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

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

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

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 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 online lecture series gives an introduction to Greek history. It traces the development of Greek civilization as manifested in political, intellectual, and creative...

This online lecture considers the tremendous growth of integrating micro-electronic computing components with regard to their architectures, complexity, design and programming....

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 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 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 game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, commitment, asymmetric information, and signaling are...

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 lecture covers the Internet of Things (IoT), which basically means that virtually every thing can also feature tiny computers that are connected to the Internet.

In this online course, through scientific presentations, critical reflection and discussion, students learn current state-of-the art topics in the field of Ubiquitous Computing.

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

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

The course covers basic concepts of biomedical engineering and their connection with the spectrum of human activity. It is designed for science and non-science majors.

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 video lecture discusses the computational complexity theory, including the Chomsky hierarchy, (un-) decidability,SPACE versus TIME, EXPSPACE and more advanced topics.

This online lecture / workshop discusses how some empirically unconfirmed or inconclusively confirmed theories in physics have nevertheless attained a high degree of trust among...