Cultural Development
sort by: Relevancy | Title | Rating try advanced search for more options
-
Note: This course is being offered by Stanford this summer as an online course for credit. It can be taken individually, or as part of a master’s degree or graduate certificate earned online through the Stanford Center for Professional Development. This course is the natural successor to Programming Methodology and covers such advanced programming topics as recursion, algorithmic analysis, and data abstraction using the C++...more
-
Earn your MBA from UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School UNC Kenan-Flagler is one of the world's top-ranked business schools. At UNC Kenan-Flagler, you develop the skills that make you a highly effective leader and prepare you for long-term career success. The strength of the UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA degree comes from a school culture in which members live the business school’s core values of excellence, leadership, teamwork, integrity and...more
-
Stanford University offers XCS193H: High Performance Websites as a self-paced online course for professionals. Course Description: People love fast web sites, but up until now developers have been focusing on the wrong area. Backend (web server, database, etc.) performance is important for reducing hardware costs and improving efficiency, but for most pages 80% of the load time is spent on the frontend (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images,...more
-
Note: This course is offered by Stanford as an online course for credit. It can be taken individually, or as part of a master’s degree or graduate certificate earned online through the Stanford Center for Professional Development. This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning and statistical pattern recognition. Topics include: supervised learning (generative/discriminative learning, parametric/non-parametric...more
-
Note: This course is being offered this summer by Stanford as an online course for credit. It can be taken individually, or as part of a master’s degree or graduate certificate earned online through the Stanford Center for Professional Development. The goals for the course are to gain a facility with using the Fourier transform, both specific techniques and general principles, and learning to recognize when, why, and how it is used....more
-
Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture, & Law is a class that examines the historical and scientific study of genetic engineering in medicine, agriculture, and law, including examination of social, ethical, and legal issues raised by new technology. About the Professor: Dr. Bob Goldberg is a plant molecular biologist who specializes in the area of plant gene expression. The goal of his research has been to understand how plant cells...more
-
Welcome to Georgetown University Founded in 1789, Georgetown University is the nation's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. Today, Georgetown is a major international research university that embodies its founding principles in the diversity of our students, faculty, and staff, our commitment to justice and the common good, our intellectual openness, and our international character. Georgetown is ranked No. 21 among national...more
-
In this course, we will seek to interpret capitalism using ideas from biological evolution: firms pursuing varied strategies and facing extinction when those strategies fail are analogous to organisms struggling for survival in nature. For this reason, it is less concerned with ultimate judgment of capitalism than with the ways it can be shaped to fit our more specific objectives – for the natural environment, public health, alleviation...more
-
This is an introductory course in Greek history tracing the development of Greek civilization as manifested in political, intellectual, and creative achievements from the Bronze Age to the end of the classical period. Students read original sources in translation as well as the works of modern scholars.
-
Psychology 116: Neuroscience Lab is a laboratory experience exploring various topics in behavioral neuroscience. Dr. William Grisham is a Professor from UCLAs Department of Physiological Science. Since July of 1996, Dr. Grisham coordinated and taught upper division laboratories in Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience and Biopsychology majors for UCLA. Furthermore, he participated in selection and development of laboratory...more
-
This course is all about understanding: understanding what's going on inside your computer when you flip on the switch, why tech support has you constantly rebooting your computer, how everything you do on the Internet can be watched by others, and how your computer can become infected with a worm just by turning it on. In this course we demystify computers and the Internet, along with their jargon, so that students understand not only...more
-
Stanford University offers a Master's of Science in Computer Science that can be earned entirely through part-time online study. The program is administered through the Stanford Center for Professional Development. Admissions: Applicants to the online program must meet the same standards as applicants to the traditional on-campus program. More information is available through the Computer Science Department website. Students may begin...more
