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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...

This online lecture series gives an introduction to Greek history. It traces the development of Greek civilization as manifested in political, intellectual, and creative...

This is a continuation of the online lecture Fundamentals of Physics I. This Part II of the course covers electricity, magnetism, optics and quantum mechanics.(Part I can be...

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 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...

In "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present. The course traces the formal and thematic developments of the novel in...

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

This is the first semester in a two-semester introductory video lecture focused on current theories of structure and mechanism in organic chemistry, their historical...

This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to...

This course former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner and Professor Andrew Metrick surveys the causes, events, policy responses, and aftermath of the recent...

This online lecture provides a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory,...

This course examines major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, exploring their interconnections on three analytic scales: the macro history of the United States and...

At a time of crisis for the classical music profession, with a changing commercial landscape, a shrinking audience base, and a contraction in the number of professional...

This course is intended to provide an up-to-date introduction to the development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries.

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 explores the physical processes that control Earth's atmosphere, ocean, and climate. It includes topics like: clouds, rain, severe storms, air pollution, ocean...

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 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 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,...