Free Online Political Science Courses

Get free Political Science courses from the world’s leading universities. You can download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player. For more online courses, visit our complete collection of Free Courses.

• African American Studies: Intro to African American Political Thought – Free Online Video – Mark Sawyer, UCLA
• American Democracy and Citizenship – Free iTunes Video – Patrick Scott, Missouri State
• British Government – Free Online Video – Tony Travers, London School of Economics
• Chinese Politics – Free Online Video – Rory Truex, Princeton
• Conceptual Foundations of International Politics – Free Online Video – Lisa Anderson, Columbia University
• Election 2012 – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Rob Reich, David Kennedy, Jim Steyer, Stanford
• Environmental Politics and Law – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Course Materials – John P. Wargo, Yale
• Faith and Globalization – Free iTunes Video – Tony Blair, Miroslav Volf, Yale
• Geography of US Presidential Elections – Free Online Video – Martin Lewis, Stanford
• International Political Economy – Free iTunes Audio – James Morrison, Middlebury College
• Introduction to German Politics – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio – Andreas Busch, Oxford University
• Introduction to Political Philosophy – Free Online Course – Steven B. Smith, Yale
• Justice: A Journey in Moral Reasoning – Free Online Course – Michael Sandel, Harvard
• Politics and Strategy – Free Online Video – Kathleen Bawn, UCLA
• Power and Politics in Today’s World – Free Online Video – Ian Shapiro, Yale
• Progressive Alternatives – Free Online Video – Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
• Second Amendment – Free iTunes iOS Course – U. of Oklahoma
• Seminar in Political Philosophy: Marx – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Seminar in Political Philosophy: Rousseau – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Sexuality and Power – Free Online Video – Véronique Mottier, University of Lausanne
• Science Fiction and Politics – Free iTunes Audio –  Courtney Brown, Emory University
• State of the Union 2014 – Free Online Course – Rob Reich, Jim Steyer, David Kennedy, Stanford
• The European Union in the New Millenium – Free iTunes Video – Stefan Auer, LaTrobe University, Australia
• The Moral Foundations of Politics – Free Online Video – MOOC version – Ian Shapiro, Yale
• The Origins of Political Science – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U. Chicago

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