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Humanities & Social Sciences
Archaeology Courses
- Archaeology: from Dig to Lab and Beyond – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Reading
- Hannibal – Free Online Course – Patrick Hunt, Stanford
- Osteoarchaeology: The Truth in Our Bones – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Andrea Waters-Rist, Universiteit Leiden
- Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Peter Der Manuelian, Harvard
- Roman Art and Archaeology – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – David Soren, University of Arizona
- The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archaeology and History of the Palatine Hill – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Sapienza University of Rome
- Wonders of Ancient Egypt – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – David P. Silverman, University of Pennsylvania
Architecture Courses
- Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes – Free Online Course – Jan Wampler, MIT
- History of Architecture – Free Online Course – Jacqueline Gargus, Ohio State
- Making Architecture – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – IE School of Architecture and Design
- Roman Architecture – Free Online Course – Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale
- Structures 2 – Free iTunes Video – Peter von Buelow, University of Michigan
- Sustainability in Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University Polytechnic Valencia
- The Architectural Imagination – Free Online Video – Multiple instructors , Harvard
- Theory of City Form – Free Online Course – Julian Beinart, MIT
Art & Art History Courses
- Aesthetics & the Philosophy of Art – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video – James Grant, Oxford University
- Art Through Time: A Global View – Free Online Video – Annenberg Media
- Digital Photography – Free Online Course – Dan Armendariz, Harvard
- Effective Fundraising and Leadership in Arts and Culture – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Leeds
- European Paintings: From Leonardo to Rembrandt to Goya – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- Fashion as Design – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Museum of Modern Art
- Foundations of American Cyber-Culture – Free Online Video – UC Berkeley
- In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Museum of Modern Art
- Intentional Public Disruptions: Art, Responsibility, and Pedagogy – Free Online Video – Stephen Carpenter II and Lawrence Susskind, MIT
- Introduction to Digital Photography – Free Online Course – Marc Levoy, Stanford/Google
- Introduction to Visual Design – Free Online Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Introduction to Visual Studies – Free iTunes iOS App – Anna Divinsky, Penn State
- Introduction to Visual Thinking – Free Online Video – John McNamara, UC Berkeley
- Italian Renaissance – Free Online Course – Dr. Vida Hull, East Tennessee State University
- Italic Calligraphy & Handwriting – Free Online Course – Lloyd Reynolds, Reed College
- Let This Be a Lesson: Heroes, Heroines & Narrative in Paintings at Yale – Free Online Video – John Walsh, Yale
- Lighting Essentials – Free iTunes Video – Simon McIntyre, The University of New South Wales
- Modern Art & Ideas – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Museum of Modern Art
- Photography – Free iTunes App – Jonathan Worth & Matt Johnston at Coventry University
- Photography Lectures from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) – Free Online Lectures
- Seeing Through Photographs – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Museum of Modern Art
- Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Melbourne
- SmARThistory Video Lectures – Free Online Video/Audio – Beth Harris, MoMA & Steven Zucker, Pratt Institute
- Teaching Critical Thinking through Art with the National Gallery of Art – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
- The Elements of Drawing – Free Online Course – Stephen Farthing, Oxford University
- What Is Contemporary Art? – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Museum of Modern Art
- Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – The University of Tokyo
Classics Courses
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Syllabus) – Free iTunes Video – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
- Ancient Greece: City and Society – Free iTunes Audio – Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia
- Ancient Greece: Myth, Art & War – Free iTunes Audio – Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University – Australia
- Ancient Greek History – Free Online Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
- Ancient Israel – Free Online Course – Daniel Fleming, NYU
- Ancient Philosophy – Free Online Audio – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
- Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love (Syllabus) – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
- Classical Mythology – Free iTunes Video – Joseph Hughes, Missouri State
- Classical Mythology – Free iTunes Audio – Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University -Australia
- Epics of Rome – Free iTunes Video – Rhiannon Evans, LaTrobe University-Australia
- Greek and Roman Mythology – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania
- Hannibal – Free iTunes Audio – Patrick Hunt, Stanford
- Roman Architecture – Free Online Course – Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale
- The Philosophy of Tragedy – Free Online Video – Prof. Michael Davis, Sarah Lawrence College
- The Roman World – Free iTunes Video – Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University – Australia
- Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic – Free iTunes Audio – Susanna Braund, Stanford University
Communication Courses
- Argument Diagramming – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show – Free Online Course – MIT
- Business Fundamentals: Effective Communication – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Open University
- Communication Skills and Teamwork – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Fullbridge
- Communication Skills for Bridging Divides – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Catalyst
- Crisis Management: Proseminar in Public Relations – Free iTunes Video – Samuel Dyer, Missouri State
- Design and Make Infographics – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Michigan State
- Effective Business Presentations with Powerpoint – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Freedom of Speech and the Press – Free Online Video – William B. Turner, UC Berkeley
- Fundamentals of Public Speaking – Free iTunes Video – Gary Philips, Missouri State
- How to Speak – Free Online Video – Patrick Winston, MIT
- Improving Communication Skills – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania/Wharton
- Introduction to Communication Science – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Amsterdam
- Introduction to Public Speaking – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Washington
- Inter-Collegiate Debating I – Free iTunes Video – Eric Morris, Missouri State
- Overcoming Public Speaking Anxiety – Free iTunes Video – Margaret Swisher and Barbara Myslik , UC Davis
- Public Speaking II – Free iTunes Audio – Sam Dyer, Missouri State
- Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Harvard University
- Rhetoric – Free Online Course – Stanley Fish, Cardozo School of Law
- Storytelling – Free Online Course – Pixar/Khan Academy
- The Craft of Writing Effectively – Free Online Video – Larry McEnerney, UChicago
- The Interview – Free iTunes Audio – Erdem Koc, La Trobe University-Australia
- Writing for Strategic Communication – Free iTunes Audio – Karen Morath, La Trobe University
Demography Courses
- Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – David Coleman, Oxford
Design Courses
- Cars: Past, Present & Future – Free Online Course – Michael Shanks, Stanford
- Crash Course in Design Thinking – Free Online Course – Stanford
- Design Thinking for Innovation – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Virginia
- Digital Design – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Everything I Know – Free Online Lectures – Buckminster Fuller
- Fashion as Design – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Museum of Modern Art
- Ideas from the History of Graphic Design – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)– Cal Arts
- Introduction to Design Thinking – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Microsoft
- Product Design: The Delft Design Approach – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Delft University of Technology
- Video Game Design History – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Rochester Institute of Technology
- Visual Design – Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
Economics & Finance Courses
- Advanced Political Economy – Free Online Video – Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney
- Against All Odds: Inside Statistics – Free Online Course – Pardis Sabeti, Harvard
- American Capitalism: A History – Free iTunes Video – Accompanying Book – Louis Hyman & Edward Baptist, Cornell
- American Economic History (Syllabus) – Free Online Video – Free Audio – Martha Olney, UC Berkeley
- American Economic History – Free Online Video – Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst
- Austrian Economics: An Introduction – Free Online Audio – Murray N. Rothbard – New York Polytechnic University
- Behavioral Finance – Free Online Video – Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney
- Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video – Course Materials – Douglas W. Rae, Yale
- Cost and Economics in Pricing Strategy – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Virginia
- Country Level Economics: Policies, Institutions, and Macroeconomic Performance – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Crisis, Globalization and Economics – Free Online Video – Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
- Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: An Introduction to Digital Currencies – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania/Wharton
- Development Economics – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
- Development Economics: Macroeconomics – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video & Course Info – Robert Townsend, MIT
- Economic Democracy: The Cooperative Alternative – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Edinburgh
- Economics: Consumer Demand – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Babson
- Economics of Money and Banking – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Columbia University
- Economic Geography of the Industrial World – Free Online Video – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley.
- Economic History of the Soviet Union – Free Online Video – Guinevere Liberty Nell, Marginal Revolution U.
- Economics of the Media – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
- Energy Decisions, Markets and Policies – Free iTunes Video – Course Info – Richard Schmalensee, MIT
- Finance Theory 1 – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video & Course Info – Andrew Lo, MIT
- Financial Markets – Free Online Course – Robert Shiller, Yale (also Nobel Prize Winner)
- Financial Markets – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Robert Shiller, Yale
- Financial Markets 2011 – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Course Materials – Robert Shiller, Yale
- Financial Theory – Free Online Course – John Geanakoplos, Yale
- Game Theory – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Stanford
- Game Theory – Free Online Course – Course Materials – Ben Polak, Yale
- Game Theory – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Stanford University
- Game Theory and Economics – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Debarshi Das, IIT Guwahati
- Great Big Ideas – Free Online Video – Steven Pinker, Larry Summers, Michio Kaku, etc, Floating University
- Great Economists: Classical Economics and its Forerunners – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan & Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
- Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Lund University
- History of Economic Theory – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Dr. Shivakumar, IIT Madras
- How to Win at Texas Hold ‘Em – Free Online Video – Will Ma, MIT
- Intermediate Microeconomic Theory – Free Online Video – Maximilian Auffhammer, UC Berkeley
- International Finance – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
- International Finance – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Arun K. Misra, IIT Kharagpur
- International Political Economy – Free iTunes Audio – James Morrison, Middlebury College
- International Trade – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
- Introduction to Economic Theories – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Introduction to Economics – Free Online Video – Martha Olney, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Managerial Economics – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – IIMB
- Lectures on Human Capital – Free Online Video – Gary Becker, U Chicago
- Marx’s Kapital: Volumes 1 (2007) – Free Online Course – David Harvey, CUNY
- Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 (2019) – Free Online Course – David Harvey, CUNY
- Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 – Free Online Course – David Harvey, CUNY
- Reading Marx’s Grundrisse – Free Online Course – David Harvey, CUNY
- Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason – Free Online Course – David Harvey, CUNY
- Marxian Economics – Free Online Video – Stephen Resnick, UMass – Amherst
- Mastering Econometrics – Free Online Video – Josh Angrist, MIT
- Math for Economists – Free Online Video – Jason Kronewetter, UC Irvine
- Math of Finance – Free Online Video – Donald Saari, UC Irvine
- Mexico’s Economy: Current Prospects and History – Free Online Video – Robin Grier, U. of Oklahoma
- Microeconomics: The Power of Markets – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania
- Microeconomics Principles – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
- Money and Banking – Free Online Video – Gerald Epstein, UMass-Amherst
- Money and Banking – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Thomas Wyrick, Missouri State
- Money, Trade and Society – Free iTunes Video – Thomas Wyrick, Missouri State
- Money Skills – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
- Poker Theory and Analytics – Free Online Course – Kevin Desmond, MIT
- Political Economy After the Crisis – Free Online Video – Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
- Principles of Economics: Microeconomics – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason/MRUniversity
- Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason/MRUniversity
- Principles of Microeconomics (2018) – Free Online Video & Course Materials – Jonathan Gruber, MIT
- Principles of Microeconomics – Free iTunes Video – Free Video – Jonathan Gruber, MIT
- Principles of Macroeconomics – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Thomas Wyrick, Missouri State
- Principles of Macroeconomics – Free iTunes Audio – Ann Stevens, UC Davis
- Psychology and Economics – Free Online Video – Daniel Acland, UC Berkeley
- Public Economics – Free Online Video – Raj Chetty, Harvard
- Public Economics and Finance – Free Video & Course Info – Free Online Video – Nirupama Rao, NYU
- Radical Capitalism – Free iTunes Audio – William Kline, University of Illinois-Springfield
- Reading Marx’s Capital: Vol 1 – Free Online Video – David Harvey, City University of New York
- Reading Marx’s Capital: Vol 2 – Free Online Video – David Harvey, City University of New York
- Sports Economics – Free iTunes Audio – Liam Lenten, La Trobe University
- The Age of Sustainable Development – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Columbia University
- The Eurozone Crisis – Free Online Video – Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
- The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis – Free Online Video – Ben Bernanke at George Washington University
- The Future of Money – Free Online Video – Nigel Dodd, London School of Economics
- The Austrian School of Economics: An Introduction – Free Online Audio: 1, 2, 3, 4 – Friedrich A. Hayek & colleagues – Recorded at University of Colorado
- The Challenge of World Poverty – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Related Materials – Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee, MIT
- The Elements of Economic Analysis – Free Online Video – Glen Weyl, U Chicago
- The Global Financial Crisis – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Yale University
- The Power of Macroeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC-Irvine
- The Power of Microeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC-Irvine
- Understanding Data – Free Online Video – Thomas Stratmann, George Mason
- World Economic History Before the Industrial Revolution – Free Online Video & Syllabus – Free iTunes Video – Gregory Clark, UC Davis
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Education Courses
- Foundations of Virtual Instruction – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC Irvine
- How to Teach Online: The Essentials – Free Online Video – Stanford Online High School
- Learning to Teach Online – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – The University of New South Wales
- Teaching Your Class Online – Free Online Video – Stanford Online High School
Film Courses
- An Introduction to Screenwriting – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of East Anglia
- Existentialism in Literature & Film – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Creative Activism – Free iTunes Audio – Peter Woodbridge, Coventry University
- Holocaust in Film and Literature – Free Online Course – Todd Presner, UCLA
- Introduction to Film Studies – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, IIT Madras
- Philosophy in Film and Other Media – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Related Materials – Irving Singer, MIT
- The Film Experience – Free Online Course – David Thorburn, MIT
Food Courses
- Edible Education 101 (Spring 2014) – Free Online Video – Michael Pollan, UC Berkeley
- Edible Education 101 (2015) – Free Online Course – Michael Pollan, UC Berkeley
- Edible Education 103 with Michael Pollan – Free Online Video – Michael Pollan, UC Berkeley
- Exploring Japanese Avant-garde Art Through Butoh Dance – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Keio University
- Food Production, Public Health, and the Environment – Free Online Videos & Materials – Bob Lawrence and Polly Walker, Johns Hopkins
- Nutrition and Wellbeing – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Aberdeen
- Nutrition Education for Cancer Prevention – Free iTunes Video – Iowa State, Dr. Ruth MacDonald
- Organic Agriculture Theory and Practice – Free iTunes Video – Iowa State, Kathleen Delate
- Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter – Free Online Course – Course Info – Team taught, Harvard
- Speak Italian with Your Mouth Full – Free Online Course – Dr. Paola Rebusco, MIT
- Wine – Free Online Course – Professor Maynard Amerine, UC Davis
Geography Courses
- Economic Geography of the Industrial World – Free Online Course – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley
- Geography of US Presidential Elections – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Martin Lewis, Stanford
- Geography of Europe – Free iTunes Audio – Arizona State
- Geography of World Cultures – Free iTunes Audio – Martin Lewis, Stanford University
- Geopolitics: Geographical Aspects of International Affairs – iTunes Video – Erinn Nicley, University of Illinois-Springfield
- Global Geopolitics – Free iTunes Audio – Martin Lewis, Stanford University
- Introduction to Ozark Studies – Free Online Video – Brooks Blevins, Missouri State
- World Regions, Peoples, and States – Free Online Audio – Nathan Sayre, UC Berkeley
Health Courses
- Biohacking Your Brain’s Health – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Emory University
- Causes of Human Disease: Understanding Causes of Disease – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Leeds
- COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and the Pandemic – Free Online Video – Multiple faculty, MIT
- Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University College London
- Engineering Health: Introduction to Yoga and Physiology – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – NYU
- Epidemics – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Hong Kong
- Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases – Free Online Video – Professor Tomas Aragon, UC Berkeley
- Exploring Play: the Importance of Play in Everyday Life – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – The University of Sheffield
- Finding Purpose and Meaning In Life: Living for What Matters Most – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Michigan
- Food as Medicine – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Monash University
- Food and Mood: Improving Mental Health Through Diet and Nutrition – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Deakin University
- Foundations of Understanding and Combating Cancer – Free Online Video – Harold Varmus, Cornell Medicine/World Science U.
- Hacking Exercise For Health. The Surprising New Science of Fitness – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – McMaster University
- Healing with the Arts – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Florida
- Introduction to Infectious Disease – Free Online Video – Dr. Roy Benaroch, Emory
- Machine Learning for Healthcare – Free Online Video + Course Materials – David Sontag, Peter Szolovits, MIT
- Maintaining a Mindful Life – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Monash University
- Medicine and the Arts: Humanising Healthcare – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Cape Town
- Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Monash University
- Physics of COVID-19 Transmission – Free Online Video – Video & Course Materials – Prof. Martin Bazant & Dr. Joey Gu, MIT
- Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – The University of Sydney
- Science Matters: Let’s Talk About COVID-19/Coronavirus – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Imperial College London
- Talking About Cancer: Reducing Risk, Early Detection and Mythbusting – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Cancer Research UK
- Traditional Herbal Medicine in Supportive Cancer Care: From Alternative to Integrative – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Technion Israel Institute of Technology
- The Addicted Brain – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Emory University
- The Science of Exercise – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC Boulder
- The Science and Practice of Yoga – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Texas-Arlington
- Vital Signs: Understanding What the Body Is Telling Us – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania
- A Tale of Three Super Powers – Free iTunes Video – Joseph Huges, Missouri State
- African American History: Emancipation to the Present – Free Online Course – Jonathan Holloway, Yale
- African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle – Free Online Course – Clay Carson, Stanford
- Age of Cathedrals – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Yale University
- Age of Jefferson – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Virginia
- America Through Foreign Eyes – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Rice University
- American Economic History (Syllabus) – Free Online Video – Martha Olney, UC Berkeley
- American Economic History – Free Online Video – Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst
- Ancient Greece: City and Society – Free iTunes Audio – Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia
- Ancient Greece: Myth, Art & War – Free iTunes Audio – Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia
- Ancient Greek History – Free Online Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
- Ancient Israel – Free Online Video + Course Info – Free iTunes Video – Daniel Fleming, NYU
- Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations – Free Online Video & Course Info – John Dower, MIT
- Australian Aboriginal History – Free iTunes Audio – Richard Broome, La Trobe University
- Ben Franklin and the World of the Enlightenment – Free iTunes Audio – Bruce Thompson, Stanford/UC Santa Cruz
- Big History – Free Online Video – David Christian, Macquarie University
- ChinaX: China’s Past, Present and Future – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Harvard
- CIA in the Third World – Free Online Video – Thomas O’Brien, University of Houston
- Colonial and Revolutionary America – Free iTunes Audio – Jack Rakove, Stanford
- Constitutional Convention – Free iTunes Video – University of Oklahoma – Kevin Butterfield, Paul Gilje
- Coexistence in Medieval Spain: Jews, Christians, and Muslims – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC Boulder
- Economic History of the Soviet Union – Free Online Video – Guinevere Liberty Nell, Marginal Revolution U.
- Early Imperial Russia – Free iTunes Audio – Adrian Jones, La Trobe University, Australia
- Early Modern England: Politics, Religion & Society under the Tudors and Stuarts – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Course Materials – Keith E. Wrightson, Yale
- Emperors of Rome – Free iTunes Audio – Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University, Australia
- Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video – Course Materials – Frank Snowden, Yale
- Ethnic Relations in the US – Free iTunes Audio – Arizona State
- Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 – Free Online Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
- European Civilization, 1648-1945 – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video – Course Materials – John Merriman, Yale
- European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present – Free Online Video – Thomas Laqueur, UC Berkeley
- European Cultural History, 1500-1815 – Free Online Audio – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
- European Cultural History, 1660-1870 – Free Online Audio – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
- European Cultural History, 1880-1920 – Free Online Audio – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
- France Since 1871 – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Course Materials – John Merriman, Yale
- Freedom 101: Introduction to American Constitutional History – Free iTunes iOS course – U. of Oklahoma
- Hannibal – Free iTunes Audio – Patrick Hunt, Stanford
- Harvey Goldberg Lectures (1975-1983) – Free Online Audio – Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin
- Harvey Goldberg Lectures. Marxism and History: The 1970s Bootleg Student Tapes – Free Audio – Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin
- Historical Jesus – Free iTunes Audio – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
- History of Information – Free Online Video – Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley
- History of Iran to the Safavid Period – Free iTunes Audio – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
- History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan – Free Online Audio – John Wallace, UC Berkeley
- History of the International System – Free iTunes Audio – James Sheehan, Stanford University
- History of MIT – Web – David Mindell and Merritt Roe Smith, MIT
- History of the Modern Middle East – Free iTunes Audio – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
- History of New York City: A Social History – Free Online Course – Daniel Walkowitz, NYU
- History of the United States Since 1877 – Free iTunes Video – Dominic Capeci, Missouri State
- History of the World Since 1500 CE – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
- Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 – Free Online Audio – Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Ancient Egypt and Its Civilization – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania
- Introduction to Ancient Greek History – Free Online Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
- Introduction to American Studies – Free Online Video – Michael Cohen, UC Berkeley
- Ireland in Rebellion (1782-1916) – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – More Info – Trinity College Dublin
- Latin American History through the Novel – Free Online Video – Lois Zamora, University of Houston
- 21 Hours of Lectures by Howard Zinn – Spotify – Boston University
- Magic in the Middle Ages – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Barcelona
- Making History – Free iTunes Audio – Ingrid Sykes, La Trobe University – Australia
- Medieval Europe (500-1500) – Free Online Video – David E. Thornton, Bilkent University
- Medieval British History – Free Online Video – David Thornton, Bilkent University (Turkey)
- Modern Civilization: 1750 to Present – Free Online Video – Lynn Hunt, UCLA
- Modern Jewish History – Free Online Audio – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Pirates, Smugglers, and the Modern World – Free Online Video – Thomas O’Brien, University of Houston
- Russian History: from Lenin to Putin – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC Santa Cruz
- Science, Magic and Religion – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Courtenay Raia, UCLA
- The American Founders and Their World – Free iTunes Audio – Jack Rakove, Gordon Wood, etc. Stanford
- The American Revolution – Free Online Video – Joanne B. Freeman, Yale
- The Americas: Identity, Culture, and Power – Free Online Video – Cesar Seveso, University of Houston
- The Ancient Mediterranean World – Free Online Audio – Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
- The Ancient Greeks – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Wesleyan University
- The Birth of the Modern: Europe and its Others – Free iTunes Audio – Andrew Barnes, Arizona State
- The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archaeology and History of the Palatine Hill – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Sapienza University of Rome
- The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – The Universiteit Leiden
- The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 – Free Online Course – David Blight, Yale
- The Crusades – Free Online Video – Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
- The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000 – Free Online Video – Paul H. Freedman, Yale
- The French Revolution – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Melbourne
- The Great War and Modern Philosophy – Free Online Video – Nicolas de Warren, KU Leuven University
- The Holocaust – An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Tel Aviv University
- The Holocaust – An Introduction (II): The Final Solution – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Tel Aviv University
- The Flowering of the Middle Ages – Free Online Video – Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
- The History of Public Health – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio & Course Materials – Graham Mooney, Johns Hopkins
- The Kennedy Half Century – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Free iTunes Video – Larry Sabato, University of Virginia
- The Modern World: Global History Since 1760 – Free iTunesU iOS Course – Philip Zelikow, UVA
- The Modern World, Part One: Global History from 1760 to 1910 – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Virginia
- The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910 – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Virginia
- The Normans – Free Online Video – Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
- The Ottoman Empire – Free iTunes Video – Adrian Jones, La Trobe University – Australia
- The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 – Free Online Audio – James Vernon, UC Berkeley
- The Reformation – Free iTunes Audio – Westminster Theological Seminary
- The Roman World – Free iTunes Video – Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University
- The Story of Freedom in America – Free iTunes Video – Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma
- The Vietnam War – Free Online Video – Robert Buzzanco, University of Houston
- The Vikings – Free Online Video – Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
- US History: from Civil War to Present – Free Online Audio – Jennifer Burns, UC Berkeley
- 20th Century United States History – Free Online Video – Tyrone Tillery, University of Houston
- The Western Tradition (Video) – Free Online Video – Course Outline – Eugen Weber, UCLA
- War, Globalization, and Terror – Free Online Video – Robert Buzzanco, University of Houston
- World Revolutions – Free Online Video – Thomas O’Brien, University of Houston
- World Civilization to 1500 – Free Online Video – Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
- World Civilization Since 1500 – Free Online Video – Thomas O’Brien, University of Houston
- World Economic History Before the Industrial Revolution – Free Online Video & Syllabus – Free iTunes Video – Gregory Clark, UC Davis
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Writing & Journalism Courses
Note: This section includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). If you want to enroll in a free version of a MOOC, please select the “Full Course, No Certificate” (edX) or “Audit” (Coursera) option. If you opt to take the course for a certificate/credential, you will be charged.
- A Beginner’s Guide to Writing in English for University Study – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Reading
- An Introduction to Screenwriting – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of East Anglia
- Academic Writing for Clarity and Meaning – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- Advanced Writing – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC Irvine
- British News Media Systems – Free iTunes Video – Joe Foote, University of Oklahoma
- Broadcast Journalism – Free iTunes Audio – Lawrie Zion, La Trobe University
- Business Writing – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC-Boulder
- Creative Writing: The Craft of Character – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Wesleyan
- Creative Writing: The Craft of Plot – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Wesleyan
- Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Wesleyan
- Creative Writing: The Craft of Style – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Wesleyan
- Creative Writing: A Master Class – Free iTunes Video – Alison Ersheid
- Discovering Science: Science Writing – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Leeds
- Getting Started with Essay Writing – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC Irvine
- Grammar and Punctuation – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC Irvine
- Grammar and Punctuation Advanced – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC Irvine
- How To Make A Poem – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Manchester Metropolitan University
- How to Write an Essay – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC Berkeley
- Journalistic Ethics – Free Online Course – Jim Newton, UCLA
- Journalism Under Siege – Free Online Course – Multiple Faculty, Stanford University
- Memoir and Personal Essay: Managing Your Relationship with the Reader – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Wesleyan University
- Press and Society – Free iTunes Audio – Christopher Scanlon, La Trobe University
- Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Harvard University
- Script Writing: Write a Pilot Episode for a TV or Web Series – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Michigan State
- Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Cal Arts
- Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Berklee College of Music
- Start Fiction Writing – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Open University
- Start Writing Essays – Free iTunes iOS Course – Open University
- Writing for Strategic Communication – Free iTunes Audio – Karen Morath, La Trobe University
- Writing in the Sciences – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Stanford University
- Writing Stories About Ourselves – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Wesleyan University
Language Lessons
- Arabic Elementary Course – Free iTunes Video – Lund University
- Arabic for Beginners 1 – Free Online Video – Darlarna University
- Ancient Greek – Free Online Video – Brandeis/Harvard
- Ancient Languages (Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Old English, etc) – Free Web Site – UT-Austin Linguistics Research Center
- Basic German – Free Application – Cambridge University
- Beginner’s Chinese – Free iTunes Audio – Open University
- Chinese Course – Seton Hall
- Beginning Chinese – Free iTunes Audio – Seton Hall
- Beginning Chinese Reader – Free iTunes Audio – Seton Hall
- Intermediate Chinese – Free iTunes Audio – Seton Hall
- Intermediate Chinese Reader – Free iTunes Audio – Seton Hall
- Advanced Chinese – Free iTunes Audio – Seton Hall
- Advanced Chinese Reader – Free iTunes Audio – Seton Hall
- Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation – Free iTunes Audio – Emory University
- Chinese Basic – Free Application – Cambridge University
- Dialogue for German Learners: Beginner’s Level – iTunes – The University of South Wales
- Francais interactif – Free iTunes Audio – Free Video & Audio – University of Texas
- Elementary French 1 – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Elementary French 2 – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- French in Action Free Online Video – Yale University
- French 1 & French 2 – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Icelandic Online – Web Site – University of Iceland
- Intermediate Chinese – Free Application – Cambridge University
- Introduction to Ancient Greek – Free Online Course – Brandeis/Harvard
- Introduction to Urdu Alphabet – Free iTunes Audio – Emory University
- Introduction to Homeric Greek – Free Online Video – Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard)
- Japanese Kana – Hiragana – Free iTunes Video – Emory
- Mandarin Chinese Characters – Free iTunes Video – Emory University
- Numbers and Radicals – Free iTunes Video – Emory University
- Online Intermediate College Korean – Free Online Audio – University of California Press, 2002
- Pathway to Korean: Beginning Spoken Korean from Zero – Web Site – The Ohio State University
- Russian Essentials – Free Application – Cambridge University
- Russian for Beginners 1 – Free Online Video – Dalarna University
- Spanish 1 – Free iTunes iOS Course – David Nance, Arkansas
- Spanish 2 – Free iTunes iOS Course – David Nance, Arkansas
- Spanish 3 – Free iTunes iOS Course – David Nance, Arkansas
- Speak Italian with Your Mouth Full – Free Online Video & Course Info – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – MIT, Dr. Paola Rebusco
- Thai Alphabet – Free iTunes Video – Emory University
To start learning 40 foreign languages, please see our extensive collection called Learn Languages for Free. You can download or stream free lessons in French, Spanish, English, German, Mandarin, Italian and more.
Law Courses
- A Law Student’s Toolkit – Free Online Video – Ian Ayres, Yale
- Artificial Intelligence and Law – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Lund University
- Capital Punishment: Race, Poverty, & Disadvantage – Free Online Video – iTunes – More Course Info – Stephen Bright, Yale Law
- Climate Change: Law and Policy – Free Online Video – Multiple faculty, UC Berkeley
- CopyrightX – Free Online Video – Course Info – Prof. William Fisher, Harvard Law School
- Environmental Law and Policy – Free Online Video – Bob Infelise, UC Berkeley
- Environmental Politics and Law – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Course Materials – John P. Wargo, Yale
- Introduction to Copyright Law – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Free Online Video & Course Info – Keith Winstein, MIT
- Labor Law and Employment Discrimination – Free Online Video – Greggory Groves, Missouri State
- Law and Justice – Free iTunesU iOS App – Kyle Harper, University of Oklahoma
- Politics and Media Freedom – Free Online Video – Richard Barbrook, University of Westminster
- Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Today – Free Online Video – Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
- Race, Gender and Invisibility: Why Intersectionality Matters – Free Online Video – Kimberlé Crenshaw, UCLA/Columbia Law School
- Theories of Law and Society – Free Online Audio – David Lieberman, UC Berkeley
- Video Game Law – Free Online Video – Jon Festinger, University of British Columbia/Centre for Digital Media
Literature Courses
- American Literature I: Beginnings to Civil War – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Cyrus Patell, NYU
- American Passages: A Literary Survey – Free Online Video – Multiple profs, Annenberg Learner
- Approaching Shakespeare – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio – Emma Smith, Oxford
- British and American Poetry: 1900 to the Present – Free Online Audio – Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
- Chaucer – iTunes Audio – Princeton, John Fleming
- Cervantes’ Don Quixote – Free Online Video + Course Info – Roberto González Echevarría, Yale
- Contemporary Literature – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, IIT Madras
- Creative Reading – Free Online Audio – William S. Burroughs, Naropa University
- Creative Writing: A Master Class – Free iTunes Video – Alison Ersheid
- Cultural Studies – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Liza Das, IIT Guwahati
- Dante in Translation – Free Online Course – Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale
- Darwin and Design – Free Online Video & Course Info – James Paradis, MIT
- D.H. Lawrence – Free Online Video & Audio – Catherine Brown, Oxford
- Dracula (by Bram Stoker) – Free iTunes Video/Audio – Free Online Video – Mythgard Academy
- Dune (Novel by Frank Herbert) – Free Online Video/Audio + Lecture Slides – iTunes Video – Corey Olson, Mythgard Academy
- Epics of Rome – Free iTunes Video – Rhiannon Evans, LaTrobe University-Australia
- Existentialism in Literature & Film – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Expansive Poetics – Free Online Audio – Allen Ginsberg, Naropa University
- Faeirie and Fantasy – Free Online Video & Audio – Corey Olsen, Washington College
- Fiction for Young Adults – Free iTunes Audio – David Beagley, La Trobe University – Austrialia
- From Gods and Back – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Genres in Children’s Literature – Free iTunes Audio – David Beagley, La Trobe University – Austrialia
- George Eliot – Free Online Audio – Catherine Brown, Oxford
- Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner – Free Online Video – Course Materials – Wai Chee Dimock, Yale
- History of Children’s Literature – Free iTunes Audio – David Beagley, La Trobe University – Australia
- Holocaust in Film and Literature – Free Online Video – Todd Presner, UCLA
- History of Poetry – Free Online Audio – Allen Ginsberg, Naropa
- How Stories Seduce Us – Free Online Video – Stanley Fish, NYU
- Introduction to Literature and the Environment – Free Online Video – Ken Hiltner, Princeton
- Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature and Culture – Free Online Audio – John Wallace, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Poetry – Free iTunes Video – Lanette Cadle, Missouri State
- Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture – Free Online Audio – John Wallace, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Theory of Literature – Free Online Course – Paul H. Fry, Yale
- Invitation to World Literature – Free Online Video – David Damrosch, Harvard
- Jack Kerouac – Free Online Audio Part 1 and Part 2 – Allen Ginsberg, Naropa University
- Latin American History through the Novel – Free Online Video – Lois Zamora, University of Houston
- La Préparation du roman, in French (1978-80) – Free Online Audio – Roland Barthes, Collège de France
- Literary History of the Beats – Free Online Audio – Naropa University, Allen Ginsberg
- Literature and Form – Free Online Video & Audio – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Catherine Brown, Oxford
- Literature and Psychoanalysis – Free Online Audio – John Fletcher, University of Warwick
- Milton – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Course Materials – John Rogers, Yale
- Lord of the Rings I: The Road Goes Ever On – Free iTunes Video & Audio – Corey Olsen, Washington College
- Lord of the Rings II: The Two Towers – Free Tunes Video & Audio – Free Online Video & Audio – Corey Olsen, Washington College
- Lord of the Rings III: Return of the King – Free iTunes Video & Audio – Free Online Video & Audio – Corey Olsen, Washington College
- Modern & Contemporary American Poetry – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania
- Modern Poetry – Free Online Video – Course Materials – Langdon Hammer, Yale
- Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio – Multiple profs, Oxford
- Old English in Context – Free Online Audio – Stuart Lee, Oxford University
- Oscar Wilde – Free Online Audio – Sos Eltis, Oxford
- Post Colonial Literature for Children – Free iTunes Audio – David Beagley, La Trobe University – Australia
- Restoration and 18th Century Poetry: From Dryden to Wordsworth – Free Online Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
- Rhetoric – Free Online Video – Stanley Fish, Cardozo School of Law
- Romanticism – Free iTunes Audio – Timothy Morton, UC Davis
- Science Fiction and Politics – Free iTunes Audio – Courtney Brown, Emory University
- Shakespeare – Free Online Audio – Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
- Shakespeare After All: The Later Plays – Free Online Video – Marjorie Garber, Harvard
- Shakespeare’s Principal Plays – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio – Ralph Williams, University of Michigan
- Spenser and Milton – Free Online Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
- Survey of Shakespeare’s Plays – Free Online Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
- The American Novel Since 1945 – Free Online Course – Amy Hungerford, Yale
- The Bible and English Literature – Free Online Video (+ More Background) – Northrop Frye, U. of Toronto
- The Heroic Quest – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Joseph Hughes, Missouri State
- The Hobbit – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Audio – More – Corey Olsen, Washington College
- The Literature of Crisis – Free iTunes Audio – Marsh McCall & Martin Evans, Stanford
- The Lost Road (Tolkien) – Free Online Video – Mythgard Institute
- The Princess Bride – Free iTunes Audio + Video – Free Online Audio & Video – Free Online Video – Mythgard Institute
- The Shaping of Middle Earth – Free iTunes Audio & Video – Free Online Video – Mythgard Institute
- The Silmarillion Seminar – Free Online Video & Audio – Corey Olsen, Washington College
- The Tempest – Free Online Audio – Allen Ginsberg, Naropa University
- The Western Canon: From Homer to Milton – Free Online Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
- This Craft of Verse: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures – Free Online Audio – Jorge Luis Borges, Harvard
- Tolkien – Free iTunes Audio – Corey Olsen, Washington College
- Tolkien’s The Book of Lost Tales: Part 1 – Free Online Video/Audio + Course Slides – Free iTunes Video – Corey Olsen, Mythgard Academy
- Tolkien’s The Book of Lost Tales: Part 2 – Free Online Video/Audio + Course Slides – Free iTunes Video – Corey Olsen, Mythgard Academy
- Tolkien’s Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth – Free Online Video/Audio + Lecture Slides – Free iTunes Video – Corey Olsen, Mythgard Academy
- Undergraduate Tolkien Survey – Free Online Video & Audio – Corey Olsen, Washington College
- Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic – Free iTunes Audio – Susanna Braund, Stanford
- Voices & Visions: The Lives & Works of 13 American Poets – Free Online Video – Annenberg Media
- Watership Down – Free Online Video/Audio + Lecture Slides – Free iTunes Video – Corey Olsen, Mythgard Academy
- Writing Sources – Free Online Audio – William S. Burroughs, Naropa University
Bookmark our collection of free online courses in Literature.
Linguistics Courses
- American English Speech – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Old English in Context – Free Online Audio – Stuart Lee, Oxford University
- Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Leiden
- Structure of English Words – Free iTunes Audio – Will Leben, Stanford
Media Studies Courses
- Animation Basics – Free Online Course – Pixar/Khan Academy
- Being Free in the Digital Age – Free Online Video – James Williams, Oxford
- Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show – Free Online Course – MIT
- Creating Video Games – Free Online Course, Multiple Instructors, MIT
- Crisis Management: Proseminar in Public Relations – Free iTunes Video – Samuel Dyer, Missouri State
- Game Design – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio & Course Info – Jason Begy, Philip Tan, MIT
- Internet Giants: The Law and Economics of Media Platforms – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Chicago
- Media, Education, and the Marketplace – Free Online Video – Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT
- Media Research Methods – Free iTunes Audio – Arizona State
- Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Vanderbilt University
- Road to the Free Digital Society – Free Online Audio – Richard Matthew Stallman, Free Software Foundation.
- Storytelling – Free Online Course – Pixar/Khan Academy
- The Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture – Free Online Video – Smithsonian
- Video Production – Free iTunes Video – Nancy Jo Johnson, Iona College
Music & Performing Arts Courses
- Basic Concepts of Music Theory – Free iTunes Video – Jamie Henke, U. of Wisconsin
- Dave Conservatoire (Music Theory Lessons) – Free Online Video – David Rees, Royal College of Music, London
- Introduction to Pitch Systems in Tonal Music – Free Online Video + Course Info – Free Online Video – John Crooks, UC Irvine
- Introduction to Theatre and Drama Arts – Free Online Video – Missouri State, Robert Bradley
- Introduction to World Music – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Missouri State, John Prescott
- Jazz and Culture – Free iTunes Audio – Andrew Barnes, Arizona State
- Listening to Music – Free Online Course – Craig Wright, Yale
- Musical Improvisation – Free iTunes Video – Mark Harvey & Tony Hall
- Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots – Free Online Video – Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard
- The Ethics of Jazz (Lecture Series) – Free Online Lectures – Herbie Hancock, Harvard
- The Language of Music – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Amy Muchnick, Missouri State
- The British Lectures – Free Online Lectures – Karlheinz Stockhausen
- The Unanswered Question: 6 Lectures on Music – Free Online Lectures – Leonard Bernstein, Harvard
Personal Development Courses
- A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Indian School of Business
- De-Mystifying Mindfulness – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Chris Goto-Jones, University of Leiden
- Everyday Parenting: The ABCs of Child Rearing – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Yale University
- Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – McMaster University and UCSD – Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski
- Learning How To Learn for Youth – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Arizona State
- Mindful Meditations – Free Online & iTunes Audio – Diana Winston, UCLA
- Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – McMaster University
- Nutrition and Wellbeing – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Aberdeen
- Positive Psychology – Free Online Video – Tal Ben-Shahar, Harvard University
- Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania
- The Arts and Science of Relationships: Understanding Human Needs – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Toronto
- The Science of Well-Being – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Laurie Santo, Yale
Philosophy Courses
- A History of Philosophy – Free Online Course – Arthur Holmes, Wheaton College
- A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners – Free Online Course – Marianne Talbot, Oxford University
- A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind – Free Online Course – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
- Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio – James Grant, Oxford University
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy – Free iTunes Video – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
- Ancient Philosophy – Free Online Audio – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
- Ancient Philosophy – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania
- Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania
- Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love – Free iTunes Video – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
- Argument Diagramming – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Aristotle: Rhetoric – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Authority & the Individual: Six BBC Lectures – Free Online Audio – Bertrand Russell, Cambridge
- Bioethics: An Introduction – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio + Video – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
- Contemporary Issues in Philosophy of Mind & Cognition – Free Online Video – Multiple Profs, IIT Bombay
- Cosmologies of Capitalism – Free Online Video – Alan Macfarlane, Cambridge
- Critical Reasoning for Beginners – Free Online Course – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
- Critical Thinking – Free Online Video – Gregory Sadler, Fayetteville State University
- Dark Matter of the Mind – Web Video – Daniel Everett, Bentley University
- Death – Free Online Course – Shelly Kagan, Yale
- Deleuze: 8 cours de philosophie (in French) – Free Online Audio – Gilles Deleuze, (Université Paris-VII)
- Deleuze: Sur Spinoza (in French) – Free Online Audio – Gilles Deleuze, (Université Paris-VIII)
- Darwin and the Evolution of Thought – Free iTunes iOS Course – Clarence Mark Phillips, University of New Orleans
- David Hume’s Central Principles – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video – Free Online Audio + Video – Peter Millican, Oxford
- Discourse and Truth – Free Online Audio – Michel Foucault, UC Berkeley
- Effective Altruism – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Princeton
- Eight Philosophy Courses by Gilles Deleuze – Free Online Video – Gilles Deleuze, Université Paris-VIII
- Environmental Philosophy – Free iTunes Video – Kenneth Sayre, Notre Dame
- Epictetus’ Enchiridion – Ancient Philosophy & Peace of Mind – Web Site, Gregory Stadler
- Epistemology – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Ethics – Free iTunes Audio – Robert Stufflebeam, University of New Orleans
- Ethics – Free iTunes Audio – Ethics – Mark Clarence Phillips, U. of New Orleans
- Ethics – Free Online Video – Gregory Sadler, Marist College
- Existentialism – Free iTunes Audio – Mark Clarence Phillips, U. of New Orleans
- Existentialism in Literature & Film – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Evidence and Ideology – Free Online Video – Nancy Cartwright, University of Durham
- Fear and Trembling in the 21st Century – Web Video – Clare Carlisle, King’s College London
- Foundations of Modern Social Theory – Free Online Course – Iván Szelényi, Yale
- From Gods and Back – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- General Philosophy – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video + Audio – Peter Millican, Oxford University
- German Idealism and the 19th Century – Free iTunes Audio – Frank Schalow, University of New Orleans
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey – Free Online Video – Justin Curry & Curran Kelleher, MIT
- Great Big Ideas – Free Online Video – Steven Pinker, Larry Summers, Michio Kaku, etc, Floating University
- Half Hour Hegel: The Complete Phenomenology of Spirit – Free Online Video – Gregory Sadler
- Hegel: The Philosophy of History – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit – Free Online Audio – JM Bernstein, New School
- Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Hegel’s Philosophy of Right – Free Online Audio – Syllabus – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Hegel’s Science of Logic – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- 20th Century Philosophy: Martin Heidegger – Free Online Video – Gregory Sadler
- Heidegger Meets Van Gogh: Art, Freedom and Technology – Web Video – Simon Glendinning, London School of Economics
- Heidegger’s Being & Time – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division II – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- History of Ancient Philosophy – Free Online Video – Adam Rosenfeld, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
- History of Christian Philosophy – Free Online Video – Daniel Bonevac, UT Austin
- History of Modern Philosophy – Free iTunes iOS Course – Mark Clarence Philips, U. of New Orleans
- History of Modern Philosophy – Free Online Video – John DePoe, Marywood University
- History of Modern Philosophy – Free Online Video – Adam Rosenfeld, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
- Hobbes: Leviathan and De Cive (1964) – Free Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- How to Change the World – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Wesleyan University
- Ideas of the 20th Century – Free Online Video – Syllabus – Daniel Bonevac, UT-Austin
- Introduction to Indian Philosophy – Free Online Video – Satya Sundar Sethy, IIT Madras
- Introduction to Logic – Free iTunes Audio – Robert Stufflebeam, University of New Orleans
- Introduction to Logic – Free Online Video – Dr. A.V. Ravishankar Sarma, IIT Kanpur
- Introduction to Philosophy – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Edinburgh
- Introduction to Philosophy – Free iTunes iOS Course – Mark Clarence Philips, U. of New Orleans
- Introduction to Philosophy – Free Online Video – Syllabus – Daniel Bonevac, UT-Austin
- Introduction to Philosophy – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Daniel Kaufman, Missouri State
- Introduction to Philosophy – Free iTunes Audio – Robert Stufflebeam, University of New Orleans
- Introduction to Philosophy – Free Online Video – John Sanders, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Introduction to Philosophy – Free Online Video – Gregory Sadler, Marist College
- Introduction to Philosophy of Science – Free Online Video – John Sanders, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Introduction to Political Philosophy – Free Online Course – Steven B. Smith, Yale
- Introduction to Political Philosophy – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Introduction to Political Philosophy: Study of Aristotle’s Politics – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? – Free Online Course – Michael Sandel, Harvard
- Kant – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Kant’s Critique of Judgment – Free Online Audio– JM Bernstein, New School
- Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video – Free Online Video + Audio – Dan Robinson, Oxford
- Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Free Online Audio – JM Bernstein, New School
- Know Thyself – The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge: The Examined Life – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Edinburgh
- Later Heidegger – Free Online Audio – Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
- Later Heidegger – Free Online Audio – Hebert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Lecture Course in Ethical and Political Philosophy – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Lecture Course in Plato – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Life and Mind in Nature – Free Online Audio – Syllabus – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Kant’s Epistemology – Free iTunes Audio – Susan Stuart, University of Glasgow
- Knowledge and Rationality – Free Online Video – Corine Besson, University of Sussex
- Life, Meaning and Morality – Web video – Christopher Hamilton, King’s College, London
- Logic and Proofs – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Machiavelli – Free Web Audio – Allan Bloom, U. Chicago
- Man, God, and Society in Western Literature – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Marx’s Kapital: Volumes 1 and 2 – Free Online Course – David Harvey, CUNY
- Marxism – Free Online Video – Raymond Geuss, Cambridge University
- Marx, Nietzsche and Hegel’s Logic of Essence – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Medical Ethics – Free iTunes Audio – Frank Schalow, University of New Orleans
- Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Metaphysics – Free iTunes Audio – Robert Stufflebeam, University of New Orleans
- Minds, Morality and Agency – Web Video – Mark Rowlands, University of Miami
- Modern Political Philosophy – Free Online Audio – John Rawls, Harvard
- Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws 1 (1966) – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws 2 (1966) – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Natural Right – Free Online Video – Leo Strauss, U. Chicago
- Nietzsche – Free Online Video – Raymond Geuss, Cambridge University
- Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition – Free Online Video – Rick Roderick, Duke
- Nietzsche on Mind and Nature – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Audio & Video – Multiple Profs – Oxford
- On Romantic Love – Web Video – Berit Brogaard, University of Miami
- Philosophy of Mental Illness – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Philosophical Problems – Free iTunes Audio – Jack Reynolds – La Trobe University – Australia
- Philosophy of Kant – Free iTunes Audio – Frank Schalow, University of New Orleans
- Philosophy of Religion – Free Online Video – Matt McCormick, Philosophy, at California State University, Sacramento.
- Philosophy and Human Values – Free Online Video – Web Site – Rick Roderick, Duke
- Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Course Materials – Tamar Gendler, Yale
- Philosophy in Film and Other Media – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Free Video & Course Info – Irving Singer, MIT
- Philosophy for Beginners – Free Online Course – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
- Philosophy of Heidegger – Free iTunes iOS Course – Frank Schalow, U. of New Orleans
- Philosophy of Language – Free Online Audio – John Searle, UC Berkeley
- Philosophy of Love in the Western World – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video – Web – Irving Singer, MIT
- Philosophy of Mind – Free Online Audio – John Searle, UC Berkeley
- Philosophy of Mind – Free Online Audio – Andrew Pessin, Connecticut College
- Philosophy of Mind – Free iTunes i0s App – Robert Stufflebeam, University of New Orleans
- Philosophy of Nature (Science) – Free Audio Online – Syllabus – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Philosophy of the Natural Sciences – Free iTunes Video – Robert Stufflebeam, U of New Orleans
- Philosophy of Religion – Free iTunes Audio – Course Info + Free Online Audio – T. J. Mawson, Oxford
- Philosophy of Religion – Free iTunes iOS Course – Clarence Mark Phillips, U. of New Orleans
- Philosophy of Society – Free Online Audio – John Searle, UC Berkeley
- Philosophy of Tragedy – Free Online Video – Prof. Michael Davis, Sarah Lawrence College
- Philosophy, Science and Religion: Science and Philosophy – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Edinburgh
- Plato – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Plato’s Apology of Socrates – Free Online Audio – Allan Bloom, UChicago
- Plato Apology/Crito – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Plato: Gorgias – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
- Plato: Laws – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
- Plato: Meno – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Plato, Protagoras – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Plato’s Republic – Free Online Audio – Laurence Bloom, University of Georgia
- Plato’s Theaetetus – Free Online Audio – Daniel Bloom, University of Georgia
- Political Philosophy: Ideas of the 20th Century (2013) – Free Online Video – Syllabus for 2015 version of the course – Daniel Bonevac, University of Texas – Austin
- Political Philosophy: Marx – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Political Philosophy: Rousseau – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
- Practical Reasoning – Free Online Video – Adam Rosenfeld, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
- Professional Ethics – Free Online Video – John Sanders, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Psychology of Will – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Realism in Perspective – Free Online Video – Michela Massimi
- Science and the Modern World – Free Online Video – David Harker, East Tennessee State University
- Science vs. Religion – Web Video – Mark Vernon, Journalist/Philosopher
- Social and Political Philosophy – Free Online Video – John Sanders, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Social and Political Philosophy (Economy) – Free Online Audio – Syllabus – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
- Social and Political Philosophy (Economy) – Free Online Audio – Syllabus – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
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