Open Yale Courses

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.

Open Yale Courses launched in December 2007 with seven courses from various departments. The project now includes 25 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]

Courses

Courses offered since 2009 include:

• Astronomy 160 - Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics, Charles Bailyn
• Biomedical Engineering 100 - Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering, Mark Saltzman
• Chemistry 125 0 Freshman Organic Chemistry, J. Michael McBride
• Classics 205 - Introduction to Ancient Greek History, Donald Kagan
• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 122, Stephen C. Stearns
• Economics 159 - Game Theory, Ben Polak
• Economics 251 - Financial Theory, John Geanakoplos
• Economics 252 - Financial Markets, Robert Shiller
• English 220 - Milton, John Rogers
• English 291 - The American Novel Since 1945, Amy Hungerford
• English 300 - Introduction to Theory of Literature, Paul H. Fry
• English 310 - Modern Poetry, Langdon Hammer
• Environmental Studies 255 - Environmental Politics and Law, John Wargo
• History 116 - The American Revolution, Joanne Freeman
• History 119 - The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877, David Blight
• History 202 - European Civilization, 1648-1945, John Merriman
• History 234 - Epidemics and Western Society Since 1600, Frank Snowden
• History 251 - Early Modern England: Politics, Religion and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts, Keith Wrightson
• History 276 - France Since 1871, John Merriman
• History of Art 252 - Roman Architecture, Diana E. E. Kleiner
• Italian Language and Literature 310 - Dante in Translation, Giuseppe Mazzotta
• Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology 150 - Global Problems of Population Growth, Robert Wyman
• Music 112 - Listening to Music, Craig Wright
• Philosophy 176 - Death, Shelly Kagan
• Physics 200 - Fundamentals of Physics, Ramamurti Shankar
• Physics 201 - Fundamentals of Physics, II, Ramamurti Shankar
• Political Science 114 - Introduction to Political Philosophy, Steven Smith
• Political Science 118 - Moral Foundations of Politics, Ian Shapiro
• Political Science 270 - Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform, Douglas W. Rae
• Psychology 110 - Introduction to Psychology, Paul Bloom
• Psychology 123 - Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food, Kelly D. Brownell
• Religious Studies 145 - Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible), Christine Hayes
• Religious Studies 152 - Introduction to New Testament History and Literature, Dale B. Martin
• Sociology 151 - Foundations of Modern Social Theory, Iván Szelényi
• Spanish and Portuguese 300 - Cervantes' Don Quixote, Roberto González Echevarría

Shortcomings

Some of the lectures, as delivered to attendees, contain copyrighted content which Yale is unable to distribute to Internet viewers due to legal restrictions. The video lectures are edited at this point and the copyrighted work is generally 'snipped' from the presentation or the video is faded to black leaving just the audio to go on. In these instances Yale does not provide alternative sources, leaving the viewer to independently source suitable material with which to make sense of the presentation.^[4]

External links

• Open Yale Courses

References

1. ^ "About Open Yale Courses (#13)". Yale.edu. http://oyc.yale.edu/about#q13. Retrieved 2008-11-02. 
2. ^ "About Open Yale Courses (#12)". Yale.edu. http://oyc.yale.edu/about#q12. Retrieved 2008-11-02. 
3. ^ "About Open Yale Courses (#15)". Yale.edu. http://oyc.yale.edu/about#q15. Retrieved 2008-11-02. 
4. ^ "Introduction to psychology, Session 1". Yale.edu. http://oyc.yale.edu/yale/psychology/introduction-to-psychology/content/sessions/lecture01.html. Retrieved 2009-08-27.