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Freshman Organic Chemistry II
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This is a continuation of Freshman Organic Chemistry I (CHEM 125a), the introductory course on current theories of structure and mechanism in organic chemistry for students with excellent preparation in chemistry and physics. This semester treats simple and complex reaction mechanisms, spectroscopy, organic synthesis, and some molecules of nature.

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Chemistry
Physical Science
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Yale University
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Author:
J. Michael McBride
Date Added:
04/30/2012
Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics
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This course focuses on three particularly interesting areas of astronomy that are advancing very rapidly: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy. Particular attention is paid to current projects that promise to improve our understanding significantly over the next few years. The course explores not just what is known, but what is currently not known, and how astronomers are going about trying to find out.

Subject:
Astronomy
Physical Science
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Full Course
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Yale University
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Author:
Charles Bailyn
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering
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The course covers basic concepts of biomedical engineering and their connection with the spectrum of human activity. It serves as an introduction to the fundamental science and engineering on which biomedical engineering is based. Case studies of drugs and medical products illustrate the product development-product testing cycle, patent protection, and FDA approval. It is designed for science and non-science majors.

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Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
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Full Course
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Yale University
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Author:
Mark Saltzman
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Fundamentals of Physics, I
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This course provides a thorough introduction to the principles and methods of physics for students who have good preparation in physics and mathematics. Emphasis is placed on problem solving and quantitative reasoning. This course covers Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, gravitation, thermodynamics, and waves.

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Physical Science
Physics
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Yale University
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Author:
Ramamurti Shankar
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Fundamentals of Physics, II
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This is a continuation of Fundamentals of Physics, I (PHYS 200), the introductory course on the principles and methods of physics for students who have good preparation in physics and mathematics. This course covers electricity, magnetism, optics and quantum mechanics.

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Physical Science
Physics
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Full Course
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Yale University
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Author:
Ramamurti Shankar
Date Added:
06/16/2011
Game Theory
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This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere.

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Economics
Social Science
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Yale University
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Author:
Ben Polak
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Global Problems of Population Growth
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This survey course introduces students to the important and basic material on human fertility, population growth, the demographic transition and population policy. Topics include: the human and environmental dimensions of population pressure, demographic history, economic and cultural causes of demographic change, environmental carrying capacity and sustainability. Political, religious and ethical issues surrounding fertility are also addressed. The lectures and readings attempt to balance theoretical and demographic scale analyzes with studies of individual humans and communities. The perspective is global with both developed and developing countries included.

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Arts and Humanities
Biology
Life Science
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Yale University
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Author:
Robert Wyman
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
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This course examines major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, exploring their interconnections on three analytic scales: the macro history of the United States and the world; the formal and stylistic innovations of modernism; and the small details of sensory input and psychic life. WARNING: Some of the lectures in this course contain graphic content and/or adult language that some users may find disturbing.

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Arts and Humanities
History
Literature
U.S. History
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Yale University
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Author:
Wai Chee Dimock
Date Added:
04/30/2012
Introduction to Ancient Greek History
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This is an introductory course in Greek history tracing the development of Greek civilization as manifested in political, intellectual, and creative achievements from the Bronze Age to the end of the classical period. Students read original sources in translation as well as the works of modern scholars.

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Arts and Humanities
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Yale University
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Author:
Donald Kagan
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Introduction to New Testament History and Literature
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This course provides a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements in historical context, concentrating on the New Testament. Although theological themes will occupy much of our attention, the course does not attempt a theological appropriation of the New Testament as scripture. Rather, the importance of the New Testament and other early Christian documents as ancient literature and as sources for historical study will be emphasized. A central organizing theme of the course will focus on the differences within early Christianity (-ies).

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
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Yale University
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Author:
Dale B. Martin
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Introduction to Political Philosophy
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This course is intended as an introduction to political philosophy as seen through an examination of some of the major texts and thinkers of the Western political tradition. Three broad themes that are central to understanding political life are focused upon: the polis experience (Plato, Aristotle), the sovereign state (Machiavelli, Hobbes), constitutional government (Locke), and democracy (Rousseau, Tocqueville). The way in which different political philosophies have given expression to various forms of political institutions and our ways of life are examined throughout the course.

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Arts and Humanities
Philosophy
Political Science
Social Science
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Yale University
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Author:
Steven B. Smith
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Introduction to Theory of Literature
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This is a survey of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while attempting to develop a coherent overall context that incorporates philosophical and social perspectives on the recurrent questions: what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?

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Arts and Humanities
Linguistics
Literature
Social Science
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Yale University
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Date Added:
02/16/2011
Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible)
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This course examines the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) as an expression of the religious life and thought of ancient Israel, and a foundational document of Western civilization. A wide range of methodologies, including source criticism and the historical-critical school, tradition criticism, redaction criticism, and literary and canonical approaches are applied to the study and interpretation of the Bible. Special emphasis is placed on the Bible against the backdrop of its historical and cultural setting in the Ancient Near East.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
Religious Studies
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Yale University
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Author:
Christine Hayes
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Milton
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A study of Milton's poetry, with some attention to his literary sources, his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his decisive influence on the course of English poetry.

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Arts and Humanities
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Yale University
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Author:
John Rogers
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Modern Poetry
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This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Frost with additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance. Diverse methods of literary criticism are employed, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism.

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Arts and Humanities
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Yale University
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Author:
Langdon Hammer
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature
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Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature pairs central texts from Western philosophical tradition (including works by Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, Rawls, and Nozick) with recent findings in cognitive science and related fields. The course is structured around three intertwined sets of topics: Happiness and Flourishing; Morality and Justice; and Political Legitimacy and Social Structures.

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Arts and Humanities
Philosophy
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Yale University
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Author:
Tamar Gendler
Date Added:
04/30/2012
Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior
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This course presents the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior for students beginning their study of biology and of the environment. It discusses major ideas and results in a manner accessible to all Yale College undergraduates. Recent advances have energized these fields with results that have implications well beyond their boundaries: ideas, mechanisms, and processes that should form part of the toolkit of all biologists and educated citizens.

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Arts and Humanities
Biology
Ecology
Genetics
Life Science
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Yale University
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Date Added:
02/16/2011
The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food
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This course encompasses the study of eating as it affects the health and well-being of every human. Topics include taste preferences, food aversions, the regulation of hunger and satiety, food as comfort and friendship, eating as social ritual, and social norms of blame for food problems. The politics of food discusses issues such as sustainable agriculture, organic farming, genetically modified foods, nutrition policy, and the influence of food and agriculture industries. Also examined are problems such as malnutrition, eating disorders, and the global obesity epidemic; the impact of food advertising aimed at children; poverty and food; and how each individual's eating is affected by the modern environment.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Biology
Life Science
Nutrition
Psychology
Social Science
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Full Course
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Provider:
Yale University
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Author:
Kelly D. Brownell
Date Added:
02/16/2011