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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

• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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

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