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

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...

This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, commitment, asymmetric information, and signaling are...

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 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...

This online course explores the unfolding of life in the universe.The course combines the discoveries of the evolutionary sciences with humanities such as history, philosophy,...

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 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,...

This online course explores some key concepts to support law students in their studies and careers.The course introduces the terminology, concepts, and tools lawyers and legal...

This online course explores the development of Western Christianity from its early persecution under the Roman Empire in the third century to its global expansion.

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

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...

The course is structured around three intertwined sets of topics: Happiness and Flourishing; Morality and Justice; and Political Legitimacy and Social Structures. It covers...

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 online course gives an overview of what psychological science says about happiness. It includes common misconceptions as well as activities that have been proven to...

This online course gives an overview of contract law in the United States. It covers some of the main ideas that are being taught in the first year of law school.

This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877.

This course is an introduction to the main themes of the American Constitution—popular sovereignty, separation of powers, federalism, and rights.

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...