Davidson College

Davidson College seeks out intellectually curious students who are committed to developing their talents for lives of leadership and service.
Small classes enable our renowned faculty to work closely with students, engaging them directly in original research and creative work across the arts, sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In the classroom and beyond, Davidson cultivates students' compassion, creativity, resilience, and moral courage.
We nurture these values in a community founded on trust as articulated by the Honor Code and on free, unfettered inquiry. The Davidson Trust supports our campus-wide commitments to access and equal opportunity.
Nearly one-quarter of our students compete in Division I athletics, and 80 percent of our students study or work internationally during their Davidson careers. These rich and distinguished offerings enable Davidson graduates to thrive in a global society and exert disproportionate impact for good.
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Essentials of Data Literacy (edX)

Learn how to read, work with, and analyze data. Future-proof your career. In this course, you will practice analyzing, visualizing, and communicating with data, using real datasets and examples that are relevant to a variety of audiences and academic disciplines. Data is part of every field, but not everyone [...]

Medicinal Chemistry: The Molecular Basis of Drug Discovery (edX)

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Medicinal Chemistry: The Molecular Basis of Drug Discovery (edX)
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Gain a better understanding of the drug discovery process to learn how safe, effective drugs are developed and optimized. This medicinal chemistry course explores how chemists modify a molecule’s structure to design a safe and effective drug.

Engagement in a Time of Polarization (edX)

How have our online interactions and engagement - as a society - become so toxic? Is there anything we as individuals and citizens can do to stop this trend, or at least stop it from stopping us? How can we work together in a society where our communications channels [...]

US Voting Access and Fraud (edX)

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US Voting Access and Fraud (edX)
Course Auditing
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Political scientists, journalists and election officials explain the storied history of US voting rights and explore access and fraud in 2016.

Electronic Literature (edX)

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Electronic Literature (edX)
Free Course
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Interactive Fiction. Chatterbots. Hypertext and kinetic poetry. Explore these avant garde forms and other new media in this exciting class.

Applications of Linear Algebra Part 2 (edX)

Explore applications of linear algebra in the field of data mining by learning fundamentals of search engines, clustering movies into genres and of computer graphics by posterizing an image. Our world is in a data deluge with ever increasing sizes of datasets. Linear algebra is a tool [...]

Applications of Linear Algebra Part 1 (edX)

Learn to use linear algebra in computer graphics by making images disappear in an animation or creating a mosaic or fractal and in data mining to measure similarities between movies, songs, or friends. From simulating complex phenomenon on supercomputers to storing the coordinates needed in modern 3D printing, [...]

Representations of HIV/AIDS (edX)

We will explore how HIV/AIDS has been portrayed in diverse genres through the perspectives of the scientist and the literary critic. This class engages students in a transdisciplinary conversation about representations of HIV/AIDS: in science writing, journalism, visual art, literature, drama, and popular culture. [...]