Free Social Sciences Courses

Certainly one of the best courses we've added into our new Free Courses Collection is Stanford University Professor Robert Sapolsky's course on "Human Behavioral Biology".

Take PSYC 110 with Professor Paul Bloom at Yale University and learn the basics about your mind and brain. Bloom is the author of numerous books and popular articles including his most recent book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like.

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

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

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?

Professor Jeremy Wolfe guides listeners through the basic functions of the brain including emotions, memory, cognition, language development, and more.

The main purpose of this course is to answer the question, “How does language relate to the world?” In order to do this we will have to explore a lot of related questions...

This course surveys the core perceptual and cognitive abilities of the human mind and asks how they are implemented in the brain.

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

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