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This course is an introduction to basic techniques of constitutional interpretation.

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.

The course facilitates a close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque Spain. Students are also expected to read four of...

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

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...

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 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 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 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,...

The course covers basic concepts of biomedical engineering and their connection with the spectrum of human activity. It is designed for science and non-science majors.

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 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 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 (MOOC) gives an introduction to Roman Architecture.The course covers many topics, including: The beginnings of urbanism and city planning in RomeThe use of...

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 online course is designed to help participants to become a better negotiator. Unlike many negotiation courses, this course develops a framework for analyzing and shaping...

This online course (MOOC) explores the modern science of moral belief and moral action. The course discusses concepts such as compassion, asks about the origins of morality, and...

The purpose of this course is to examine the African American experience in the United States from 1863 to the present.

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...