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Get free online courses from the world’s leading universities. This collection includes over 750 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player. Note: you can find a new collection of certificate-bearing courses here.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Archaeology
●Hannibal - iTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford
●Introduction to Near Eastern Art and Archaeology – YouTube –iTunes Video - Dana D. DePietro, Margaret Larkin, UC Berkeley
●Out of the Past – Web Site – David Webster and William T. Sanders, Penn State
Architecture
●Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (Video) – iTunes –Web – Jan Wampler, MIT
●History of Architecture - iTunes Video – Jacqueline Gargus, Ohio State
●Roman Architecture - YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video- Download Course
–Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale
●Structures 2 – iTunes Video – Peter von Beulow, University of Michigan
Art & Art History
●Aesthetics & the Philosophy of Art – iTunes – Web – James Grant, Oxford University
●Art Through Time: A Global View – Web - Annenberg Media
●Exposing Digital Photography – iTunes Video - Web Site - RSS Feed - Dan Armendariz, Harvard
●Foundations of American Cyber-Culture – YouTube – UC Berkeley
●Introduction to Visual Studies – iTunes (Best used with iTunesU App) - Anna Divinsky, Penn State
●Introduction to Visual Thinking – YouTube – iTunes Video – John McNamara, UC Berkeley
●Lighting Essentials – iTunes Video - Web – Simon McIntyre, The University of New South Wales
●Photography – Web – iTunes – App – Jonathan Worth & Matt Johnston at Coventry University
●SmARThistory Video Lectures – Web – Beth Harris, MoMA & Steven Zucker, Pratt Institute
●The Elements of Drawing – iTunes – Web – Stephen Farthing, Oxford University.
Classics & Classical World
●Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Syllabus) - iTunes Video - Web Video - David O’Connor, Notre Dame
●Ancient Greek History - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video- Download Course
– Donald Kagan, Yale
●Ancient Israel (Syllabus) – YouTube – Daniel Fleming, NYU
●Ancient Philosophy - iTunes – Web – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
●Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love (Syllabus) - iTunes Video - Web Video – Professor David O’Connor, Notre Dame
●Hannibal - iTunes - Patrick Hunt, Stanford
●Roman Architecture - YouTube - iTunes Audio – iTunes Video- Download Course – Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale
●The Roman World – iTunes Video – Rhiannon Evans, LaTrobe University
●The Heroic and the Anti-Heroic in Classical Greek Civilization– Multiple Formats – Gregory Nagy, Harvard
●Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic - iTunes – Susanna Braund, Stanford University
Demography
●American Immigrant Experience – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Carl Mason, UC Berkeley
●Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World – Web– iTunes Video - iTunes Audio – David Coleman, Oxford
Design
●Cars: Past, Present & Future - iTunes Video – YouTube – Michael Shanks, Stanford
●Everything I Know – Web – Buckminster Fuller
Economics
●Advanced Political Economy - YouTube - Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney
●American Economic History (Syllabus) – YouTube - iTunes Video – Martha Olney, UC Berkeley
●American Economic History (Syllabus)- YouTube - Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst
●Austrian Economics: An Introduction – Web Site - Murray N. Rothbard - New York Polytechnic University
●Behavioral Finance – YouTube – Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney
●Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - YouTube - Web Site – Douglas W. Rae, Yale
●Crisis, Globalization and Economics – Web Video - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
●Economic Analysis-Micro – iTunes Audio - Steven Wood, UC Berkeley
●Economic Crisis and Globalization – Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
●Economic Geography of the Industrial World – iTunes – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley.
●Economic Statistics and Econonmetrics - YouTube – iTunes Video– iTunes Audio – Web – Glenn Woroch, UC Berkeley
●Finance Theory 1 - iTunes Video - Web - Andrew Lo, MIT
●Financial Markets – YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video- Download Course – Robert Shiller, Yale
●Financial Markets 2011 - YouTube - iTunes - Web Site – Robert Shiller
●Financial Theory – YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - Web Site– John Geanakoplos, Yale
●Game Theory – YouTube – iTunes Audio - iTunes Video - Download Course – Ben Polak, Yale
●Game Theory in the Social Sciences - iTunes Video – Yves Zenou, UC Berkeley
●Game Theory and Economics - YouTube – Web site - Dr. Debarshi Das, IIT Guwahati
●Global Poverty and Impact Evaluation – YouTube - iTunes Video –Web - Edward Miguel, UC Berkeley
●Great Big Ideas - Web - Steven Pinker, Larry Summers, Michio Kaku, etc, Floating University
●History of Economic Theory – YouTube – Web Site – Dr. Shivakumar, IIT Madras
●International Political Economy - iTunes - James Morrison, Middlebury College
●International Trade - YouTube - iTunes Video – Steven Wood, UC Berkeley
●Introduction to Economics – iTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
●Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy - YouTube - Web - Peter Berck, UC Berkeley
●Law and Economics I - iTunes Audio - Robert Cooter, UC Berkeley
●Lectures on Human Capital - YouTube – Gary Becker, U Chicago
●Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice Online Course –Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
●Marxian Economics – YouTube - Stephen Resnick, UMass – Amherst
●Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice - Video - Richard D. Wolff, The New School
●Marxian Economics – An Intensive Introduction – Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
●Marxian Economics: Advanced & Applied Intensive Course –Video - Richard
D.Wolff, The New School
●Money and Banking (Syllabus) – YouTube – Gerald Epstein, UMass-Amherst
●Money and Banking - YouTube - iTunes Video - Thomas Wyrick, Missouri State
●Political Economy After the Crisis – Web Video - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
●Principles of Microeconomics -iTunes Video - Web Video – Jonathan Gruber, MIT
●Principles of Macroeconomics – iTunes Video – YouTube - Thomas Wyrick, Missouri State
●Public Economics – YouTube – Web – Raj Chetty, Harvard
●Public Economics and Finance – YouTube – Nirupama Rao, NYU
●Reading Marx’s Capital – Google Video – David Harvey, City University of New York
●The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis - YouTube - Ben Bernanke at George Washington University
●The Austrian School of Economics: An Introduction – Web: 1, 2,3, 4 - Friedrich
A.Hayek & colleagues – Recorded at University of Colorado
●The Challenge of World Poverty - iTunes Video – YouTube - Web- Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee, MIT
●The Elements of Economic Analysis – YouTube - Glen Weyl, U Chicago
●World Economic History Before the Industrial Revolution -Web Site - iTunes - Gregory Clark, UC Davis
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Film
●Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes – Web – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
●Holocaust in Film and Literature – YouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA
●Philosophy in Film and Other Media - iTunes – YouTube – Web – Irving Singer, MIT
●The Film Experience – iTunes Video – Web – MIT, David Thorburn
●Western Movies: Myth, Ideology, Genre – iTunes – Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan
Food
●Edible Education 103 with Michael Pollan - iTunes Video- YouTube – Web – Michael Pollan, UC Berkeley
●Food Production, Public Health, and the Environment – Web- Bob Lawrence and Polly Walker, Johns Hopkins
●Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter - YouTube - iTunes - Web – Team taught, Harvard
Geography
●Economic Geography of the Industrial World - iTunes Audio – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley
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●Food and the Environment - iTunes Audio – Nathan Sayre – UC Berkeley
●Geography of US Presidential Elections – iTunes – YouTube – Martin Lewis, Stanford
●Geography of World Cultures - iTunes – Martin Lewis, Stanford University
●Global Geopolitics – iTunes – Martin Lewis, Stanford University
●Globalization – iTunes – Robert Acker, UC Berkeley
●World Regions, Peoples, and States – Web – Nathan Sayre, UC Berkeley
History
●African American History: From Emancipation to the Present– YouTube – iTunes – Web Site – Jonathan Holloway, Yale
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●African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle – YouTube– iTunes – Clay Carson, Stanford
●American Economic History – iTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
●American Economic History (Syllabus)- YouTube - Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst
●Ancient Greek History - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video- Download Course
– Donald Kagan, Yale
●Ancient Israel - YouTube – Web – Daniel Fleming, NYU
●Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations – Web – John Dower, MIT
●Ben Franklin and the World of the Enlightenment – iTunes – Bruce Thompson, Stanford/UC Santa Cruz
●China: Traditions and Transformations – Multiple Formats – Peter K. Bol & William Kirby, Harvard
●Colonial and Revolutionary America – iTunesU – Jack Rakove, Stanford
●Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts – YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio- Web Site – Keith E. Wrightson, Yale
●Early Modern Germany - iTunes Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
●Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio - YouTube - Web Site – Frank Snowden, Yale
●Europe in the 19th Century – iTunes Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
●Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 –iTunes Audio - David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
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●European Civilization, 1648-1945 - YouTube – iTunes Audio –iTunes Video - Download Course – John Merriman, Yale
●European Civilization from Renaissance to Present – iTunes – Carla Hesse, UC Berkeley
●European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present -YouTube - iTunes Video – Web – Thomas Lacquer, UC Berkeley
●European Cultural History, 1500-1815 - MP3s – George Mosse, University of WisconsinMadison
●European Cultural History, 1660-1870 - MP3s – George Mosse, University of WisconsinMadison
●European Cultural History, 1880-1920 - MP3s – George Mosse, University of WisconsinMadison
●France Since 1871 – YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – John Merriman, Yale
●Hannibal – iTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford
●Harvey Goldberg Lectures (1975-1983) – Web Site - Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin
●Historical Jesus – iTunes – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
●History of Anthropological Thought – iTunes – Rosemary Joyce, UC Berkeley
●History and Practice of Human Rights – YouTube – iTunes Video –iTunes Audio
–Web – Thomas Laqueur
●History of Information – YouTube – iTunes Video – Web – Professors Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley
●History of Iran to the Safavid Period – iTunes – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
●History of the International System – iTunes – James Sheehan, Stanford University
●History of MIT – Web - David Mindell and Merritt Roe Smith, MIT
●History of the Modern Middle East – iTunes – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
●History of New York City: A Social History - iTunes Video –YouTube – Web Site
–Daniel Walkowitz, NYU
●History of the United States Since 1945 – iTunes – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
●History of the World to 1500 CE – YouTube - iTunes Video – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
●History of the World Since 1500 CE – YouTube - iTunes Video – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
●Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 - iTunes – Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
●International and Global History Since 1945 – iTunes – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
●Introduction to African American Studies – Real Player Video- Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois
●Introduction to Ancient Greek History - YouTube – iTunes –Download Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
●Introduction to American Studies – YouTube – iTunes Video -iTunes Audio – Michael Cohen, UC Berkeley
●Maker of the Modern World? Imperial Britain, 1714 to the Present (Syllabus)
–YouTube – iTunes Video – James Vernon, UC Berkeley
●Medicine and Public Health in American History – Web Audio - Chris Hamlin, Notre Dame
●Modern Civilization: 1750 to Present - YouTube – Lynn Hunt, UCLA
●Modern Jewish History – MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin – Madison
●Rethinking the Black Liberation Movement - Web Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois
●Rethinking Theory in Black Studies - Web Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois
●Science, Magic and Religion - iTunes - YouTube – Courtenay Raia, UCLA
●The American Founders and Their World – iTunes – Jack Rakove, Gordon Wood, etc. Stanford
●The American Revolution – YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio- Web Site – Joanne B. Freeman, Yale
●The Ancient Mediterranean World – Web – Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
●The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - YouTube –iTunes Audio – iTunes Video - Download Course – David Blight, Yale
●The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000 - YouTube - iTunes - Web Site – Paul H. Freedman, Yale
●The History of Public Health – iTunesU – Web – Graham Mooney, Johns Hopkins
●The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 – iTunes - YouTube– Web – James Vernon, UC Berkeley
●The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich – iTunes Audio – Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley
●The Roman World - iTunes Video - Rhiannon Evans, LaTrobe University
●The Story of Freedom in America - iTunes Video – Rufus Frears, University of Oklahoma
●The United States and the World Since 1945 - iTunes Audio – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
●U.S. History from the Late 19th Century to the Eve of World War II –
YouTube – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Web – Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
●US History: from Civil War to Present - iTunes Audio - Web – Jennifer Burns, UC Berkeley
●The Western Tradition (Video) – YouTube - Web site - Course Outline – Eugen Weber, UCLA
●War and Peace: International Relations since 1914 – iTunes – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
●World War and Society in the 20th Century: World War II –Multiple Formats – Charles S. Maier, Harvard
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Journalism
●Journalistic Ethics – YouTube – Jim Newton, UCLA
Languages
●Basic German - Web - Cambridge University
●Beginner’s Chinese - iTunes Free - Open University
●Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation - iTunes Free - Emory University
●Chinese Basic - Web - Cambridge University
●Francais interactif - iTunes Free - Web Site - University of Texas
●Elementary French 1 – Web – Carnegie Mellon
●Elementary French 2 – Web – Carnegie Mellon
●French in Action Free Web Site - Yale University
●French 1 & French 2 - Web Site - Carnegie Mellon
●Icelandic Online - Web Site - University of Iceland
●Intermediate Chinese – Web Site - Cambridge University
●Introduction to Urdu Alphabet - iTunes Free Emory University
●Japanese Kana – Hiragana – iTunes Free – Emory
●Kanji Characters iTunes Free - Emory University
●Mandarin Chinese Characters - iTunes Free - Emory University
●Numbers and Radicals iTunes Free - Emory University
●Online Intermediate College Korean - Web Site - University of California Press, 2002
●Pathway to Korean: Beginning Spoken Korean from Zero - Web Site - The Ohio State University
●Russian Essentials - Web - Cambridge University
●Thai Alphabet - iTunes Free -Emory University
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Law
●Aims and Limits of the Criminal Law - iTunes Audio – Tamara Lave, UC Berkeley
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●Climate Change: Law and Policy – YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video – Cymie Payne, Daniel Farber, UC Berkeley
●Environmental Justice and Human Rights in the Aftermath of Katrina –
Web Audio – Cynthia Toms Smedley, Notre Dame
●Environmental Law and Policy - YouTube – Bob Infelise, UC Berkeley
●Environmental Politics and Law - YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - Web Site – John P. Wargo, Yale
●Freedom of Speech and the Press – YouTube – iTunes Video – William Turner, UC Berkeley
●International Environmental Law – YouTube – iTunes Video –iTunes Audio – Cymie Payne, UC Berkeley
●Introduction to Copyright Law – iTunes – Web Site – Keith Winstein, MIT
●Law and Economics I - iTunes Audio – Robert Cooter, UC Berkeley
●Law and Legal Thought in the 21st Century – Web - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
●Media Law & Ethics – iTunesU - Nicole Kraft, Ohio State
●Politics and Media Freedom – Web – Richard Barbrook, University of Westminster
●Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Today - Web - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
●Renewable Energy & Alternative Fuels (Law & Policy) – YouTube– UC Berkeley
●Self, Serenity, and Vulnerability – Web Video - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
●Theories of Law and Society – Web – iTunes – David Lieberman, UC Berkeley
●Video Game Law – Web – Jon Festinger, University of British Columbia/Centre for Digital Media
Linguistics
●American English Speech - Web – Carnegie Mellon
●Old English in Context - Web – Stuart Lee, Oxford University
●Structure of English Words - iTunes – Will Leben, Stanford
Literature
●American Literature I: Beginnings to Civil War - iTunes Video –YouTube – Web – Cyrus Patell, NYU
●Approaching Shakespeare – Web – Emma Smith, Oxford
●British and American Poetry: 1900 to the Present - iTunes Audio– Charles Altieri, NYU
●Cervantes’ Don Quixote - YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio- Web Site – Roberto González Echevarría, Yale
●Contemporary Literature – YouTube – Web Site – Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, IIT Madras
●Creative Reading – Web – William S. Burroughs, Naropa University
●Creative Writing: A Master Class – iTunes Video – Alison Ersheid
●Dante in Translation - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video- Download Course – Giuseppe Mazzotta
●Darwin and Design – Web Site – James Paradis, MIT
●D.H. Lawrence – Web – Catherine Brown, Oxford
●Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes – Web – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
●Expansive Poetics – Web – Allen Ginsberg, Naropa University
●From Gods and Back - Web – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
●George Eliot – Web – Catherine Brown, Oxford
●Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner - YouTube - iTunes - Web Site- Wai Chee Dimock, Yale
●Holocaust in Film and Literature – YouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA
●Introduction to Literature and the Environment – YouTube- iTunes Video – Ken Hiltner, Princeton
●Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture –iTunes Audio
–John Wallace, UC Berkeley