University of Houston Free Online Video Courses

Fundamental of Public Speaking Professor: Deborah Bridges Description: Fundamentals of Public Speaking refines students' listening and verbal/nonverbal skills, essential to effective communication.

Principles and theories of psychology including methodology and brief analysis of major content areas ranging from development, perception, and learning to motivation/emotion, personality, and social processes.

The goal of this course is to explore the psychology of gender through an understanding of biological and archetypal dimensions of Female/Male, Feminine/Masculine and contra-sexuality as a basis for gender differences, social behaviors, roles and public policies.

Normans from their Viking origins through their conquests in northern Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East: state-building in these regions, cultural achievements, the role of women, and impact on world history.

An overview of the interactions among seven major cultural traditions (Judeo-Christian, Graeco-Roman, Indian, Chinese, African, Islamic, American Indian), from c.e. 1500.

Critical examination of major and selected minor writers from the colonial period through Hawthorne and Melville.

History, culture, and religion of Vikings from their Indo-European roots and migration to Scandinavia through their invasions of Europe, excursions to North America, and trade with the Byzantine and Muslim worlds: state-building and impact on world history.

Works by major British authors representative of the romantic, Victorian, and modern periods.

Advanced interpersonal communication concepts dealing with relationship disintegration and crisis intervention.

Modern concepts using mathematics for understanding principles, fundamental laws, atomic and molecular structure, states of matter, equilibrium, kinetics, and elementary inorganic, nuclear, and organic chemistry.