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In recent years, several reputable Universities, including Yale, MIT and Notre Dame, have undertaken to make many of their courses and lectures available online to the public as an educational, public service. The Lourdes Adult Academy has endeavored to gather and reference a number of these free course offerings and lecture presentations for your convenience and personal enhancement. The viewpoints and opinions elicited in them are solely those of the respective Universities and the Professors teaching them. The opinions and arguments presented by them are neither endorsed nor affirmed by the Lourdes Adult Academy. The following listings are set forth below to present a diversity of academic viewpoints and opinions on various humanities subjects for your personal, independent consideration and reflection. Users of the following sites are required to comport with the respective Universities’ policies, terms and conditions for such use. The following listing is for informational purposes only and no representations, guarantees or warranties, express or implied, of any nature are made by Lourdes Adult Academy concerning the courses, information or instruction presented therein.
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M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT offers over 1,700 courses online without charge through its Open Courseware project. Many of the online courses offered do not have audio or video recordings of lectures but a list of those available courses that offer audio and video components are available at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/index.htm. The following courses contain audio and video components, have software requirements such as “Real Player One” or “Windows Media Player” and may be of interest to LAA students: Introduction to Biology (Fall-2004) Introduction to Psychology (Fall 2004) (audio) Media, Education and the Marketplace (Fall 2001) Introduction to Copyright Law (January 2006) University of Notre DameNotre Dame offers a growing collection of courses in various formats and humanities disciplines through its Open Courseware Project. For a complete listing of their available online courses, click the first link below. The specific courses offer video lectures, in whole or in part, have software requirements such as “Real Player One” or “Windows Media Player” and may be of interest to LAA students: View all course listings here! Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love Jews and Christians Throughout History Yale University Beginning in December 2007, Yale made available several of its courses in Physics, Political Science, Religious Studies, Philosophy, English Literature and a few other disciplines to the public free of charge. You can access the available course list and particular video lectures, including lecture presentations for the courses listed below, at its yale.edu website. Apple Quick Time is required to run many of the video lectures. Introduction to the Old Testament Introduction to Political Philosophy
Princeton University Access numerous lectures and presentations from various Princeton University Lecture series and Centers, including the Princeton President’s Lecture Series, the Hamilton Lecture Series, the Public Lecture Series, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, the Center for the Study of Religion, and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Featured lecturers include Leon Kass, Koffi Annan, Prof. Cass Sunstein, Madeleine Albright, Prof. Robert George, Justice Stephen Breyer, Prof. Don Marquis and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. An extensive listing of archived video lectures are available at: http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/ Harvard UniversityHarvard offers a wonderful collection of desktop accessible, free programming from its live programs, panels and presentations on a wide array of topics – from baseball to black holes, reproductive health to genetically modified foods, and a wonderful presentation on the 50th Anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Access them all simply by clicking here! More free presentations are available from the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Institute of Politics at Harvard University by clicking here. In addition, Georgetown and Harvard Law Schools have online multimedia collections that include even more videotaped presentations of prominent leaders, political and media figures, academics and other speakers and panels on current topics of interest, and that are accessible for free via the internet. Also included below are links to these collections. Harvard Law School Multimedia Collection Georgetown Law Lectures & Presentations
Stanford UniversityThe website of Stanford University has an extensive multimedia archive devoted to the humanities that is available online without charge to the public at http://shc.stanford.edu. Recent topical presentations include “Thinking about Blasphemy and Secular Criticism,” “The Humanities and Human Nature,” “The Ethics of Identity,” and “Politics and Religion: How and When Do They Begin to Separate?” U.C.L.A. The University of California at Los Angeles makes available a series of videotaped lectures and presentations on demand, online, and without cost through its website at http://www.oid.ucla.edu/Webcast/.
SPECIAL ADDITION: A ten-lecture audio/video course entitled "The Truth About American History: An Austro-Jeffersonian Perspective" by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Fellow at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute and Author of numerous books including "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization," "33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask," "The Church and the "Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy" and "The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era." http://www.mises.org/media.aspx?action=category&ID=79
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