This year, Online Duke has launched an exciting lineup of new courses and specializations (series of related courses) designed to empower learners around the world to grow their skills, careers, and perspectives. From coding to healthcare, leadership to the arts, these courses are already making an impact on learners’ lives. See what’s new that may be for you:

Learn to Code

Practical Python: Start Your Programming Journey (Course)

Practical Python introduces beginners to Python programming while guiding them to design, plan, and build creative projects like games, calculators, and poems, all while learning how to debug and improve their code.

“I enjoyed your course! I appreciated that everything was inside the course and I didn’t have to download anything. You also had different environments and tutorial pages which broadened my resources. I appreciated the auto-grader so that I didn’t have to do any peer grading.”

Python Programming for Data Science: Principles to Practice (Specialization)

This specialization helps you develop the skills necessary to effectively manage, analyze, and communicate insights about data with Python. Whether you’re a professional looking to add Python to your data science toolkit or a complete novice, this series offers hands-on practice and frameworks to navigate a full data science pipeline.

“I have tried a lot of different python classes in the past and knew the technical syntax but always struggled with creating functions and understanding algorithms until this class. Thank you for teaching me how to think through and pre code to understand the flow. I finally understand how to create my own functions rather than just the syntax.”

Data Science with R Specialization (Specialization)

Designed for beginners and professionals, this series provides the foundational skills to transform, visualize, and ethically analyze data with the R programming language.

Grow Your Healthcare Career

Health Leadership for Climate Change (Specialization)

Focused on healthcare professionals, administrators, students, trainees, and anyone interested in the intersection between health and climate, this specialization will teach you climate fluency skills to integrate climate change science and solutions into your personal and professional life.

“Thank you for the course. It was very well-grounded and explained. It helped me a lot to better understand how global warming happens and how studies are conducted. As a teacher, this knowledge is very important so that I can pass it on to my students accurately and with solid evidence.”

Telehealth (Multiple Specializations)

These five telehealth specializations are designed to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills to deliver effective virtual care. Each specialization consists of three short courses led by an interprofessional team of health educators. All learners begin with Clinical Essentials of Telehealth, covering the foundations of a successful video visit, and Telehealth: Interprofessional Team-Based Care, which explores how collaboration across health professions expands patient access. From there, each specialization focuses on a clinical area of practice allowing you to tailor your learning to your field while building core telehealth competencies:

• Telehealth: Essentials, Teamwork, and Cardiopulmonary Exam
• Telehealth: Essentials, Teamwork, and Dermatology Exam
• Telehealth: Essentials, Teamwork, and HEENT Exam
• Telehealth: Essentials, Teamwork, and Musculoskeletal Exam
• Telehealth: Essentials, Teamwork, and Neurologic Exam

Cultivate Business & Leadership Skills

Environmental Leadership (Course)

This short course provides an entry-level overview of timeless and timely leadership principles and how to apply them to environmental contexts in your own life. No matter your interests, age, career, or goals, you can make a difference.

“Thank you for building such a thoughtful, motivating course. It didn’t just teach me — it empowered me. I’m leaving with not only new knowledge but a stronger sense of direction, and I’m excited to bring this mindset into the work I do in my community and beyond.”

Impact Investment Finance (Course)

Whether you’re an aspiring investor, an enterprise leader, or exploring a career in the field, this course offers a practical introduction to the impact investing marketplace. You’ll learn how the market is structured, including the roles of asset owners and asset managers, and how capital flows between them.

“The course did an amazing job at explaining the difference between asset managers and asset owners clearly. I really liked the interventions from people in the field and I think this did a great job at introducing impact investment finance concisely and clearly.”

Creating an Impact Investing Ask (Course)

This course teaches you how to assess a venture’s readiness for impact capital by examining two essential dimensions: business growth and impact. On the business side, you’ll use a diagnostic tool to evaluate seven key elements that drive growth and understand how investors assess profitability through unit economics. On the impact side, you’ll learn a four-step framework for building strong impact management practices that meet investor expectations.

Church Administration: Finance (Specialization)

This specialization provides a comprehensive foundation in church leadership and administration, combining theological insight with practical strategies for time management, strategic planning, and financial stewardship. Designed for both current and aspiring church leaders, it equips you to strengthen your ministry’s effectiveness and sustainability while remaining grounded in faith and mission.

“This course is fantastic! It will change you as a person and change how you view your church and your ministry. This is a high point in my educational history, and I intend to continue with Duke. Simply amazing.”

Explore the Arts & Humanities

Psalms and the Arts (Course)

This course invites you to learn from experts in biblical interpretation and the arts to deepen your personal and communal engagement with the Psalms and the arts.

“This course has been a delight for me.  I am thankful that I could take time to sit with the Psalms, the in depth reflections that you and the artists offered, and meditate. I hope that I get to see other Duke Divinity courses such as this one in the future. I am always grateful for your work, writings, and inspiration.”

Art of the MOOC: Art, Culture, and Society (Specialization)

The cultural sector has become central to so many of the world’s most interesting places and thriving economies. Be it for personal or professional reasons, this specialization will prepare you to engage with it on a solid foundation.

“I was definitely broadened in my thinking and understanding. I also was exposed to a good spread of variation and artists to give breath to the concepts, and also introspection to who I may be, what my contributions, comforts, discomforts, and options are. What are the issues that embolden me? And more of a framework for enactments.”