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This online lecture course is intended as an introduction to political philosophy as seen through an examination of some of the major texts and thinkers of the Western political...

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

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

This online lecture gives an introduction to quantum optics.

This online lecture provides an introduction to optical science with elementary engineering applications.

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

This is an online lecture for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty.The course discusses aspects such as:different growth rates...

This online video lecture series gives an introduction to Computer Science, Internet technology and the basics of computer hardware (CS105 class at Stanford University). The...

This online lecture series explores the science of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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 lecture uses the theory and application of atomistic computer simulations to model, understand, and predict the properties of real materials.

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 covers the fundamental principles, practices and tools of Lean Six Sigma methods that underlay modern organizational productivity approaches applied in...

Basic principles of statistical mechanics are examined in this online lecture, such as the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of temperature, work, heat, and entropy....

This online video lecture series gives an introduction to machine learning and pattern recognition.

This is an online lecture taking a practical approach to proving problems can't be solved efficiently (in polynomial time and assuming standard complexity-theoretic assumptions...

This online video lecture series explores the process and status of European Integration within the EU member states and beyond. It includes lectures on many individual EU...

This online lecture series gives an introduction to galaxies and cosmology. It includes the Milky Way and the Local Group as well as larger-scale structures of the universe.