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The Great Courses

The Great Courses, formerly known as The Teaching Company, produces 500 lecture courses taught by professors at the nation's leading universities, which they sell on CD, DVD, Audio Download, and Video Download. Their courses vary in length, ranging from 8 to 84 lectures, with lectures lasting either 30 or 45 minutes. The courses cover a wide range of topics in the categories of history, literature, the arts, philosophy, religion, science, and business. Most of their courses are available in both audio and video formats with visual aids included in the video tapings of the professors teaching their course. Their professors are carefully selected through evaluations and auditions from students and customers, and the professors they choose teach at well respected colleges such as Stanford, Georgetown, and many Ivy League colleges. Their products can be purchased online or by calling 1-800-832-2412.

They also now offer a service called Wondrium to watch most of their courses on online video through your computer, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Android phone, Roku streaming device, Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, and more. For fans of The Great Courses, when you subscribe to Wondrium, you can then watch over 300 great courses and over 8,000 video lectures as much as you want, whenever you want. You can now sign up for a free 14-day trial on Wondrium.com. After the initial two weeks, the price is $20/month, and if you sign up for a full year the price breaks down to $12.50/month. You can browse all these courses by category on their website:

Browse Over 300 Courses Currently Offered Through the The Great Courses on Wondrium


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by Grant L. Voth
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These 12 highly rewarding lectures offer you an introduction to 12 works that redefine what great literature is....

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by Grant L. Voth
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Myths provide the keys to truly grasping the ways that principles, rituals, codes, and taboos are woven into the fabric of a particular society or civilization....

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by J. Rufus Fears
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Professor Fears shows how myths convey higher truths too profound to be described in ordinary language....

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by James A.W. Heffernan
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This course is an excellent introductory guide to the many layers of James Joyce’s landmark novel Ulysses.

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by Hannah B. Harvey
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Audio Download | Online Video

In The Children's Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales, Dr. Hannah Blevins Harvey unpacks more than 60 of our most beloved stories, fables, fairy tales, and songs from around the world…

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by Alexandra Hudson
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The stories we tell ourselves are central to how we engage with the world around us.

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by David Schmid
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Audio Download | Online Video

Great mystery and suspense writers have created some of the most unforgettable stories in all of literature.

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by Anne Curzan
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Professor Curzan approaches words like an archaeologist, digging below the surface to uncover the story of words....

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by Thomas A. Shippey
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Odysseus. Robinson Crusoe. Harry Potter. What do these memorable characters have in common? Why do we turn to certain stories again and again? And what impact have they made on world history?

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by Arnold Weinstein
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Join three literary scholars and award-winning professors as they introduce you to dozens of short masterpieces....

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