450 Free Online Courses from Top Universities




Get free online courses from the world’s leading universities. This collection includes over 400 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player.

Humanities & Social Sciences

Archaeology

  • HannibaliTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford

Architecture

Art & Art History

  • Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art – iTunes – James Grant, Oxford University
  • Foundations of American Cyber-CultureYouTube – UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Visual ThinkingYouTube – UC Berkeley
  • PhotographyWebiTunes – Jonathan Worth & Matt Johnston at Coventry University
  • SmARThistory Video LecturesVimeo – Beth Harris, MoMA & Steven Zucker, Pratt Institute
  • The Elements of DrawingiTunes – Stephen Farthing, Oxford University

Classics & Classical World

Economics

  • Advanced Political Economy - YouTube - Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney
  • American Economic HistoryiTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
  • Austrian Economics: An IntroductionWeb Site - Murray N. Rothbard - New York Polytechnic University
  • Behavioral FinanceYouTube – Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney
  • Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform iTunes VideoiTunes AudioYouTubeWeb Site – Douglas W. Rae, Yale
  • Economic Crisis and GlobalizationVideo – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
  • Economic Geography of the Industrial WorldiTunes – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley.
  • Financial MarketsYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – Robert Shiller, Yale
  • Financial Markets 2011YouTubeiTunesWeb Site – Robert Shiller
  • Financial TheoryYouTubeiTunes VideoiTunes AudioWeb Site – John Geanakoplos, Yale
  • Game TheoryYouTubeiTunes Audio - iTunes VideoDownload Course – Ben Polak, Yale
  • Game Theory in the Social Sciences -iTunes Video – Yves Zenou, UC Berkeley
  • International Political EconomyiTunes - James Morrison, Middlebury College
  • International Trade - YouTube - iTunes Video – Steven Wood, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to EconomicsiTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
  • Lectures on Human Capital - YouTube – Gary Becker, UC Chicago
  • Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice Online CourseVideo – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
  • Introduction to Environmental Economics and PolicyYouTube – Peter Berck, UC Berkeley
  • Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice - Video - Richard D. Wolff, The New School
  • Marxian Economics – An Intensive IntroductionVideo – Richard D. Wolff, The New School
  • Marxian Economics: Advanced & Applied Intensive CourseVideo - Richard D. Wolff, The New School
  • Principles of MicroeconomicsVideo – Jonathan Gruber, MIT
  • Reading Marx’s CapitalGoogle 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 IntroductionWeb 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, GenreiTunes – 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 ElectionsiTunesYouTube – Martin Lewis, Stanford
  • Geography of World Cultures - iTunes – Martin Lewis, Stanford University
  • Global GeopoliticsiTunes – Martin Lewis, Stanford University
  • GlobalizationiTunes – Robert Acker, UC Berkeley

History

  • African American History: From Emancipation to the Present – YouTube – iTunes – Web Site – Jonathan Holloway, Yale
  • African-American History: Modern Freedom StruggleYouTubeiTunes – Clay Carson, Stanford
  • American Economic HistoryiTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
  • Ancient Greek HistoryYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
  • Ancient IsraelYouTube – Daniel Fleming, NYU
  • Ben Franklin and the World of the EnlightenmentiTunes – Bruce Thompson, Stanford/UC Santa Cruz
  • China: Traditions and TransformationsMultiple Formats – Peter K. Bol & William Kirby, Harvard
  • Colonial and Revolutionary AmericaiTunesU – Jack Rakove, Stanford
  • Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and StuartsYouTubeiTunes VideoiTunes AudioWeb Site – Keith E. Wrightson, Yale
  • Early Modern Germany - iTunes Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
  • Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 iTunes Video –  iTunes AudioYouTubeWeb Site – Frank Snowden, Yale
  • Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914iTunes Audio - David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
  • European Civilization, 1648-1945 - YouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – John Merriman, Yale
  • European Civilization from Renaissance to PresentiTunes – 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 1871YouTubeiTunesDownload Course – John Merriman, Yale
  • HannibaliTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford
  • Harvey Goldberg Lectures (1975-1983)Web Site - Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin
  • Historical JesusiTunes – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
  • History of Anthropological ThoughtiTunes – Rosemary Joyce, UC Berkeley
  • History and Practice of Human RightsYouTubeiTunes VideoiTunes Audio – Thomas Laqueur
  • History of InformationYouTube – Professors Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley
  • History of Iran to the Safavid PeriodiTunes – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
  • History of the International SystemiTunes – James Sheehan, Stanford University
  • History of the Modern Middle EastiTunes – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
  • History of New York City: A Social History - iTunes VideoYouTubeWeb Site – Daniel Walkowitz, NYU
  • History of the United States Since 1945iTunes – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
  • History of the World to 1500 CEYouTube – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
  • Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 - iTunes – Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
  • International and Global History Since 1945iTunes – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Ancient Greek HistoryYouTubeiTunesDownload Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
  • Introduction to American StudiesYouTubeiTunes 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 HistoryMP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Science, Magic and Religion - iTunesYouTube – Courtenay Raiai, UCLA
  • The American Founders and Their WorldiTunes – Jack Rakove, Gordon Wood, etc. Stanford
  • The American RevolutionYouTubeiTunes Video iTunes AudioWeb Site – Joanne B. Freeman, Yale
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - YouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – David Blight, Yale
  • The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000YouTubeiTunesWeb Site – Paul H. Freedman, Yale
  • The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000iTunes – James Vernon, UC Berkeley
  • The Rise and Fall of the Second ReichiTunes Audio – Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley
  • The United States and the World Since 1945 - iTunes Audio – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
  • The Western Tradition (Video)VideosCourse Outline – Eugen Weber, UCLA
  • War and Peace: International Relations since 1914iTunes – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
  • World War and Society in the 20th Century: World War IIMultiple Formats – Charles S. Maier, Harvard

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Journalism

  • Journalistic EthicsYouTube – Jim Newton, UCLA

Languages

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Law

  • Aims and Limits of the Criminal Law - iTunes Audio – Tamara Lave, UC Berkeley
  • Climate Change: Law and PolicyYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes Video – Cymie Payne, Daniel Farber, UC Berkeley
  • Environmental Justice and Human Rights in the Aftermath of KatrinaWeb Audio – Cynthia Toms Smedley, Notre Dame
  • Environmental Law and Policy - YouTube – Bob Infelise, UC Berkeley
  • Environmental Politics and Law - YouTubeiTunes VideoiTunes AudioWeb Site – John P. Wargo, Yale
  • International Environmental LawYouTubeiTunes VideoiTunes Audio – Cymie Payne, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Copyright LawiTunesWeb 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

Literature

  • American Literature I: Beginnings to Civil War - iTunes VideoYouTube – Cyrus Patell, NYU
  • Approaching ShakespeareWeb – Emma Smith, Oxford
  • Cervantes’ Don Quixote - YouTubeiTunes VideoiTunes AudioWeb Site – Roberto González Echevarría, Yale
  • Dante in TranslationYouTubeiTunes Audio - iTunes VideoDownload Course – Giuseppe Mazzotta
  • D.H. LawrenceWeb – Catherine Brown, Oxford
  • Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • George EliotWeb – Catherine Brown, Oxford
  • Hemingway, Fitzgerald, FaulknerYouTubeiTunesWeb Site - Wai Chee Dimock, Yale
  • Holocaust in Film and LiteratureYouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA
  • Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and CultureiTunes Audio – John Wallace, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Theory of LiteratureYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – Paul H. Fry, Yale
  • Invitation to World LiteratureWeb Site - David Damrosch, Harvard
  • Literature and PsychoanalysisWeb Site - John Fletcher, University of Warwick
  • Literature in English: Late-17th to Mid-19th Century – iTunes – Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
  • MiltonYouTubeiTunes Audio - iTunes VideoDownload Course – John Rogers, Yale
  • Modern Poetry - Download Course – Langdon Hammer, Yale
  • Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular TheatreiTunes – Oxford
  • Old English in Context - Web – Stuart Lee, Oxford University
  • Restoration and 18th Century Poetry: From Dryden to WordsworthWeb Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
  • Shakespeare - iTunes – Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
  • Shakespeare After All: The Later PlaysMultiple 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 1945YouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – Amy Hungerford, Yale
  • The Art of LivingWeb Site – Team taught, Stanford
  • The Epic - iTunes – UC Berkeley - Maura Bridget Nolan and Charles Altieri
  • The Literature of CrisisiTunes – Marsh McCall & Martin Evans, Stanford
  • The Western Canon: From Homer to MiltonWeb Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
  • This Craft of Verse: The Charles Eliot Norton LecturesWeb Audio – Jorge Luis Borges, Harvard
  • Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a ClassiciTunes – Susanna Braund, Stanford

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Music

  • Free Music Courses (Multiple Offerings) - Web Site - Berklee College of Music
  • Listening to MusicDownload Course – Professor Craig Wright, Yale
  • The Unanswered Question: 6 Lectures on Music - YouTube – Leonard Bernstein, Harvard

Philosophy

  • A Romp through Ethics for Complete Beginners - iTunes VideoWeb Video - Marianne Talbot, Oxford University
  • Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art – iTunesWeb – James Grant, Oxford University
  • Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - iTunes VideoWeb Video – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
  • Ancient PhilosophyiTunes – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
  • Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love - iTunes VideoWeb Video – Professor David O’Connor, Notre Dame
  • Aristotle: EthicsWeb Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Aristotle: RhetoricWeb Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Aristotle: PoliticsWeb Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Authority & the Individual: Six BBC Lectures - Web Site – Bertrand Russell, Cambridge
  • Critical Reasoning for Beginners - iTunes VideoiTunes AudioWeb Video & Audio - Marianne Talbot, Oxford
  • DeathYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes Video –  Download Course – Shelly Kagan, Yale
  • Environmental PhilosophyiTunes VideoWeb Video – Kenneth Sayre, Notre Dame
  • Existentialism in Literature & FilmiTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • General PhilosophyiTunesWeb – Peter Millican, Oxford University
  • Hegel: The Philosophy of HistoryWeb Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit - Web Site - JM Bernstein, New School
  • Hegel’s Phenomenology of SpiritWeb Site - Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
  • Hegel’s Science of LogicWeb Site – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
  • Heidegger: Being and Time - Sean Dorrance Kelly – Harvard - RSS FeedWeb Site
  • Heidegger’s Being & TimeiTunes - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Heideggers Being and Time, Division IIiTunes - 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 PhilosophyYouTubeiTunesDownload Course, Steven B. Smith, Yale
  • Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? – YouTubeWeb Site - Michael Sandel, Harvard
  • KantWeb Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Kant’s Critique of JudgmentWeb Site – JM Bernstein, New School
  • Kant’s Critique of Pure ReasoniTunes VideoiTunes AudioVideo/Audio on Web – Dan Robinson, Oxford
  • Kant’s Critique of Pure ReasonWeb Site – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
  • Kant’s Critique of Pure ReasonWeb Site – JM Bernstein, New School
  • Later HeideggerWeb Site – Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
  • Walter Kaufmann Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre - Web Site
  • Kant’s EpistemologyiTunes – Dr Susan Stuarts, University of Glasgow
  • Man, God, and Society in Western LiteratureiTunes Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • MarxWeb Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Medical EthicsWeb 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 NatureYouTubeiTunes AudioWeb Site – Tamar Gendler, Yale
  • Philosophy in Film and Other Media - iTunesYouTube – Irving Singer, MIT
  • Philosophy for BeginnersiTunesVideo/Audio on the Web – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
  • Philosophy of LanguageiTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
  • Philosophy of Love in the Western WorldiTunesYouTube – Irving Singer, MIT
  • Philosophy of Mind - iTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
  • Philosophy of SocietyiTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
  • Plato Apology/Crito - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Plato: GorgiasWeb Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
  • Plato: LawsWeb Site - Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
  • Plato: Meno - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Plato, Protagoras  -Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Plato’s RepublicWeb Site – Laurence Bloom, University of Georgia
  • Proust & PhilosophyFeed – Johns Hopkins
  • The Art of LivingWeb Site – Team taught, Stanford
  • The Central Philosophy of Tibet - Web Audio – Robert Thurman, Columbia University
  • The Examined LifeiTunes – Greg Reihman, Lehigh University
  • The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps - Multiple Formats – Peter Adamson, King’s College London
  • The Moral Foundations of PoliticsYouTubeiTunes VideoiTunes AudioWeb Site – Professor Ian Shapiro, Yale
  • The Nature of MindiTunes – John Joseph Campbell, UC Berkeley
  • The Origins of Political ScienceWeb Site – Leo Strauss, UC Chicago
  • The Secular and The SacredWeb Site – Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
  • Theory of MeaningiTunes AudioiTunes Video – John Joseph Campbell
  • ThucydidesWeb Site - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Truth & Subjectivity/The Culture Of The SelfWeb Site – Michel Foucault, UC Berkeley
  • Vico: Seminar in Political PhilosophyWeb 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 ThoughtYouTube – Mark Sawyer, UCLA
  • Climate Change: Law and PolicyiTunes – Cymie Payne
  • Environmental Politics and Law - YouTubeiTunes VideoiTunes AudioWeb Site – John P. Wargo, Yale
  • Faith and GlobalizationWeb Site – Tony Blair, Miroslav Volf, Yale
  • Geography of US Presidential Elections – YouTubeiTunes – Martin Lewis, Stanford
  • History of Political Theory iTunes – Wendy Brown, UC Berkeley
  • International PoliticsFeed – Johns Hopkins
  • International Political EconomyiTunes - James Morrison, Middlebury College
  • International PoliticsAudio - James Morrison, Middlebury College
  • Introduction to German PoliticsiTunes – Andreas Busch, Oxford University
  • Introduction to Political PhilosophyYouTubeiTunesDownload 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 StrategyYouTube – Kathleen Bawn, UCLA
  • RepublicanismFeed - Johns Hopkins
  • The Moral Foundations of PoliticsYouTube - iTunes VideoiTunes AudioWeb Site – Professor Ian Shapiro, Yale

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Religion

  • Ancient IsraelYouTube – Daniel Fleming, NYU
  • Faith and GlobalizationYouTube – Tony Blair, Miroslav Volf, Yale
  • Historical JesusiTunes – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
  • Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible)Download Course – Christine Hayes, Yale.
  • Introduction to New Testament History and LiteratureYouTubeiTunesDownload Course – Professor Dale B. Martin, Yale
  • Jerusalem: The Holy City from Ancient Canaan t0 Modern IsraeliTunes VideoiTunes Audio – Robert Cargill, UCLA
  • Jews and Christians Throughout History - iTunes VideoWeb Video – Rabbi Michael Signer, Notre Dame
  • Science, Magic and Religion: From Antiquity to PresentiTunesYouTube - 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 TheoryYouTubeiTunes VideoiTunes AudioWeb Site – Iván Szelényi, Yale
  • Global Sociology - YouTube – Professor Michael Burawoy, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to SociologyWeb Site – Harvey Molotch, NYU
  • The Sociology of Race RelationsiTunes – Gianpaolo Baiocchi, UMASS Amherst

Urban Studies

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

Sciences

Aeronautics

Anthropology

  • Introduction to Biological AnthropologyFree – Terrence Deacon, UC Berkeley

Astronomy

  • Astrobiology and Space ExplorationiTunesYouTube – Lynn Rotschild, Stanford
  • Astronomy 101iTunesWeb Site – Scott Miller, Mercedes Richards & Stephen Redman, Penn State
  • Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity & AstrophysicsYouTubeiTunes VideoWeb Site – Edmund Bertschinger, MIT
  • Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics - YouTube -  iTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – Charles Bailyn, Yale
  • Introduction to AstrophysicsiTunes - Joshua Bloom, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to CosmologyiTunes – James Bullock, UC Berkeley

Biology/Medicine

  • Animal BehavioriTunes – Gerald Schneider, MIT
  • Autism and Related Disorders - iTunes – Frank Volkmar, Yale
  • Behavioral EndocrinologyFeed – Johns Hopkins
  • Bioscience in the 21st CenturyiTunesVideo Downloads – Team taught, Lehigh University
  • Brain Structure and its OriginsiTunes - Prof. Gerald Schneider, MIT
  • Changing the Face of American HealthcareWeb Audio – Cynthia Toms Smedley, Notre Dame
  • Darwin’s LegacyYouTubeiTunes Team taught – Stanford
  • Evolution, Ecology and BehaviorYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – Professor Stephen C. Stearns, Yale
  • Frontiers in Biomedical EngineeringYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course – W. Mark Saltzman, Yale
  • General Biology 1 - Feed – John Hopkins
  • General Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyiTunes – Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
  • General Human AnatomyYouTubeiTunes – Marian Diamond, UC Berkeley
  • Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture, and LawYouTube - Robert B. Goldberg, UCLA
  • Genomes and DiversityWeb Site – Mark Siegal, NYU
  • Genomics & Computational BiologyiTunes – George Church, MIT
  • Global Problems of Population GrowthYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course - Professor Robert Wyman, Yale
  • Human Behavioral BiologyiTunes VideoYouTube – Robert Sapolsky, Stanford
  • Introductory BiologyiTunesMP3s/Videos – Multiple professors, MIT
  • Introduction to BiologyYouTube – Multiple Professors – UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Oceanography - YouTube – Edwin Schauble, UCLA
  • Life, Concepts and Issues: Introduction to Life Sciences for Non-Science MajorsYouTube – Jay Phelan, UCLA
  • Modern BiologyWeb Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Molecular Biology: Macromolecular Synthesis and Cellular Function - iTunes Audio – Multiple Professor, UC Berkeley
  • Molecules and CellsFeed – Johns Hopkins
  • Replaceable You: Stem Cells and Tissue EngineeringiTunes – Jill Helms, Stanford
  • Straight Talk About Stem CellsiTunes - Christopher Scott, Stanford
  • Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics - iTunes – Christopher Scott, Stanford
  • The Future of Human HealthYouTubeiTunes – Jennifer Raymond
  • The Stanford Mini Med School (Fall)iTunesYouTubeWeb Site – Multiple Professors
  • The Stanford Mini Med School (Winter) - iTunesYouTubeWeb Site – Multiple Professors
  • The Stanford Mini Med School (Spring) – iTunesWeb Site – Multiple Professors
  • The Stanford Mini Med School: The Heart - iTunesYouTube – Multiple Professors
  • VirologyiTunes Video – Vincent Racaniello, Columbia University

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Chemistry

  • Biochemistry 1YouTube – S. Dasgupta, IIT
  • Biochemistry 507iTunes – Multiple Professors, University of Wisconsin
  • Chemical Structure and Reactivity -YouTubeiTunes – Peter Vollhardt, UC Berkeley
  • Chemistry (chemical stoichiometry) – Web Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Core Concepts in Chemistry - iTunes –  Stephen L. Craig – Duke
  • Freshman Organic ChemistryYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course - J. Michael McBride, Yale
  • Freshman Organic Chemistry IIYouTubeiTunesWeb Site - J. Michael McBride, Yale
  • General ChemistryiTunes – Kristie Boering, UC Berkeley
  • Green Chemistry: An Interdisciplinary Approach to SustainabilityYouTube – Professor John Arnold
  • Introduction to ChemistryiTunes – Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Chemical EngineeringYouTubeiTunes – Channing Robertson, Stanford
  • Introduction to Solid State ChemistryYouTubeiTunes VideoWeb Site - Donald Sadoway, MIT
  • Organic ChemistryiTunes – James Nowick, UC Irvine
  • Organic SpectroscopyiTunes - James Nowick, UC Irvine

Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

  • Artificial Intelligence – Introduction to RoboticsYouTubeiTunes VideoMultiple formats – Oussama Khatib, Stanford
  • Artificial Intelligence – Natural Language ProcessingMultiple formats – Christopher Manning, Stanford
  • Artificial Intelligence – Machine LearningYouTubeiTunes VideoMultiple formats – Andrew Ng, Stanford
  • Artificial IntelligenceYouTube – P.Dasgupta, IIT
  • Basic Concepts of Operating Systems & System Programming - YouTubeiTunes Video – Ion Stoica, Anthony Joseph, UC Berkeley
  • Bits: The Computer Science of Digital InformationMultiple Formats – Harry Lewis, Harvard
  • Building Dynamic Web SitesiTunesVideo & Audio – David Malan, Harvard Extension
  • Building Mobile ApplicationsiTunesWeb Site - David Malan, Harvard Extension
  • Computational Camera and PhotographyDownload Course – Ramesh Raskar, MIT
  • Computer GraphicsYouTube – Sukhendu Das, IIT
  • Computer Language Engineering - Web Site – Martin Rinard, MIT
  • Computer NetworksYouTube – S.Ghosh, IIT
  • Computer System EngineeringWeb Site – Profs. Robert Morris and Samuel Madden, MIT
  • Data Structures - iTunes Video – Paul Hilfinger, UC Berkeley
  • Developing Apps for iOS (iPhone & iPad)iTunes Video – Paul Hegarty, Stanford
  • Developing iPad Applications for Visualization and Insight - iTunes Video – Niki Kitur, Carnegie Mellon
  • Discrete Mathematical Structures YouTube – Kamala Krithivasan, IIT
  • Intensive Introduction to Computer Science Using C, PHP, and JavaScript – Multiple Formats – David Malan, Harvard
  • Introduction to AlgorithmsiTunesYouTubeWeb Site –  Prof. Charles Leiserson & Erik Demaine, MIT
  • Introduction to Computer Programming for Scientists and Engineers - iTunes AudioiTunes Video – Roberto Horowitz, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Computer Science and Programming - YouTubeiTunesWeb Site – Eric Grimson, John Guttag, MIT
  • Introduction to Computer Science: Programming MethodologyYouTubeiTunesMultiple formats – Mehran Sahami, Stanford
  • Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Abstractions - YouTubeiTunes - Multiple formats – Julie Zelenski, Stanford
  • Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Paradigms - YouTubeiTunes - Multiple formats – Jerry Cain, Stanford
  • Introduction to Computer GraphicsYouTube – Prem Kalra, IIT
  • Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science I - Web Site – Multiple Professors, MIT
  • Introduction to Embedded Systems - YouTube – Professors Sanjit Seshia, Edward A. Lee, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Problem Solving & ProgrammingYouTube – Deepak Gupta, IIT
  • iPhone Application Development in iOS5 (Fall 2011) HD Video iTunesStandard-Def Video iTunes
  • iPhone Application Development (Spring 2009) - iTunes – Stanford
  • iPhone Application Development (Winter 2010)iTunes – Stanford
  • Logic & ProofsWeb Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Machine StructuresiTunes Video – David Culler, UC Berkeley
  • Machine LearningiTunes Video - Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, CalTech
  • Media ProgrammingWeb – Carnegie Mellon
  • Multicore Programming Primer - iTunes – Saman Amarasinghe, MIT
  • Operating Systems and System ProgrammingiTunes – Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
  • Performance Engineering of Software SystemsYouTube – Multiple Professors, MIT
  • Principles of Digital Communications I - YouTubeiTunes – Profs Gallagher and Zheng, MIT
  • Principles of Digital Communications II - YouTube – MIT
  • Programming Languages and Compilers - YouTube – Professor Paul Hilfinger, UC Berkeley
  • Quantum Computing for the Determined - YouTube – Michael Nielsen, The University of Queensland
  • Search Engines: Technology, Society and BusinessYouTube – Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley
  • The Beauty and Joy of ComputingiTunesYouTube – Brian Harvey, UC Berkeley
  • The Future of the InternetiTunes – Ramesh Johari, Stanford
  • The Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsYouTubeiTunes – Brian Harvey, UC Berkeley
  • Understanding Computers and the InternetiTunesWeb Site – David Malan, Harvard University

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Engineering (Mechanical, Civil and Electrical)

  • Advanced Analog Integrated CircuitsYouTube – Professor Simone Gambini, UC Berkeley
  • Atomistic Computer Modeling of MaterialsYouTubeiTunes VideoWeb Site – Gerbrand Ceder & Nicola Marzari, MIT
  • Convex Optimization IMultiple Formats – Stephen Boyd, Stanford
  • Convex Optimization 2Multiple Formats – Stephen Boyd, Stanford
  • Direct Solar/Thermal to Electrical Energy Conversion TechnologiesiTunesDownload Course – Gang Chen, MIT
  • Dynamics of MachinesYouTube – Amitabha Ghosh, IIT
  • Electrical – Digital Signal Processing YouTube – S.C Dutta Roy, IIT
  • Electro Magnetic FieldsYouTube – Harishankar Ramachandran, III
  • Elementary Fluid MechanicsiTunes Audio – Mark Stacey, UC Berkeley
  • Engineering StaticsWeb Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Environmental Air PollutionYouTube -Mukesh Sharma, IIT
  • Fluid MechanicsYouTube – T.I.Eldho, IIT
  • Introduction to Chemical EngineeringYouTubeiTunes – Channing Robertson, Stanford
  • Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits - iTunes – Elad Alon, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Digital Integrated CircuitsYouTube – Professor Jan M. Rabaey, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to EngineeringiTunes – Tod Laursen, Duke
  • Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems - Multiple formats – Stephen Boyd, Stanford
  • Introduction to Microelectronic CircuitsiTunes – Chang-Hasnain, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to EngineeringiTunes Video – Multiple presenters, Duke University
  • Linear Integrated CircuitsYouTube – Professor Clark Tu-Cuong Nguyen, UC Berkeley
  • Mechanical Engineering: Introduction to MEMS Design - iTunes AudioiTunes Video – UC Berkeley
  • Nano-to-Macro Transport ProcessesiTunes AudioWeb Site – Gang Chen, MIT
  • Nonlinear Finite Element AnalysisYouTube - Klaus-Jürgen Bathe, MIT
  • The Fourier Transform and its ApplicationsYouTubeiTunesMultiple formats – Brad Osgood, Stanford
  • Understanding Lasers and FiberopticsYouTubeWeb Site – Prof. Shaoul Ezekiel, MIT

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Environment & Natural Resources

Mathematics

  • Abstract Algebra - Multiple Formats – Benedict Gross – Harvard
  • Analytic Geometry and CalculusYouTubeiTunes Video – Benjamin Johnson, UC Berkeley
  • Analytic Geometry and Calculus (Continuation of above)YouTubeiTunes Video, Thomas Scanlon, UC Berkeley
  • CalculusiTunes Audio – F. Michael Christ, UC Berkeley
  • Calculus 1Web - Matthew Leingang, NYU
  • Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus (1970)YouTube - iTunes VideoWeb Site – Herb Gross, MIT
  • Computational Science and Engineering I - iTunesYouTubeWeb Site – Gilbert Strang, MIT
  • Core Science MathematicsYouTube – SK Ray, IIT
  • Differential EquationsYouTubeiTunesWeb Site – MIT – Arthur Mattuck
  • Engineering StatisticsWeb Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Geometric Folding Algorithms:Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra - Web Site – Erik Demaine, MIT
  • Introduction to Probability and StatisticsYouTubeiTunes Video – Deborah Nolan, UC Berkeley
  • Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business - YouTubeiTunes – Fletcher Ibser, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to StatisticsiTunes – Fletcher Ibser, UC Berkeley
  • Linear AlgebraYouTubeiTunesWeb Site – Gilbert Strang, MIT
  • Logic & ProofsWeb Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Multivariable CalculusYouTubeiTunesWeb Site - Dennis Auroux, MIT
  • Probability for Math ScienceiTunesYouTube – Herbert Enderton, UCLA
  • Sets, Counting, and ProbabilityMultiple Formats – Paul Bamberg, Harvard
  • Single Variable Calculus - YouTubeiTunesUWeb Site – David Jerison, MIT
  • StatisticsWeb Site – Carnegie Mellon
  • Statistics: Introduction to ProbabilityiTunes Video – Joseph Blitzstein, Harvard
  • The Calculus LifesaverDownload Videos – Adrian Banner, Princeton

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Physics

  • Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity & AstrophysicsYouTubeiTunes VideoWeb Site – Edmund Bertschinger, MIT
  • Descriptive Introduction to Physics iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - Richard Muller, UC Berkeley
  • Fundamentals of PhysicsYouTubeiTunesDownload Course – Ramamurti Shankar, Yale
  • Fundamentals of Physics II - YouTubeiTunes VideoiTunes AudioWeb Site – Ramamurti Shankar, Yale
  • Introduction to AstrophysicsiTunesYouTube – Josh Bloom, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Cosmology and Particle PhysicsYouTube – Sean Carroll, Caltech
  • Introduction to CosmologyiTunes – James Bullock, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Solar System AstronomyiTunesFeed – Richard Pogge, Ohio State
  • Introductory PhysicsiTunes – Michael Deweese, UC Berkeley
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Classic Mechanics (Video) – iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Video) – iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Special Relativity (Video) – iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Einstein (Video)iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Cosmology (Video) - iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Modern Theoretical Physics: Statistical Mechanics (Video)iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
  • Quantum ElectrodynamicsWeb Site - Richard Feynman, Presented at University of Auckland
  • Quantum Entanglement Part 1: (Video) – iTunesYouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford University
  • Quantum Entanglement Part 3: (Video) – iTunesYouTube – Leonard Susskind, Stanford University
  • Quantum MechanicsiTunes – JJ Binney, Oxford University
  • Quantum MechanicsiTunesFeed – John Terning, UC Davis
  • Quantum Physics Made Relatively SimpleVideos - Hans Bethe, Cornell University
  • Physics I: Classical MechanicsiTunesVideo DownloadYouTubeWeb Site – Walter Lewin, MIT
  • Physics II: Electricity and MagnetismiTunesVideo DownloadYouTubeWeb Site – Walter Lewin, MIT
  • Physics III: Vibrations and WavesiTunesVideo DownloadYouTube – Walter Lewin, MIT
  • Physics for Future PresidentsYouTube – Richard Muller, UC Berkeley
  • Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft MatterYouTube – Team taught, Harvard
  • Stars, Galaxies, and the UniverseiTunesFeed – Richard Pogge, Ohio State
  • String Theory, Black Holes, and the Laws of Nature (Video)Videos – Andrew Strominger, Harvard
  • The Character of Physical LawVideo – Richard Feynman, Cornell
  • The Mechanical UniverseGoogle VideoPBS Video – Cal Tech

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Psychology & Cognitive Sciences

  • Brain Structure and its OriginsiTunes - Gerald Schneider, MIT
  • Buddhist Psychology - iTunes – Eleanor Rosch, UC Berkeley
  • Clinical PsychologyiTunes – Ann Kring, UC Berkeley
  • Cognitive NeuroscienceiTunes – Richard Ivry, UC Berkeley
  • Communication and Conflict in Families and Couples - YouTube - Benjamin Karney, UCLA
  • Developmental PsychologyiTunes – Alison Gopnik, UC Berkeley
  • General PsychologyiTunes Audio – John Kihlstrom, UC Berkeley
  • Human Emotion - iTunes Audio – Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley
  • Human HappinessiTunes – Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to PsychologyYouTubeiTunes AudioiTunes VideoDownload Course, Paul Bloom, Yale
  • Introduction to PsychologyiTunesMP3s – Jeremy Wolfe, MIT
  • Introduction to PsychologyYouTube – John Gabrieli, MIT
  • Neural Networks and Biological ModelingWeb Video – Wolfram Gerstner, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  • Neuroscience and BehavioriTunesDownload Course – Gerald Schneider, MIT
  • Research and Data Analysis in PsychologyYouTubeiTunes Video - Frederic Theunissen, UC Berkeley
  • Scientific Approaches to Consciousness - iTunes AudioYouTube – Professor John F. Kihlstrom, UC Berkeley
  • Social Psychology: Self and Society - iTunes Audio – Robb Willer, UC Berkeley
  • The New Psychology of Depression - iTunes AudioWeb Audio - Mark Williams and Danny Penman, Oxford
  • The Psychology, Biology and Politics of FoodDownload Course – Professor Kelly D. Brownell, Yale

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Public Health

  • Epidemiology and Control of Infectious DiseasesYouTube – Professor Tomas Aragon, UC Berkeley
  • Ethical Challenges in Public Health Interventions: Catastrophic and RoutineYouTube – Professor Harvey Kayman, UC Berkeley

Business

  • Entrepreneurship and Business PlanningiTunesFeed – Mark Juliano, Carnegie Mellon
  • Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business - YouTubeiTunes – Fletcher Ibser, UC Berkeley
  • Marketing 321iTunes – Elaine Daussy, Texas A&M
  • Supply Chain Management & Logistics: An introduction to Principles and ConceptsiTunes – Richard Wilding, Cranfield University

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