Open Yale Courses: 38 products

This course presents the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior for students beginning their study of biology and of the environmen…

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…

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

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…

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

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

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 …

This course consists of an international analysis of the impact of epidemic diseases on western society and culture from the bubonic plague…

In "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present. The course traces the formal and the…

Financial institutions are a pillar of civilized society, supporting people in their productive ventures and managing the economic risks th…

The course facilitates a close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque Spain. Students are…

This class is a study of Milton's poetry, with attention paid to his literary sources, his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his…

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…