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The course presents the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while...

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

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

This online lecture series explores efforts by linguists and educators to make their research more inclusive, accessible and hospitable.

This lecture will follow the history and theory of architectural travel from the educational grand tour of the 19th and 20th centuries to the jet-setting omnipresence of today´s...

Highlights of Calculus is a series of short online videos that introduces the basics of calculus—how it works and why it is important.

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...

This video lecture series provides an introduction to modern cosmology. The first part of the course deals with classical cosmology, and the later part with modern particle...

This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877.

This calculus lecture covers differentiation and integration of functions of one variable, and concludes with a brief discussion of infinite series.

This online lecture gives an introduction to the architecture of supercomputers.

This online lecture provides an introduction to the chemistry of biological, inorganic, and organic molecules.The emphasis is on basic principles of atomic and molecular...

This online lecture covers the fundamentals of signal and system analysis, focusing on representations of discrete-time and continuous-time signals (singularity functions,...

This video lecture series gives an introduction to neural networks and deep learning. It covers topics such as backpropagation, loss functions and optimization strategies,...

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 how algorithmic puzzles can be solved with computer programming, using the Python programming language.

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...

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

The course is structured around three intertwined sets of topics: Happiness and Flourishing; Morality and Justice; and Political Legitimacy and Social Structures. It covers...