"University of California-San Diego (UCSD)" Open Courses

A survey of the artistic works in the modern art and visual culture of Japan and China.

Students in this class will be introduced to both probability and statistics and their uses.

Introduces students to the nature and problems associated with aging.

This science class teaches students about the well-known immune deficiency disease, AIDS, the final stage in the HIV disease.

This course studies the history of American law and legal institutions, focusing on crime and punishment in the colonial era, the emergence of theories of popular sovereignty, the forging of the Constitution and American federalism, the relationship between law and economic change, and the crisis of slavery and the Union.

This course examines the history, literature, and culture of ancient Egypt and its peoples from the origins of Egyptian civilization to the culture's eventual decline under the dominance of foreign powers.

This course examines the Ancient Greece, a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (ca. 600 AD).

This class examines the rise of Ancient Rome, a thriving civilization that began growing on the Italian Peninsula in early 8th century BC and become one of the largest empires in the ancient world.

Starting with a broad overview of general animal behavior, this course delves deeply into various olfactory, visual and acoustic forms of animal communication.

This course places Roccoco and neoclassical artists such as Watteau, Fragonard, Tiepolo, Hogarth, Reynolds, Vigee Lebrun, Blake, and David, within the context of art academies, colonialism, the Grand Tour, Enlightenment conceptualizations of history and nature, and the American and French Revolutions.

Prepares students for General Chemistry as it emphasizes quantitative problems and covers topics such as nomenclature, stoichiometry, basic reactions, bonding, and the periodic table.

This course offers less prepared science majors the fundamental skills necessary to succeed in chemistry.

This course covers learning principles relevant to human behavior, applied behavior analysis, and applications of behavioral principles.

Students are introduced to statistical inference and hypothesis testing with and emphasis on the conceptual and logical basis of statistical methods.

This is the second part of the biostatistics course, which discusses the application of statistics to a wide range of topics in biology.

This course teaches students about the role brains play in behavioral development

This course is all about the Byzantium empire and covers everything from cultural traditions to socio-political issues.

Students enrolled in this course will study calculus, a branch of mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series.

Students in this course will be introduced to vectors, three-dimensional geometry, multivariable differential calculus, and multiple integrals.

Students enrolled in this class will learn about the politics, policies, and bodies of government in the state of California.

This class examines different case studies related to the state of health care for those below the poverty line.

The course covers the cellular and molecular mechanisms regarding learning and memory.

This course introduces nonscience majors to biochemistry through topics such as carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids and proteins.

This class addresses diagnosis and treatment options for children with mental illnesses, such as anxiety disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, eating disorders, and schizophrenia.

This course covers significant literature that was written for children in various cultures and time periods.

This course examines the fundamentals of daily biological clocks in microbes, animals, and humans.

This psychology/biology course studies circadian rhythms, any biological processes that display an endogenous, entrainable oscillation of about 24 hours.

This course is designed to encourage students to think historically, comparatively, and in an interdisciplinary manner about world cultures when it comes to classical and medieval times.

The relationship between mental and biological functions is the primary focus of this course, with an emphasis on brain interaction, emotion and memory.

During this course, students will learn the ins and outs of a computer and all that goes into it--hardware, programming, number systems and more, including future trends of the industry.