2012 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PROFESSIONAL & CONTINUING EDUCATION

Free Online Courses

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For over a decade, we've offered courses and certificates online. To celebrate our centennial, we’re offering five new courses online – for free! Learn the basics of project management, gastronomy, psychology, political science or dance. Enroll in a course, complete up to four lessons, challenge yourself with activities and gauge what you’ve learned through quizzes – all at your own pace.
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	Introduction to Project Management Create a fictional project – building a doghouse – as well as your own real project. Learn the basics of project management. Understand how to develop two important components of a comprehensive project plan: the project overview statement and the work breakdown structure. Based on the first course in the Certificate in Project Management.
	Introduction to the Study of Personality Investigate the science of personality. Discover what the term personality means. Review basic concepts of contemporary science and apply those concepts to the study of personality. Review fundamental personality traits. Scrutinize characteristic ways of thinking, feeling and behaving that form the essential personality. Understand motives – the needs and desires that drive our behaviors. Based on the credit course, Introduction to Personality and Individual Differences.
	Introduction to Dance Explore the vast world of dance. Learn to use the special vocabulary of dance and recognize dance concepts as you view them. View and analyze some dances that may change your ideas of what dance is. Because the watching dance is the best way to learn about dance, each lesson includes several video clips. Based on the credit course Understanding Dance.
	Introduction to Molecular Gastronomy Explore molecular gastronomy – the science of deliciousness. Learn about the structures and interactions of the atoms and molecules that make up our foods. Study the four principle structures of our food: chemistry and physics of water, fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. Perform experiments that demonstrate these concepts and use what you learned in your own kitchen. Based on the credit course Molecular Gastronomy (Nutrition 441).