Open Yale Courses: 38 products
Foundations of Modern Social Theory
This course provides an overview of major works of social thought from the beginning of the modern era through the 1920s. Attention is paid…
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
This course examines major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, exploring their interconnections on three analytic scales: the mac…
Financial Theory
This course attempts to explain the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy. Rather than separating off the f…
Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform
In this course, we will seek to interpret capitalism using ideas from biological evolution: firms pursuing varied strategies and facing ext…
European Civilization, 1648-1945
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…
The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000
Major developments in the political, social, and religious history of Western Europe from the accession of Diocletian to the feudal transfo…
The American Revolution
The American Revolution entailed some remarkable transformations--converting British colonists into American revolutionaries, and a cluster…
Financial Markets (2011)
An overview of the ideas, methods, and institutions that permit human society to manage risks and foster enterprise. Description of practic…