Free Online Liberal Arts Classes
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This is a resource on analyzing weights, measurements, and money in historical documents.
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Historical, Legal and Philosophical Foundations of Education
Christin DePouw, Liberal Arts — University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Spring 2011Approaching the material from various perspectives, this course provides the groundwork for educators to be able to practice using sound reasoning and principles.
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Histories of Photography
Siobhan Arnold, Liberal Arts — University of California-San Diego (UCSD)
N/AThis course will provide a selective overview of the cultural history of photography, concentrating primarily on developments in Europe and the United States.
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History & Systems of Psychology
Humair Hashmi, Liberal Arts — Virtual University of Pakistan
N/AThis course focuses on the history of psychology in different ages, from ancient concept to the most modern structure, and encompasses the lives and concepts of philosophers/psychologists who worked with the subject.
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History 130B, 001
Daniel Sargent, Liberal Arts — University of California-Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Fall 2010Students in this course will study the history of the United States and the world since 1945.
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History 151C, 001
James Vernon, Liberal Arts — University of California-Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Fall 2011This course focuses on the history of modernity of Britain.
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History 162A, 001
David Wetzel, Liberal Arts — University of California-Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Fall 2009Students in this course will study Europe and the World with attention to the wars, empires, and nations from 1648-1914.
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History 167A, 001
David Wetzel, Liberal Arts — University of California-Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Fall 2011This course focuses on the history of early modern Germany.
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A series of lectures on the cultural and political history of contemporary South Asia.
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History 2D
Courtenay Raia, Liberal Arts — University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)
Fall 2009Learn about science, magic, and religion from antiquity to the present in this UCLA course.
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History 5, 001
Thomas W. Laqueur, Liberal Arts — University of California-Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Fall 2010European civilization from the Renaissance to the present is the main topic covered in this history course.
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History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology
David Jones, Liberal Arts — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Spring 2009Study medicine and biology in terms of history, race, culture, perceptions, and more.
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This course offers a survey of the development of various Western civilizations, and how the culture of these civilizations has changed the world.
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History and Philosophy of Christian Education
Michael Lawson, Liberal Arts — Dallas Theological Seminary
Spring 2008This course provides a survey of the history of religious education, from Old Testament times to the present day.
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In this course from Liberty University, the history of worship, from the Old Testament to modern times, is covered.
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History and Theory of Historic Preservation
Max Page, Liberal Arts — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Spring 2007This class discusses the history and theory of the historical preservation movement in the United States while also looking at similar movements in other countries.
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History C187, 001
Thomas W. Laqueur, Liberal Arts — University of California-Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Fall 2011Students in this course will focus on
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History Modern Medicine
Catherina Gere, Liberal Arts — University of California-San Diego (UCSD)
Fall 2012This course examines the origin of clinical method, hospitals, internal surgery, and the medical laboratory, along with the history of genetic determinism, medicalization of society, and health-care reform.
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This course covers the history of Africa from 300,000 BCE to the era of European imperialism in the nineteenth century
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History of Ancient Rome
Elizabeth Mazurek, Liberal Arts — University of Notre Dame
Fall 2007Learn about the history of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Constantine and everything else in between.
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Traditional literatures of myth and legend, folk and fairy tales, and the emergence of of adventure, fantasy, and realism genres are investigated in this course from La Trobe University.
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Dr. John Hannah looks at the historical development of selected doctrines.
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Students will be introduced to the history of Europe from the medieval period to the Age of Revolutions in the 18th century.
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Featuring videos from the Khan Academy, students will receive a well-rounded overview of the history of Europe from 1800 to present day through this course.
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An exploration of Christianity's global expansion throughout history, from the first century to present day.
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History of Information
Paul Duguid, Liberal Arts — University of California-Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Spring 2012This course reviews the evolution of production, recording, and storage of information from the earliest writing systems to present day.
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History of Information
Paul Duguid, Liberal Arts — University of California-Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Spring 2013The history of production, recording, and storing information from the earliest writing systems to present day are covered in this course.
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History of Iran to the Safavid Period
Richard Bulliet, Liberal Arts — Columbia University
Fall 2009Professor Richard Bulliet of Columbia University offers an early history of Iran to the Safavid Period.
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This curriculum provides a history and context of jazz music and musicians, as well as a framework for the social and political implications of the jazz culture.
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If you are interested in how jazz came to be, what influenced it in the beginning, and the pioneers of the genre, this is the course for you.