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750 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

Get free online courses from the world’s leading universities. This collection includes over 750 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player. Note: you can find a new collection of certificate-bearing courses here.

Humanities & Social Sciences

Archaeology

●Hannibal - iTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford

●Introduction to Near Eastern Art and Archaeology – YouTube –iTunes Video - Dana D. DePietro, Margaret Larkin, UC Berkeley

●Out of the Past – Web Site – David Webster and William T. Sanders, Penn State

Architecture

●Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (Video) – iTunes –Web – Jan Wampler, MIT

●History of Architecture - iTunes Video – Jacqueline Gargus, Ohio State

●Roman Architecture - YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video- Download Course

–Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale

●Structures 2 – iTunes Video – Peter von Beulow, University of Michigan

Art & Art History

●Aesthetics & the Philosophy of Art – iTunes – Web – James Grant, Oxford University

●Art Through Time: A Global View – Web - Annenberg Media

●Exposing Digital Photography – iTunes Video - Web Site - RSS Feed - Dan Armendariz, Harvard

●Foundations of American Cyber-Culture – YouTube – UC Berkeley

●Introduction to Visual Studies – iTunes (Best used with iTunesU App) - Anna Divinsky, Penn State

●Introduction to Visual Thinking – YouTube – iTunes Video – John McNamara, UC Berkeley

●Lighting Essentials – iTunes Video - Web – Simon McIntyre, The University of New South Wales

●Photography – Web – iTunes – App – Jonathan Worth & Matt Johnston at Coventry University

●SmARThistory Video Lectures – Web – Beth Harris, MoMA & Steven Zucker, Pratt Institute

●The Elements of Drawing – iTunes – Web – Stephen Farthing, Oxford University.

Classics & Classical World

●Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Syllabus) - iTunes Video - Web Video - David O’Connor, Notre Dame

●Ancient Greek History - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video- Download Course

– Donald Kagan, Yale

●Ancient Israel (Syllabus) – YouTube – Daniel Fleming, NYU

●Ancient Philosophy - iTunes – Web – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley

●Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love (Syllabus) - iTunes Video - Web Video – Professor David O’Connor, Notre Dame

●Hannibal - iTunes - Patrick Hunt, Stanford

●Roman Architecture - YouTube - iTunes Audio – iTunes Video- Download Course – Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale

●The Roman World – iTunes Video – Rhiannon Evans, LaTrobe University

●The Heroic and the Anti-Heroic in Classical Greek Civilization– Multiple Formats – Gregory Nagy, Harvard

●Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic - iTunes – Susanna Braund, Stanford University

Demography

●American Immigrant Experience – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Carl Mason, UC Berkeley

●Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World – Web– iTunes Video - iTunes Audio – David Coleman, Oxford

Design

●Cars: Past, Present & Future - iTunes Video – YouTube – Michael Shanks, Stanford

●Everything I Know – Web – Buckminster Fuller

Economics

●Advanced Political Economy - YouTube - Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney

●American Economic History (Syllabus) – YouTube - iTunes Video – Martha Olney, UC Berkeley

●American Economic History (Syllabus)- YouTube - Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst

●Austrian Economics: An Introduction – Web Site - Murray N. Rothbard - New York Polytechnic University

●Behavioral Finance – YouTube – Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney

●Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - YouTube - Web Site – Douglas W. Rae, Yale

●Crisis, Globalization and Economics – Web Video - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard

●Economic Analysis-Micro – iTunes Audio - Steven Wood, UC Berkeley

●Economic Crisis and Globalization – Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School

●Economic Geography of the Industrial World – iTunes – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley.

●Economic Statistics and Econonmetrics - YouTube – iTunes Video– iTunes Audio – Web – Glenn Woroch, UC Berkeley

●Finance Theory 1 - iTunes Video - Web - Andrew Lo, MIT

●Financial Markets – YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video- Download Course – Robert Shiller, Yale

●Financial Markets 2011 - YouTube - iTunes - Web Site – Robert Shiller

●Financial Theory – YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - Web Site– John Geanakoplos, Yale

●Game Theory – YouTube – iTunes Audio - iTunes Video - Download Course – Ben Polak, Yale

●Game Theory in the Social Sciences - iTunes Video – Yves Zenou, UC Berkeley

●Game Theory and Economics - YouTube – Web site - Dr. Debarshi Das, IIT Guwahati

●Global Poverty and Impact Evaluation – YouTube - iTunes Video –Web - Edward Miguel, UC Berkeley

●Great Big Ideas - Web - Steven Pinker, Larry Summers, Michio Kaku, etc, Floating University

●History of Economic Theory – YouTube – Web Site – Dr. Shivakumar, IIT Madras

●International Political Economy - iTunes - James Morrison, Middlebury College

●International Trade - YouTube - iTunes Video – Steven Wood, UC Berkeley

●Introduction to Economics – iTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley

●Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy - YouTube - Web - Peter Berck, UC Berkeley

●Law and Economics I - iTunes Audio - Robert Cooter, UC Berkeley

●Lectures on Human Capital - YouTube – Gary Becker, U Chicago

●Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice Online Course –Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School

●Marxian Economics – YouTube - Stephen Resnick, UMass – Amherst

●Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice - Video - Richard D. Wolff, The New School

●Marxian Economics – An Intensive Introduction – Video – Richard D. Wolff, The New School

●Marxian Economics: Advanced & Applied Intensive Course –Video - Richard

D.Wolff, The New School

●Money and Banking (Syllabus) – YouTube – Gerald Epstein, UMass-Amherst

●Money and Banking - YouTube - iTunes Video - Thomas Wyrick, Missouri State

●Political Economy After the Crisis – Web Video - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard

●Principles of Microeconomics -iTunes Video - Web Video – Jonathan Gruber, MIT

●Principles of Macroeconomics – iTunes Video – YouTube - Thomas Wyrick, Missouri State

●Public Economics – YouTube – Web – Raj Chetty, Harvard

●Public Economics and Finance – YouTube – Nirupama Rao, NYU

●Reading Marx’s Capital – Google Video – David Harvey, City University of New York

●The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis - YouTube - Ben Bernanke at George Washington University

●The Austrian School of Economics: An Introduction – Web: 1, 2,3, 4 - Friedrich

A.Hayek & colleagues – Recorded at University of Colorado

●The Challenge of World Poverty - iTunes Video – YouTube - Web- Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee, MIT

●The Elements of Economic Analysis – YouTube - Glen Weyl, U Chicago

●World Economic History Before the Industrial Revolution -Web Site - iTunes - Gregory Clark, UC Davis

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Film

●Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes – Web – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley

●Holocaust in Film and Literature – YouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA

●Philosophy in Film and Other Media - iTunes – YouTube – Web – Irving Singer, MIT

●The Film Experience – iTunes Video – Web – MIT, David Thorburn

●Western Movies: Myth, Ideology, Genre – iTunes – Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan

Food

●Edible Education 103 with Michael Pollan - iTunes Video- YouTube – Web – Michael Pollan, UC Berkeley

●Food Production, Public Health, and the Environment – Web- Bob Lawrence and Polly Walker, Johns Hopkins

●Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter - YouTube - iTunes - Web – Team taught, Harvard

Geography

●Economic Geography of the Industrial World - iTunes Audio – Richard Walker, UC Berkeley

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●Food and the Environment - iTunes Audio – Nathan Sayre – UC Berkeley

●Geography of US Presidential Elections – iTunes – YouTube – Martin Lewis, Stanford

●Geography of World Cultures - iTunes – Martin Lewis, Stanford University

●Global Geopolitics – iTunes – Martin Lewis, Stanford University

●Globalization – iTunes – Robert Acker, UC Berkeley

●World Regions, Peoples, and States – Web – Nathan Sayre, UC Berkeley

History

●African American History: From Emancipation to the Present– YouTube – iTunes – Web Site – Jonathan Holloway, Yale

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●African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle – YouTube– iTunes – Clay Carson, Stanford

●American Economic History – iTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley

●American Economic History (Syllabus)- YouTube - Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst

●Ancient Greek History - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video- Download Course

– Donald Kagan, Yale

●Ancient Israel - YouTube – Web – Daniel Fleming, NYU

●Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations – Web – John Dower, MIT

●Ben Franklin and the World of the Enlightenment – iTunes – Bruce Thompson, Stanford/UC Santa Cruz

●China: Traditions and Transformations – Multiple Formats – Peter K. Bol & William Kirby, Harvard

●Colonial and Revolutionary America – iTunesU – Jack Rakove, Stanford

●Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts – YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio- Web Site – Keith E. Wrightson, Yale

●Early Modern Germany - iTunes Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley

●Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio - YouTube - Web Site – Frank Snowden, Yale

●Europe in the 19th Century – iTunes Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley

●Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 –iTunes Audio - David Wetzel, UC Berkeley

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●European Civilization, 1648-1945 - YouTube – iTunes Audio –iTunes Video - Download Course – John Merriman, Yale

●European Civilization from Renaissance to Present – iTunes – Carla Hesse, UC Berkeley

●European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present -YouTube - iTunes Video – Web – Thomas Lacquer, UC Berkeley

●European Cultural History, 1500-1815 - MP3s – George Mosse, University of WisconsinMadison

●European Cultural History, 1660-1870 - MP3s – George Mosse, University of WisconsinMadison

●European Cultural History, 1880-1920 - MP3s – George Mosse, University of WisconsinMadison

●France Since 1871 – YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – John Merriman, Yale

●Hannibal – iTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford

●Harvey Goldberg Lectures (1975-1983) – Web Site - Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin

●Historical Jesus – iTunes – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University

●History of Anthropological Thought – iTunes – Rosemary Joyce, UC Berkeley

●History and Practice of Human Rights – YouTube – iTunes Video –iTunes Audio

–Web – Thomas Laqueur

●History of Information – YouTube – iTunes Video – Web – Professors Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley

●History of Iran to the Safavid Period – iTunes – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University

●History of the International System – iTunes – James Sheehan, Stanford University

●History of MIT – Web - David Mindell and Merritt Roe Smith, MIT

●History of the Modern Middle East – iTunes – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University

●History of New York City: A Social History - iTunes Video –YouTube – Web Site

–Daniel Walkowitz, NYU

●History of the United States Since 1945 – iTunes – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley

●History of the World to 1500 CE – YouTube - iTunes Video – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University

●History of the World Since 1500 CE – YouTube - iTunes Video – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University

●Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 - iTunes – Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley

●International and Global History Since 1945 – iTunes – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley

●Introduction to African American Studies – Real Player Video- Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois

●Introduction to Ancient Greek History - YouTube – iTunes –Download Course – Donald Kagan, Yale

●Introduction to American Studies – YouTube – iTunes Video -iTunes Audio – Michael Cohen, UC Berkeley

●Maker of the Modern World? Imperial Britain, 1714 to the Present (Syllabus)

–YouTube – iTunes Video – James Vernon, UC Berkeley

●Medicine and Public Health in American History – Web Audio - Chris Hamlin, Notre Dame

●Modern Civilization: 1750 to Present - YouTube – Lynn Hunt, UCLA

●Modern Jewish History – MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin – Madison

●Rethinking the Black Liberation Movement - Web Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois

●Rethinking Theory in Black Studies - Web Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois

●Science, Magic and Religion - iTunes - YouTube – Courtenay Raia, UCLA

●The American Founders and Their World – iTunes – Jack Rakove, Gordon Wood, etc. Stanford

●The American Revolution – YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio- Web Site – Joanne B. Freeman, Yale

●The Ancient Mediterranean World – Web – Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley

●The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - YouTube –iTunes Audio – iTunes Video - Download Course – David Blight, Yale

●The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000 - YouTube - iTunes - Web Site – Paul H. Freedman, Yale

●The History of Public Health – iTunesU – Web – Graham Mooney, Johns Hopkins

●The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 – iTunes - YouTube– Web – James Vernon, UC Berkeley

●The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich – iTunes Audio – Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley

●The Roman World - iTunes Video - Rhiannon Evans, LaTrobe University

●The Story of Freedom in America - iTunes Video – Rufus Frears, University of Oklahoma

●The United States and the World Since 1945 - iTunes Audio – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley

●U.S. History from the Late 19th Century to the Eve of World War II –

YouTube – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Web – Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley

●US History: from Civil War to Present - iTunes Audio - Web – Jennifer Burns, UC Berkeley

●The Western Tradition (Video) – YouTube - Web site - Course Outline – Eugen Weber, UCLA

●War and Peace: International Relations since 1914 – iTunes – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley

●World War and Society in the 20th Century: World War II –Multiple Formats – Charles S. Maier, Harvard

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Journalism

●Journalistic Ethics – YouTube – Jim Newton, UCLA

Languages

●Basic German - Web - Cambridge University

●Beginner’s Chinese - iTunes Free - Open University

●Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation - iTunes Free - Emory University

●Chinese Basic - Web - Cambridge University

●Francais interactif - iTunes Free - Web Site - University of Texas

●Elementary French 1 – Web – Carnegie Mellon

●Elementary French 2 – Web – Carnegie Mellon

●French in Action Free Web Site - Yale University

●French 1 & French 2 - Web Site - Carnegie Mellon

●Icelandic Online - Web Site - University of Iceland

●Intermediate Chinese – Web Site - Cambridge University

●Introduction to Urdu Alphabet - iTunes Free Emory University

●Japanese Kana – Hiragana – iTunes Free – Emory

●Kanji Characters iTunes Free - Emory University

●Mandarin Chinese Characters - iTunes Free - Emory University

●Numbers and Radicals iTunes Free - Emory University

●Online Intermediate College Korean - Web Site - University of California Press, 2002

●Pathway to Korean: Beginning Spoken Korean from Zero - Web Site - The Ohio State University

●Russian Essentials - Web - Cambridge University

●Thai Alphabet - iTunes Free -Emory University

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Law

●Aims and Limits of the Criminal Law - iTunes Audio – Tamara Lave, UC Berkeley

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●Climate Change: Law and Policy – YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video – Cymie Payne, Daniel Farber, UC Berkeley

●Environmental Justice and Human Rights in the Aftermath of Katrina –

Web Audio – Cynthia Toms Smedley, Notre Dame

●Environmental Law and Policy - YouTube – Bob Infelise, UC Berkeley

●Environmental Politics and Law - YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - Web Site – John P. Wargo, Yale

●Freedom of Speech and the Press – YouTube – iTunes Video – William Turner, UC Berkeley

●International Environmental Law – YouTube – iTunes Video –iTunes Audio – Cymie Payne, UC Berkeley

●Introduction to Copyright Law – iTunes – Web Site – Keith Winstein, MIT

●Law and Economics I - iTunes Audio – Robert Cooter, UC Berkeley

●Law and Legal Thought in the 21st Century – Web - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard

●Media Law & Ethics – iTunesU - Nicole Kraft, Ohio State

●Politics and Media Freedom – Web – Richard Barbrook, University of Westminster

●Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Today - Web - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard

●Renewable Energy & Alternative Fuels (Law & Policy) – YouTube– UC Berkeley

●Self, Serenity, and Vulnerability – Web Video - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard

●Theories of Law and Society – Web – iTunes – David Lieberman, UC Berkeley

●Video Game Law – Web – Jon Festinger, University of British Columbia/Centre for Digital Media

Linguistics

●American English Speech - Web – Carnegie Mellon

●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 Video –YouTube – Web – Cyrus Patell, NYU

●Approaching Shakespeare – Web – Emma Smith, Oxford

●British and American Poetry: 1900 to the Present - iTunes Audio– Charles Altieri, NYU

●Cervantes’ Don Quixote - YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio- Web Site – Roberto González Echevarría, Yale

●Contemporary Literature – YouTube – Web Site – Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, IIT Madras

●Creative Reading – Web – William S. Burroughs, Naropa University

●Creative Writing: A Master Class – iTunes Video – Alison Ersheid

●Dante in Translation - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video- Download Course – Giuseppe Mazzotta

●Darwin and Design – Web Site – James Paradis, MIT

●D.H. Lawrence – Web – Catherine Brown, Oxford

●Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes – Web – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley

●Expansive Poetics – Web – Allen Ginsberg, Naropa University

●From Gods and Back - Web – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley

●George Eliot – Web – Catherine Brown, Oxford

●Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner - YouTube - iTunes - Web Site- Wai Chee Dimock, Yale

●Holocaust in Film and Literature – YouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA

●Introduction to Literature and the Environment – YouTube- iTunes Video – Ken Hiltner, Princeton

●Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture –iTunes Audio

–John Wallace, UC Berkeley