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This course examines the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) as an expression of the religious life and thought of ancient Israel, and a foundational document of Western civilization....

In this course, participants will learn about the leading cause of cancer in women worldwide – from the basic biology of the disease, to risk factors and prevention, to...

This MOOC gives an overview of various topics of global health, including key public health concepts.

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 series of online courses (MOOCs) combines the discoveries of the evolutionary sciences together with the humanities such as history, philosophy, art, and religion.The first...

This course will examine the American Revolution from a broad perspective, tracing the participants' shifting sense of themselves as British subjects, colonial settlers,...

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 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 online course gives an introduction to the basic concepts of psychology. This includes topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making,...

This online course (MOOC) discusses the moral foundations of politics and the main answers that have been given to this question in the modern West.It includes the following...

This online video lecture explores the evolution of capitalism.The course seeks to interpret capitalism using ideas from biological evolution: Firms pursuing varied strategies...

In this online course, Professor Robert Shiller (Nobel Prize winner) gives an introduction to financial markets. The course includes the following topics:Efficient markets and...

This online course gives an introduction to Gothic cathedrals. The course explores the art, literature, intellectual life, economics, and social arrangements that arose in the...

Using a simple and enjoyable teaching style, this course introduces the novice listener to the wonders of classical music, from Bach fugues to Mozart symphonies to Puccini operas.

This online lecture by Yale University provides an introduction to the principles and methods of physics.The course covers Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, gravitation,...

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

This online lecture series offers a broad survey of modern European history, from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the aftermath of World War II. Along with the consideration...

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 course attempts to explain the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy. The course also gives a picture of the kind of thinking and analysis...