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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 series of online lectures discusses various aspects about religion and interdisciplinary and interreligious academic and social discourse.

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 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 online lecture series gives an introduction to design thinking. The main focus of the lectures is the theoretical background of design thinking, including the relevant...

This online lecture covers social development, social behaviour, social cognition and social neuroscience, in both human and non-human social animals.

This online lecture gives an introduction to machine learning for physicists. [Note: Lectures 1 and 2 are not in the right order on the course overview page.]

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

This online lecture examines the choices and constraints regarding sources and uses of energy by households, firms, and governments through a number of frameworks to describe...

This is a continuation of the online lecture Fundamentals of Physics I. This Part II of the course covers electricity, magnetism, optics and quantum mechanics.(Part I can be...

This online lecture series gives an introduction to blockchain technology and its potential use in the world of money and finance.

This online video lecture series explores various topics of robotics.

This online lecture concentrates on close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, from the early silent period, classic Hollywood genres including musicals, thrillers...

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

This online lecture series explores new technologies that are disrupting the financial services industry, including AI, deep learning, blockchain technology and open APIs. The...

This online lecture is an introduction to computational biology emphasizing the fundamentals of nucleic acid and protein sequence and structural analysis; it also includes an...

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....