Posted on 09/07/2011 6:52:30 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
Available Courses Astronomy ASTR 160 - Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics, Spring 2007
Biomedical Engineering BENG 100 - Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering, Spring 2008
Chemistry CHEM 125 - Freshman Organic Chemistry, Fall 2008
Classics CLCV 205 - Introduction to Ancient Greek History, Fall 2007
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology EEB 122 - Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, Spring 2009
Economics ECON 159 - Game Theory, Fall 2007 ECON 251 - Financial Theory, Fall 2009 ECON 252 - Financial Markets, Spring 2008
English ENGL 220 - Milton, Fall 2007 ENGL 291 - The American Novel Since 1945, Spring 2008 ENGL 300 - Introduction to Theory of Literature, Spring 2009 ENGL 310 - Modern Poetry, Spring 2007
Environmental Studies EVST 255 - Environmental Politics and Law, Spring 2010
History HIST 116 - The American Revolution, Spring 2010 HIST 119 - The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877, Spring 2008 HIST 202 - European Civilization, 1648-1945, Fall 2008 HIST 234 - Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600, Spring 2010 HIST 251 - Early Modern England, Fall 2009 HIST 276 - France Since 1871, Fall 2007 History of Art HSAR 252 - Roman Architecture, Spring 2009
Italian Language and Literature ITAL 310 - Dante in Translation, Fall 2008
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology MCDB 150 - Global Problems of Population Growth, Spring 2009
Music MUSI 112 - Listening to Music, Fall 2008
Philosophy PHIL 176 - Death, Spring 2007
Physics PHYS 200 - Fundamentals of Physics, I, Fall 2006 PHYS 201 - Fundamentals of Physics, II, Spring 2010
Political Science PLSC 114 - Introduction to Political Philosophy, Fall 2006 PLSC 118 - Moral Foundations of Politics, Spring 2010 PLSC 270 - Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform, Fall 2009
Psychology PSYC 110 - Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2007 PSYC 123 - The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food, Fall 2008
Religious Studies RLST 145 - Introduction to the Old Testament, Fall 2006 RLST 152 - Introduction to New Testament History and
Literature, Spring 2009
Sociology SOCY 151 - Foundations of Modern Social Theory, Fall 2009
Spanish and Portuguese SPAN 300 - Cervantes' Don Quixote, Fall 2009
Say what you want - but Yale is leaving the world better than they found it.
I would hope more universities follow their example.
Maybe the Law School is next?
Do you get credit? Or is it just like auditing a course?.............
MIT has been doing this for years!
why should any of us have topay for anything. our govt is so willing to give everything out for free, every american citizen should demand a college education for free. after all we are so willing to have illegal aliens children educated at taxpayers expense? why not our own children?
ping
They have a class that’s listening to music? I have YouTube and Pandora to discover new music.
You don’t get credit. You get the professor’s notes on the class.
If you get yourself the textbook, you could learn quite a bit, but probably not everything.
This would be very useful for ambitious students who want to get advanced knowledge on courses they have to take.
It’s essentially auditing a course, but they can be great. I sat through a few lectures given by MIT’s open course ware and really like it.
I often watch these on youtube. Some are good. Some are atrocious.
It would sure look good on a resume......a Yalie...........Can you get in Skull & Bones?.......;^)
Same thing I was wondering; if you got credit, both my daughters could have saved a ton of money. My oldest daughter still could.
But probably enough to CLEP it, if you could - maybe?
A lot of good classes offered in that list...well, with the exception of Fundamentals of Physics, maybe.
I took a music appreciation class in college (not at Yale) thinking it would be an easy A. It turned out to be, if not hard, at least a legitimate course. It was about 90% lecture and 10% listening to music. I learned a lot about classical music as well as different kinds of folk music from around the world. After the first week I was wondering what I got myself into, but it turned out to be one of the more interesting college courses I took.
Darn
Yale - the new People’s Community College.
Would I need a time machine or did they record it?
ping
Same with Art History. It was mostly history, and back in '74 it was not politically correct history.
I had a similar experience with some Art History courses. While I did spend a lot of time looking at slides, it turned out to be a lot of rote memorization. Also, it can be challenging to come up with a 10+ page term paper based off of 1 or two works. I took a course on Baroque art of the Netherlands and actually learned a lot of history regarding the Protestant reformation and Calvinism. Good stuff and I have to say that I am better off after exploring this field.
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