Top Coursera History Courses by Reddit Upvotes
Reddit is a social media and news aggregation website that ranks content based on a voting system. People worldwide post content (usually links, but also original content), and other users can “upvote” or “downvote” posts, pushing the most interesting content to the top.
It’s a place where you can find groups of like-minded people. Reddit calls these groups subreddits, and they cover different topics, including niche interests, politics, hobbies, and thousands of other topics people want to talk about.
Since its launch in 2005, the site has become one of the most popular social media sites with millions of monthly active users.
We've conducted analyses to find the best of Coursera from the depths of Reddit. This analysis has been conducted over 2.7 million Reddit upvotes.
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Top History courses
Indigenous Canada Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Faculty of Native Studies that University of Alberta | 0 reddit posts 90 mentions |
Magic in the Middle Ages Magical thought has always attracted human imagination Universitat de Barcelona | 6 reddit posts 11 mentions |
The Modern World, Part One This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective University of Virginia | 0 reddit posts 18 mentions |
The Bible's Prehistory, Purpose, and Political Future With its walls razed to ground by Babylon’s armies, Jerusalem joined a long line of ancient vanquished Emory University | 1 reddit posts 27 mentions |
English Composition I You will gain a foundation for college-level writing valuable for nearly any field Duke University | 1 reddit posts 12 mentions |
The Ancient Greeks This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE Wesleyan University | 0 reddit posts 11 mentions |
Understanding Russians This course is planned to give the learners a general outline of the main rules that control the Russian-Western HSE University | 2 reddit posts 1 mentions |
The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem The destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and the Babylonian Exile were a great catastrophe in the Tel Aviv University | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
The French Revolution The French Revolution was one of the most important upheavals in world history The University of Melbourne | 0 reddit posts 4 mentions |
Organising an Empire Discover the mighty kingdom of Assyria, which came to be the world’s first great Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) | 0 reddit posts 27 mentions |
The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part I This course will review the emergence of the modern Middle East from the fall of the Ottoman Empire, at the Tel Aviv University | 0 reddit posts 6 mentions |
The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part II This course will discuss the developments in the Middle East from the early 20th century to the present Tel Aviv University | 0 reddit posts 6 mentions |
The Modern World, Part Two This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective University of Virginia | 0 reddit posts 5 mentions |
Big History We currently face unprecedented challenges on a global scale Macquarie University | 0 reddit posts 4 mentions |
The History of Modern Israel - Part I How did the State of Israel come to be? How is it that an idea, introduced in 19th century Europe, became a Tel Aviv University | 0 reddit posts 4 mentions |
The Kennedy Half Century When John F University of Virginia | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
American Education Reform Discover what shapes how we talk about schools today by exploring the history of U University of Pennsylvania | 0 reddit posts 7 mentions |
Feminism and Social Justice "Feminism and Social Justice" is an adaptation of Distinguished Professor Bettina University of California, Santa Cruz | 0 reddit posts 6 mentions |
Wonders of Ancient Egypt Colossal pyramids, imposing temples, golden treasures, enigmatic hieroglyphs, powerful pharaohs, University of Pennsylvania | 0 reddit posts 13 mentions |
Age of Jefferson This course provides an overview of Thomas Jefferson's work and perspectives presented by the University University of Virginia | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Deciphering Secrets Perhaps no other relic of the European Middle Ages captures our imagination more than illuminated University of Colorado System | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Egiptología (Egyptology) ¿Sientes curiosidad por la civilización del antiguo Egipto? ¿Eres un apasionado de su cultura Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2) This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European Wesleyan University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Recovering the Humankind's Past and Saving the Universal Heritage Archaeology is, among human sciences, the discipline with the strongest importance for the Sapienza University of Rome | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Roman Architecture Roman Architecture is a course for people who love to travel and want to discover the power of architecture to Yale University | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Arch of Titus The Arch of Titus: Rome and the Menorah explores one of the most significant Roman monuments to survive from Yeshiva University | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Soul Beliefs Throughout history, the vast majority of people around the globe have believed they Rutgers the State University of New Jersey | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Moses' Face One was Moses but many are his faces Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
A Journey through Western Christianity This course follows the extraordinary development of Western Christianity from its early persecution under the Yale University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Cultural Competence - Aboriginal Sydney This course explores some of the key themes and capabilities of cultural competence by exploring The University of Sydney | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Heritage under Threat In this course you will learn to articulate your own concepts about (threatened) heritage and that of others Universiteit Leiden | 1 reddit posts 0 mentions |
The Holocaust - An Introduction (I) The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its innocence Tel Aviv University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Roman Art and Archaeology The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the culture of ancient Rome beginning about 1000 University of Arizona | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archaeology and History of the Palatine Hill Studying ancient - as well as medieval or modern - cities basically means telling local urban Sapienza University of Rome | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Paesaggi di Roma Antica. Archeologia e storia del Palatino. The course presents the topographical lay-out of the most relevant part of the city Sapienza University of Rome | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Alle origini della civiltà mediterranea Quali sono le radici più profonde di quel mix di culture che chiamiamo ‘civiltà mediterranea’? Quali Sapienza University of Rome | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Age of Cathedrals An introduction to some of the most astonishing architectural monuments the world has ever known—Gothic Yale University | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Coexistence in Medieval Spain This course explores Jewish, Christian, and Muslim intercultural relations in Iberia from the University of Colorado System | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Introduction to Ancient Egypt and Its Civilization Colossal pyramids, imposing temples, golden treasures, enigmatic hieroglyphs, powerful pharaohs, University of Pennsylvania | 0 reddit posts 14 mentions |
A Brief History of Human Spaceflight This course provides a view of the history of spaceflight, from early writings telling of human's University of Houston | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Iniciación a los jeroglíficos egipcios ¿Te apasiona la historia y la cultura del antiguo Egipto? ¿Sientes fascinación por las lenguas Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
A Voice of Their Own. Women's Spirituality in the Middle Ages. Have you ever heard about medieval mysticism or medieval heresies? Have you ever wondered about the Universitat de Barcelona | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Curanderismo COURSE DESCRIPTION As one of four courses on Curanderismo, the art of Hispanic/Latino traditional University of New Mexico | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Introduction to Who Wrote Shakespeare This free course from the University of London explores critical thinking, and the interpretation of texts, through the Shakespeare University of London | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
At the Origins of the Mediterranean Civilization Which are the deepest roots of that mix of cultures that we use to call ‘Mediterranean Sapienza University of Rome | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Film, Images & Historical Interpretation in the 20th Century This course is a short taster on the topic of the use of Images, Film, and their use in historical interpretation in the 20th century University of London | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Black Lives Matter The #BlackLivesMatter movement is the most significant political movement in African American life in Johns Hopkins University | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Art of the MOOC Students of this course may try their hand at their own sound interventions and musical compositions, or simply focus on learning more about Duke University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
The Talmud The Talmud is one of the richest and most complicated works of literature the world has ever known Northwestern University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Our methodology
We conducted this analysis by "ranking things based on social signals"
It's the result of mining Reddit posts and comments. The analysis looked at all (url-based) posts and comment mentions of Coursera courses on Reddit, ranking each course based on Reddit score, and showing each course with its top Reddit mentions.
Course Score is calculated with a slightly modified version of a simple popularity / age calculation.
course_score = sum(mention_scores) / course_age
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