Free Social Sciences Courses

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

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.

Highlighting major new developments in the field, this updated edition of Discovering Psychology offers high school and college students, and teachers of psychology at all levels, an overview of historic and current theories of human behavior.

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

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 provides students with the basic tools for evaluating data from studies in the behavioral sciences, particularly psychology.

How are people affected by overcrowding, traffic congestion, and noise? Why do people litter or vandalize their environments? How do buildings affect their occupants?

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

Despite the supposedly homogenizing effects of globalization, people continue to be joined together and divided asunder by the languages they speak, the religions they follow, and the ethnic identities to which they belong.

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