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Coursera Has A Lot Of Free Courses You Can Take Right Now & These Are The Most Popular

Expand your mind this summer! 🧠

Coursera Has A Lot Of Free Courses You Can Take Right Now & These Are The Most Popular
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If you love learning and want to continue educating yourself on important issues, there's a way to go "back to school" without paying steep tuition fees.

Coursera allows you to enroll in online courses from top universities and industry leaders and the topics are endless.

Here are the most popular free courses students have enrolled in this year.

Indigenous Canada

School: University of Alberta

Why You Should Enroll: As Canadians, it's imperative we understand the key issues facing Indigenous peoples from a historical and critical perspective. The course includes understanding world views from the Inuit, Nehiyawak, Kanien:keha'ka and Tlingit peoples.

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Introduction to Psychology

School: Yale University

Why You Should Enroll: Are we natural-born racists? What are the causes and cures of mental illness? What do our dreams mean? These are just some of the questions that try to get answered here. You can dive into cognitive psychology, human variation and social psychology from one of Yale's top professors, Paul Bloom.

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Introduction To Food And Health

School: Stanford University

Why You Should Enroll: Over half a million students have already signed up for this course that explores the implications of food processing on our health. It's a short course compared to the others on the list but the information is quite impactful.

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The Science Of Well-Being

School: Yale University

Why You Should Enroll: Who doesn't want to be more happy and productive? Regardless of your profession or background, this course is a great tool if you're trying to change into a more positive, productive mindset. You can end up learning a lot about yourself and why you do certain things without even thinking about it.

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Psychological First Aid

School: Johns Hopkins University

Why You Should Enroll: You don't need to be a clinical psychologist in order to provide compassionate social support to someone who experienced a robbery, natural disaster, community violence or other traumas. This course is full of practical information on disaster relief and crisis intervention that could come in handy at some point in your life.

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Machine Learning

School: Stanford University

Why You Should Enroll: If you've always been interested in AI, you kind of have to understand what machine learning is first. Self-driving cars, speech recognition and web search all stem from it. If you're looking for a career in meta language programming or data science, this is a great starting point.

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Financial Markets

School: Yale University

Why You Should Enroll: Curious about stocks, bonds and all that financial jazz? In this easy to follow course, you can learn the basics of financial markets, insurance, and CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model) before diving into the details of forecasting, debt, and inflation. It focuses a lot on the U.S. market so worldwide students should consider that before applying.

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Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies And Skills

School: University of Michigan

Why You Should Enroll: A lot of us already have some experience negotiating whether it's with our boss, landlord, cell phone providers, or sellers at a flea market. To gain a deeper understanding of the art of negotiation, you can learn about and practice how to plan your own strategy, use key tactics, create a contract and evaluate your agreement so you end up getting what you want and deserve in life.

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  • Natalia Buia was a Senior Editor for Narcity Media's Studio in Toronto, Ontario. Always on the hunt for the best bargain, she has written commerce content for other publications including HuffPost Canada. When she's not working, Natalia can be found watching true-crime documentaries and eating potato chips.

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