve. We will also examine various cosmic phenomena, from variable or exploding stars to the expansion of the universe and the evidence for dark matter, dark energy, and the big bang. The universe as a whole and all of its major constituents are evolving, and we now have a fairly complete and consistent picture of these processes that is based on the objective evidence from observations and the laws of physics. The goal of this class is both to learn about the fascinating objects and phenomena that populate the universe, and to understand how we know all that.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div></div><div aria-hidden="true" class="see-more-cta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em;"><a class="see-more-reveal" href="https://www.edx.org/course/evolving-universe-caltechx-ay1001x#!" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="fa-stack fa-lg" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.33333em; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px;"><span class="fa fa-circle-o fa-stack-1x" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: FontAwesome; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; position: absolute; text-align: center; text-rendering: auto; transform: translate(0px, 0px); width: 20px;"></span><span class="fa fa-minus fa-stack-1x" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: FontAwesome; font-size: 0.5em; font-stretch: normal; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; position: absolute; text-align: center; text-rendering: auto; transform: translate(0px, 0px); width: 20px;"></span></span> Hide</a></div></div></div><div class="content-grouping" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px;"><h3 class="course-info-heading" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What you'll learn</h3><div class="course-info-list wysiwyg-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 16px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Gain an understanding of the physical universe, including planetary systems, stars, galaxies, black holes, quasars, larger structures, and the universe as a whole</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Learn how modern astronomical observations and applications of physics reveal the nature of the physical universe</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Examine various cosmic phenomena, from variable or exploding stars to the expansion of the universe and the evidence for dark matter, dark energy, and the big bang</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WzliYGGSVlg/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WzliYGGSVlg?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div>

The Evolving Universe

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Quantum Cryptography

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Title: Quantum Cryptography
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Starts on October 10, 2016 Enroll Now About this course How can you tell a secret when everyone is able to listen in? In this course, you wi...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjSurLxRohpXz6b2mmnl7DxJith1YcuyIZN7jyemy25x68y6WYwAoAn-OCZXwcvSK-BiHu8HHVLpHPkh7whkRbF5nc0uq91S2aak6_TwSyp8G0WKavtpv81QnAftMaitqrpa6sbEBBZTV1/s1600/caltech-200x121.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjSurLxRohpXz6b2mmnl7DxJith1YcuyIZN7jyemy25x68y6WYwAoAn-OCZXwcvSK-BiHu8HHVLpHPkh7whkRbF5nc0uq91S2aak6_TwSyp8G0WKavtpv81QnAftMaitqrpa6sbEBBZTV1/s400/caltech-200x121.png" /></a><br /><div class="course-start" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 12px 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Starts on October 10, 2016</span></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><a class="btn btn-cta txt-center js-enroll-btn " href="https://courses.edx.org/register?course_id=course-v1%3ACaltechDelftX%2BQuCryptox%2B3T2016&enrollment_action=enroll&email_opt_in=true" style="background: rgb(53, 92, 9); border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s; width: 276px;">Enroll Now</a><div class="form-field" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 20px; position: relative;"><label class="register-emails" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; display: block; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.5;"></label></div></div><div><h2 class="course-info-heading" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; display: inline-block; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.45em;">About this course</h2><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"></span><div class="course-description wysiwyg-content expanded" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; position: relative;"><div class="see-more-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; overflow: hidden;" tabindex="-1"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">How can you tell a secret when everyone is able to listen in? In this course, you will learn how to use quantum effects, such as quantum entanglement and uncertainty, to implement cryptographic tasks with levels of security that are impossible to achieve classically.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">This interdisciplinary course is an introduction to the exciting field of quantum cryptography, developed in collaboration between QuTech at Delft University of Technology and the California Institute of Technology.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">By the end of the course you will</div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Be armed with a fundamental toolbox for understanding, designing and analyzing quantum protocols.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Understand quantum key distribution protocols.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Understand how untrusted quantum devices can be tested.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Be familiar with modern quantum cryptography – beyond quantum key distribution.</li></ul><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">This course assumes a solid knowledge of linear algebra and probability at the level of an advanced undergraduate. Basic knowledge of elementary quantum information (qubits and simple measurements) is also assumed, but if you are completely new to quantum information additional videos are provided for you to fill in any gaps.</div></div></div></div></div>

Quantum Cryptography

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Principles of Economics with Calculus

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Title: Principles of Economics with Calculus
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFVS4DLrVOUk-Xo8AwfF6adkgfY4k4VbEojpQjSFVQ30KyPYKq7icA04CUTaQ-iR-H6fKnFBgPJvORCpQKJyNLdG5IelIku4sFtZGvW4D1RmgasKPlruJbKqTsHF4S8ICmK56pWlNHMVqO/s1600/caltech-200x121.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFVS4DLrVOUk-Xo8AwfF6adkgfY4k4VbEojpQjSFVQ30KyPYKq7icA04CUTaQ-iR-H6fKnFBgPJvORCpQKJyNLdG5IelIku4sFtZGvW4D1RmgasKPlruJbKqTsHF4S8ICmK56pWlNHMVqO/s400/caltech-200x121.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="content-grouping" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><h2 class="course-info-heading" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.45em;">About this course</h2><div class="course-description wysiwyg-content expanded" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="see-more-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; overflow: hidden;" tabindex="-1"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030; font-weight: 700;">This is an Archived Course</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">EdX keeps courses open for enrollment after they end to allow learners to explore content and continue learning. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">All features and materials may not be all available</em>. Check back often to see when new course start dates are announced.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">This course provides a quantitative and model-based introduction to basic economic principles, and teaches how to apply them to make sense of a wide range of real world problems. Examples of applications include predicting the impact of technological changes in market prices, calculating the optimal gasoline tax, and measuring the value of new products. This is a real Caltech class. It will be taught concurrently to Caltech and on-line students. This has two implications. On the costs side: the class is challenging, makes extensive use of calculus, and will demand significant effort. On the benefit side: successful completion of the class will provide you with an in-depth understanding of basic economics, and will permanently change the way you see the world.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div></div><div aria-hidden="true" class="see-more-cta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="content-grouping" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><h3 class="course-info-heading" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What you'll learn</h3><div class="course-info-list wysiwyg-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 16px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Understand, apply, and analyze calculus-based economic models</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;"><span data-sheets-userformat="[null,null,8320,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,2,null,null,null,null,null,10]" data-sheets-value="\n- Understand, apply, and analyze calculus-based economic models\n- Translate economic principles to the investigation of a wide range of real world problems\n- Elaborate on an in-depth understanding of basic economics and its applications"]" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Translate economic principles to the investigation of a wide range of real world problems</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;"><span data-sheets-userformat="[null,null,8320,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,2,null,null,null,null,null,10]" data-sheets-value="\n- Understand, apply, and analyze calculus-based economic models\n- Translate economic principles to the investigation of a wide range of real world problems\n- Elaborate on an in-depth understanding of basic economics and its applications"]" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Elaborate on an in-depth understanding of basic economics and its applications</span></li></ul></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y7C6Zthx4lE/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y7C6Zthx4lE?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><br /></div>

Principles of Economics with Calculus

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Energy Within Environmental Constraints

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Title: Energy Within Environmental Constraints
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In Session Started on June 8, 2016 Enroll Now Humanity faces an immense challenge: providing abundant energy to everyone without wrecking th...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtRmjBDdsNdhTW9WlWbQKEHYwGQVWzmvfcf6aLw4DYF1wu8v70jgP7GKS4Nvuil-SPmsnFakGVxEqbc6jYt5NJQ1LjREUklTyK_VMSVZVHY3ojTMOQDxF170ld9fYkwXdKuuxQh7WYYfi/s1600/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtRmjBDdsNdhTW9WlWbQKEHYwGQVWzmvfcf6aLw4DYF1wu8v70jgP7GKS4Nvuil-SPmsnFakGVxEqbc6jYt5NJQ1LjREUklTyK_VMSVZVHY3ojTMOQDxF170ld9fYkwXdKuuxQh7WYYfi/s400/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" /></a><br /><div class="course-start" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 12px 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Session</div><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Started on June 8, 2016</span></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><a class="btn btn-cta txt-center js-enroll-btn " href="https://courses.edx.org/register?course_id=course-v1%3AHarvardX%2BENGSCI137x%2B2T2016&enrollment_action=enroll&email_opt_in=true" style="background: rgb(53, 92, 9); border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s; width: 276px;">Enroll Now</a></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="content-grouping" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="course-description wysiwyg-content expanded" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="see-more-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; outline: none; overflow: hidden;" tabindex="-1"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Humanity faces an immense challenge: providing abundant energy to everyone without wrecking the planet. If we want a high-energy future while protecting the natural world for our children, we must consider the environmental consequences of energy production and use. But money matters too: energy solutions that ignore economic costs are not realistic—particularly in a world where billions of people currently can’t afford access to basic energy services. How can we proceed?</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Energy Within Environmental Constraints won’t give you the answer. Instead, we will teach you how to ask the right questions and estimate the consequences of different choices.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">This course is intended for a diverse audience. Whether you are a student, an activist, a policymaker, a business owner, or a concerned citizen, this course will help you start to think carefully about our current energy system and how we can improve its environmental performance.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">This course:</div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Covers engineering, environmental science, and economics to enable critical, quantitative thinking about our energy system</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Focuses on a working understanding of energy technologies, rich in details of real devices and light on theory; you won’t find any electrodynamics here but will find enough about modern commercial solar panels to estimate if they would be profitable to install in a given location</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Covers environmental impacts of the energy system, focusing on air pollution, climate change, and land use</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Emphasizes costs: the cascade of capital and operating costs from energy extraction all the way through end uses</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Emphasizes quantitative comparisons and tradeoffs: how much more expensive is electricity from solar panels than from coal plants, and how much pollution does it prevent?  Is solar power as cost-effective an environmental investment as nuclear power or energy efficiency?  And how do we include considerations other than cost?</li></ul><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Please note that this is an abridged course, equivalent to roughly half of a full semester-long undergraduate course.  See the syllabus for topics that we include and a list of some we exclude.</em></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Photo credits:</em></div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Solar Farm CC-BY Michael Mees on flickr</em></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Smokestack CC-BY Patrick on flickr</em></li></ul><hr style="background-color: #9b9b9b; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9b9b9b; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 1em;">HarvardX requires individuals who enroll in its courses on edX to abide by the terms of the edX honor code. 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Energy Within Environmental Constraints

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Introduction to Bioconductor: Annotation and Analysis of Genomes and Genomic Assays

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Title: Introduction to Bioconductor: Annotation and Analysis of Genomes and Genomic Assays
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Self-Paced Enroll Now About this course We begin with an introduction to the biology, explaining what we measure and why. Then we focus on t...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxH7KGII861jgeSZzIv5IGBnFcntTnBlgHnTRPDQsjrMIo2u5pwaSUOL_4QOf51c68v0Qil7YLGn_pR-FkUDcG3Akl1QzIAzUmBC6f0HX7IOTkipfkxqIJDVBTQ0DXw3OV-vYjD5suDsLh/s1600/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxH7KGII861jgeSZzIv5IGBnFcntTnBlgHnTRPDQsjrMIo2u5pwaSUOL_4QOf51c68v0Qil7YLGn_pR-FkUDcG3Akl1QzIAzUmBC6f0HX7IOTkipfkxqIJDVBTQ0DXw3OV-vYjD5suDsLh/s400/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" /></a><br /><div class="course-start" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 12px 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Self-Paced</span></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><a class="btn btn-cta txt-center js-enroll-btn " href="https://courses.edx.org/register?course_id=course-v1%3AHarvardX%2BPH525.5x%2B2T2016&enrollment_action=enroll&email_opt_in=true" style="background: rgb(94, 162, 15); border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fafafa; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s; width: 276px;">Enroll Now</a></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="content-grouping" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px;"><h2 class="course-info-heading" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.45em;">About this course</h2><div class="course-description wysiwyg-content expanded" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="see-more-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; overflow: hidden;" tabindex="-1"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">We begin with an introduction to the biology, explaining what we measure and why. Then we focus on the two main measurement technologies: next generation sequencing and microarrays. We then move on to describing how raw data and experimental information are imported into R and how we use Bioconductor classes to organize these data, whether generated locally, or harvested from public repositories or institutional archives. Genomic features are generally identified using intervals in genomic coordinates, and highly efficient algorithms for computing with genomic intervals will be examined in detail. Statistical methods for testing gene-centric or pathway-centric hypotheses with genome-scale data are found in packages such as limma, some of these techniques will be illustrated in lectures and labs.</div><div align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Given the diversity in educational background of our students we have divided the series into seven parts. You can take the entire series or individual courses that interest you. If you are a statistician you should consider skipping the first two or three courses, similarly, if you are biologists you should consider skipping some of the introductory biology lectures. Note that the statistics and programming aspects of the class ramp up in difficulty relatively quickly across the first three courses. By the third course will be teaching advanced statistical concepts such as hierarchical models and by the fourth advanced software engineering skills, such as parallel computing and reproducible research concepts.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">These courses make up 2 XSeries and are self-paced:</div><div align="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/statistics-r-life-sciences-harvardx-ph525-1x-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PH525.1x: Statistics and R for the Life Sciences</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-linear-models-matrix-harvardx-ph525-2x" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PH525.2x: Introduction to Linear Models and Matrix Algebra</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/advanced-statistics-life-sciences-harvardx-ph525-3x" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PH525.3x: Statistical Inference and Modeling for High-throughput Experiments</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-bioconductor-harvardx-ph525-4x" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PH525.4x: High-Dimensional Data Analysis</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/case-study-rna-seq-data-analysis-harvardx-ph525-5x" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PH525.5x: Introduction to Bioconductor: annotation and analysis of genomes and genomic assays </a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/case-study-variant-discovery-genotyping-harvardx-ph525-6x" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PH525.6x: High-performance computing for reproducible genomics</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/case-study-chip-seq-data-analysis-harvardx-ph525-7x" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PH525.7x: Case studies in functional genomics</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><hr style="background-color: #9b9b9b; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9b9b9b; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">This class was supported in part by NIH grant R25GM114818.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">HarvardX requires individuals who enroll in its courses on edX to abide by the terms of the edX honor code. HarvardX will take appropriate corrective action in response to violations of the <a class="external-link" href="https://www.edx.org/edx-terms-service" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Follow link">edX honor code</a>, which may include dismissal from the HarvardX course; revocation of any certificates received for the HarvardX course; or other remedies as circumstances warrant. No refunds will be issued in the case of corrective action for such violations. Enrollees who are taking HarvardX courses as part of another program will also be governed by the academic policies of those programs.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">HarvardX pursues the science of learning. By registering as an online learner in an HX course, you will also participate in research about learning. Read our <a class="external-link" href="http://harvardx.harvard.edu/research-statement" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Follow link">research statement </a>to learn more.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Harvard University and HarvardX are committed to maintaining a safe and healthy educational and work environment in which no member of the community is excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination or harassment in our program. All members of the HarvardX community are expected to abide by Harvard policies on nondiscrimination, including sexual harassment, and the edX Terms of Service. 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Introduction to Bioconductor: Annotation and Analysis of Genomes and Genomic Assays

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Saving Schools, Mini-Course 1: History and Politics of U.S. Educationh

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Title: Saving Schools, Mini-Course 1: History and Politics of U.S. Educationh
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Self-Paced Enroll Now About this course This mini-course seeks to answer the following question: How did a school system, once the envy of t...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1Fi8D1MZuot6Z2x0HrJxzp6lyYbaZugS79DNybheUs1QxOXZKxIJVoT32d46Y9yKhJjHwor7z4OKe5SvvGAgWs34yRO_-ZBY52o2kZIRAeCGc5g5YsfOceHs-W395bw-pQIiYgeHblA3/s1600/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1Fi8D1MZuot6Z2x0HrJxzp6lyYbaZugS79DNybheUs1QxOXZKxIJVoT32d46Y9yKhJjHwor7z4OKe5SvvGAgWs34yRO_-ZBY52o2kZIRAeCGc5g5YsfOceHs-W395bw-pQIiYgeHblA3/s400/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" /></a><br /><br /><div class="course-start" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 12px 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Self-Paced</span></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><a class="btn btn-cta txt-center js-enroll-btn " href="https://courses.edx.org/register?course_id=course-v1%3AHarvardX%2B1368.1x%2B2T2016&enrollment_action=enroll&email_opt_in=true" style="background: rgb(53, 92, 9); border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s; width: 276px;">Enroll Now</a></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="content-grouping" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px;"><h2 class="course-info-heading" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.45em;">About this course</h2><div class="course-description wysiwyg-content expanded" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="see-more-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; overflow: hidden;" tabindex="-1"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">This mini-course seeks to answer the following question: How did a school system, once the envy of the world, stumble so that the performance in math, science, and reading of U.S. students at age 15 fell below that of students in a majority of the world’s industrialized nations?</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Exploring that question, we identify the personalities and historical forces—the progressives, racial desegregation, legalization and collective bargaining—that shaped and re-shaped U.S. school politics and policy. We visit the places where new ideas and practices were spawned, and we look at some of their unanticipated consequences.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">In the three subsequent mini-courses, we seek answers to a second question: What are the best ways of lifting the performance of American schools to a higher level? To explore these questions, we look at ideas and proposals of those who want to save our schools—be it by reforming the teaching profession, holding schools accountable, or giving families more school choices. In interviews with reform proponents and independent experts, we capture the intensity of the current debate. In the end, we do not find any silver bullets that can magically lift schools to a new level of performance, but we do pinpoint the pluses and minuses of many new approaches. These three subsequent mini-courses will launch later in the fall and continue into 2016.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Each mini-course contains five to eight lectures, with each lecture containing approximately three videos. The mini-courses also include assigned readings, discussion forums, and assessment opportunities.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">This is the first mini-course in a four-course sequence.</div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030; font-weight: 700;">Mini-Course 1: History and Politics of U.S. Education</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/saving-schools-mini-course-ii-teacher-harvardx-1368-2x" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mini-Course 2: Teacher Policies</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/saving-schools-mini-course-iii-harvardx-1368-3x" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mini-Course 3: Accountability and National Standards</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/saving-schools-mini-course-4-school-harvardx-1368-4x" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mini-Course 4: School Choice</a></li></ul><hr style="background-color: #9b9b9b; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9b9b9b; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">HarvardX requires individuals who enroll in its courses on edX to abide by the terms of the edX honor code. HarvardX will take appropriate corrective action in response to violations of the <a class="external-link" href="https://www.edx.org/edx-terms-service" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Follow link">edX honor code</a>, which may include dismissal from the HarvardX course; revocation of any certificates received for the HarvardX course; or other remedies as circumstances warrant. No refunds will be issued in the case of corrective action for such violations. Enrollees who are taking HarvardX courses as part of another program will also be governed by the academic policies of those programs.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">HarvardX pursues the science of learning. By registering as an online learner in an HX course, you will also participate in research about learning. 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The Book: Making and Meaning in the Medieval Manuscript

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Title: The Book: Making and Meaning in the Medieval Manuscript
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Self-Paced Enroll Now About this course As books “go digital,” we can appreciate what is gained in terms of convenience, accessibility and i...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLA4kNaF_Xuw00UZNBmZabcBWSa6CJiPAaeyiMKnY25qdrkagmGrTD4Dfq2aehN0E1zASeAaRNMGy0CWfU3tbOqBMLNH9qkyAX46slHZOz832L1rqye0nVmwVvBo33k22ZagUeGNN1NP5A/s1600/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLA4kNaF_Xuw00UZNBmZabcBWSa6CJiPAaeyiMKnY25qdrkagmGrTD4Dfq2aehN0E1zASeAaRNMGy0CWfU3tbOqBMLNH9qkyAX46slHZOz832L1rqye0nVmwVvBo33k22ZagUeGNN1NP5A/s400/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" /></a><br /><br /><div class="course-start" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 12px 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Self-Paced</span></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><a class="btn btn-cta txt-center js-enroll-btn " href="https://courses.edx.org/register?course_id=course-v1%3AHarvardX%2BHUM1.1x%2B3T2015&enrollment_action=enroll&email_opt_in=true" style="background: rgb(94, 162, 15); border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fafafa; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s; width: 276px;">Enroll Now</a></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="content-grouping" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px;"><h2 class="course-info-heading" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.45em;">About this course</h2><div class="course-description wysiwyg-content expanded" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="see-more-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; overflow: hidden;" tabindex="-1"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">As books “go digital,” we can appreciate what is gained in terms of convenience, accessibility and interconnectedness. However, we should also consider what is lost as texts transition to a digital sphere.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">This module of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Book: Histories Across Time and Space</em> seeks to re-introduce learners to the codex – a handwritten and hand-constructed book - as a three-dimensional object whose characteristics produce meaning in the experience of the reader.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">This module is designed to walk you through the process of making a medieval manuscript. Using a wide variety of examples from the collections of Harvard’s Houghton Library, it will familiarize you with basic terms and concepts and give you a “feel” for the shapes, sizes, formats, materials and considerations of craft that went into the making of the book as we know it.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Throughout the Middle Ages there existed an intimate relationship between making and meaning. Codices were tactile as well as visual objects designed to engage multiple senses. In the illuminated manuscript, it is often impossible to distinguish neatly between text and image; rather, letters assume imagistic forms and images take the form of letters.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Bookmakers were sensitive to the interplay of materials, from the parchment of the pages to the wooden boards, designed to protect the contents. Each of these elements conditioned a reader’s interaction with the book. Bookmaking required a significant material investment. The production process was laborious and lengthy, involving many separate stages and craftsmen.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Books participated in a wide range of ritual, liturgical, devotional, educational and practical contexts, each of which in turn conditioned the presentation and reception of both their form and content.</div><hr style="background-color: #9b9b9b; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9b9b9b; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">HarvardX requires individuals who enroll in its courses on edX to abide by the terms of the edX honor code. HarvardX will take appropriate corrective action in response to violations of the <a class="external-link" href="https://www.edx.org/edx-terms-service" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Follow link">edX honor code</a>, which may include dismissal from the HarvardX course; revocation of any certificates received for the HarvardX course; or other remedies as circumstances warrant. No refunds will be issued in the case of corrective action for such violations. Enrollees who are taking HarvardX courses as part of another program will also be governed by the academic policies of those programs.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">HarvardX pursues the science of learning. By registering as an online learner in an HX course, you will also participate in research about learning. Read our <a class="external-link" href="http://harvardx.harvard.edu/research-statement" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Follow link">research statement </a>to learn more.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Harvard University and HarvardX are committed to maintaining a safe and healthy educational and work environment in which no member of the community is excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination or harassment in our program. All members of the HarvardX community are expected to abide by Harvard policies on nondiscrimination, including sexual harassment, and the edX Terms of Service. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact <a href="mailto:harvardx@harvard.edu" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;">harvardx@harvard.edu</a> and/or <a class="external-link" href="https://www.edx.org/contact-us" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Follow link">report your experience through the edX contact form</a>.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div></div><div aria-hidden="true" class="see-more-cta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em;"></div></div></div><div class="content-grouping" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px;"><h3 class="course-info-heading" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What you'll learn</h3><div class="course-info-list wysiwyg-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 16px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">The relationship between making and meaning in a medieval manuscript</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">How readers and listeners experienced books in the Middle Ages</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">The process, shapes, sizes, formats, materials and considerations of craft that went into the making of a medieval manuscript</li></ul></div></div></div></div>

The Book: Making and Meaning in the Medieval Manuscript

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

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Title: Harvard: The Book: Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries, Part 1: Reading the Late Medieval Marseille Archive
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Self-Paced Enroll Now Medieval Europe has preserved enormous quantities of books and documents — many millions of pages, in fact — written i...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9_uonPFCwj-77Zpke9vXhISypNZ6kCsECRsP5XXy6-iI-xPu9kfIznq3nRfwBCxmABLxEkpexz4mE3wpjomtClDQtiWlFPLyFWJGNL23phCRek_mBSvFlfDs62wJ2DMuRcVM6icKosit-/s1600/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9_uonPFCwj-77Zpke9vXhISypNZ6kCsECRsP5XXy6-iI-xPu9kfIznq3nRfwBCxmABLxEkpexz4mE3wpjomtClDQtiWlFPLyFWJGNL23phCRek_mBSvFlfDs62wJ2DMuRcVM6icKosit-/s400/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" /></a><br /><div class="course-start" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 12px 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Self-Paced</span></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><a class="btn btn-cta txt-center js-enroll-btn " href="https://courses.edx.org/register?course_id=course-v1%3AHarvardX%2BHUM1.6x%2B3T2015&enrollment_action=enroll&email_opt_in=true" style="background: rgb(53, 92, 9); border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s; width: 276px;">Enroll Now</a></div><br /><div class="content-grouping" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="course-description wysiwyg-content expanded" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="see-more-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; overflow: hidden;" tabindex="-1"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Medieval Europe has preserved enormous quantities of books and documents<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—</span>many millions of pages, in fact<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—</span>written in Latin and other languages. However, only a tiny percentage of these texts have been edited and published. To gain access to the rest, you need to learn the art and science of reading medieval handwriting,</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">This module of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Book: Histories Across Time and Space</em> introduces students to the world of medieval paleography, the science of reading old handwriting. This particular module focuses on notarial handwriting from the city of Marseille in the 14th and 15th centuries. The module features household inventories, which identify some of the fascinating objects found in people’s houses. Assessments and quizzes will allow you to track your progress as you move from letter-group to letter-group. In addition to learning the handwriting, we will take special care to explore some of the many abbreviations and other elements of the secular registers of the later Middle Ages.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Some knowledge of Latin or another Romance Language will be very helpful for understanding the texts you will read, but students without these language skills will still enjoy this chance to explore medieval handiwork.</div><hr style="background-color: #9b9b9b; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9b9b9b; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">HarvardX requires individuals who enroll in its courses on edX to abide by the terms of the edX honor code. HarvardX will take appropriate corrective action in response to violations of the <a class="external-link" href="https://www.edx.org/edx-terms-service" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Follow link">edX honor code</a>, which may include dismissal from the HarvardX course; revocation of any certificates received for the HarvardX course; or other remedies as circumstances warrant. No refunds will be issued in the case of corrective action for such violations. Enrollees who are taking HarvardX courses as part of another program will also be governed by the academic policies of those programs.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">HarvardX pursues the science of learning. By registering as an online learner in an HX course, you will also participate in research about learning. Read our <a class="external-link" href="http://harvardx.harvard.edu/research-statement" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Follow link">research statement </a>to learn more.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Harvard University and HarvardX are committed to maintaining a safe and healthy educational and work environment in which no member of the community is excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination or harassment in our program. All members of the HarvardX community are expected to abide by Harvard policies on nondiscrimination, including sexual harassment, and the edX Terms of Service. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact <a href="mailto:harvardx@harvard.edu" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;">harvardx@harvard.edu</a> and/or <a class="external-link" href="https://www.edx.org/contact-us" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Follow link">report your experience through the edX contact form</a>.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div></div><div aria-hidden="true" class="see-more-cta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="content-grouping" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><h3 class="course-info-heading" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What you'll learn</h3><div class="course-info-list wysiwyg-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 16px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">A style of handwriting known as notarial cursive, which was used for such documents across most of Europe in the later Middle Ages</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">The basic form of each letter, including variations and false positives</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Standard abbreviations</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Editing and navigation marks</li></ul></div></div></div>

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

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Data Analysis for Life Sciences

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Title: Data Analysis for Life Sciences
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Program: Self-Paced XSeries Program Overview Currently, biomedical research groups around the world are producing more data than they can h...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8msjumQc7pWAfTnsw5w5-A-pIPQGeU-DsbBPbOqSi8E5QEBqcSZ-gUokl3uLLvY3SPgNNUKYlRrOObRZ9VP0Mu87bD1oUAnk0GA4VPulCQxwzLwHqxUMJLROMxRJoobiJKJBl8iXyH6w/s1600/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8msjumQc7pWAfTnsw5w5-A-pIPQGeU-DsbBPbOqSi8E5QEBqcSZ-gUokl3uLLvY3SPgNNUKYlRrOObRZ9VP0Mu87bD1oUAnk0GA4VPulCQxwzLwHqxUMJLROMxRJoobiJKJBl8iXyH6w/s400/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" /></a><br /><br />Program: <span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Self-Paced</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><br /></span><div class="overview expanded" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; position: relative;"><div class="see-more-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; outline: none; overflow: hidden;" tabindex="-1"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030;"><a href="https://www.edx.org/xseries/data-analysis-life-sciences">XSeries Program Overview</a></span></h3><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em;">Currently, biomedical research groups around the world are producing more data than they can handle.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em;">The training and skills acquired by taking the Data Analysis for Life Sciences XSeries will result in greater success in biological discovery and improving individual and population health.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em;">In this XSeries, you will gain the tools to analyze and interpret life sciences data. You will learn the basic statistical concepts and R programming skills necessary for analyzing real data.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em;">R is an open source free statistical software and is the most widely used data analysis platforms among academic statisticians.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em;">Taught by Rafael Irizarry from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who for the past 15 years has focused on the analysis of genomics data, this XSeries is perfect for anyone in the life sciences who wants to learn how to analyze data. Problem sets will require coding in the R language to ensure learners fully grasp and master key concepts.</div></div><div aria-hidden="true" class="see-more-cta" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030;">What You'll Learn</span></h3><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Basic statistical concepts and R programming skills necessary for analyzing data in the life sciences</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The underlying mathematical basics of linear models useful for data analysis in the life sciences</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The techniques commonly used to perform statistical inference on high throughput data</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Several techniques that are widely used in the analysis of high-dimensional data</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nwFyIxc4AE0/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nwFyIxc4AE0?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><div><br /></div></div></div>

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Harvard: China and the Modern World

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Title: Harvard: China and the Modern World
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Program: Self placed XSeries Program Overview China and the Modern World explores the building of contemporary China – a new country built ...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivCQKwv_c4Lo3Gkp57DlK3bnOdOP9hGn1qFrsX18AEQS5JhGGsKlkfgWWiL5MmNhKgzlxne3DzPHBe442xrVXWBJrKa4pSztDwGvHz3P7w2IvyiD5aATrYW7NXhRsOm60_J_lc_Eyc5atC/s1600/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivCQKwv_c4Lo3Gkp57DlK3bnOdOP9hGn1qFrsX18AEQS5JhGGsKlkfgWWiL5MmNhKgzlxne3DzPHBe442xrVXWBJrKa4pSztDwGvHz3P7w2IvyiD5aATrYW7NXhRsOm60_J_lc_Eyc5atC/s400/harvard_logo_200x101_0+%25281%2529.png" /></a><br /><br />Program: Self placed<br /><br /><div class="overview expanded" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; position: relative;"><div class="see-more-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; outline: none; overflow: hidden;" tabindex="-1"><h2 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 1.375em; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px 0px 0.45em;"><a href="https://www.edx.org/xseries/china-modern-world">XSeries Program Overview</a></h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">China and the Modern World</em> explores the building of contemporary China – a new country built on the bedrock of a great and ancient civilization. ChinaX addresses what “modern China” means; when modern Chinese history begins; and enduring issues such as unity, population growth, environmental costs, social constraints, commercialization, and internationalization. We conclude by asking: “Will the 21st century be the Chinese century?”</div></div><div aria-hidden="true" class="see-more-cta" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="see-more-reveal" href="https://www.edx.org/xseries/china-modern-world#" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="fa-stack fa-lg" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.33333em; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px;"><span class="fa fa-circle-o fa-stack-1x" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: FontAwesome; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; position: absolute; text-align: center; text-rendering: auto; transform: translate(0px, 0px); width: 20px;"></span><span class="fa fa-minus fa-stack-1x" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: FontAwesome; font-size: 0.5em; font-stretch: normal; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; position: absolute; text-align: center; text-rendering: auto; transform: translate(0px, 0px); width: 20px;"></span></span> Hide</a></div></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><h2 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 1.375em; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px 0px 0.45em;">What You'll Learn</h2><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">To develop your own approaches to history and gain a critical appreciation of China’s literary, philosophical, political, economic development and cultural resources.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">To express ideas more clearly and confidently; to think more analytically and critically through the study of primary and secondary sources.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">To analyze a business case.</li></ul></div><div class="testimonial" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 20px;"><div class="quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5em; font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5;">“I don’t do Facebook or Twitter, which probably correctly places me in a certain generation. That said, I’ll fight anyone to death who says ChinaX isn’t the most dynamic, creative, smart and fun MOOC in the universe.”</div><div class="quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5em; font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qjl4YblP0xY/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qjl4YblP0xY?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5em; font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5;"><br /></div></div></div>

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MIT: Microeconomics

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Title: MIT: Microeconomics
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Starts on September 19, 2016 Enroll Now About this course What is produced in an economy? How is it produced? Who gets the product? Microeco...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezod4oXx4f2Iskc5gvVcf-RaQEqKzMuMCSw_CzioJ3GdjkBtQVLMffWhjiNMLP1qmhaI0B7a1dnSA-w6v18ehsF-pVJUw_ST7jE2XKYwiYErxPV5wc0-cWfYuDtVCLtDZ2px5Wblx6IHu/s1600/mit_logo_200x101_0.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezod4oXx4f2Iskc5gvVcf-RaQEqKzMuMCSw_CzioJ3GdjkBtQVLMffWhjiNMLP1qmhaI0B7a1dnSA-w6v18ehsF-pVJUw_ST7jE2XKYwiYErxPV5wc0-cWfYuDtVCLtDZ2px5Wblx6IHu/s400/mit_logo_200x101_0.png" /></a><br /><div class="course-start" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 12px 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Starts on September 19, 2016</span></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><a class="btn btn-cta txt-center js-enroll-btn " href="https://courses.edx.org/register?course_id=course-v1%3AMITx%2B14.100x%2B3T2016&enrollment_action=enroll&email_opt_in=true" style="background: rgb(53, 92, 9); border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s; width: 276px;">Enroll Now</a></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></div><div class="course-enroll-actions" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="content-grouping" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px;"><h2 class="course-info-heading" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.45em;">About this course</h2><div class="course-description wysiwyg-content expanded" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="see-more-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; overflow: hidden;" tabindex="-1"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">What is produced in an economy? How is it produced? Who gets the product? Microeconomics seeks to answer these fundamental questions about markets.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">In this course, we’ll introduce you to microeconomic theory, together with some empirical results and policy implications. You’ll analyze mathematical models that describe the real-world behavior of consumers and firms, and you’ll see how prices make the world go ‘round.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">You’ll join the ranks of business executives, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and global leaders who rely on the insights they derive from a working knowledge of microeconomics. Nobel memorial prize-winner Paul Samuelson invented the modern microeconomics curriculum at MIT. Now is your chance to learn the field from the intellectual tradition he began.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Topics include:</div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Consumer theory</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Supply and demand</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Market equilibrium</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Producer theory</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Monopoly</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Oligopoly</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Capital markets</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Welfare economics</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Public goods</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Externalities</li></ul><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div></div><div aria-hidden="true" class="see-more-cta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="content-grouping" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px;"><h3 class="course-info-heading" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What you'll learn</h3><div class="course-info-list wysiwyg-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 16px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Fundamentals of microeconomics</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Consumer theory and producer theory</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Techniques for constrained optimization</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em !important; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Policy applications and empirical results</li></ul></div><div aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a class="see-more-cta toggle-display" href="https://www.edx.org/course/microeconomics-mitx-14-100x#!" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2968aa; margin-bottom: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="fa fa-file-text-o fa-lg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: FontAwesome; font-size: 1.33333em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 0.75em; text-rendering: auto; transform: translate(0px, 0px); vertical-align: -15%;"></span> View Course Syllabus</a></div></div></div></div>

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