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Free online psychology courses allow psychology students and anyone interested in the subject to gain a deeper understanding of specialty areas, explore diverse topics, and access valuable knowledge. While these courses do not confer credit, they can be an excellent resource for learning about a new topic or determining if a psychology degree may be right for you.
Most free online psychology courses use self-paced learning through video lectures, assignments, quizzes, and exams. Courses often include online discussions and reading materials. Our list covers 18 free online psychology courses from universities and psychological associations.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Introduction to Psychology course is one of the more comprehensive free psychology courses available. Course materials include self-tests, assignments, videos of classroom sessions, and a downloadable textbook. The textbook and other materials date from 2010 or earlier. Coursework explores the physical nature of the brain, emotions, learning, psychopathology, and social psychology.
While this free psychology course is part of Carnegie Mellon's series for community college students, the university welcomes learners at any level to participate. The course, now updated to reflect DSM-5, includes 16 units with an average of four modules per unit. It does not include scored assessments or the opportunity to earn credit.
This free psychology course uses a recording of a class taught at Yale in 2007. It covers introductory psychology topics like personality, development, emotion, and cognition. Resources include course recordings and supplemental materials but not the official textbooks. Each recording includes 75 minutes of lecture and discussion from one of the bi-weekly classes offered on the Yale campus. There are no options for credit or assessments.
Like many Coursera offerings, this program is a free psychology course or certificate option. To earn the certificate of completion, you must complete all course materials, including video lectures, assignments, and reading materials. Please note that this is a certificate and not a certification.
The course does not offer college credit hours. If you want to use this course for professional development credit hours, be sure your credentialing organization accepts Coursera certificates of completion and the required hours. Coursera estimates that the course takes 37 hours to complete. The curriculum includes social perceptions and beliefs, communication, group behavior, aggression versus peace and mutual help, and how social psychology relates to daily living.
This free psychology course offered by Yale University addresses the psychology of food and eating, political and social aspects of food production and policy, and personal and societal barriers or supports for healthy eating and nutrition.
These include malnutrition and obesity, eating disorders, and environmental and socioeconomic factors in food and eating. This course uses a class recording from 2007, and participants are not eligible for certificates or credits. The materials include supplemental readings but not the course textbooks.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's positive psychology course is one of the shorter free psychology courses available. Each enrollee should expect to spend 11 hours to complete the course over three weeks. The six modules cover the psychology of positive thinking, seeking happiness, and other topics related to positivity and psychological well-being.
You can take this course either as a free option, which does not include assessments or a certificate of completion, or as a paid certificate option. If you plan to use this course for continuing education credits, be sure that the credentialing organization accepts Coursera. The paid option includes six assessments.
This program from UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center is one of the earliest and most popular free online psychology courses, with nearly 600,000 learners enrolled. It is designed for amateurs rather than mental health professionals but remains relevant for those with experience in the field.
At an estimated 11 weeks of 4-5 hours per week, it is one of the longer courses on this list. The curriculum is based on positive psychology and explores the nature of positive psychology, happiness, empathy, mindfulness, and other approaches that can improve mental well-being. Like other edX courses, you can take it for free or enroll in the certificate option to receive a certificate of completion.
Coursera recommends taking the American Psychological Association's (APA) free psychological research specialization course over three months. The course covers methods of conducting effective research in psychology through methods, ethics, and statistics sessions. The intended audience is first-year and second-year college students, but anybody interested can participate.
APA updated the course in August 2023. You can review the material for free or pay for a certificate option that includes assessments. If you want to use this course for continuing education credit, find out if your credentialing organization accepts Coursera classes and how many credits you can receive.
The methods for quantitative research in psychology course is offered by the APA and takes approximately seven hours to complete. Like the psychological research specialization, it is ideal for first-year and second-year college students. There are nine modules ranging from 2-60 minutes each.
Like other Coursera classes, you can view the material free and pay for the certificate option, which includes assessments. If you want continuing education credit, check with your certifying organization to see if it accepts Coursera credits or this specific course, along with how many credits it accepts.
Are you interested in delving into the intricate workings of the brain and understanding the biological underpinnings of psychology? If so, this free online course offered through the University of Chicago might be a great option. Enrollees spend an average of 27 hours to complete the course, based on nine hours each week over three weeks.
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