Open Yale Courses: 38 products

This is a survey of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate t…

This course is intended as an introduction to political philosophy as seen through an examination of some of the major texts and thinkers o…

Can law change human behavior to be less environmentally damaging? Law will be examined through case histories including: environmental eff…

This course explores main answers to the question, "When do governments deserve our allegiance?" It starts with a survey of major political…

The course is an introduction to Dante and his cultural milieu through a critical reading of the Divine Comedy and selected minor works (Vi…

This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolut…

What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language? Why ca…

Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature pairs central texts from Western philosophical tradition (including works by Plato, Aristotle, E…

This is a continuation of Freshman Organic Chemistry I (CHEM 125a), the introductory course on current theories of structure and mechanism …

There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues tha…

In this course, we will seek to interpret capitalism using ideas from biological evolution: firms pursuing varied strategies and facing ext…

This course attempts to explain the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy. Rather than separating off the f…

This course examines major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, exploring their interconnections on three analytic scales: the mac…

Major developments in the political, social, and religious history of Western Europe from the accession of Diocletian to the feudal transfo…

This course offers a broad survey of modern European history, from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the aftermath of World War II. Along…