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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 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...

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 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 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.

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

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 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 presents the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior for students beginning their study of biology and of the environment.

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...

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 course will examine law through case histories including: environmental effects of national security, pesticides, air pollution, consumer products, plastics, parks and...

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...

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

This is a continuation of Freshman Organic Chemistry I, the introductory video lecture on current theories of structure and mechanism in organic chemistry for students with...

This online lecture series explores the metaphysics of life and death. It discusses topics such as various arguments for the existence of the soul, personal identity,...

This online course presents a series of 20 interviews with scientists and environmentalists.

This course examines the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) as an expression of the religious life and thought of ancient Israel, and a foundational document of Western civilization....

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