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

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...

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 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 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 brief guest lecture at LMU Universität München discusses the relation between modern physics/natural sciences and religious thought.

This online lecture gives an overview of Social Psychology, i.e. the behaviour of people in groups.

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

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...

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

This lecture series focuses on the "emerging field" of "Quantum Geometry". Here, the expertise of both mathematicians and physicists are brought together in order to make...

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 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 lecture focuses on recent developments in image processing driven by medical applications. All algorithms are motivated by practical problems. The mathematical tools...

This lecture provides an Introduction to Indian Culture.

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

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

This series of lectures gives an introduction to the mechanics of spaceflight.