YaleCourses
Yale's philosophy of teaching and learning begins with the aim of training a broadly based, highly disciplined intellect without specifying in advance how that intellect will be used. The Yale Courses channel provides entry into the core of the University--its classrooms and academic programs--including complete sets of lectures from the Open Yale Courses initiative. Complementary syllabi, transcripts, and other resources may also be accessed from the Open Yale Courses website listed below.Links:online.yale.edu: http://online.yale.edu
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September 21, 2026 • 8 mins
In this lesson, we take a moment to reflect on the comprehensive journey of 'The Hunt,' summarizing the core ideas from Modules 1 through 5. We'll revisit how job searching transcends merely finding a job, focusing instead on discovering a better fit for your true self and purpose, anchoring your internal work, defining your 'why,' setting priorities, creating motivating goals, and building your personalized hunt dashboard.🎯 Learn...
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September 21, 2026 • 58 mins
Death (PHIL 176)The lecture focuses on the problems directly related to the personality theory as key to personal identity. The theory states that a person retains his or her individuality so long as he or she has the same ongoing personality. The main objection raised to this claim is the problem of duplication. The lecture explores cases in which the same personality has been transferred or exported to multiple bodies.00:00 - Cha...
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September 21, 2026 • 60 mins
From the bully pulpit of Theodore Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson and the Great War, Professor Beverly Gage continues the examination of early 20th Century America.Recorded in Yale’s Battell Chapel. This one-time-only course examines U.S. history from 1776 to the present, in advance of the nation’s semiquincentennial (or 250th birthday) in 2026. Taught jointly by Professors Joanne Freeman, David Blight, and Beverl...
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September 21, 2026 • 66 mins
Introduction to Psychology (PSYC 110)This lecture finishes the discussion of language by briefly reviewing two additional topics: communication systems in non-human primates and other animals, and the relationship between language and thought. The majority of this lecture is then spent on introducing students to major theories and discoveries in the fields of perception, attention and memory. Topics include why we see certain visua...
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September 21, 2026 • 60 mins
The DeVane Lectures, America at 250 - A History.Professor Beverly Gage asks David Blight to expand on his recent lectures on the Reconstruction and all the challenges it faced. This podcast is also available on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/america-at-250-the-podcast/id1840422776 and Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4C8qfQf21r4eO6mVUFguG2To view all the videos in this course or view and download a copy of the c...
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September 21, 2026 • 62 mins
Professor Beverly Gage begins her 8 classes for the final portion of the course with issues surrounding immigration.Recorded in Yale’s Battell Chapel. This one-time-only course examines U.S. history from 1776 to the present, in advance of the nation’s semiquincentennial (or 250th birthday) in 2026. Taught jointly by Professors Joanne Freeman, David Blight, and Beverly Gage, the course emphasizes the history of...
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September 21, 2026 • 53 mins
The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119)After finishing with his survey of the manner in which historians have explained the coming of the Civil War, Professor Blight focuses on Fort Sumter. After months of political maneuvering, the Civil War began when Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, in the harbor outside Charleston, SC. The declaration of hostilities prompted four more states--Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Arkan...
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September 21, 2026 • 57 mins
The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119)Professor Blight lectures on the military history of the early part of the war. Beginning with events in the West, Blight describes the Union victories at Fort Donelson and Fort Henry, introduces Union General Ulysses S. Grant, and narrates the horrific battle of Shiloh, fought in April of 1862. Moving back East, the lecture describes the Union General George McClellan's abortive 1862 Peni...
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September 21, 2026 • 18 mins
In this video, discover the key to cooking quick and tasty recipes perfect for busy student life. Dr. Nate Wood shares tips and tricks to prepare meals that are both delicious and time-efficient.Managing your finances as a student is challenging. Yale’s Graduate and Professional Student Senate collaborated with Dr. Nate Wood, Assistant Professor and Director of Culinary Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, to create this ...
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September 21, 2026 • 59 mins
Listening to Music (MUSI 112)Professor Wright delves into sonata-allegro form in some depth in this lecture. He focuses especially on characterizing four types of music found within a sonata: thematic, transitional, developmental, and cadential. He then moves on to discuss a different form, theme and variations, which is accomplished through the use of examples from Beethoven's and Mozart's compositions. Professor Wright and guest ...
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September 21, 2026 • 62 mins
Introduction to Psychology (PSYC 110)Professor Bloom continues the discussion of emotions as useful evolutionary adaptations for dealing with our social environment. In particular, this lecture describes evolutionary explanations for several important emotional responses, such as the love between parents and their offspring, the gratitude we feel towards cooperative behaviors, the spite we feel for cheaters, and the cultural differ...
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September 20, 2026 • 58 mins
Milton (ENGL 220)This lecture examines Book Four's depiction of Adam and Eve and the sexual politics of life in Eden. Seventeenth-century political theory, particularly the work of Thomas Hobbes, is considered with a focus on then-contemporary theories of the structure and government of the first human societies. Critical perspectives on what have variously been proposed as sexist and feminist elements of Milton's Eden are surveyed...
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September 20, 2026 • 14 mins
How can a social enterprise provide high-quality medical care to millions, even those who can't pay? In this lesson, we delve into the inspiring case study of Aravind Eye Systems, a pioneering organization in India that revolutionized cataract surgery access through innovative operational models, strategic cost reduction, and a unique differential pricing system.🎯 Learning Objectives• Understand how Aravind Eye Systems addressed m...
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September 20, 2026 • 8 mins
In this video, learn about how to use this series as a tool for low-cost, high-nutrition eating.Managing your finances as a student is challenging. Yale’s Graduate and Professional Student Senate collaborated with Dr. Nate Wood, Assistant Professor and Director of Culinary Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, to create this video series aimed at helping our community to shop and eat affordably and nutritiously. According ...
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September 20, 2026 • 58 mins
Milton (ENGL 220)This second lecture on the Fall traces Milton's use of the word wander, in all of its forms, across the poem. The transformation of wander from its pre-fallen sense to its more nefarious incarnation following the transgression is examined closely. The wider literary context of the concept of wandering, with particular emphasis placed on its importance to the romance genre, is briefly discussed. The reductive forces...
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September 20, 2026 • 55 mins
The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291)In her lecture on John Barth's collection of stories Lost in the Funhouse, Professor Amy Hungerford delves beyond the superficial pleasures and frustrations of Barth's oft-cited metafictional masterwork to illuminate the profound commitment to language that his narrative risks entail. Foremost among Barth's concerns, Hungerford argues, is the multi-faceted relationship between language and lo...
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September 20, 2026 • 62 mins
What becomes of a nation filled with corruption that’s covered with gold. Professor David Blight returns to Mark Twain as he details the Gilded Age and what it brings.Recorded in Yale’s Battell Chapel. This one-time-only course examines U.S. history from 1776 to the present, in advance of the nation’s semiquincentennial (or 250th birthday) in 2026. Taught jointly by Professors Joanne Freeman, David Bligh...
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September 20, 2026 • 55 mins
Listening to Music (MUSI 112)A brief foray into the formal characteristics of contemporary popular music is used to launch this lecture on musical form. After a discussion of the "verse-chorus" form often used in popular music, Professor Wright proceeds to take students into the realm of classical music, focusing particularly on ternary form and sonata-allegro form. Throughout his detailed explanation of sonata-allegro form, he als...
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September 20, 2026 • 53 mins
Death (PHIL 176)The discussion of Plato's Phaedo continues, presenting more arguments for the existence and immortality of the soul. One such argument is "the argument from the nature of the forms," which states that because the forms are non-physical objects and cannot be grasped by something physical like the body, it follows that they must be grasped by the soul which must be non-physical as well. This argument is followed by th...
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September 20, 2026 • 59 mins
Searching and struggles, opportunities and losses. Professor Joanne Freeman concludes her series of lectures for the course.Recorded in Yale’s Battell Chapel. This one-time-only course examines U.S. history from 1776 to the present, in advance of the nation’s semiquincentennial (or 250th birthday) in 2026. Taught jointly by Professors Joanne Freeman, David Blight, and Beverly Gage, the course emphasizes the hi...
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