250 Free Courses Online

Download free courses & lectures from some of the world’s leading universities, including Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and others.

Humanities & Social Sciences

Archaeology

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

Architecture

• Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (Video) – iTunes – Jan Wampler, MIT
• Roman Architecture - iTunes - YouTube - Download Course -  Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale

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, 1648-1945 - iTunes - YouTube - Download Course – John Merriman, Yale
• 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
• Dante in Translation – iTunes – YouTube – Download Course – Giuseppe Mazzotta
• Introduction to Theory of Literature - iTunes - YouTube - Download Course - Professor Paul H. Fry
• 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

Music

• Listening to Music - Download Course - Professor Craig Wright, Yale

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
• Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? – YouTube –  Michael Sandel, Harvard
• 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.
• Introduction to New Testament History and Literature - iTunes - YouTube - Download Course - Professor Dale B. Martin, Yale

Sociology

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

Urban Studies

• Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry (Video) – iTunes – Download Course – Anne Whiston Spirn, MIT

Sciences Aeronautics

• Aircraft Systems Engineering – iTunes – Download Course – Multiple professors, MIT

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
• Evolution, Ecology and Behavior - iTunes - YouTube - Download Course - Professor Stephen C. Stearns, Yale
• 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 – YouTube - Feed – 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
• Global Problems of Population Growth - iTunes - YouTube - Download Course - Professor Robert Wyman, Yale
• 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
• Freshman Organic Chemistry - iTunes - YouTube - Download Course - Professor J. Michael McBride, Yale
• 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
• Building Dynamic Web Sites – Rss Feed – iTunes – Web Site - David Malan, Harvard Extension
• 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 Engineering - YouTube – 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
• Single Variable Calculus - YouTube – iTunesU – David Jerison, MIT
• 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) - iTunes - YouTube – 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 Magnetism - iTunes - Video 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
• The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food - Download Course - Professor Kelly D. Brownell, Yale

Business

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

General Open Course Collections

• YouTubeEDU Web Site
• Academic Earth  Web Site
• VideoLectures.net Web Site
• Indian Institute of Technology YouTube
• MIT OpenCourseWare Web Site iTunes
• Stanford iTunes
• UC Berkeley Web Site iTunes YouTube
• UCSD Web Site
• Yale University (Open Courses) – Web Site