Free Online Humanities Courses

48 Humanities Courses

Philosophy of Love in the Western World

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This course is a seminar on the nature of love and sex, approached as topics both in philosophy and in literature. Readings from recent philosophy as well as classic...

Science, Magic, and Religion

University of California, Los Angeles

Professor Courtenay Raia lectures on science and religion as historical phenomena that have evolved over time. She examines the earlier mind-set before 1700 when...

Sustainable Living: Environment I

University of California, Los Angeles

The Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP), ESLP is a student designed, student developed, and student facilitated program offered through the Institute...

Sustainable Living: Environment II

University of California, Los Angeles

Environment 185A: Sustainable Living is a sub-division of the Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP). ESLP is a student designed, student developed, and...

The American Novel Since 1945

Yale University

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 thematic developments...

The American Revolution

Yale University

The American Revolution entailed some remarkable transformations - converting British colonists into American revolutionaries, and a cluster of colonies into a confederation...

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877

Yale University

This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877. The primary goal of the course is to understand the...

The Crusades (HIST 4332)

University of Houston

The Crusades (HIST 4332) with Professor Sally Vaughn of The University of Houston covers the origins, development, and results of the crusades from the eleventh...

The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000

Yale University

Major developments in the political, social, and religious history of Western Europe from the accession of Diocletian to the feudal transformation. Topics include...

The Moral Foundations of Politics

Yale University

This course explores main answers to the question "when do governments deserve our allegiance?" It starts with a survey of major political theories of...

The Poetry of John Milton

Yale University

A study of Milton's poetry, with some attention to his literary sources, his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his decisive influence on the course of...

The Victorians: Culture and Experience in Britain, Europe and the World 1815-1914

Gresham College

This course of lectures looks at the Victorians not just in Britain but in Europe and the wider world.  'Victorian' has come to stand for a particular set of values,...