53 Courses and Certifications

Duke University Durham Courses & Certifications 2026

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Introduction to Chemistry: Reactions and Ratios

Introduction to Chemistry: Reactions and Ratios certification is a 2-week long course that is a joint offering of Coursera, and Duke University. This 100% online course is under the engineering and physical science category of Coursera. If participants have an interest in moving ahead in their careers with knowledge of chemistry then this course is definitely for them.

Introduction to Chemistry: Reactions and Ratios training involves concepts like stoichiometry, nomenclature chemical reactions, periodic trends, the periodic table, and chemical problem-solving. This beginner-level certification is offered for participants who have a limited understanding of the subject chemistry. 

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2 Weeks
Beginner
2,699
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Chemistry
Certificate

Introduction to Chemistry: Structures and Solutions

Introduction to Chemistry: Structures and Solutions certification is a beginner-level programme requiring only 10 hours that is conducted over 2 weeks. The course content has been built by Duke University whereas the completion certificate is the department of the online provider Coursera.

Introduction to Chemistry: Structures and Solutions training is an introductory level course that can even be suitable to candidates who have zero or limited knowledge of chemistry. This certification course belongs to the course category of physical science and engineering on Coursera. The introductory concepts will be available to the candidates in the form of short reading, or videos, or even practice exercises. Both the course, and its mentors are wonderful, and thus the participants will learn the concepts with ease throughout this online course.

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2 Weeks
Beginner
2,699
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Chemistry
Certificate

Interacting with the System and Managing Memory

Interacting with the System and Managing Memory certification is a course that is the final part of the Introductory C Programming Specialization course, and is developed by Duke University but is offered by Coursera. This course is ought to provide you with programming techniques that are new, and powerful, and it will help in building interaction with the user, and system by allocating memory in a dynamic way.

Interacting with the System and Managing Memory training will provide the final certification which will allow participants to pursue a career in computational fields or software development. It will also help candidates to allow performing tasks that are really complex. At the final stage, candidates will be completing a Poker Project that will help them in their future endeavours.

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2 Weeks
Beginner
1,699
Skills Covered:
Programming skills
Certificate

Electric Industry Operations and Markets

Electric Industry Operations and Markets certification course have been designed by Duke University and instructed by Lincoln Pratson - Gendell Professor of Environment & Energy which is presented by Coursera for students who are looking for a program that could explain to them the core activities that the electric Industry executes to bring electricity to customers. Electric Industry Operations and Markets online course teaches students about how power is consumed and offers constant feedback on how it is transmitted and generated.

Electric Industry Operations and Markets online classes begin with the fundamental principles of electricity and explain the processes involved with electricity generation, electricity transmission, and electricity distribution. With this course, students will be taught about topics like electromagnetism, electric systems, laws governing electricity, and costs as well as will be taught about different types of electric markets and how they function to distribute and transmit electricity to meet demand.

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2 Weeks
Beginner
2,699
Certificate

Java Programming Solving Problems with Software

Java is a popular programming language that offers a lot of opportunities to aspiring coders wanting to build a career for themselves. This course by Coursera brought in association with Duke University, is exactly what one needs.

Java Programming: Solving Problems with Software is although a single course but can be applied to use for Certificate Programs or Specialisation courses all the same because of its diverse syllabus on a beginner level. The candidates will learn a lot from the contents of the course like developing and debugging programs and designing algorithms.

It teaches problem-solving techniques that come in very handy in jobs thus providing essential industry-relevant skills and preparing candidates to become the best in their leagues. As the world etches closer to a highly digitized reality being in the coding business will profit the candidates largely, and this course is the way to it.

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2 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Java Problem Solving Ability Knowledge of Algorithms
Certificate

Java Programming Arrays, Lists, and Structured Data

Java language is one of the most preferred and popular languages used worldwide. Offered by Duke University, the Java Programming: Arrays, Lists, and Structured Data course certification programme by Coursera, prepares the candidate to master the Java language and all the other elements associated with it. 

The program teaches several skills such as Java Programming, Hash Table, Data Structure and Cryptography. Once completed, candidates will get a shareable certificate. It can be shared electronically ahead. The programme is also available in different languages namely, Korean and English. The candidates will become master in Java programming language and learn to read and write data, solve different problems, manipulate and store data and perform many other things that are needed for creating new data structures. 

This is a 14-hour certification course that’s provided 100 percent online. Candidates will get study material in the form of recordings, online video lectures, quizzes, and assignments.

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2 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Java
Certificate

Visual Perception and the Brain

Visual Perception and the Brain certification course is a 2 weeks course that is provided in joint conjunction with Duke University. Candidates with this course shall be introduced to the different problems that are faced by a vision in human heads that is done by taking up perception as the guide. Humans often see the physical world in a difficult way, and this course’s goal is to learn why.

The candidates will also be learning what is generated through a visual system which is considered ad the central visionary problem. It will also teach what visual perception actually indicates regarding the working of a brain. Visual Perception and the Brain training will focus on the discussions of the physiology, and visual system anatomy whose main focus is on perception. In the end, the certificate will allow the sharing of the completion certificates within the section of their Linkedin profile.

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2 Weeks
2,699
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Physiology
Certificate

Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies

Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies certification is a 2 weeks course that belongs to the Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking Specialization course. This certification course is a joint association between Coursera, and Duke University. In everyday lives everyone encounters fallacies. Everyone, including children, salespersons, and politicians, are mainly known for using fallacies that can be identified with this course.

Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies certification syllabus is divided into many different video segments. These videos are followed by some small ungraded quizzes after every segment. All this then is topped off with a final quiz that is graded at the end of the course.

Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies training allows people to avoid common fallacies so that they never get fooled by others, and not think what these people want them to believe. Also learning about fallacies is important as the participants can stop using fallacies themselves. 

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2 Weeks
Beginner
1,699
Skills Covered:
Logical Reasoning
Certificate

Renewable Energy and Green Building Entrepreneurship

Renewable Energy and Green Building Entrepreneurship online certification is created by Duke University and taught by Chris Wedding - Instructor & Faculty, which is delivered by Coursera for the entrepreneur and energy specialists who want to acquire the knowledge to launch a new business in the energy, design, real estate, finance, or environmental engineering sectors. Renewable Energy and Green Building Entrepreneurship online course focuses on assisting the applicants in mastering the knowledge and techniques needed to use renewable and green energy to improve human health and the environment globally.

Renewable Energy and Green Building Entrepreneurship online classes offer 2 weeks of lectures that provide an overview of the significant growth in the renewable energy and green building sectors. This course also explains topics like business modeling, business implementation, business planning, business model canvas, market research, and financing as well as discusses how to use techniques, forecasts, and recommendations from the entrepreneurship society as a career trajectory for helping the community and generating value in the renewable energy and green building sectors.

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2 Weeks
Beginner
Certificate

Inferential Statistics

Inferential Statistics certification is a 2 weeks online course that belongs to the specialization of Statistics with R. This programme is course number 2 of 5 whose main focus is inferential statistics. The course belongs to a beginner level which only has a time requirement of 10 hours spread over the 2 weeks duration. Not only an end certificate is provided but also the study time can be reset at whatever time suits the candidates, 

Inferential Statistics training does help perform hypothesis testing, report the analysis of results by interpreting p-values, so that whatever is reported can be interpreted easily for the public or even the clients. Participants can learn to use the data examples that will help to report the estimates related to quantities that can express the uncertainty of interests. The participants can also learn the installation of R and RStudio software that is for the project in the final week of this course.

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2 Weeks
Beginner
1,699
Skills Covered:
Statistical skills R Programming
Certificate

FinTech Law and Policy

The FinTech Law and Policy course is offered by Duke University. This course includes different aspects of laws and regulations applicable to a business. The course is based on the emergence of new financial technologies such as cryptocurrency and its legal, regulatory and policy issues. The course will give information about the initial coin offering in these new financial technologies and how a person can use new payment methods and wealth management technologies in expanding their business.

The course duration will be 6-weeks which is designed with the aim to help the candidates with legal and regulatory challenges faced by the organisations in different sectors. Also, the course helps the candidates to learn about the basics of bank regulation in the US. This course will be instructed by Lee Reiners, Executive Director of Global Financial Markets Centre.

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1 Weeks
Beginner
2,699
Skills Covered:
Financial knowledge Knowledge of Cryptocurrency Knowledge of law Legal Knowledge
Certificate

Copyright for Educators & Librarians

Copyright for Educators & Librarians certification is a 1 weeks online course. This course has been prepared by Duke University, Emory University, and the University of North Carolina at Chappel Hill but it is presented by Coursera as a certificate course for the participants. This certificate course is responsible for teaching the fundamentals of copyright law.

Usually, people who are educators often have fear and develop uncertainty about the law of copyright. That is when the Copyright for Educators & Librarians training gives a chance for professional development that provides fundamental ideas regarding the US copyright law which will enlighten the teachers and librarians at different levels. This certificate course will at the end teach what law is designed for helping the educators, or librarians.

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1 Weeks
2,699
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of law
Certificate

Data Science Math Skills

Data Science Math Skills certification is a 10 hours online course that is divided into 1 weeks and is an offering of Coursera along with Duke University. This course is very useful for those who want to keep on learning the basics of mathematics irrespective of whether they have learnt pre-calculus or algebra. Learning math skills through both androids, and apple devices will create the basis for successful data science.

Data Science Math Skills training forms the introduction for core math skills that data science requires, without any extra complexity, by introducing math symbols, and unfamiliar ideas one at a time. Besides this being a beginner course, this certification can act as a prerequisite for the “Mastering Data Analysis in Excel” course. Anyone who has successfully completed this gets to understand advanced concepts of maths like problem-solving along with certificates that are shareable.

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1 Weeks
Beginner
2,699
Skills Covered:
Mathematical skill Data science knowledge
Certificate

Financial Risk Management with R

Financial Risk Management with R certification is a 10 hours course belonging to the  Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization course track that is offered by Coursera along with the academic side taken care of by Duke University. This programme is basically launched to teach the participants how they can make calculations about the returns of portfolio securities to quantify the market risk which is basically a requisite skill for the financial analysts in banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, and different investment firms. 

Financial Risk Management with R training will help candidates use the two tools RStudio and R programming language with Microsoft Open R for calculating the Value-at-Risk (VaR), risk of stock portfolios, and Expected Shortfall (ES). This is an intermediate level of course that may require additional R programming skills for its participants. Additionally, the certificate will boost the confidence of the candidates pursuing risk calculation. 

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1 Weeks
Intermediate
1,699
Skills Covered:
R Programming Financial Management Risk Management
Certificate

Introduction to Probability and Data with R

Introduction to Probability and Data with R certification is a small-term course that is offered by Duke University, and the certification is guaranteed by Coursera. This is an online course that is presented during a time period of 1 whole weeks in a total span of 10 hours. With this certification course, candidates will be becoming familiar with ways to sampling, and data exploration. 

Introduction to Probability and Data with R training falls under the course specialization of Statistics with R and is the first course in this specialization. Coming with subtitles in 10 languages, this course is a beginner or introductory level programme. Learners will be tested with both lab exercises, for correctly grasping the entire knowledge. Whatever techniques shall be taught will be acting as the building blocks for other courses present in the Specialization. All this will lead the students to pursue careers as data scientists, or statistical analysts.

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1 Weeks
Beginner
1,699
Skills Covered:
Statistical skills R Programming
Certificate

Advertising and Society

The Programme offered by the course era by Duke university to satisfy the candidates to know the societal values and what is an advertisement meant by. Coursera is an online platform where several valuable courses are handled by professional guides and industrial experts systematically and reliably. However, there is online platform guidance and instructions.

Society is a mixture of values, ethics, and behaviour of mankind where everyone takes part both individually and in the group. There is a responsibility for everyone to make the society and to take part in society. The course is helpful here in this aspect to know our major roles and responsibilities. Every work we have done had an impact on advertising too and the major objective of this course is to know the interrelationship between Advertising and Society

Coursera is an online platform where 10,000+ courses are available online. The content on Coursera and video quality are up to the student's expectations. The lectures will associate theoretical frameworks and appear to be most engaging to students.

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1 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Creativity Advertising skills
Certificate

Java Programming: Principles of Software Design

Java is one of the well-known programming languages in the world, both in terms of developing applications and software, as well as web pages and websites. To create programming solutions of the codings, candidates need an absolute grip over the concepts of Java Interface, through excellent course materials and real world projects.

Java Programming: Principles of Software Designing by Coursera brings all these features to the candidates and more. It not only teaches the candidates the know-how of developing software but also what it actually takes to build an impressive one, that is, logical and creative thinking and design.

There is more to Java than learning and implementing the codes but there are only a handful of cyber enthusiasts in the cyber world who can comprehend that while also making the most benefits from it. This course offers exactly that to the candidates in the form of a hidden gem for Java Programmers.

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1 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Java
Certificate

Linear Regression and Modeling

Linear Regression and Modeling certification is a 1 weeks course that only takes 10 hours in total from a candidate. This course is a collaborative effort between Duke University, and Coursera. The main aim that both these platforms have is to introduce both linear regression models- simple and multiple regression. With these models, one can judge a relationship between the different variable data points in a data set.

Linear Regression and Modeling training will help with the basics of linear regression that is used with data examples for learning, examining, and ultimately utilizing these, to sum up, the relationship between variables that are multiple. An example of such a case is that the training will let the students find out the relationships between how attractive a professor is, and on what parameters does he or she evaluate students. This relationship is usually examined by using statistical software like R, and RStudio which is free of cost.

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1 Weeks
Beginner
1,699
Skills Covered:
Statistical skills R Programming
Certificate

Civic Engagement in American Democracy

1 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Certificate

Think Again II: How to Reason Deductively

Think Again II: How to Reason Deductively certification is a 1 weeks course offered by Coursera along with Duke University. This course has been made available for those participants who want to learn truth tables to state the information in the conclusion of an argument to prove that it is deductive, and valid at the same time. The final certificate gives value to the participant’s career and makes it more beneficial.

Think Again II: How to Reason Deductively training will give room for more detailed exercises for those wanting to explore topics like Ninth Edition, Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic, and more in detail. Then the entire weekly syllabus will be divided into innumerable video segments that have to be seen in groups or separately. Ultimately these will be backed by short quizzes to check their understanding of each segment followed by a lengthy graded quiz at the course end.

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1 Weeks
Beginner
1,699
Skills Covered:
Critical thinking
Certificate

Blockchain Business Models

Blockchain Business Models certification is a 1 weeks course that is conducted within 10 hours by Coursera along with the joint participation of Duke University. Blockchain these days has become a disruptive technology but which is not at all understood by the layman. This course has been created as a part of the main specialization course of Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation. The course curriculum is beautifully made into a mix of videos, reading, graded peer feedback on assignments, practice quizzes.

Actually, this Blockchain Business Models training will help understand how blockchain can make value by creating tokenization in practical applications like cryptocurrencies, machine to machine payments, supply chain management, distributed exchanges, secure voting, identity protection, decentralized finance, central bank fiat-crypto, property transfers, media, financial reporting, and even advertising. Earning the completion certificate will allow the participants to apply blockchain to their organizations confidently.

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1 Weeks
Intermediate
$ 1,699
Skills Covered:
Innovative Knowledge of Cryptocurrency Knowledge of Blockchain

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