U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi is pleased to announce two Massive Open Online Courses offered by American universities and facilitated by prominent alumni of U.S. Government exchange programs.

1) Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science - offered by Harvard University

Start date: October 8, 2013

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in physics and engineering, and vice versa.

To read more details about the course and in order to go through the registration process, please visit the following website: https://www.edx.org/course/harvard-university/spu27x/science-cooking-haute-cuisine/639

2) 21st Century American Foreign Policy - offered by Duke University

Start date: October 20, 2013

What is American foreign policy? Who makes it? Why is it the way it is? How does it affect the rest of the world? Professor Bruce Jentleson has taught the subject for over 30 years, written one of the leading books on it, and has served in numerous U.S. foreign policy positions.

To read more details about the course and in order to go through the registration process, please visit the following website: https://www.coursera.org/course/afp21stcentury

Please note that these course are free. If you successfully complete the course, you will be awarded certificates from the universities. Fluency in English and Internet access are the only requirements for enrolling in the courses, since both of them are offered only in English.

After you successfully register for either of these courses, please write an email to Gega Gabunia. In the subject line, please indicate the name of one or both courses listed here, so we could invite you for the facilitated discussion meetings. The meetings will take place every two weeks.

source: georgia.usembassy.gov