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Website | oyc |
Open Yale Courses is a project of Yale University to share full video and course materials from its undergraduate courses.
Open Yale Courses provides free access to a selection of introductory courses, and uses a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license.
Open Yale Courses launched in December 2007 with seven courses from various departments. The project now includes 42 courses from a broad range of introductory courses taught at Yale college. [1] The initiative was funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, [2] which has supported other universities' OpenCourseWare projects. [3] As of August 2014, [update] some of Yale's Open Courses are delivered by the European MooC platform Eliademy. [4]
Department | Course number | Course title | Professor name | Date |
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African American Studies | AFAM 162 | African American History: From Emancipation to the Present | Jonathan Holloway | Spring 2010 |
American Studies | AMST 246 | Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner | Wai Chee Dimock | Fall 2011 |
Astronomy | ASTR 160 | Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics | Charles Bailyn | Spring 2007 |
Biomedical Engineering | BENG 100 | Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering | W. Mark Saltzman | Spring 2008 |
Chemistry | CHEM 125a | Freshman Organic Chemistry I | J. Michael McBride | Fall 2008 |
Chemistry | CHEM 125b | Freshman Organic Chemistry II | J. Michael McBride | Spring 2011 |
Classics | CLCV 205 | Introduction to Ancient Greek History | Donald Kagan | Fall 2007 |
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | EEB 122 | Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour | Stephen C. Stearns | Spring 2009 |
Economics | ECON 159 | Game Theory | Ben Polak | Fall 2007 |
Economics | ECON 251 | Financial Theory | John Geanakoplos | Fall 2009 |
Economics | ECON 252 | Financial Markets (2008) | Robert Shiller | Spring 2008 |
Economics | ECON 252 | Financial Markets (2011) | Robert Shiller | Spring 2011 |
English | ENGL 220 | Milton | John Rogers | Fall 2007 |
English | ENGL 291 | The American Novel Since 1945 | Amy Hungerford | Spring 2008 |
English | ENGL 300 | Introduction to Theory of Literature | Paul H. Fry | Spring 2009 |
English | ENGL 310 | Modern Poetry | Langdon Hammer | Spring 2007 |
Environmental Studies | EVST 255 | Environmental Politics and Law | John Wargo | Spring 2010 |
Geology and Geophysics | GG 140 | The Atmosphere, the Ocean, and Environmental change | Ronald B. Smith | Fall 2011 |
History | HIST 116 | The American Revolution | Joanne B. Freeman | Spring 2010 |
History | HIST 119 | The American Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877 | David Blight | Spring 2008 |
History | HIST 202 | European Civilization, 1648–1945 | John Merriman | Fall 2008 |
History | HIST 210 | The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000 | Paul Freedman | Fall 2011 |
History | HIST 234 | Epidemics and Western Society Since 1600 | Frank Snowden | Spring 2010 |
History | HIST 251 | Early Modern England: Politics, Religion and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts | Keith Wrightson | Fall 2009 |
History | HIST 276 | France Since 1871 | John Merriman | Fall 2007 |
History of Art | HSAR 252 | Roman Architecture | Diana E. E. Kleiner [5] | Spring 2009 |
Italian Language and Literature | ITAL 310 | Dante in Translation | Giuseppe Mazzotta | Fall 2008 |
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | MCDB 150 | Global Problems of Population Growth | Robert Wyman | Spring 2009 |
Music | MUSI 112 | Listening to Music | Craig Wright | Fall 2008 |
Philosophy | PHIL 176 | Death | Shelly Kagan | Spring 2007 |
Philosophy | PHIL 181 | Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature | Tamar Gendler | Spring 2011 |
Physics | PHYS 200 | Fundamentals of Physics I | Ramamurti Shankar | Fall 2006 |
Physics | PHYS 201 | Fundamentals of Physics II | Ramamurti Shankar | Spring 2010 |
Political Science | PLSC 114 | Introduction to Political Philosophy | Steven Smith | Fall 2006 |
Political Science | PLSC 118 | Moral Foundations of Politics | Ian Shapiro | Spring 2010 |
Political Science | PLSC 270 | Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform | Douglas W. Rae | Fall 2009 |
Psychology | PSYC 110 | Introduction to Psychology | Paul Bloom | Spring 2007 |
Psychology | PSYC 123 | The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food | Kelly D. Brownell | Fall 2008 |
Religious Studies | RLST 145 | Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) | Christine Hayes | Fall 2006 |
Religious Studies | RLST 152 | Introduction to New Testament History and Literature | Dale B. Martin | Spring 2009 |
Sociology | SOCY 151 | Foundations of Modern Social Theory | Iván Szelényi | Fall 2009 |
Spanish and Portuguese | SPAN 300 | Cervantes' Don Quixote | Roberto González Echevarría | Fall 2009 |
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