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

Using a simple and enjoyable teaching style, this course introduces the novice listener to the wonders of classical music, from Bach fugues to Mozart symphonies to Puccini operas.

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 is an introduction to the main themes of the American Constitution—popular sovereignty, separation of powers, federalism, and rights.

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,...

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...

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

This course former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner and Professor Andrew Metrick surveys the causes, events, policy responses, and aftermath of the recent...

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

This course explores the physical processes that control Earth's atmosphere, ocean, and climate. It includes topics like: clouds, rain, severe storms, air pollution, ocean...

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...