Open Yale courses

...Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth and Edward P. Jones. The course concludes with a contemporary novel chosen by the students in the class. Lecture 1 Introductions... Learn about: Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood...

...Lands Management Lecture 19 Land Use Law and Property Rights Lecture 20 Managing Coastal Resources in an Era of Climate Change Lecture 21 Certification... Learn about: Public Lands Management, Tobacco Paradigm, Site Restoration Law...

...President Lecture 23 Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor Lecture 24 Retreat from Reconstruction... Learn about: Civil War, Fugitive Slaves, Civil American War...

...literature, and cinema. Lecture 1 Introduction Lecture 2 Absolutism and the State Lecture 3 Dutch and British Exceptionalism Lecture 4 Peter the Great... Learn about: British Exceptionalism, Absolutism and the State, Industrial Revolutions...

...Lecture 7 Smallpox (II): Jenner, Vaccination, and Eradication Lecture 8 Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Paris School of Medicine Lecture 9 Asiatic Cholera... Learn about: Asiatic Cholera, Pandemic Influenza...

...the Left Lecture 8 Dynamite Club: The Anarchists Lecture 9 General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus Lecture 10 Cafés and the Culture of Drink Lecture 11 Paris... Learn about: Trench Warfare, The Anarchists, Vietnam and Algeria...

...and Revolution in Roman Architecture Lecture 4 Civic Life Interrupted: Nightmare and Destiny on August 24, A.D. 79 Lecture 5 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous... Learn about: Rome of Constantine and a New Rome, Technology and Revolution in Roman Architecture...

...Topics include the conversion of Europe to Christianity, the fall of the Roman Empire, the rise of Islam and the Arabs, the "Dark Ages," Charlemagne and the Carolingian renaissance... Learn about: Christian Roman Empire, Survival in the East, Frankish Society...

...Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, and North Africa. The lectures are illustrated with over 1,500 images, many from Professor Kleiner's personal collection. Lecture... Learn about: Xploring Special Subjects on Pompeian Walls, Civic Architecture in Rome under Trajan, Architectural Legacy...

...context of the late Middle Ages, with special attention paid to political, philosophical and theological concerns. Topics in the Divine Comedy explored... Learn about: Divine Comedy, Vita Nuova...

...This survey course introduces students to the important and basic material on human fertility, population growth, the demographic transition and population policy... Learn about: When Humans Were Scarce, Sex and Violence Among the Apes, Quantitative Aspects...

...This course fosters the development of aural skills that lead to an understanding of Western music. The musical novice is introduced to the ways in which... Learn about: Bass Patterns...

...Soul Theory Lecture 11 Personal Identity, Part II: The Body Theory and the Personality Theory Lecture 12 Personal Identity, Part III: Objections to... Learn about: Personal Identity, Dualism vs. Physicalism, Badness of Death...

...Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature pairs central texts from Western philosophical tradition (including works by Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus... Learn about: Philosophical Puzzles, The Trolley Problem, The Ring of Gyges: Morality and Hypocrisy...

...Emphasis is placed on problem solving and quantitative reasoning. This course covers Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, gravitation, thermodynamics... Learn about: Newton's Laws of Motion, Multiple Dimensions, Lorentz Transformation...

...good preparation in physics and mathematics. This course covers electricity, magnetism, optics and quantum mechanics. Lecture 1ElectrostaticsLecture 2Electric... Learn about: Ampere's Law, Electric Fields...

...This course is intended as an introduction to political philosophy as seen through an examination of some of the major texts and thinkers of the Western political tradition... Learn about: Socratic Citizenship, The Sovereign State...

...Utilitarianism Lecture 7 The Neoclassical Synthesis of Rights and Utility Lecture 8 Limits of the Neoclassical Synthesis Lecture 9 The Marxian Challenge... Learn about: Natural Law Roots of the Social Contract Tradition, Distributive Justice, Neoclassical Utilitarianism...

...Bell JarLecture 17The Case of Mister Balram HalwaiLecture 18Microfinance in South IndiaLecture 19Plight of the Bottom BillionLecture 20Policy Targets... Learn about: Economic System, Joseph Schumpeter, Braudel's Bell Jar...

...and how they break down due to illness and injury. ecture 1 Introduction Lecture 2 Foundations: This Is Your Brain Lecture 3 Foundations: Freud Lecture 4 Foundations...