Free Social Sciences Courses

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

How, if at all, can we reconcile a certain conception that we have of ourselves as conscious, free, rational, ethical, language using, social and political human beings in a world consisting entirely of mindless, meaningless physical particles?

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

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 is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking.

Hank Green teaches you psychology!

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.

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

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