University of johannesburg free online short learning courses
About this course
By the time you complete African perceptivity, you’ll have an appreciation of Africa, including its riches, birthrights and great ideas and knowledge systems. You’ll have abstract tools to suppose critically about the issues of contemporary significance to Africa, and you’ll have interacted with some of the numerous African thinkers and pens through their textbooks.
This short literacy programme is tone- paced. Work on your own terms, at the times and pets that are most accessible for you. The course is designed to be completed in about 50 hours. For illustration, you can complete it over five weeks by engaging in the course for ten hours per week or complete it over eight weeks by spending about 6 hours per week.
A digital instrument will be issued on successful completion of the course that may be viewed and participated with third parties or possible employers through the UJ Digital Certificate platform.
You’ll have until 30 November 2023 to complete this course.
Pretensions & objects
On completion of this course, you’ll be suitable to
Interact with a selection of textbook( fabrication andnon-fiction) from African thinkers and respond courteously to these readings.
Partake an informed appreciation of the part of Africa in the world and its birthrights.
Explain crucial literal and political generalities(e.g., slavery, colonialism, neo- andpost-colonialism, and ubuntu).
Link South African gests with other African gests .
Respond to the voices of Africa’s women, LGBTIQ communities, deportees and settlers in Africa, in ways that reflect an appreciation of South Africa’s Bill of Rights elevated in the South African Constitution.
Should you have any queries related to the course, please telegraphafricaninsights@uj.ac.za.
Order African study, Decoloniality
position of Effort further than 8 hrs
Duration 180
Completion Window 1 to 3 months
2 Artificial Intelligence in the 4IR 2023
About this course
Artificial Intelligence in the 4IR introduces you to artificial intelligence( AI), its operations, and its counteraccusations for society and the future of work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution( 4IR).
You’ll have until 30 November 2023 to complete this course.
A digital instrument will be issued on successful completion of the course that may be viewed and participated with third parties or possible employers through the UJ Digital Certificate platform.
Specific Conditions
This short literacy programme is tone- paced. Work on your own terms, at the times and pets that are most accessible for you. The course is designed to be completed in about 50 hours. For illustration, you can complete it over five weeks by engaging in the course for ten hours per week or complete it over eight weeks by spending about six hours per week.
Pretensions & Objects
Artificial Intelligence in the 4IR comprises of eight units aimed to help you develop a abstract model of a world with AI. Completion of this short literacy programme will enable you to
Develop an understanding of the 4IR and robotization. Understand the elaboration of AI. bandy foundational generalities and ways of AI and their operation to real- life problems. Explore advances in AI exploration, operation and commercialisation in the United States and the West.
Explore advances in AI exploration, operation and commercialisation in China.
unload the counteraccusations of AI for the future of the world of work.
Be apprehensive of social and ethical considerations of AI technology.
Reflect on the future of AI for society.
Should you have any queries regarding this course, please telegraphai2support@uj.ac.za.
Order 4th Industrial Revolution( 4IR)
position of Effort further than 8 hrs
Duration 180
Completion Window 1 to 3 months
3 fiscal knowledge Be Money Wise 2023 2nd Intake
About this course
Opinions about finances and particular fiscal operation is a matter that involves everyone. fiscal knowledge is a lifelong skill, which won’t only help you during a fiscal exigency, but will help you with your diurnal fiscal opinions to enrich your fiscal future and icing balance in your everyday life. fiscal knowledge is an investment in mortal capital with pivotal counteraccusations for an existent’s fiscal good. The programme is designed to equip you with effective strategies to manage your plutocrat, which will apply your capability to make sound fiscal opinions.
You’ll have from 17 July until 30 November 2023 to complete this course.
A digital instrument will be issued on successful completion of the course that may be viewed and participated with third parties or possible employers through the UJ Digital Certificate platform.
Specific Conditions
This short literacy programme is tone- paced. Work on your own terms, at the times and pets that are most accessible for you. The course is designed to be completed in about 50 hours. For illustration, you can complete it over five weeks by engaging in the course for ten hours per week or complete it over eight weeks by spending about 6 hours per week.
Pretensions & Objects
This course comprises of four units, videlicet Budgeting, to understand the significance of setting fiscal pretensions and drawing up a budget. Wealth creation, including the understanding of the introductory strategies. introductory economics, understanding the introductory generalities of economics and how it applies to your diurnal life. plutocrat operation, understanding the strategies and ways.
Should you have any queries related to the course, please telegraphbemoneywise@uj.ac.za.
Order fiscal knowledge
position of Effort further than 8 hrs
Duration 180
Completion Window 1 to 3 months
4 preface to the Sustainable Development Goals 2023 2nd Intake
About this course
The course introduces you to the United Nations ’( UN) Sustainable Development Goals( SDGs). It’s an introductory interdisciplinary short- literacy programme to give you with a introductory understanding of and environment to the SDGs( from South African and African perspectives), the reasons for their actuality, how they fit together in a comprehensive frame, as well as reviews levelled against the SDG Agenda. The 17 SDGs will be engaged in four groupings social, profitable, biophysical SDGs and SDG perpetration.
On completion of this SLP, students should be able to:
Explain the origin, development and current context of the SDG Agenda.
Discuss what the various SDGs are.
Illustrate the interdependence between the social, economic and biophysical intentions of the SDGs, whilst also recognising the trade-offs. Recognise the institutional infrastructure in place to implement the SDGs. Reflect on the progress made with the implementation of the SDG Agenda thus far, the challenges to achieve the SDGs, as well as criticism against it. Should you have any queries related to the course, please email sdg-support@uj.ac.za.
Should you have any queries related to the course, please email sdg-support@uj.ac.za.
Category: Sustainable Development
Level of Effort: More than 8hrs