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 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?

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

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

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

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

This first course in the sequence focuses on principles of brain organization, from neurons to circuits to functional networks.