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.

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

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

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

What are our emotions? What purpose do they serve? How do emotions relate to our thoughts, memories, and behaviors towards others? What happens when our emotional responses go awry?

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

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 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.