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

This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to...

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...

This online course explores medical studies for beginners with no prior knowledge. It covers study design, research methods, and statistical interpretation and also includes...

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 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 online course gives an introduction to Gothic cathedrals. The course explores the art, literature, intellectual life, economics, and social arrangements that arose in the...

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 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 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...

This online course gives an overview of contract law in the United States. It covers some of the main ideas that are being taught in the first year of law school.

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

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 survey course introduces students to the important and basic material on human fertility, population growth, the demographic transition and population policy.

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 explores the development of Western Christianity from its early persecution under the Roman Empire in the third century to its global expansion.

This online course explores a toolkit of behavior-change techniques to improve participants´ interaction with both children and adolescents.

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 series of online courses (MOOCs) combines the discoveries of the evolutionary sciences together with the humanities such as history, philosophy, art, and religion.The first...