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Get the Knowledge: Free Online Masters in International Relations

Since Graduating with my theatre degree, and actually quite a bit a bit before graduation, I started to feel like I wanted to learn about something more important. Surrounded by friends studying “important” topics like global policy and systems...and taking electives like urban politics sparked a sense of academic passion I hadn’t felt from theatre in years.

So, I started looking for more information. Being flat broke and having a lot of time on my hands, I looked into the requirements for a Master’s in International Relations at my undergrad alma mater, Columbia University. The program is very rigorous...but, are there comparable free MOOCs that offer the same knowledge and essential understanding of the history and theories required by Columbia? 

I put together a course guide, according to Columbia’s requirements, pulling courses from major MOOC sites to design a completely free online Master’s in International Relations with variable options:

One (1) Courses in IR Conceptual Foundations

1. Global Politics https://www.edx.org/course/politique-global

Two (2) Courses in Economics

One (1) course in Microeconomics

2. Microeconomic Principles: Decision Making under Scarcity https://www.edx.org/course/microeconomic-principles-decision-making-under-scarcity

One (1) course in Macroeconomics

3. Financial Programming and Policies Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts Analysis https://www.edx.org/course/financial-programming-and-policies-part-1-macroeconomic-accounts-analysis-0

One (1) Course in Quantitative Analysis

4.Data Analysis in Social Science https://www.edx.org/course/data-analysis-in-social-science-assessing-your-knowledge

One (1) Course in Management

5. International Organizations Management https://www.coursera.org/learn/international-organizations-management

One (1) Course in Financial Management

6. Public Financial Management https://www.edx.org/course/public-financial-management

One (1) Course in Interstate Relations

7. Global Diplomacy – Diplomacy in the Modern World https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-diplomacy

Eight (8) Courses  - Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration

One (1) Core Course

8. International Human Rights Law https://www.edx.org/course/international-human-rights-law-0

Two (2) Human Rights Policy Focus Area Courses

9. Human Rights Defenders https://www.edx.org/course/human-rights-defenders1

10. Introduction to International Criminal Law https://www.coursera.org/learn/international-criminal-law

Two (2) Elective Courses

11. International Humanitarian Law https://www.edx.org/course/international-humanitarian-law

12. Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Challenging Poverty, Vulnerability and Social Exclusion https://www.edx.org/course/human-rights-human-wrongs-challenging-poverty-vulnerability-and-social-exclusion  

Three (3) Specialization Courses

One (1) IO/UN Specialization Course

13. Global Diplomacy: the United Nations in the World

https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-diplomacy-un

Two (2) Courses in either the INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OR UN STUDIES ELECTIVE SPECIALIZATION

14. The Changing Global Order https://www.coursera.org/learn/changing-global-order

15. Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster https://www.edx.org/course/humanitarian-response-to-conflict-and-disaster

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Some views never get old..

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A comforting thought

Five thousand years ago, the Sumerians called the night ngi, the stars mul, and the moon Nanna.

Four thousand years ago, the Akkadians called the night mūšu, the stars kakkabū, and the moon Sîn.

Three thousand years ago, the Hittites called the night išpanza, the stars haštereš, and the moon Arma.

Two and a half thousand years ago, the Greeks called the night nux, the stars astra, and the moon Selênê.

Two thousand years ago, the Romans called the night nox, the stars stellae, and the moon Luna.

Kings and queens and heroes looked up at them. So did travelers coming home, and little children who sneaked out of bed. So did slaves, and mothers and soldiers and old shepherds, and Sappho and Muršili and Enheduanna and Socrates and Hatshepsut and Cyrus and Cicero. In this darkness it didn’t matter who they were, or where they stood. Only that they were human.

Think of that tonight, when you close your window. You are not alone. You share this night sky with centuries of dreamers and stargazers, and people who longed for quiet. Are you anxious? The Hittites were too: they called it pittuliyaš. Does your heart ache? The Greeks felt it too: they called it akhos. Those who look up to the stars for comfort are a family, and you belong to them. Your ancestors have stood under Nanna, Sîn, Arma, Selênê and Luna for five thousand years. Now its light is yours.

May it soothe you well.

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Treehouse Utopia: Chapelle

© nelsontreehouse

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PSA: You want a matter class on knowing where to stop your slit for your body type. Ask Kelly.

Best of Red Carpet of 2018  148/365  Kelly Clarkson In Christian Siriano – Billboard Music Awards

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Are Bryce Dallas Howard and Christina Hendricks essentially the same person now or?

Best of Red Carpet of 2018  153/365  Bryce Dallas Howard In  Dolce & Gabanna’Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom’ London Photocall

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14 Writing Tips from Stephen King For all Fiction Writers.

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Shakespeare Plays as Screencaps from Always Sunny

All’s Well That Ends Well

Antony and Cleopatra

As You Like It

The Comedy of Errors

Coriolanus

Cymbeline

Hamlet

Henry IV Part I

Henry IV Part II

Henry V

Henry VI Part I

Henry VI Part II

Henry VI Part III

Henry VIII

Julius Caesar

King John

King Lear

Love’s Labours Lost

Macbeth

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

Pericles

Richard II

Richard III

Romeo and Juliet

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus

Troilus and Cressida

Twelfth Night

Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Winter’s Tale

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Fuck. No. I did my time in the commercial theater scene. I don't need that kind of energy in my life.

mcu cancelled. thor ragnarok and black panther belong to the mamma mia cinematic universe now

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I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

Alison 

Coursera

FutureLearn

open2study

Khan Academy

edX

P2P U

Academic Earth

iversity

Stanford Online

MIT Open Courseware

Open Yale Courses

BBC Learning

OpenLearn

Carnegie Mellon University OLI

University of Reddit

Saylor

IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)

TED

FORA

Big Think 

99u

BBC Future

Seriously Amazing

How Stuff Works

Discovery News

National Geographic

Science News

Popular Science

IFLScience

YouTube Edu

NewScientist

DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

wikiHow

Wonder How To

instructables

eHow

Howcast

MAKE

Do it yourself

FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS

OpenStax CNX

Open Textbooks

Bookboon

Textbook Revolution

E-books Directory

FullBooks

Books Should Be Free

Classic Reader

Read Print

Project Gutenberg

AudioBooks For Free

LibriVox

Poem Hunter

Bartleby

MIT Classics

Many Books

Open Textbooks BCcampus

Open Textbook Library

WikiBooks

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Journals

Scitable

PLOS

Wiley Open Access

Springer Open

Oxford Open

Elsevier Open Access

ArXiv

Open Access Library

LEARN:

1. LANGUAGES

Duolingo

BBC Languages

Learn A Language

101languages

Memrise

Livemocha

Foreign Services Institute

My Languages

Surface Languages

Lingualia

OmniGlot

OpenCulture’s Language links

2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING

Codecademy

Programmr

GA Dash

CodeHS

w3schools

Code Avengers

Codelearn

The Code Player

Code School

Code.org

Programming Motherf*?$%#

Bento

Bucky’s room

WiBit

Learn Code the Hard Way

Mozilla Developer Network

Microsoft Virtual Academy

3. YOGA & MEDITATION

Learning Yoga

Learn Meditation

Yome

Free Meditation

Online Meditation

Do Yoga With Me

Yoga Learning Center

4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING

Exposure Guide

The Bastards Book of Photography

Cambridge in Color

Best Photo Lessons

Photography Course

Production Now

nyvs

Learn About Film

Film School Online

5. DRAWING & PAINTING

Enliighten

Ctrl+Paint

ArtGraphica

Google Cultural Institute

Drawspace

DragoArt

WetCanvas

6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY

Music Theory

Teoria

Music Theory Videos

Furmanczyk Academy of Music

Dave Conservatoire

Petrucci Music Library

Justin Guitar

Guitar Lessons

Piano Lessons

Zebra Keys

Play Bass Now

7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS

Investopedia

The Chess Website

Chesscademy

Chess.com

Spreeder

ReadSpeeder

First Aid for Free

First Aid Web

NHS Choices

Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Please feel free to add more learning focused websites. 

*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.

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Trevor Paglen - They Watch the Moon (2010)

“This photograph depicts a classified ‘listening station’ deep in the forests of West Virginia.

The station is located at the center of the National Radio Quiet Zone, a region of approximately 34,000 square kilometers in West Virginia and parts of Maryland.

Within the Quiet Zone, radio transmissions are severely restricted: omnidirectional and high-powered transmissions (such as wireless internet devices and FM radio stations) are not permitted.

The listening station, which forms part of the global ECHELON system, was designed in part to take advantage of a phenomenon called moonbounce.

Moonbounce involves capturing communications and telemetry signals from around the world as they escape into space, hit the moon, and are reflected back towards Earth.

The photograph is a long exposure under the full moon light.”

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Concept art for the City of Canvan. I’m not very good with scale or steampunk or manmade objects or metals or landscapes or dynamic angles so this was clearly something totally I should have drawn but hopefully it’s good enough to get the point across.

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I would love this.

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beyoncé.com - COACHELLA 2018

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Nicknames Tony Stark gives people

Bonus:

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TW: SLAVERY, RAPE

Or it could be a slave's name...many young black women were given biblical or virtuous names. Many were molested and raped by other slaves, family, drivers, or owners and brutalized and yes, sometimes murdered when they were found carrying the results of those rapes.

Coming soon from Lionsgate…

“GRATEFUL”