Open Yale Courses: 7 New Courses Available Soon!
Open Yale Courses: 7 New Courses Available Soon!
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Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a variety of Yale College Courses. 7 new courses will be available April 5th. Find out which ones! Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu Th...
9. "Commodity" and "Commonweal": Economic and Social Problems, 1520-1560
9. "Commodity" and "Commonweal": Economic and Social Problems, 1520-1560
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Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251) Professor Wrightson surveys the changing economic landscape of early modern England in the early sixteenth century. He notes that, throughout the ...
1. Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society
1. Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society
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Financial Markets (ECON 252) Professor Shiller provides a description of the course, Financial Markets, including administrative details and the topics to be discussed in each lecture. He briefly discusses the importance of studying finance...
7. Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology
7. Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology
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Financial Markets (ECON 252) Behavioral Finance is a relatively recent revolution in finance that applies insights from all of the social sciences to finance. New decision-making models incorporate psychology and sociology, among other disc...
24. Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide
24. Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide
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Death (PHIL 176) This is the first of a series of lectures on suicide. Two very distinct contexts are presented in which the subject can be further explored. The first is rationality and the question of under what circumstances it makes sen...
Open Yale Courses: 10 New Courses Coming Soon!
Open Yale Courses: 10 New Courses Coming Soon!
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Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a variety of Yale College Courses. Ten new courses will debut on April 14, 2011. Find out which ones! Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu...
5. How Selection Changes the Genetic Composition of Population
5. How Selection Changes the Genetic Composition of Population
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Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (EEB 122) Genetics controls evolution. There are four major genetic systems, which are combinations of sexual/asexual and haploid/diploid. In all genetic systems, adaptive genetic change tends t...
Open Yale Courses: 10 New Courses Available Now!
Open Yale Courses: 10 New Courses Available Now!
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Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a variety of Yale College Courses. 10 new courses are now available. Find out which ones! Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu Complete co...
7. Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
7. Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
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Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160) Class begins with a problem on transits and learning what information astronomers obtain through observing them. For example, radii of stars can be estimated. Furthermore, applying the Dopp...
15. Imperialists and Boy Scouts
15. Imperialists and Boy Scouts
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European Civilization, 1648-1945 (HIST 202) The boom in European colonial expansion in the second half of the nineteenth century, the so-called New Imperialism, can be seen to follow from three principle factors, in ascending order of impor...
19. Economic Motivations for Fertility
19. Economic Motivations for Fertility
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Global Problems of Population Growth (MCDB 150) Data shows, consistently, that poor people have more children than rich people; economically speaking, children are an inferior good. Children are production goods because they do work, consum...
4. Judaism in the First Century
4. Judaism in the First Century
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Introduction to New Testament (RLST 152) Of the four kingdoms that arose after Alexander's death, those of the Seleucids and the Ptolemies are most pertinent to an understanding of the New Testament. Especially important is the rule of ...
9. Risk and Law: Pesticide Paradigm
9. Risk and Law: Pesticide Paradigm
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Environmental Politics and Law (EVST 255) The lecture charts the evolution of pesticide regulation in the United States. The evolution of the management and regulation of pesticides reflects changes in scientific understanding of pesticides...
3. Inferno I, II, III, IV
3. Inferno I, II, III, IV
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Dante in Translation (ITAL 310) Professor Mazzotta introduces students to the Divine Comedy, focusing on the first four cantos of Inferno. Stylistic, thematic and formal features of the poem are discussed in the context of its original titl...
1. Introduction: What is Political Philosophy?
1. Introduction: What is Political Philosophy?
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Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114) Professor Smith discusses the nature and scope of "political philosophy." The oldest of the social sciences, the study of political philosophy must begin with the works of Plato and ...