Political Science courses can help you learn about government structures, political theories, international relations, and public policy analysis. You can build skills in critical thinking, data interpretation, and effective communication, that support analyzing political systems and crafting informed arguments. Many courses introduce tools like statistical software for analyzing political data, simulation models for understanding electoral processes, and case study methods to evaluate policy impacts.

Microsoft
Skills you'll gain: Extract, Transform, Load, Data Cleansing, Power BI, Data Transformation, Data Management, Data Quality, Data Preprocessing, Data Wrangling, Data Processing, Data Maintenance, Data Integration, Data Integrity, Data Analysis, Data Storage
★ 5 (24) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Threat Modeling, Feature Engineering, Anomaly Detection, Data Visualization, Data Presentation, MLOps (Machine Learning Operations), Agentic Workflows, Interactive Data Visualization, AI Orchestration, AI Security, A/B Testing, Generative AI Agents, Threat Management, Model Optimization, Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), Technical Communication, Agentic systems, Continuous Monitoring, CI/CD, Reinforcement Learning
Intermediate · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Application Security, Threat Modeling, Secure Coding, Security Testing, Software Development Life Cycle, Systems Development Life Cycle, Security Controls, Security Architecture Review, Risk Management Framework, Security Engineering, Computer Security, Software Testing, Security Requirements Analysis, Security Management, Software Development, Authorization (Computing), Data Security, Identity and Access Management, Software Architecture, Software Design
★ 4.3 (6) · Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Skills you'll gain: Responsible AI, AI Enablement, Data Ethics, Technical Management, AI Product Strategy, Technology Strategies, Artificial Intelligence, AI literacy, Business Ethics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Project Management, Legal Risk, Law, Regulation, and Compliance, Ethical Standards And Conduct, Regulation and Legal Compliance, AI Integrations, Decision Making, Generative AI, Case Studies, Mitigation
★ 4.5 (25) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

American Psychological Association
Skills you'll gain: Behavior Management, Social Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Social Sciences, Decision Intelligence
★ 4.8 (22) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Systems Analysis, Communication Systems, Verification And Validation, Computational Logic, Systems Design, Process Modeling, System Design and Implementation, Data Modeling, Software Design, Network Protocols
★ 4.6 (13) · Advanced · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Apache Kafka, Real Time Data, Data Pipelines, Data Processing
★ 3.7 (12) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Universidad de Palermo
Skills you'll gain: Database Development, Relational Databases, SQL, Database Design, Database Management, Databases, Data Modeling, Query Languages, Web Development, Web Applications, Data Access, Data Integrity, Information Technology
★ 4.6 (23) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Database Management, Relational Databases, MySQL, PHP (Scripting Language), SQL, Databases, Web Applications, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Web Development, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Back-End Web Development, Data Access
★ 4.7 (26) · Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: Feature Engineering, Data Cleansing, Data Visualization, Data Preprocessing, Logistic Regression, Model Training, Predictive Modeling, Statistical Machine Learning, Applied Machine Learning, Data Processing, Scikit Learn (Machine Learning Library), Supervised Learning, Machine Learning, Machine Learning Methods, Model Evaluation, Classification Algorithms, Data Science, Python Programming
★ 4.8 (19) · Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: Feature Engineering, Data Visualization Software, Data Cleansing, Classification And Regression Tree (CART), Random Forest Algorithm, Decision Tree Learning, Scikit Learn (Machine Learning Library), Applied Machine Learning, Predictive Modeling, Data Wrangling, Data Preprocessing, Data Science, Model Training, Machine Learning, Machine Learning Algorithms, Python Programming
★ 4.6 (13) · Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: File I/O, Plot (Graphics), Pandas (Python Package), Data Persistence, NumPy, Scripting, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Python Programming, Query Languages, Databases, Object Oriented Design, Data Import/Export, Data Access, File Management
★ 4.4 (21) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks