Download free courses & lectures from some of the world’s leading universities, including Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and others. All courses can be downloaded to computers & mp3 players, and can be accessed anytime, anywhere.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Archaeology
- Hannibal -Â iTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford
Architecture
- Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (Video) – iTunes – Jan Wampler, MIT
- Roman Architecture -Â YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video -Â Download Course – Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale
Art & Art History
- Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art – iTunes – James Grant, Oxford University
- Art History: Ancient to Medieval – iTunes Video – Penn State, Heather McCune Bruhn
- Foundations of American Cyber-Culture – YouTube – UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Visual Thinking – YouTube – UC Berkeley
- Masterpieces of Western Art – iTunes – Columbia University
- SmARThistory Video Lectures – Vimeo – Web – Beth Harris, MoMA & Steven Zucker, Pratt Institute
- The Elements of Drawing – iTunes – Stephen Farthing, Oxford University
Classics & Classical World
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy -Â iTunes Video -Â Web Video – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
- Ancient Greek History - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video - Download Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
- Ancient Philosophy -Â iTunes -Â David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
- Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love - iTunes Video -Â Web Video – Professor David O’Connor, Notre Dame
- Hannibal – iTunes - Patrick Hunt, Stanford
- Roman Architecture -Â YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video -Â Download Course – Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale
- 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
Economics
- American Economic History – iTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
- Austrian Economics: An Introduction – Web Site -Â Murray N. Rothbard -Â New York Polytechnic University
- Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform -Â iTunes Video -Â iTunes Audio -Â YouTube -Â Web Site – Douglas W. Rae, Yale
- Economic Crisis and Globalization – Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
- Economic Geography of the Industrial World – iTunes – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley.
- Financial Markets – YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video - Download Course – Robert Shiller, Yale
- Financial Theory -Â iTunes Video -Â iTunes Audio -Â Web Site – John Geanakoplos, Yale
- Game Theory – YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – Ben Polak, Yale
- Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory - YouTube – Professor J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
- International Trade - YouTube - iTunes Video – Steven Wood, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Economics – iTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Economics – Web Site – Carnegie Mellon
- Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice Online Course – Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
- Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy -Â YouTube – Professor Gordon Rausser, UC Berkeley
- Marxian Economics – An Intensive Introduction – Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
- Reading Marx’s Capital – Google Video – David Harvey, City University of New York
- The Austrian School of Economics: An Introduction – Web Site - Friedrich A. Hayek & colleagues – Recorded at University of Colorado
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Film
- Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Holocaust in Film and Literature – YouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA
- Philosophy in Film and Other Media - iTunes – YouTube – Web Site – Irving Singer, MIT
- Western Movies: Myth, Ideology, Genre – iTunes – Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan
Geography
- 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
History
- African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle – YouTube – iTunes – Clay Carson, Stanford
- American Economic History – iTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
- Ancient Greek History - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video - Download Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
- 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 -Â iTunes Video -Â iTunes Audio -Â YouTube -Â Web Site – Keith E. Wrightson, Yale
- Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 -Â iTunes Video – Â iTunes Audio -Â YouTube -Â Web Site – Frank Snowden, Yale
- European Civilization, 1648-1945 - YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video -Â 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 – Thomas Lacquer, UC Berkeley
- European Cultural History, 1500-1815 - MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
- European Cultural History, 1660-1870 -Â MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
- European Cultural History, 1880-1920 -Â MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
- France Since 1871 – YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – John Merriman, Yale
- Hannibal – iTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford.
- Historical Jesus – iTunes – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
- History of Anthropological Thought – iTunes – Rosemary Joyce, UC Berkeley
- History of Information – YouTube – 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 the Modern Middle East – iTunes – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
- History of New York City: A Social History - iTunes – 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 – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
- Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 - iTunes – Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Greek History -Â YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
- 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
- Science, Magic and Religion - iTunes -Â YouTube – Courtenay Raiai, UCLA
- The American Founders and Their World – iTunes – Jack Rakove, Gordon Wood, etc. Stanford
- The American Revolution – iTunes Video -Â iTunes Audio – YouTube -Â Web Site – Joanne B. Freeman, Yale
- The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video - Download Course – David Blight, Yale
- The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 – iTunes – James Vernon, UC Berkeley
- The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich – iTunes – Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley
- The United States and the World Since 1945 - iTunes Audio – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
- The Western Tradition (Video) – Videos – 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
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Law
- Environmental Justice and Human Rights in the Aftermath of Katrina – Web Audio – Cynthia Toms Smedley, Notre Dame
- Environmental Politics and Law - iTunes Video -Â iTunes Audio -Â YouTube -Â Web Site – John P. Wargo, Yale
- Introduction to Copyright Law – iTunes – Web Site – Keith Winstein, MIT
Linguistics
- Old English in Context -Â iTunes – Stuart Lee, Oxford University
- Structure of English Words - iTunes – Will Leben, Stanford
Literature
- American Literature I: Beginnings to Civil War - iTunes – YouTube -Â Web Site - Cyrus Patell, NYU
- Cervantes’ Don Quixote - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - YouTube - Web Site – Roberto González EchevarrÃa, Yale
- Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Dante in Translation – YouTube – iTunes Audio - iTunes Video -Â Download Course – Giuseppe Mazzotta
- Holocaust in Film and Literature – YouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA
- Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture – iTunes Audio – John Wallace, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Theory of Literature – iTunes – YouTube – Download Course – Paul H. Fry, Yale
- Invitation to World Literature – Web Site -Â David Damrosch, Harvard
- Literature in English: Late-17th to Mid-19th Century - iTunes – Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
- Milton – YouTube – iTunes Audio - iTunes Video -Â Download Course – John Rogers, Yale
- Modern Poetry - YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – Langdon Hammer, Yale
- Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre – iTunes – Oxford
- Old English in Context - iTunes – Stuart Lee, Oxford University
- Shakespeare - iTunes – Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
- Shakespeare After All: The Later Plays – Multiple Formats – Marjorie Garber, Harvard
- The American Novel Since 1945 – YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video - 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
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Music
- Listening to Music – Download Course – Professor Craig Wright, Yale
Philosophy
- Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art – iTunes – James Grant, Oxford University
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - iTunes Video -Â Web Video – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
- Ancient Philosophy – iTunes – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
- Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love - iTunes Video -Â Web Video – Professor David O’Connor, Notre Dame
- Aristotle: Ethics – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Aristotle: Rhetoric – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Authority & the Individual: Six BBC Lectures - Web Site – Bertrand Russell, Cambridge
- Death – YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video –  Download Course – Shelly Kagan, Yale
- Environmental Philosophy – iTunes Video -Â Web Video – Kenneth Sayre, Notre Dame
- Existentialism in Literature & Film – iTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- General Philosophy – iTunes – Peter Millican, Oxford University
- Hegel: The Philosophy of History – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Heidegger – iTunes -Â Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Heidegger’s Being & Time – iTunes - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Hobbes: Leviathan and De Cive (1964) - Web Site - Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
- Introduction to Political Philosophy – YouTube – iTunes – Download Course, Steven B. Smith, Yale
- Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?,YouTube -Â iTunes -Â Web Site -Â Michael Sandel, Harvard
- Kant – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Walter Kaufmann Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre - Web Site
- Kant’s Epistemology – iTunes – Dr Susan Stuarts, University of Glasgow
- Man, God, and Society in Western Literature -Â iTunes Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Medical Ethics – Web Audio – David Solomon, Notre Dame
- Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1966) - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Morality and Modernity - Web Video – David Solomon, Notre Dame
- Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Philosophy in Film and Other Media - iTunes – YouTube – Web Site – Irving Singer, MIT
- Philosophy for Beginners – iTunes – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
- Philosophy of Language – iTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
- Philosophy of Love in the Western World – iTunes – YouTube – Web Site – Irving Singer, MIT
- Philosophy of Mind - iTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
- Philosophy of Society – iTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
- Plato Apology/Crito - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Plato: Gorgias – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
- Plato: Laws – Web Site -Â Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
- Plato: Meno - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Plato, Protagoras  -Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Plato’s Republic – Web Site – Laurence Bloom, University of Georgia
- Proust & Philosophy – Feed – Johns Hopkins
- The Examined Life – iTunes – Greg Reihman, Lehigh University
- The Moral Foundations of Politics - iTunes Video -Â iTunes Audio -Â YouTube -Â Web Site – Professor Ian Shapiro, Yale
- The Nature of Mind – iTunes – John Joseph Campbell, UC Berkeley
- Thucydides – Web Site -Â Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Vico: Seminar in Political Philosophy – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Xenophon’s Oeconomicus - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
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Political Science, International Relations and Law
- African American Studies: Intro to African American Political Thought – YouTube – Mark Sawyer, UCLA
- Climate Change: Law and Policy – iTunes – Feed – Stream – Cymie Payne
- Environmental Politics and Law -Â iTunes Video -Â iTunes Audio -Â YouTube -Â Web Site – John P. Wargo, Yale
- Faith and Globalization – YouTube – Tony Blair, Miroslav Volf, Yale
- Geography of US Presidential Elections – YouTube – iTunes – Martin Lewis, Stanford
- International Politics – Feed – Johns Hopkins
- Introduction to German Politics – iTunes – Feed – Andreas Busch, Oxford University
- Introduction to Political Philosophy – YouTube – iTunes – Download Course, Steven B. Smith, Yale
- Justice: A Journey in Moral Reasoning (Video) – Video – Michael Sandel, Harvard
- Perspectives on China (Video) – Video – Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard
- Politics and Strategy – YouTube – Kathleen Bawn, UCLA
- Republicanism – Feed - Johns Hopkins
- The Moral Foundations of Politics - iTunes Video -Â iTunes Audio -Â YouTube -Â Web Site – Professor Ian Shapiro, Yale
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Religion
- Faith and Globalization – YouTube – Tony Blair, Miroslav Volf, Yale
- 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 – YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – Professor Dale B. Martin, Yale
- Jerusalem: The Holy City from Ancient Canaan t0 Modern Israel – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Robert Cargill, UCLA
- Jews and Christians Throughout History - iTunes Video -Â Web Video – Rabbi Michael Signer, Notre Dame
- Science, Magic and Religion: From Antiquity to Present – iTunes – YouTube -Â UCLA
Sociology
- Foundations of Modern Social Theory – iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - YouTube - Web Site – Iván Szelényi, Yale
- Global Sociology - YouTube – Professor Michael Burawoy, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Sociology – Web Site – Harvey Molotch, NYU
- 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
