10 free online courses starting in January (2017)

We are in a time when to stay in the labor market it is necessary to renew and train continuously. Nowadays, having a degree or a master's degree is a necessary but generally insufficient requirement to get a job.

In addition to experience, both specialization and diversity of knowledge are rewarded. And staying trained is not only important at the work level but also enriches the psyche, makes us see things from new perspectives and even promotes the maintenance of intellectual capacities, strengthening them. That is why in this article we present a series of online courses that start or can be done during this month of January.

• This article may interest you: "25 Best Free Online Psychology Courses"

10 courses to start the year

New Year New Life. In order to start this 2017 with dynamism and to make the mind work again after the Christmas excesses, We have selected some courses related to psychology and the humanities that start throughout this month.

Most of them are free or only require a small outlay for the corresponding certificate.

• Autonomous University of Barcelona

It is a recurring course in free online training recommendations, being one of the most successful today. This is a five-week on-demand course offered in Spanish (although the audio of the videos are in English) by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Crisis Center of Barcelona.

This course allows you to acquire the skills to apply psychological first aid in emergency situations, be it personal or communal. They are trained to prepare scenarios in which to interact with those affected by said situations and their relatives to apply said first aid in situations of great stress and tension.

• IESE Business School

This course to start on January 9 and lasting five weeks focuses on the field of Human Resources, offering training in multiple fundamental aspects to work in the management of organizations. Skills management, selection processes, hiring, evaluation, promotion and compensation are the topics worked on during the course. It is offered by the IESE Business School, in Spanish.

• Emory University

Addiction to different types of substances has been common throughout history and continues to be a problem today. For this reason, in this course offered in English by Emory University, which begins on January 23, the aim is to work on the different types of drugs, their effects on the brain, the disorders and alterations they cause and ways to treat those with use disorders of substances.

• washington university

How neurons encode and decode information, how neural networks learn, and how brain plasticity influences the whole process are essential elements when it comes to describe how the nervous system processes information. This course in English, offered by the University of Washington, focuses on explaining and providing information regarding these and other computational neuroscience topics.

• dukeuniversity

Vision is one of the senses that the human being has more developed, depending to a great extent of it for the correct adaptation to the environment and assuming a significant handicap its absence or loss. Throughout this course that begins on January 26, we explore how the visual system works and how our brain is able to represent and work with elements such as color, shapes, lights, spaces or the visual capture of movements.

• Autonomous University of Barcelona

Sexuality is a complex dimension of the human being that throughout history has been treated in different ways in different cultures. Gender, orientation and sexual identity are analyzed through different supports and cultural representations such as cinema or literature in this course in Spanish offered by the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

• IASE: Advanced Institute of Health and Education

The family is one of the most important areas of life, in which we begin development and in which, as a general rule, we have our main reference figures. The family greatly determines the type of development that the infant and later adult will have. In this grade based on systems theory Different ways of working with the different types of family environments and their particularities are presented.

IASE offers the possibility of taking only one of its free courses per student, so it is It is advisable to view the available courses in order to choose the one that best suits our needs. needs.

• University of Chicago

Behavior, thought, emotion, perception... all of this is regulated by our nervous system. Understand how this system works and how it communicates with the rest of the body is the goal of this course offered by the University of Chicago. Entirely in English, throughout it the neuroanatomy of different senses and processes (whether perceptive, motor or even cognitive) as well as how body homeostasis is regulated or how communication occurs neural.

• University of the Andes

A four-week introductory course offered in Spanish is especially aimed at educators and educators, as well as parents and health professionals. The contents of this course allow those who take it to explain in an understandable way basic concepts such as sex, gender, orientation and sexual identity, and how the experience of these concepts can be variable and go much further than mere physical contact.

• IASE: Advanced Institute of Health and Education

Applicable in the field of education and clinical practice, psychoexpression bases its performance on the emission of the creative facet, releasing the emotional and psychic blockages of students and patients through playful activities and in which inner concerns and fears can be manifested, integrating humanism and art therapy. This short introductory course makes us see the fundamentals and ways of putting this branch of psychology into practice.

IASE offers the possibility of taking only one of its free courses per student, so it is It is advisable to view the available courses in order to choose the one that best suits our needs. needs.