Open Yale courses

...Flannery O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, J. D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson... Learn about: Jack Kerouac, Flannery O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov...

...drinking water standards, food safety, and hazardous site restoration. In each case we will review the structure of law and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses... Learn about: Site Restoration Law, Public Lands Management, Nuclear Experiments...

...Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War? Lecture 12 "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies Lecture 13 Terrible Swift Sword... Learn about: Fugitive Slaves, Expansion and Slavery, Civil American War...

...of major events and figures such as the French Revolution and Napoleon, attention will be paid to the experience of ordinary people in times of upheaval and transition... Learn about: Absolutism and the State, Industrial Revolutions, British Exceptionalism...

...The Era of Consumption Lecture 19 Tuberculosis (II): After Robert Koch Lecture 20 Pandemic Influenza Lecture 21 The Tuskegee ExperimentLecture 22AIDS... Learn about: Pandemic Influenza, Asiatic Cholera...

...of industrialization, and of the dislocation wrought by two world wars; and the political response of the Left and the Right to changing French society... Learn about: Trench Warfare, Vietnam and Algeria, Workshop and Factory...

...Romes on the Western Frontier Lecture 22 Rome Redux: The Tetrarchic Renaissance Lecture 23 Rome of Constantine and a New... 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, Barbarian Kingdoms...

...Rock Tombs, Fountains, and Sanctuaries in Jordan, Lebanon, and Libya Lecture 20 Roman Wine in Greek Bottles: The Rebirth of Athens Lecture 21 Making... Learn about: Urbanism in Italy, Xploring Special Subjects on Pompeian Walls, Civic Architecture in Rome under Trajan...

...over the course of the semester include the relationship between ethics and aesthetics; love and knowledge; and exile and history. Lecture 1 Introduction... Learn about: Divine Comedy, Vita Nuova...

...The lectures and readings attempt to balance theoretical and demographic scale analyzes with studies of individual humans and communities. The perspective... Learn about: Sex and Violence Among the Apes, When Humans Were Scarce, Evolution of Sex and Reproductive Strategies...

...The Vocal Music of Johann Sebastian Bach Lecture 17 Mozart and His Operas Lecture 18 Piano Music of Mozart and Beethoven Lecture 19 Romantic Opera... Learn about: Bass Patterns...

...There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise... Learn about: Nature of Death, Badness of Death, Dualism vs. Physicalism...

...Happiness and Flourishing; Morality and Justice; and Political Legitimacy and Social Structures. Lecture 1 Introduction Lecture 2 The Ring of Gyges... Learn about: Flourishing and Attachment, Philosophical Puzzles, The Ring of Gyges: Morality and Hypocrisy...

...Lecture 18 Simple Harmonic Motion (cont.) and Introduction to Waves Lecture 19 Waves Lecture 20 Fluid Dynamics and Statics and Bernoulli's Equation Lecture... Learn about: Newton's Laws of Motion, Multiple Dimensions, Lorentz Transformation...

...Equations and Electromagnetic Waves IILecture 16Ray or Geometrical Optics ILecture 17Ray or Geometrical Optics IILecture 18Wave Theory of LightLecture... Learn about: Electric Fields, Ampere's Law...

...Democracy in America Lecture 23 Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville, Democracy in America Lecture 24 In Defense of Politics... Learn about: Socratic Citizenship, The Sovereign State...

...This course explores main answers to the question, "When do governments deserve our allegiance?" It starts with a survey of major political theories of the Enlightenment—Utilitarianism... Learn about: Distributive Justice, Rights and Utility, Neoclassical Utilitarianism...

...those strategies fail are analogous to organisms struggling for survival in nature. For this reason, it is less concerned with ultimate judgment of capitalism... Learn about: Braudel's Bell Jar, Oint Stock Corporation, Karl Marx...

...Skinner Lecture 5 What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought Lecture 6 How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands...