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Humanities & Social Sciences
Archaeology
- Hannibal - iTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford
Architecture
- Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (Video) – iTunes – Jan Wampler, MIT
- Roman Architecture - YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video - Download Course – Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale
Art & Art History
- Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art – iTunes – James Grant, Oxford University
- Foundations of American Cyber-Culture – YouTube – UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Visual Thinking – YouTube – UC Berkeley
- Photography – Web – iTunes – Jonathan Worth & Matt Johnston at Coventry University
- SmARThistory Video Lectures – Vimeo – Beth Harris, MoMA & Steven Zucker, Pratt Institute
- The Elements of Drawing – iTunes – Stephen Farthing, Oxford University
Classics & Classical World
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - iTunes Video - Web Video – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
- Ancient Greek History - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video - Download Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
- Ancient Israel – YouTube – Daniel Fleming, NYU
- Ancient Philosophy - iTunes - David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
- Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love - 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 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
- Advanced Political Economy - YouTube - Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney
- American Economic History – iTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Lectures on Human Capital - YouTube – Gary Becker, UC Chicago
- Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice Online Course – Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
- Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy - YouTube – Peter Berck, UC Berkeley
- 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
- Principles of Microeconomics – Video – Jonathan Gruber, MIT
- Reading Marx’s Capital – Google Video – David Harvey, City University of New York
- The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis - Web – Ben Bernanke at George Washington University
- 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 – Irving Singer, MIT
- Western Movies: Myth, Ideology, Genre – iTunes – Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan
Geography
- Economic Geography of the Industrial World - iTunes Audio – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley
- 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
- African American History: From Emancipation to the Present – YouTube – iTunes – Web Site – Jonathan Holloway, Yale
- 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
- Ancient Israel - YouTube – Daniel Fleming, NYU
- 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 and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 – iTunes Audio - David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
- 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 – Thomas Lacquer, UC Berkeley
- European Cultural History, 1500-1815 - MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
- European Cultural History, 1660-1870 - MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
- European Cultural History, 1880-1920 - MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
- 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 – Thomas Laqueur
- History of Information – YouTube – iTunes Video – 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 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 – 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 Ancient Greek History - YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
- Introduction to American Studies – YouTube – iTunes Video - iTunes Audio – Michael Cohen, 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
- Science, Magic and Religion - iTunes - YouTube – Courtenay Raiai, 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 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 Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 – iTunes – James Vernon, UC Berkeley
- The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich – iTunes Audio – 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
- Beginner’s Chinese - iTunes Free - Open University
- Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation - iTunes Free - Emory University
- Francais interactif iTunes Free - Web Site - University of Texas
- French in Action Free Web Site - Yale University
- French 1 & French 2 - Web Site - Carnegie Mellon
- Icelandic Online - Web Site - University of Iceland
- Introduction to Urdu Alphabet - iTunes Free Emory University
- 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
- Thai Alphabet - iTunes Free -Emory University
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Law
- Aims and Limits of the Criminal Law - iTunes Audio – Tamara Lave, UC Berkeley
- 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
- International Environmental Law – YouTube – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Cymie Payne, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Copyright Law – iTunes – Web Site – Keith Winstein, MIT
- Renewable Energy & Alternative Fuels (Law & Policy) – YouTube – UC Berkeley
Linguistics
- Old English in Context - Web – Stuart Lee, Oxford University
- Structure of English Words - iTunes – Will Leben, Stanford
- American Literature I: Beginnings to Civil War - iTunes Video – YouTube – Cyrus Patell, NYU
- Approaching Shakespeare – Web – Emma Smith, Oxford
- Cervantes’ Don Quixote - YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - Web Site – Roberto González Echevarría, Yale
- 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 – 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 Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture – iTunes Audio – John Wallace, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Theory of Literature – YouTube - iTunes Audio – iTunes Video - Download Course – Paul H. Fry, Yale
- Invitation to World Literature – Web Site - David Damrosch, Harvard
- Literature and Psychoanalysis – Web Site - John Fletcher, University of Warwick
- Literature in English: Late-17th to Mid-19th Century – iTunes – Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
- Milton – YouTube – iTunes Audio - iTunes Video - Download Course – John Rogers, Yale
- Modern Poetry - Download Course – Langdon Hammer, Yale
- Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre – iTunes – Oxford
- Old English in Context - Web – Stuart Lee, Oxford University
- Restoration and 18th Century Poetry: From Dryden to Wordsworth – Web Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
- Shakespeare - iTunes – Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
- Shakespeare After All: The Later Plays – Multiple Formats – Marjorie Garber, Harvard
- Spenser and Milton – Web Audio - William Flesch, Brandeis
- Survey of Shakespeare’s Plays - Web Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
- The American Novel Since 1945 – YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video - Download Course – Amy Hungerford, Yale
- The Art of Living – Web Site – Team taught, Stanford
- The Epic - iTunes – UC Berkeley - Maura Bridget Nolan and Charles Altieri
- The Literature of Crisis – iTunes – Marsh McCall & Martin Evans, Stanford
- The Western Canon: From Homer to Milton – Web Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
- This Craft of Verse: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures – Web Audio – Jorge Luis Borges, Harvard
- Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic – iTunes – Susanna Braund, Stanford
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Music
- Free Music Courses (Multiple Offerings) - Web Site - Berklee College of Music
- Listening to Music – Download Course – Professor Craig Wright, Yale
- The Unanswered Question: 6 Lectures on Music - YouTube – Leonard Bernstein, Harvard
- A Romp through Ethics for Complete Beginners - iTunes Video – Web Video - Marianne Talbot, Oxford University
- Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art – iTunes – Web – James Grant, Oxford University
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - iTunes Video - Web Video – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
- Ancient Philosophy – iTunes – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
- Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love - iTunes Video - Web Video – Professor David O’Connor, Notre Dame
- Aristotle: Ethics – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Aristotle: Rhetoric – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Aristotle: Politics - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Authority & the Individual: Six BBC Lectures - Web Site – Bertrand Russell, Cambridge
- Critical Reasoning for Beginners - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Web Video & Audio - Marianne Talbot, Oxford
- Death – YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video – Download Course – Shelly Kagan, Yale
- Environmental Philosophy – iTunes Video - Web Video – Kenneth Sayre, Notre Dame
- Existentialism in Literature & Film – iTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- General Philosophy – iTunes – Web – Peter Millican, Oxford University
- Hegel: The Philosophy of History – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit - Web Site - JM Bernstein, New School
- Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit – Web Site - Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Hegel’s Science of Logic – Web Site – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Heidegger: Being and Time - Sean Dorrance Kelly – Harvard - RSS Feed – Web Site
- Heidegger’s Being & Time – iTunes - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Heideggers Being and Time, Division II – iTunes - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- History of Political Theory - iTunes – Wendy Brown, 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 - Web Site - Michael Sandel, Harvard
- Kant – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Kant’s Critique of Judgment – Web Site – JM Bernstein, New School
- Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio - Video/Audio on Web – Dan Robinson, Oxford
- Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Web Site – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Web Site – JM Bernstein, New School
- Later Heidegger – Web Site – Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
- 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 - iTunes Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Marx – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- 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 and the Science of Human Nature – YouTube - iTunes Audio - Web Site – Tamar Gendler, Yale
- Philosophy in Film and Other Media - iTunes – YouTube – Irving Singer, MIT
- Philosophy for Beginners – iTunes – Video/Audio on the Web – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
- Philosophy of Language – iTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
- Philosophy of Love in the Western World – iTunes – YouTube – 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 - 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 Art of Living - Web Site – Team taught, Stanford
- The Central Philosophy of Tibet - Web Audio – Robert Thurman, Columbia University
- The Examined Life – iTunes – Greg Reihman, Lehigh University
- The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps - Multiple Formats – Peter Adamson, King’s College London
- The Moral Foundations of Politics – YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - Web Site – Professor Ian Shapiro, Yale
- The Nature of Mind – iTunes – John Joseph Campbell, UC Berkeley
- The Origins of Political Science – Web Site – Leo Strauss, UC Chicago
- The Secular and The Sacred – Web Site – Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
- Theory of Meaning – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video – John Joseph Campbell
- Thucydides – Web Site - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Truth & Subjectivity/The Culture Of The Self – Web Site – Michel Foucault, UC Berkeley
- 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 – Cymie Payne
- Environmental Politics and Law - YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - Web Site – John P. Wargo, Yale
- Faith and Globalization – Web Site – Tony Blair, Miroslav Volf, Yale
- Geography of US Presidential Elections – YouTube – iTunes – Martin Lewis, Stanford
- History of Political Theory - iTunes – Wendy Brown, UC Berkeley
- International Politics – Feed – Johns Hopkins
- International Political Economy – iTunes - James Morrison, Middlebury College
- International Politics – Audio - James Morrison, Middlebury College
- Introduction to German Politics – iTunes – 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 - YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - Web Site – Professor Ian Shapiro, Yale
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Religion
- Ancient Israel - YouTube – Daniel Fleming, NYU
- 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 - Web Video – Rabbi Michael Signer, Notre Dame
- Science, Magic and Religion: From Antiquity to Present – iTunes – YouTube - UCLA
- The Central Philosophy of Tibet - Web Audio – Robert Thurman, Columbia University
- The Hebrew Scriptures in Judaism & Christianity - iTunes Video – Shaye J.D. Cohen
Sociology
- Foundations of Modern Social Theory – YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - 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 – Anne Whiston Spirn, MIT
