Free Online Humanities Courses

55 Humanities Courses

D.H. Lawrence

University of Oxford

Lecture Series looking at D.H. Lawrence, author of Women in Love, Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover. These lectures focus on specific aspects of Lawrence's...

Dante's Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise

Yale University

The course is an introduction to Dante and his cultural milieu through a critical reading of the Divine Comedy and selected minor works (Vita nuova, Convivio, De...

Death

Yale University

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 that arise once we begin...

Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts

Yale University

This course is intended to provide an up-to-date introduction to the development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries....

Energy Seminar

Stanford University

The Energy Seminar is produced by the Woods and Precourt Institutes and is comprised of an interdisciplinary series of talks primarily by Stanford experts on a broad...

Environmental Politics and Law

Yale University

Can law change human behavior to be less environmentally damaging? Law will be examined through case histories including: environmental effects of national security,...

European Civilization, 1648-1945

Yale University

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 with the consideration...

Faith and Globalization

Yale University

The impact of religious faith is profound in a world where political, economic, and social spheres are increasingly interconnected. Intentional and sustained reflection...

France Since 1871

Yale University

This course covers the emergence of modern France. Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France; the impact of France's revolutionary...

General Philosophy

University of Oxford

A series of lectures delivered by Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at the University of Oxford. The lectures comprise the 8-week General Philosophy...

Global Population Growth

Yale University

This survey course introduces students to the important and basic material on human fertility, population growth, the demographic transition and population policy....

Global Warming

The University of Chicago

This 10-week course for non-science majors focuses on a single problem: assessing the risk of human-caused climate change. The story ranges from physics to chemistry,...