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

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 is the first semester in a two-semester introductory video lecture focused on current theories of structure and mechanism in organic chemistry, their historical...

This course encompasses the study of eating as it affects the health and well-being of every human. Topics include taste preferences, food aversions, the regulation of hunger...

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...

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

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

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 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 online lecture by Yale University provides an introduction to the principles and methods of physics.The course covers Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, gravitation,...

This online course gives an overview of Roman Architecture through a series of 23 online lectures. The course provides an introduction to the great buildings and engineering...

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 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,...

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 series presents the Early Middle Ages in Western European development, from the accession of Diocletian to the feudal transformation. It covers topics such...

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 provides a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory,...