Free Social Sciences Courses

This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking.

Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gave the opening lecture of the course entitled Human Behavioral Biology and explains the basic premise of the course and how he aims to avoid categorical thinking.

This course provides a sampling of problems and methods used by sociologists, with concrete examples from everyday life, history, and contemporary events.

This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love.

Principles and theories of psychology including methodology and brief analysis of major content areas ranging from development, perception, and learning to motivation/emotion, personality, and social processes.

Watch Tal Ben-Shahar's popular Harvard course "Positive Psychology" available for free on YouTube.

Every year, Professors Karney and Bradbury teach a large lecture class on Intimate Relationships to undergraduates at UCLA.

What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language?

This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930...

This course provides an overview of major works of social thought from the beginning of the modern era through the 1920s.