Free Online Courses from Top Universities

Get free online courses from the world’s leading universities. This collection includes over 250 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player.

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 - YouTube – iTunes – 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
• Introduction to Nonviolence – iTunes – Stream Audio and Video – Michael Nagler, UC Berkeley

Economics

• American Economic History – iTunes – Feed – Stream – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
• Economic Crisis and Globalization – Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
• Economic Geography of the Industrial World – iTunes – Feed – MP3s – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley.
• Financial Markets – YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – Robert Shiller, Yale
• Game Theory – YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – Ben Polak, Yale
• Macroeconomic Analysis – iTunes - Feed – Steven Wood, UC Berkeley
• Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice Online Course – Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
• Marxian Economics – An Intensive Introduction – Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
• 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

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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 – iTunes – 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 – YouTube – iTunes – 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 YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
• Modern Civilization: 1750 to Present - YouTube – Lynn Hunt, UCLA
• Modern Physics: From the Atom to Big Science – iTunes – Feed – Stream – Cathryn Carson, UC Berkeley
• Science, Magic and Religion - YouTube – Courtenay Raiai, UCLA
• 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 - YouTube – iTunes – 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

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Literature

• Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes – Feed – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Dante in Translation – iTunes – YouTube – Download Course – Giuseppe Mazzotta
• Holocaust in Film and Literature – YouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA
• 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 – YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – John Rogers, Yale
• Modern Poetry - YouTube – iTunes – 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 – YouTube – iTunes – 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

• Ancient Philosophy – iTunes – Feed – Stream – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
• Death – YouTube – iTunes – 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 Political Philosophy – YouTube – iTunes – Download Course, Steven B. Smith, Yale
• Introduction to Practical Reasoning and Critical Analysis of Argument, iTunes – Daniel Coffeen, UC Berkeley
• Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, YouTube - iTunes - Web Site - 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

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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
• 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
• 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

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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

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 – YouTube – Lynn Rotschild, Stanford
• Astronomy 101 – iTunes – Web Site – Scott Miller, Mercedes Richards & Stephen Redman, Penn State
• Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics - iTunes – Download Course – YouTube – 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 – YouTube – iTunes Team taught – Stanford
• Evolution, Ecology and Behavior – YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – Professor Stephen C. Stearns, Yale
• Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering – YouTube – iTunes – 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 – YouTube – iTunes – Feed – Marian Diamond, UC Berkeley
• General Molecular Biology – Video – Qiang Zhou, 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
• Introduction to Oceanography - YouTube – Edwin Schauble, UCLA
• 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
• The Future of Human Health – YouTube – iTunes – Jennifer Raymond
• The Stanford Mini Med School (Fall) – iTunes – YouTube – Web Site – Multiple Professors
• The Stanford Mini Med School (Winter) - iTunes - YouTube - Web Site
• The Stanford Mini Med School (Spring) – iTunes – Web Site

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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 – YouTube – iTunes – 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 – YouTube – iTunes – Multiple formats – Oussama Khatib, Stanford
• Artificial Intelligence – Natural Language Processing – Multiple formats – Christopher Manning, Stanford
• Artificial Intelligence – Machine Learning – YouTube – iTunes – Multiple formats – Andrew Ng, Stanford
• Artificial Intelligence – YouTube – P.Dasgupta, IIT
• Building Dynamic Web Sites – Video & Audio – Rss Feed – iTunes - 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 and Programming - YouTube – iTunes – Eric Grimson, John Guttag, MIT
• Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Methodology – YouTube – iTunes – Multiple formats – Mehran Sahami, Stanford
• Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Abstractions - YouTube – iTunes - Multiple formats – Julie Zelenski, Stanford
• Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Paradigms - YouTube – iTunes - 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
• iPhone Application Development (Spring 2009)- iTunes – Stanford
• iPhone Application Development (Winter 2010) – iTunes – Stanford
• 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
• Principles of Digital Communications I - YouTube – iTunes – Profs Gallagher and Zheng, MIT
• Principles of Digital Communications II - YouTube – MIT
• 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

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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 – YouTube – iTunes – 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

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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
• Differential Equations – YouTube – iTunes – MIT – Arthur Mattuck
• Linear Algebra – YouTube – iTunes – Gilbert Strang, MIT
• Introduction to Statistics – iTunes – Fletcher Ibser, UC Berkeley
• Single Variable Calculus - YouTube – iTunesU – David Jerison, MIT
• Multivariable Calculus – YouTube – iTunes – Dennis Auroux, MIT
• The Calculus Lifesaver – Download Videos – Adrian Banner, Princeton

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Natural Resources

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

Physics

• Fundamentals of Physics – iTunes - YouTube - Download Course – Ramamurti Shankar, Yale
• Introduction to Solar System Astronomy – iTunes – Feed – Richard Pogge, Ohio State
• Introductory Physics – iTunes – Robert Jacobsen, UC Berkeley
• Modern Physics: From the Atom to Big Science - iTunes – Feed – Stream – Cathryn Carson, 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
• Modern Theoretical Physics: Statistical Mechanics (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

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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 Psychology – YouTube – iTunes – 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

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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

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