Science & Tech Courses
From an introduction to forensic science to maths puzzles we have a broad spectrum of courses here. There is a course on Higgs Boson, exploring the oceans, renewable energy and climate change. Courses range in time from hours to weeks. Robotics is also covered from how to design robots and understand how they perceive the world.
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Sociology is about people. Each individual is unique and idiosyncratic. Yet, when we come together for a common purpose, we try to conduct...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 4 hours pw for 3 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
In our highly technical world numeracy skills, particularly the ability to interpret data, are becoming increasingly important and are...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 3 hours pw for 4 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
From the basics of astronomy and stargazing, to the science behind the birth of a star, this four week course will change the way you see...
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- Online Learning
- 3 hours pw for 5 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
Since early humans first moved out of Africa, the world’s climate has had a continual impact on our history. Now, the climate itself is...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 3 hours pw for 6 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
Food security is a complex, global issue, in which we all play a part. In this free online course, you’ll join experts from the School of...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 2 hours pw for 3 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
This course is aimed at those who aspire to study science or engineering foundation courses at university level. It draws upon the...
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- Online Learning
- 3 hours pw for 4 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
What’s the connection between the size of a city and the number of gas stations in it? How would you describe this relationship? How would...
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- Online Learning
- 2 hours pw for 3 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
On this free online course, we’ll look at three types of maths puzzle, exploring their history, meeting the puzzlists who created them, and...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 3 hours pw for 3 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
Increasingly, we’re bombarded with all sorts of data about how society is changing: opinion poll trends; migration data; economic results;...
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- Online Learning
- 3 hours pw for 4 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
Metabolomics is an emerging field that aims to measure the complement of metabolites (the intermediates and products of metabolism) in...
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- Online Learning
- 3 hours pw for 8 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
There are lots of moons in our Solar System. The Earth is the only planet with just a single moon. Some moons are bigger than ours; many...
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- Online Learning
- 3 hours pw for 6 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
The course addresses four major evidence types: drugs of abuse, DNA, firearms and impression evidence, and discusses these through the...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 2 hours pw for 6 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
The Kitchen Chemistry course is designed to explore some of the principles of chemistry. You will be encouraged to carry out your own...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 3 hours pw for 3 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
Understand what Linked Data is
Linked Data, a term coined by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is a way of publishing data online so it can be easily...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 4 hours pw for 7 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
The importance of water to our cities
Water plays a central role in almost every aspect of our urban environment and quality of life in our...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 2 hours pw for 6 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
Over the past two decades, the criminal justice system has been dramatically affected by technological advances in scientific contributions...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 3 hours pw for 4 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
This free online course will look at both the big picture of the ‘lottery of birth’ and the smaller, human stories. You will examine the...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 3 hours pw for 5 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
Humanity faces a considerable problem in maintaining and enhancing food supplies on a global basis, whilst improving our wellbeing in both...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 2 hours pw for 2 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
Policy is the art of achieving a desired outcome in the presence of constraints and differing priorities.
Policy is largely a coordination...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 2 hours pw for 6 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
What is gravity? This fundamental force is the common theme between concepts as intriguing as the Big Bang, black holes, dark energy, space...
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- Online Learning
- 5 hours pw for 7 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
The discovery of a new fundamental particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN is the latest step in a long quest seeking to answer...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 4 hours pw for 6 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
The first step in any investigation involving a death is to determine the identity of the deceased. This free online course will take you...
FREE online course
- Online Learning
- 2 hours pw for 4 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
Entrepreneurs love it, large corporations love it, universities and now even governments love it – welcome to the exciting and emerging...
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- Online Learning
- 3 hours pw for 3 weeks
- Provided by Future Learn
Understanding the complex relationships between humans and nature – so-called social-ecological systems – will help us tackle global...
