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This course will enhance your ability to influence people in situations where formal authority is not available. You will learn effective ways to build, develop, and maintain a power base in your organization. You will also learn influence tactics that will enable you to be more persuasive and influential when working with your superiors, peers, and even subordinates. In addition, you will learn how to build and maintain high-quality relationships to further increase your informal power and ability to influence people. Most importantly, you will learn how to differentiate between influence and manipulation and how to protect yourself from unwanted influence. The influence strategies studied in this course will make you a more confident and influential leader, presenter, and decision-maker. You will be more effective at selling business ideas to your superiors, influencing clients, and building alliances with stakeholders. In this course, you will not only gain strategic guidance on how to build and maintain your network of influence and power, but you will also equip yourself with specific tactics and strategies that have been proven to be effective in gaining power and influencing people.

In this course, you will learn how to build your team, improve teamwork and collaboration, and maintain team performance through continuous learning and improvement. Specifically, you will learn best practices for composing a team and aligning individual and team goals. You will also learn how to establish roles, build structures, and manage decision-making so that your team excels. This course will also help you manage critical team processes, such as conflict resolution and trust-building, that have a profound impact on your team's performance. It will discuss some of the best ways to harness the productive potential of teams while mitigating the risks and pitfalls of teamwork. In the modern organization, most work is done in teams, but the results of teamwork are exceptionally mixed. Many teams are poorly designed and structured, plagued by dysfunctional conflict, experiencing coordination failures and serious motivation challenges. As a result, many teams fail to realize their potential and frequently underperform even individuals working on similar tasks. After completing this course, you will acquire a set of tools and practices that will enable you to effectively set up, run, evaluate, and continually improve your team. These insights will make you a more effective team leader, but also an outstanding contributor in team settings.

This course develops the fundamental concept of the Time Value of Money (TVM) using more complex applications and questions. You will apply the concept of TVM to real life problems of financial planning and saving for college. You will also learn more about credit and apply the concept of TVM to borrowing and lending. You will understand that although the applications seem more complex, when you look at them and break them down into their component parts, the foundation, principles and tools remain the same. After completing this course, you will have an understanding of the detailed mechanics and rationale behind any decision you make that has future implications. Your greater familiarity with financial transactions will be applicable to any/all decisions you make. The great news is that these concepts and skills will transfer to your professional/business decisions. This course is part of the four-course Fundamental Finance for Strategic Decision Making specialization.

Sports analytics today includes vast amounts of data collected from athletes and teams that quantify both training and competitive efforts. Wearable technology devices are used by athletes on a daily basis and provide extensive opportunities to understand athletes’ workloads and recovery throughout the season. The collection of such large data sets has led to new hypotheses and strategies for injury prevention as well as detailed feedback for athletes to optimize training and recovery. This course provides an introduction to wearable technology devices and their use in training and competition as part of the broader field of sports science. It includes an introduction to the physiological principles that relate to training and athletic performance and how wearable devices can be used to characterize both training and athletic performance. The course includes access to some large data sets from sports teams and uses python programming to explore concepts related to training, recovery and performance.

The first course of the Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) specialisation will provide you with a foundation in environmental health sciences (EHS). We will cover four main topics. The first topic is an introduction to EHS and the exposure-disease model, a very useful framework for understanding the impact of the environment on human health. The second topic covers key concepts in EHS and environmental health policies that can be used to eliminate and reduce exposure to environmental health hazards. The third topic covers the application of systems thinking to understanding and analysing environmental health problems. The fourth and final topic covers occupational health, which is a key environment that represents a major source of morbidity and mortality from a public health perspective.

The second year of the Environmental Impact on Global Health specialisation will look at a range of different environmental hazards. These include: air pollution, water pollution, solid and hazardous waste, and two physical hazards (radon and noise). Each of these hazards has the potential to harm human health, and we will look at how you might come into contact with these hazards and how they might harm you, as well as what we can do to minimise these exposures and impacts on health. We will also look at two additional key topics: urban and global health, and the impact of the built environment on human health.

The fourth and final course in the Environmental Impact on Global Public Health specialization will focus on two topics. The first is environmental justice, which is the prevention of inequitable distribution of environmental health threats and the promotion of healthy and safe environments and health equity for all. The second topic is risk assessment and management, which is a framework that can be used to evaluate and quantify risks to human health and to identify appropriate approaches to reduce those risks and improve health. We will look at the steps of risk assessment and how risk assessment can incorporate and address environmental justice issues.

In this course, students will explore supervised machine learning techniques using the scikit learn (sklearn) python toolkit and real-world sports data to understand both machine learning algorithms and how to predict sports performance. Building on previous courses in the specialization, students will apply techniques such as support vector machines (SVM), decision trees, random forests, linear and logistic regression, and learner ensembles to learn data from professional sports leagues such as the NHL and MLB, as well as wearable devices such as the Apple Watch and inertial measurement units (IMUs). By the end of the course, students will have a broad understanding of how classification and regression techniques can be used for sports analytics across all sports and competitions.

In the first course of the Addressing Racial Disparities in Health Care specialization, you will learn about the role of public health in health care and will be introduced to important concepts and definitions that you will encounter throughout the course and in subsequent courses. You will be introduced to social and biological perspectives on race and racism and will learn about the history of unequal treatment in the United States. You will learn about the U.S. health insurance system, differential access to care, and professional challenges associated with diversity in health care. Finally, you will explore examples of resilience in health care that have been critical to maintaining the health of marginalized populations.

The second course of the Addressing Racial Health Inequity in Healthcare specialization you will journey through a survey of critical drivers of racial inequities in healthcare. These critical drivers need to be known in order to implement interventions that can achieve health equity. You will explore issues that arise around the financing of healthcare in the U.S, and how this system enables race-based disparities. You will then explore the multiple dimensions of access to care, and how various dimensions perpetuate racial inequities in care. You will also discuss the historical backdrop of mistreatment in healthcare settings that remains pervasive among racial groups. And finally, you will unpack implicit bias and how these biases influence diagnosis and treatment patterns among different racial groups.

The third and the last course of the Addressing Racial Health Inequity in Healthcare specialization will go through various approaches that are used to addressing racial inequity in healthcare., and the strengths and challenges of those approaches. You will explore legal, policy, and regulatory approaches to interventions such as Title IX in the United States. You will explore what is being done to intervene on providers to reduce differential care. You will unpack quality improvement and multiple approaches to leveraging healthcare systems and community partnerships to address access to care. You will also come to understand the history and role of community health centers in being critical infrastructure in addressing the health needs of diverse populations. Finally, you will be introduced to the workforce initiatives and the reparations that aim to close the racial and ethnic healthcare disparities gaps.

Explore the growing competitive gaming phenomenon that has changed the lives of millions of gamers and non-gamers alike while challenging the concept of a sport. In this Teach-Out. you'll join a conversation about the history of esports as well as gain an understanding of who participates in esports, how esports teams are formed, and how competitive gameplay works. Hearing directly from competitive players, leaders of collegiate esports programs, and industry insiders, you'll explore the societal impact of esports and look ahead to the future of the industry. This Teach-Out will answer: - How has competitive gaming evolved into the current esports phenomenon, and who are the key players involved? - What does it take to form a successful esports team and prepare for professional-level gameplay? - In what ways does esports influence societal trends, and what are the challenges and opportunities for inclusivity in gaming? - What can we expect for the future of esports in terms of technology, audience engagement, and industry growth?