Open Yale courses

...Lecture 2 Richard Wright, Black Boy Lecture 3 Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood Lecture 4 Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (cont.) Lecture 5 Vladimir Nabokov... Learn about: Flannery O'Connor, Richard Wright, Jack Kerouac...

...Can law change human behavior to be less environmentally damaging? Law will be examined through case histories including: environmental effects of national security... Learn about: The Adirondack History, Tobacco Paradigm, Nuclear Experiments...

...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 American War, Civil War, Expansion and Slavery...

...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: Absolutism and the State, Industrial Revolutions, British Exceptionalism...

...the role of medical ethics; the genre of plague literature; the social reactions of mass hysteria and violence; the rise of the germ theory of disease... Learn about: Asiatic Cholera, Pandemic Influenza...

...Lecture 1 Introduction Lecture 2 The Paris Commune and Its Legacy Lecture 3 Centralized State and Republic Lecture 4 A Nation? Peasants, Language... Learn about: Workshop and Factory, Trench Warfare, Vietnam and Algeria...

...Tombs of Roman Aristocrats, Freedmen, and Slaves Lecture 11 Notorious Nero and His Amazing Architectural Legacy Lecture 12 The Creation of an... Learn about: Technology and Revolution in Roman Architecture, Rome of Constantine and a New Rome...

...Major developments in the political, social, and religious history of Western Europe from the accession of Diocletian to the feudal transformation... Learn about: Survival in the East, Frankish Society, Barbarian Kingdoms...

...Romes on the Western Frontier Lecture 22 Rome Redux: The Tetrarchic RenaissanceLecture 23Rome of Constantine and a New... Learn about: Architectural Legacy, Urbanism in Italy, Civic Architecture in Rome under Trajan...

...(Vita nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, Epistle to Cangrande). An analysis of Dante's autobiography, the Vita nuova, establishes the poetic and political... Learn about: Divine Comedy, Vita Nuova...

...Lecture 13Fertility Attitudes and Practices Lecture 14Demographic Transition in Developing Countries Lecture 15Female Disadvantage Lecture 16Population... Learn about: Malthusian Times, Quantitative Aspects, Sex and Violence Among the Apes...

...Lecture 1 Introduction Lecture 2 Introduction to Instruments and Musical Genres Lecture 3 Rhythm: Fundamentals Lecture 4 Rhythm: Jazz, Pop and Classical Lecture 5 Melody... Learn about: Bass Patterns...

...we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered. Are we, in some sense, immortal?... Learn about: Dualism vs. Physicalism, Personal Identity, Badness of Death...

...Thémis and PTSD Lecture 7 Flourishing and Attachment Lecture 8 Flourishing and Detachment Lecture 9 Virtue and Habit I Lecture 10 Virtue and Habit II Lecture... Learn about: The Trolley Problem, The Ring of Gyges: Morality and Hypocrisy, Philosophical Puzzles...

...7 Kepler's Laws Lecture 8 Dynamics of a Multiple-Body System and Law of Conservation of Momentum Lecture 9 Rotations, Part I: Dynamics of Rigid Bodies Lecture 10 Rotations... Learn about: Newton's Laws of Motion, Multiple Dimensions, Lorentz Transformation...

...EquationLecture 25Quantum Mechanics VII: Summary of Postulates and Special TopicsExam 2Final... 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: The Sovereign State, Socratic Citizenship...

...Lecture 10 Marx's Theory of Capitalism Lecture 11 Marxian Exploitation and Distributive Justice Lecture 12 The Marxian Failure and Legacy Lecture 13 Appropriating... Learn about: Rights and Utility, Distributive Justice, Natural Law Roots of the Social Contract Tradition...

...Lecture 1Exploding Worlds and Course IntroductionLecture 2Thomas Malthus and Inevitable PovertyLecture 3Counting the Fingers of Adam Smith's Invisible HandLecture 4Karl... Learn about: Economic System, Karl Marx, Joseph Schumpeter...

...Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.) Lecture 9 Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Professor Peter Salovey) Lecture 10 Evolution...