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Five free courses from Harvard, Yale and MIT

The links to five free online courses: happiness, persuasive writing and speaking, negotiation, well-being and starting a business. What each one covers and how long it takes.

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How long each one takes and what you'll learn
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Five free courses from Harvard, Yale and MIT

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Course 1

Managing Happiness

Offered by: Harvard University, on edX.

Length: Self-paced, 2 to 3 hours a week. The page says it's available anytime and doesn't give a total number of weeks.
What you'll learn: A course on happiness and whether you can work on it on purpose. Harvard's page opens with "Happiness is within your control."

Link: https://pll.harvard.edu/course/managing-happiness

Course 2

Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking

Offered by: Harvard University, on edX.

Length: 8 weeks, self-paced, 2 to 3 hours a week.
What you'll learn: How to write and speak more persuasively. It's an introduction to American political rhetoric, so expect speeches and arguments as the examples.

Link: https://pll.harvard.edu/course/rhetoric-art-persuasive-writing-and-public-speaking

Course 3

Introduction to Negotiation: A Strategic Playbook for Becoming a Principled and Persuasive Negotiator

Offered by: Yale University, taught by Barry Nalebuff, on Coursera.

Length: 9 modules. Coursera suggests about 3 weeks at 10 hours a week, and you set your own pace.
What you'll learn: A framework for negotiating, then practice on cases.

Link: https://www.coursera.org/learn/negotiation

Course 4

The Science of Well-Being

Offered by: Yale University, taught by Laurie Santos, on Coursera.

Length: 6 modules. Coursera suggests about 1 week at 10 hours a week, and you set your own pace.
What you'll learn: Common misconceptions about happiness, why our expectations are so bad, what really makes us happy, and how to put strategies into practice. Those are the module topics listed on the page.

Link: https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being

Course 5

Becoming an Entrepreneur

Offered by: MIT, on MIT Learn.

Length: About 6 weeks, self-paced.
What you'll learn: The myths of entrepreneurship, setting your goals, spotting opportunities, market research and choosing your first customer, designing and testing your offer, and planning logistics, plus pitching and selling.

Link: https://learn.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:MITxT+LaunchX

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