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Humanities & Social Sciences

Archaeology

  • Introduction to Archaeology - Feed - MP3s - Ruth Tringham, UC Berkeley

Architecture

  • Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (Video) - iTunes - Jan Wampler, MIT

Art History

  • Masterpieces of Western Art - iTunes - Columbia University

Cultural Studies

  • Foundations of American Cyberculture - iTunes - Feed - Greg Niemeyer, UC Berkeley
  • Heritage and Cultural Informatics - MP3s, Ian Anderson, University of Glasgow
  • Introduction to Nonviolence - iTunes - Feed - Michael Nagler, UC Berkeley

Economics

  • American Economic History - iTunes - Feed - Stream - J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
  • Economic Geography of the Industrial World - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Richard Walker, UC Berkeley.
  • Financial Markets - Download Course - Robert Shiller, Yale
  • Game Theory - Download Course - Ben Polak, Yale
  • Macroeconomic Analysis - iTunes - Feed - Steven Wood, UC Berkeley
  • Microeconomic Analysis - iTunes - Feed - Gordon Rausser, UC Berkeley
  • Money and Banking - Feed - MP3s - Dean Balm, UCLA
  • Reading Marx’s Capital - Google Video - David Harvey, City University of New York

Geography

  • Economic Geography of the Industrial World - iTunes - Richard Walker, 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 - Feed - MP3s - Robert Acker, UC Berkeley
  • Natural Resources and Population - iTunes - Feed - Nathan Sayre, UC Berkeley
  • World Regions, People and States - iTunes - Feed - Nathan Sayre, UC Berkeley

History

  • African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle - YouTube - Clay Carson, Stanford
  • American Economic History - iTunes - Feed - Stream - J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
  • American Environmental and Cultural History - iTunes - Feed - Carolyn Merchant, UC Berkeley
  • Colonial and Revolutionary America - iTunesU - Jack Rakove, Stanford
  • European Civilization from Renaissance to Present - iTunes - Feed - Thomas Lacquer/Margret Anderson, UC Berkeley
  • European Civilization from Renaissance to Present - Feed - Stream - Carla Hesse, UC Berkeley
  • France Since 1871 - Download Course - John Merriman, Yale
  • Hannibal - iTunes - Patrick Hunt, Stanford.
  • Historical Jesus - iTunes - Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
  • History of the International System - iTunes - James Sheehan, Stanford University
  • Introduction to Greek History - Download Course - Donald Kagan, Yale
  • Modern Physics: From the Atom to Big Science - iTunes - Feed - Stream - Cathryn Carson, UC Berkeley
  • Spectacle Entertainments of Ancient Rome - Feed - MP3s - Paolo Monella, UCLA
  • The American Founders and Their World - iTunes - Jack Rakove, Gordon Wood, etc. Stanford
  • The Ancient Mediterranean World - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - Download Course - David Blight, Yale
  • The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley
  • The Roman Empire - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
  • The Western Tradition (Video) - Videos - Course Outline - Eugen Weber, UCLA
  • US History: Civil War to Present - iTunes - Feed- Jennifer Burns, UC Berkeley

Literature

  • Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes - Feed - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Man, God and Society in Western Literature - iTunes - Feed - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Milton - Download Course - John Rogers, Yale
  • Modern English - Download Course - Langdon Hammer, Yale
  • Old English in Context - iTunes - Stuart Lee, Oxford University
  • Shakespeare - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
  • The American Novel Since 1945 - Download Course - Amy Hungerford, Yale
  • The Literature of Crisis - iTunes - Marsh McCall & Martin Evans, Stanford University
  • Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic - iTunes - Susanna Braund, Stanford University

Philosophy

  • Ancient Philosophy - iTunes - Feed - Stream - David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
  • Consciousness - MP3s here - Susan Stuart, University of Glasgow
  • Death - Download Course - Shelly Kagan, Yale
  • Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes - Feed - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Heidegger - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Heidegger’s Being & Time - Feed - MP3s - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Practical Reasoning and Critical Analysis of Argument, iTunes - Daniel Coffeen, UC Berkeley
  • Kant’s Epistemology - iTunes - Dr Susan Stuarts, University of Glasgow.
  • Man, God and Society in Western Literature - iTunes - Feed - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Philosophy for Beginners - iTunes - Marianne Talbot, Oxford
  • Proust & Philosophy - Feed - Johns Hopkins
  • The Examined Life - iTunes - Greg Reihman, Lehigh University

Political Science, International Relations and Law

  • American Politics: Campaign Strategy - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Dan Schnur, UC Berkeley
  • Climate Change: Law and Policy - iTunes - Feed - Stream - Cymie Payne
  • Environmental Law and Policy - iTunes - Holly Doremus, UC Berkeley
  • Geography of US Presidential Elections - iTunes - YouTube - Martin Lewis, Stanford
  • International Politics - Feed - Johns Hopkins
  • Introduction to German Politics - iTunes - Feed - Andreas Busch, Oxford University
  • Introduction to Political Philosophy - Download Course, Steven B. Smith, Yale
  • Introduction to Political Theory - Feed - UCLA
  • Issues in Foreign Policy after 911 - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Harry Kriesler, UC Berkeley
  • Justice: A Journey in Moral Reasoning (Video) - Video - Michael Sandel, Harvard
  • Perspectives on China (Video) - Video - Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard
  • Politics and Strategy - Feed - MP3s - Kathleen Bawn, UCLA
  • Republicanism - Feed - Johns Hopkins
  • Theories of Law and Society - iTunes - Feed - David Lieberman, UC Berkeley
  • Undergrad Colloquium on Political Science - iTunes - Feed - Alan Ross, UC Berkeley

Religion

  • Historical Jesus - iTunes - Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
  • Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) - Download Course - Christine Hayes, Yale.

Sociology

  • The Sociology of Race Relations - iTunes - Gianpaolo Baiocchi, UMASS Amherst

Urban Studies

Sciences Aeronautics

Astronomy

  • Astrobiology and Space Exploration - iTunes - Lynn Rotschild, Stanford
  • Astronomy 101 - iTunes - Web Site - Scott Miller, Mercedes Richards & Stephen Redman, Penn State
  • Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics - Download Course - Charles Bailyn, Yale
  • Introduction to General Astronomy - iTunes - Feed - Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley

Biology

  • Animal Behavior - iTunes - Feed - Roy Caldwell, UC Berkeley
  • Animal Behavior - iTunes - Download Course - Gerald Schneider, MIT
  • Behavioral Endocrinology - Feed - Johns Hopkins
  • Bioscience in the 21st Century - iTunes - Video Downloads - Team taught, Lehigh University
  • Darwin’s Legacy - iTunes - YouTube - Team taught - Stanford
  • Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering - Download Course - W. Mark Saltzman, Yale
  • General Biology 1 - Feed - John Hopkins
  • General Biology 1 - iTunes - Multiple Professors, UC Berkeley
  • General Biology 2 - iTunes - Mp3 Stream - Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
  • General Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - iTunes - Feed - Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
  • General Human Anatomy - iTunes - YouTubeFeed - Marian Diamond, UC Berkeley
  • Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture, and Law - Feed - MP3s here, Robert B. Goldberg, UCLA
  • Genetics - Feed - MP3s here - Jay Phelan, UCLA
  • General Genetics - iTunes - Multiple Professors, UC Berkeley.
  • Genomics & Computational Biology - iTunes - MP3s - George Church, MIT
  • Introductory Biology - iTunes - MP3s/Videos - Multiple professors, MIT
  • Introduction to Human Nutrition - iTunes - Feed - Nancy Amy, UC Berkeley
  • Life Sciences 15 - Feed - UCLA
  • Molecules and Cells - Feed - Johns Hopkins
  • Replaceable You: Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering - iTunes - Jill Helms, Stanford
  • Straight Talk About Stem Cells - iTunes - Christopher Scott, Stanford
  • Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics - iTunes - Christopher Scott, Stanford

Chemistry

  • Biochemistry 1 - YouTube - S. Dasgupta, IIT
  • Biochemistry 507 - iTunes - Multiple Professors, University of Wisconsin
  • Chemical Structure and Reactivity - iTunes - Feed - Stream - Peter Vollhardt, UC Berkeley
  • General Chemistry - iTunes - Feed - Stream - Kristie Boering, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Chemistry - iTunes - Feed - Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Chemical Engineering - YouTube - iTunes - Channing Robertson, Stanford

Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

  • Artificial Intelligence - Introduction to Robotics - Multiple formats - Oussama Khatib, Stanford
  • Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language Processing - Multiple formats - Christopher Manning, Stanford
  • Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning - Multiple formats - Andrew Ng, Stanford
  • Artificial Intelligence - YouTube - P.Dasgupta, IIT
  • Computer Graphics - YouTube - Sukhendu Das, IIT
  • Computer Networks - YouTube - S.Ghosh, IIT
  • Computer Science 1 - Feed - UCLA
  • Discrete Mathematical Structures YouTube - Kamala Krithivasan, IIT
  • Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Methodology - Multiple formats - Mehran Sahami, Stanford
  • Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Abstractions - Multiple formats - Julie Zelenski, Stanford
  • Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Paradigms - Multiple formats - Jerry Cain, Stanford
  • Introduction to Computers - Feed - Americ Azevedo, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Computer Graphics - YouTube - Prem Kalra, IIT
  • Introduction to Problem Solving & Programming - YouTube - Deepak Gupta, IIT
  • Multimedia Systems - iTunes - Surendar Chandra, Notre Dame
  • Operating Systems and System Programming - iTunes - Feed - Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
  • Operating Systems Principles - iTunes - Surendar Chandra, Notre Dame
  • The Future of the Internet - iTunes - Ramesh Johari, Stanford
  • The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - iTunes - Video Feed - Stream - Brian Harvey
  • Understanding Computers and the Internet - iTunes - Feed - David Malan, Harvard University

Earth Sciences

  • Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - MP3 - Feed - Bjorn Stevens, UCLA
  • Crossroads of Earth Resources and Society - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - George Brimhall, UC Berkeley

Engineering (Mechanical, Civil and Electrical)

  • Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits - iTunes - MP3s - Ali Niknejad, UC Berkeley
  • Convex Optimization I - Multiple Formats - Stephen Boyd, Stanford
  • Convex Optimization 2 - Multiple Formats - Stephen Boyd, Stanford
  • Dynamics of Machines - YouTube - Amitabha Ghosh, IIT
  • Electrical - Digital Signal Processing YouTube - S.C Dutta Roy, IIT
  • Electro Magnetic Fields - YouTube - Harishankar Ramachandran, III
  • Environmental Air Pollution - YouTube -Mukesh Sharma, IIT
  • Fluid Mechanics - iTunes - Feed - Omer Savas, UC Berkeley
  • Fluid Mechanics - YouTube - T.I.Eldho, IIT
  • Introduction to Chemical EngineeringYouTube - iTunes - Channing Robertson, Stanford
  • Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits - iTunes - Feed - Stream - Elad Alon
  • Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems - Multiple formats - Stephen Boyd, Stanford
  • Introduction to Microelectronic Circuits - iTunes - Feed - Chang-Hasnain, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Digital Electronics - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Bernhard Boser, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Engineering - iTunes - Multiple presenters, Duke University
  • The Fourier Transform and its Applications - Multiple formats - Brad Osgood, Stanford
  • Time, Money and Love in the Age of Technology - iTunes - Americ Azevedo, UC Berkeley
  • Venture Design: The Startup Company - iTunes - Americ Azevedo, UC Berkeley

Geology

  • Earthquakes in Your Backyard - iTunes - Feed - Richard Allen, UC Berkeley

Information Sciences

  • History of Information - iTunes - Feed - Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley
  • Information, Law and Policy - iTunes - Paul Sameulson, UC Berkeley
  • Open Source and Distribution of Digital Information - iTunes - Feed - Multiple Professors, UC Berkeley
  • Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business - iTunes - Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley

Mathematics

  • Core Science Mathematics - YouTube - SK Ray, IIT
  • Introduction to Statistics - iTunes - Fletcher Ibser, UC Berkeley
  • The Calculus Lifesaver - Download Videos - Adrian Banner, Princeton

Natural Resources

  • Wildlife Ecology - iTunes - Feed - Justin Brashares, UC Berkeley
  • Woods Energy Seminar - iTunes - Multiple Professors, Stanford

Physics

  • Fundamentals of Physics - Download Course - Ramamurti Shankar, Yale
  • Introduction to Solar System Astronomy - iTunes - Feed - Richard Pogge, Ohio State
  • Introductory Physics - iTunes - Robert Jacobsen, UC Berkeley
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Classic Mechanics (Video) - iTunes - YouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Video) - iTunes - YouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Special Relativity (Video) - iTunes - YouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Einstein (Video)iTunesYouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Cosmology (Video) iTunes - YouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Quantum Entanglement Part 1: (Video) - iTunes - YouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford University
  • Quantum Entanglement Part 3: (Video) - iTunes - YouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford University
  • Quantum Mechanics - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Raphael Bousso, UC Berkeley
  • Quantum Mechanics - iTunes - Feed - John Terning, UC Davis
  • Physics I: Classical Mechanics - iTunes - Video Download - YouTube - Walter Lewin, MIT
  • Physics II: Electricity and MagnetismiTunesVideo Download - YouTube - Walter Lewin, MIT
  • Physics III: Vibrations and Waves - iTunes - Video Download - YouTube - Walter Lewin, MIT
  • Physics for Future Presidents - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - YouTube - Richard Muller, UC Berkeley
  • Physics for Scientists and Engineers - iTunes - Feed - Steven Boggs, UC Berkeley
  • Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe - iTunes - Feed - Richard Pogge, Ohio State
  • String Theory, Black Holes, and the Laws of Nature (Video) - Videos - Andrew Strominger, Harvard

Psychology & Cognitive Sciences

  • Brain Structure and its Origins - iTunes - Download Course - Gerald Schneider, MIT
  • Clinical Psychology - iTunes - Keltner & Chen, UC Berkeley
  • Cognitive Neuroscience - iTunes - Feed - Stream - Richard Ivry, UC Berkeley
  • Depression: Anxiety Disorders and Exercise - MP4 - UCSF
  • Depression: Psychiatric Pitfalls & Treatment - MP4 - UCSF
  • General Psychology - iTunes - Feed - John Kihlstrom, UC Berkeley
  • History of Psychology - Feed - City University of New York
  • Human Emotion - iTunes - Feed - Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Cognitive Psychology - iTunes - Feed - David Huber
  • Introduction to Psychology - Download Course, Paul Bloom, Yale
  • Introduction to Psychology - iTunes - MP3s - Jeremy Wolfe, MIT
  • Introductory Psychology - Feed - UCLA
  • Neuroscience and Behavior - iTunes - Download Course - Gerald Schneider, MIT
  • Social Psychology - iTunes - Feed - Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
  • Social Psychology - Feed - MP3s here - Benjamin R. Karney, UCLA

Business

  • Entrepreneurship and Business Planning - iTunes - Feed - Mark Juliano, Carnegie Mellon
  • Marketing 321 - iTunes - Elaine Daussy, Texas A&M

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