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This online course explores the fascinating history of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, one of the most challenging and rewarding ballets ever written.

This online course analyzes Medieval scrolls in detail, and explores their uses and historical significance.

This online course gives an introduction to programming using the language "R", a popular language for statistical computing and graphics in data science and other domains.

This four-week course provides the context in which to understand the Ebola outbreak -- why now, and why did so many people suffer and die? The course lays out the global...

This online course explores how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

This online course (MOOC) teaches the fundamental principles of architecture from a study of history’s important buildings.The first part of the course introduces the idea of...

In this online course, students will learn about the Manchus, who conquered Ming China and established the last of the imperial dynasties; their Qing dynasty would become the...

This online course explores the structure and content of the Book of Hours, as well as its role in private devotion and daily life in Medieval Europe.

This online course explores how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

This online course guides learners through the first half of L´Orfeo, highlighting aspects of operatic form and dramatic technique, the rehearsals and cultural context for the...

This online course guides learners through all four movements of Beethoven´s 9th Symphony, highlighting aspects of symphonic form, describing Beethoven´s composition process,...

This online coures explores the literature and heroes of ancient Greece through the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, the tragedies of Sophocles, the dialogues of Plato, and more.

This course teaches about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts - hymns, narratives, philosophical thought - and their interpretations.

This online course (MOOC) is the first of ten parts of a course series that collectively spans over 6,000 years of Chinese history.This first part of the series gives an...

This online course gives an introduction to the sacred scriptures of Christianity (the Bible). Participants will explore how diverse Christians have interpreted these writings...

This online course (MOOC) teaches about the history and development of world literature. The course explores how literature developed within cultures and how literary works and...

This online course explores the dynamics of contemporary China using Chinese literature and literary analysis. The course includes direct engagement with five books and author...

Through a combination of carefully selected readings, both scriptural and informational, as well as exposure to various forms of Buddhist practice such as art, devotional acts,...

This online course addresses Einstein's engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology, and raises basic questions...

This online course explores introductory programming and data analysis in MATLAB, with applications to biology and medicine.