54 Courses and Certifications

Duke University Durham Courses & Certifications 2025

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Managing Machine Learning Projects

The Managing Machine Learning Projects certification course is a lunch of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, and Coursera. This is course number 2 of the main AI Product Management Specialization programme. The course has a main focus on the practical aspects related to the management of projects in machine learning.

The Managing Machine Learning Projects training will take around 18 hours to get completed. This Coursera programme will walk every participant through different processes like data collection, building of a model, data collection, deployment, and maintenance of the systems of production. Apart from the above the candidates will also be taught processes in data science so that decision making in ML systems can be easier. 

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3 Weeks
Beginner
3,277
Skills Covered:
Project management Machine learning Predictive Modeling knowledge
Certificate

Behavioral Finance

3 Weeks
Beginner
Certificate

Image and Video Processing From Mars to Hollywood with a Stop at the Hospital

Learn how digital images and videos are produced, altered, processed, and used from the Image and Video Processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a Stop at the Hospital programme offered by the Duke University. From how computers and digital cameras shape pictures to the use of special effects in Hollywood movies to how the Mars Rover has been able to send photos through millions of miles of space, candidates will be introduced to the vast world of digital imaging.

The Image and Video Processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a Stop at the Hospital programme begins by looking at how the human visual system functions and then shows you how digital images work in mathematics, engineering and computer science. Candidates will learn the basic algorithms used for image adjustment and explore the standards of JPEG and MPEG for video image encoding and compression. They will learn about image segmentation, filtering and noise reduction. Finally, the programme will finish with methods of image processing used in the medical field.

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3 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Editing skills
Certificate

Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau

Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau certification is an initiative that is done jointly by Coursera and Duke University. This is actually course 3 of 5 of the specialization - Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business. This course will teach that statistical analyses may not be fruitful even if they are sophisticated if they do not lead to any advice upon which action can be taken.

Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau training explain how business data analysts have one great skill which is the communication ability to express the practical implications related to quantitative analyses towards any kind of audience including non-technical ones in business organizations. This certification programme will finally enlighten participants to become the best in business-relevant communications that will yield results for the stakeholders in different business sectors.

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3 Weeks
1,699
Skills Covered:
Tableau knowledge Knowledge of Data Visualization
Certificate

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
Free
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

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

Increasing Real Estate Management Profits: Harnessing Data Analytics

Increasing Real Estate Management Profits: Harnessing Data Analytics certification is a 2 weeks course that can be undertaken only if the participants have finished off courses 1-4 of the Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business Specialization. The certificate is given by Coursera in partnership with Duke University.

In this final Increasing Real Estate Management Profits: Harnessing Data Analytics training, candidates will be completing a Capstone Project that usually uses data analytics to recommend how one can improve his or her company’s profits. Here the company will be Watershed Property Management, Inc. where students will be trained to develop their MySQL database skills that database skills so that data can be extracted with ease. The participants will also be ready to articulate process change for their business, Watershed which can be based on their data analysis.

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2 Weeks
Skills Covered:
Data science knowledge Knowledge of Real Estate Sector
Certificate

Programming Fundamentals

Programming Fundamentals certification is an online course, conducted for 2 weeks, is prepared by Duke University and is offered by Coursera. This course is the first part of the specialization, Introductory C Programming Specialization which focuses on programming essentials, the skills of which are necessary for making a career in software development or other fields.

Programming Fundamentals training is extended for students in different subtitles like English, Spanish, German, French, and more. This certification course will be teaching the participants fundamental programming activities like analysing, understanding, generating the algorithms, requirement verification, implementation of algorithms, and other resource consumption. With this course completion certificate, participants can develop certain algorithms along with reading programming codes, and also relate algorithms to programming. 

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2 Weeks
Beginner
1,699
Skills Covered:
Problem Solving Ability Programming skills Knowledge of Algorithms
Certificate

Mastering Data Analysis in Excel

Mastering Data Analysis in Excel certification is an online course that is offered with a collaborative effort of Duke University, and Coursera. The main focus of this  Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business Specialization, 2 weeks course is only data analysis and not Excel. Excel along with mathematical calculations are performed but other intermediaries or advanced concepts like a pivot table in Excel are not covered.

Mastering Data Analysis in Excel training will help the candidates design and put predictive models to use. Later on, with this course, a participant will be assuming a business data analyst’s role in a bank. This will teach them to reduce default risks, and then maximize the profits of a bank in various ways. The curriculum is a mix of practical, and also theoretical ways that will help develop ideas related to their choice of business. Any data that the candidates are provided for their assignments will be completed only using MS Excel so that they get to practice, and become familiar, and fluent with business functions in Excel.

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2 Weeks
1,699
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Excel
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

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
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

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

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

Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTML and CSS

The Programming Foundations with JavaScript HTML and CSS is designed by Duke University USA and offered by Coursera. This course offers to teach its candidates the theories of programming such as conditional statements, for loops, and functions. 

This course is one of the five parts of the Java programming in Software Engineering Fundamentals Specialisation by Coursera in collaboration with Duke University. The level of this course is for beginners and is best suited for those who have never coded before. Software engineering is one of the top fields when it comes to career prospects. Programming is a prerequisite for all of these jobs. This course will help you get placed in the software engineering industry. The Programming Foundations with JavaScript HTML and CSS will also help students learn the fundamentals of web development (CSS, JavaScript, and HTML).

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Beginner
3,369
Skills Covered:
Java Knowledge of CSS

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