The Curriculum
Welcome to the Curriculum Section! Here, you will find all of our published courses and video series, each of which details a unique application of technology to harnessing social change! These courses come in the form of YouTube Playlists, where you can easily follow along and jot down notes as you traverse through the several videos and tutorials!
Scroll down, take a look at the available options, and see what interests you - start YOUR learning journey right now.
Course
Project: PassionSite
Additional Info
What can you expect?
With explainer videos and tutorials going through all phases of professional web development, Project: PassionSite is a 10-video course that details website creation from scratch, HTML and CSS, and relates it all to YOU, the viewer! Learn how websites can spread our messages across the globe - all from scratch.
The course covers all the following topics in detail:
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The Role of a Website
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HTML Fundamentals (Basic Syntax, Tags, and Concepts)
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HTML Semantics, Forms, and Header Styling
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CSS Fundamentals (Basic Selectors, Attributes, and Syntax)
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Block-Level vs. Inline Elements, CSS Inheritance, and Header Styling
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CSS Pseudo Classes and Attribute Selectors
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Prerequisites
There is no prior computing background required for this course - you'll learn basic web development, all from SCRATCH!
Course
Additional Info
Data Science for Media Bias Detection
What can you expect?
A 15-part course and video series that uses Python Data Science, web scraping, and natural language processing techniques to detect news bias in media articles! Learn real-world Data Science Techniques and apply your skills to remove corrupt, hurtful media bias in one of the most well-known American Daily Newspapers - The New York Times.
The course covers all the following topics in detail:
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The Social Relevance of Media Bias
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Scraping and Summarizing Articles with the Newspaper3k Python Package
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Web Scraping
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Web Scraping News Articles with BeautifulSoup
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Performing Article URL Extraction
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Natural Language Processing
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Python NLP with TextBlob
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Sentiment Analysis
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Python Newspaper Sentiment Analysis with TextBlob
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Sentiment Analysis for Media Bias Detection
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Applications of Data Science
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Using Data Science for Social Good
Prerequisites
Prior programming in Python or any C-related language would be beneficial, but wouldn't be required to take this course.
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