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This online lecture series presents the Early Middle Ages in Western European development, from the accession of Diocletian to the feudal transformation. It covers topics such...

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...

This course focuses on three particularly interesting areas of astronomy that are advancing very rapidly: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy. The course explores...

This class is a study of Milton's poetry, with attention paid to his literary sources, his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his decisive influence on the course of...

This online lecture explores the implications of extracting and using energy resources, metals and mineral resources.

This online lecture gives an introduction to machine learning for physicists. [Note: Lectures 1 and 2 are not in the right order on the course overview page.]

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 online video lecture series explores various aspects of international political economy.

The focus of this course (part 2 of 2) is on coding techniques for approaching the Shannon limit of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, their performance analysis,...

This online lecture series gives an introduction to political theory.

In this online course, through scientific presentations, critical reflection and discussion, students learn current state-of-the art topics in the field of Ubiquitous Computing.

This course covers the emergence of modern France. Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France; the impact of France's revolutionary heritage, of...

This online lecture is an introduction to the theory that tries to explain how minds are made from collections of simpler processes.

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 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 online course aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. It teaches how to solve problems with basic computer...

This online lecture series gives an introduction to nuclear and particle physics.

This online lecture covers the fundamentals of signal and system analysis, focusing on representations of discrete-time and continuous-time signals (singularity functions,...

This online lecture / workshop discusses how some empirically unconfirmed or inconclusively confirmed theories in physics have nevertheless attained a high degree of trust among...

This online video lecture series explores various topics of robotics.