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This survey course introduces students to the important and basic material on human fertility, population growth, the demographic transition and population policy.

This series of video lectures explores various technologies involved in building distributed, data-intensive systems.

This online lecture series discusses various aspects of metaphysics.

This short online course is designed for engineers, scientists, medical personnel, managers, and others who work with lasers and/or fiberoptics, or who anticipate working with...

This online lecture focuses on the equations and techniques most useful in science and engineering.

This online lecture examines the neural bases of sensory perception. The focus is on physiological and anatomical studies of the mammalian nervous system as well as behavioral...

The course presents the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while...

This online lecture gives an introduction to computer architecture. It explores in great detail how computers are designed.

This online lecture covers elementary discrete mathematics for computer science and engineering.

This course provides an overview of major works of social thought from the beginning of the modern era through the 1920s.Writers include Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu,...

The course is an introduction to Dante and his cultural milieu through a critical reading of the Divine Comedy and selected minor works (Vita nuova, Convivio, De vulgari...

This series of lectures gives an introduction to complex analysis.

This online lecture series gives an introduction to quantum mechanics for use by chemists. Topics include particles and waves, wave mechanics, semi-classical quantum mechanics,...

This video lecture gives an introduction to ceramics.

This is the second of a two-part online lecture beginning with Atomic and Optical Physics I that provides the foundations for contemporary research in selected areas of atomic...

Effective field theory is a fundamental framework to describe physical systems with quantum field theory.

This online lecture series explores the metaphysics of life and death. It discusses topics such as various arguments for the existence of the soul, personal identity,...

This is a continuation of Freshman Organic Chemistry I, the introductory video lecture on current theories of structure and mechanism in organic chemistry for students with...

This short online course is intended to assist undergraduates with learning the basics of programming in general and programming MATLAB® in particular.

This course consists of an international analysis of the impact of epidemic diseases on western society and culture from the bubonic plague to HIV/AIDS and the recent experience...