5 Weirdest Free Online open Courseware Classes
As on in online learning there a good number of courses are available for poplar and conventional courses. However, there are many estranged and wired courses are also provided to students for free open course learning by various universities and classes. Below are mentioned some of the weirdest free online open courseware classes.
- Magic, Witchcraft, and the Spirit World: This open courseware class is about spiritual, magical, and “occult” aspects of human behavior in anthropological and historical perspective: magic, ritual curing, trance, spirit possession, sorcery, and accusations of witchcraft and is offered by MIT open course ware classes.
- The Restless Universe: This courseware offered to present an interesting overview of the big ideas that shaped physics from the time of Kepler to modern day. Applying a little mathematics this courseware surveys fundamental aspects of key physical theories. At the end of this course ware one would be able to understand and explain what is meant by a physical world-view and describe some of the major world-views that have emerged during the evolution of physics; able to explain some of the theories related to physics, give brief biographical sketches of some of the major contributors to the development of physics.
- Spa and Hospitality Operations: Offered by university of California, Irvine this courseware will help to understand general operations, administrative procedures in spas, private clubs and the hospitality industry. By this you can make an understanding of unique sensitivities as needed in managing and operating in glamorous and complex spa industry. The courseware also touches other topics like business planning, marketing, licensures, compensation models, legal and ethical issues governing club, hospitality and spa projects, insurance issues, technical issues, billing, inventory control, client file management, privacy issues and the development of standard operating procedures.
- Rural Telecommunications: This courseware as offered by Tokyo Institute of Technology tries to understand imbalance of the distribution of telecommunications in the world, especially historical aspects and enabling technologies of rural telecommunications, both is the social as well as technical aspects. Moreover, this courseware also helps in understanding the common understanding that the telecommunication infrastructure is necessary for the development of the industry and economy.
- Global Tobacco Control: This John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health open course ware gives an introduction to global tobacco control. It showcases economic burden of tobacco use globally and describes radical approaches to tobacco prevention, control, surveillance, and evaluation. It examines transnational tobacco control issues, involving issues of the interpretation and packaging of epidemiologic evidence for policy makers, the determinants of tobacco addiction, the economics of global tobacco control, tobacco industry strategies, legal foundations for regulation, and basic surveillance and evaluation methods using lectures, case-studies, and discussion.