Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more.
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Humanities & Social Sciences
Archaeology Courses
Archaeology: from Dig to Lab and Beyond — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Reading
Hannibal — Free Online Course — Patrick Hunt, Stanford
Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Peter Der Manuelian, Harvard
Roman Art and Archaeology — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — David Soren, University of Arizona
The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archaeology and History of the Palatine Hill — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Sapienza University of Rome
Wonders of Ancient Egypt — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — David P. Silverman, University of Pennsylvania
Architecture Courses
Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes — Free Online Course — Jan Wampler, MIT
History of Architecture - Free Online Course — Jacqueline Gargus, Ohio State
Making Architecture — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — IE School of Architecture and Design
Roman Architecture — Free Online Course - Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale
Sustainability in Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University Polytechnic Valencia
The Architectural Imagination — Free Online Video — Multiple instructors, Harvard
Theory of City Form — Free Online Course — Julian Beinart, MIT
Art & Art History Courses
Aesthetics & the Philosophy of Art - Free Online Video — James Grant, Oxford University
Art Through Time: A Global View — Free Online Video — Annenberg Media
Digital Photography — Free Online Course — Dan Armendariz, Harvard
Effective Fundraising and Leadership in Arts and Culture — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Leeds
European Paintings: From Leonardo to Rembrandt to Goya — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Fashion as Design — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art
Foundations of American Cyber-Culture — Free Online Video — UC Berkeley
In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art
Intentional Public Disruptions: Art, Responsibility, and Pedagogy — Free Online Video — Stephen Carpenter II and Lawrence Susskind, MIT
Introduction to Digital Photography — Free Online Course — Marc Levoy, Stanford/Google
Introduction to Visual Design - Free Online Course — Carnegie Mellon
Introduction to Visual Thinking — Free Online Video — John McNamara, UC Berkeley
Islamic Calligraphy: An Introduction to the Art of Handwriting — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Malaya
Italian Renaissance — Free Online Course — Dr. Vida Hull, East Tennessee State University
Italic Calligraphy & Handwriting — Free Online Course — Lloyd Reynolds, Reed College
Let This Be a Lesson: Heroes, Heroines & Narrative in Paintings at Yale — Free Online Video — John Walsh, Yale
Modern Art & Ideas — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art
Photography Lectures from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) — Free Online Lectures
Seeing Through Photographs — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Museum of Modern Art
Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Melbourne
SmARThistory Video Lectures — Free Online Video/Audio — Beth Harris, MoMA & Steven Zucker, Pratt Institute
Teaching Critical Thinking through Art with the National Gallery of Art — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
The Elements of Drawing — Free Online Course — Stephen Farthing, Oxford University
What Is Contemporary Art? — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art
Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — The University of Tokyo
Classics Courses
Ancient Greece: City and Society – Free iTunes Audio – Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia
Ancient Greece: Myth, Art & War – Free iTunes Audio – Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University – Australia
Ancient Greek History – Free Online Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
Ancient Israel – Free Online Course – Daniel Fleming, NYU
Ancient Philosophy – Free Online Audio – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
Epics of Rome – Free iTunes Audio – Rhiannon Evans, LaTrobe University-Australia
Greek and Roman Mythology – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania
Hannibal – Free Online Audio– Patrick Hunt, Stanford
Roman Architecture – Free Online Course – Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale
The Ancient Greek Hero — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Gregory Nagy, Harvard
The Ancient Greeks — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Wesleyan
The Philosophy of Tragedy – Free Online Video – Prof. Michael Davis, Sarah Lawrence College
The Roman World – Free iTunes Audio – Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University – Australia
Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic – Free iTunes Audio – Susanna Braund, Stanford University
Communication Courses
Argument Diagramming — Free Web Course — Carnegie Mellon
Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show — Free Online Course — MIT
Business Fundamentals: Effective Communication — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Open University
Communication Skills and Teamwork — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Fullbridge
Communication Skills for Bridging Divides — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Catalyst
Design and Make Infographics — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Michigan State
Effective Business Presentations with Powerpoint — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — PricewaterhouseCoopers
Freedom of Speech and the Press — Free Online Video — William B. Turner, UC Berkeley
How to Speak — Free Online Video — Patrick Winston, MIT
Improving Communication Skills — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Pennsylvania/Wharton
Introduction to Communication Science — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Amsterdam
Introduction to Public Speaking — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Washington
Overcoming Public Speaking Anxiety — Free iTunes Video — Margaret Swisher and Barbara Myslik , UC Davis
Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Harvard University
Rhetoric — Free Online Course — Stanley Fish, Cardozo School of Law
Storytelling — Free Online Course — Pixar/Khan Academy
The Craft of Writing Effectively — Free Online Video — Larry McEnerney, UChicago
Demography Courses
Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World — Free Online Video — Free iTunes Video — Free iTunes Audio — David Coleman, Oxford
Design Courses
Cars: Past, Present & Future — Free Online Course — Michael Shanks, Stanford
Crash Course in Design Thinking — Free Online Course — Stanford
Design Thinking for Leading and Learning — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — MIT/Microsoft
Design Thinking for Innovation — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Virginia
Digital Design — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Everything I Know — Free Online Lectures — Buckminster Fuller
Fashion as Design — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art
Ideas from the History of Graphic Design — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)- Cal Arts
Product Design: The Delft Design Approach — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Delft University of Technology
Visual Design — Web Course — Carnegie Mellon
Economics & Finance Courses
Advanced Political Economy - Free Online Video — Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics — Free Online Course — Pardis Sabeti, Harvard
American Capitalism: A History — YouTube — Accompanying Book — Louis Hyman & Edward Baptist, Cornell
American Economic History (Syllabus) — Free Online Video — Free Audio — Martha Olney, UC Berkeley
American Economic History — Free Online Video — Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst
Austrian Economics: An Introduction — Free Online Audio — Murray N. Rothbard — New York Polytechnic University
Behavioral Finance — Free Online Video — Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney
Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform — Free iTunes Video — Free iTunes Audio — Free Online Video — Course Materials — Douglas W. Rae, Yale
Cost and Economics in Pricing Strategy — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Virginia
Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: An Introduction to Digital Currencies — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Pennsylvania/Wharton
Development Economics - Free Online Video — Esther Duflo, MIT
Development Economics — Free Online Video — Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
Development Economics: Macroeconomics — Free Online Video — Course Info — Robert Townsend, MIT
Economic Democracy: The Cooperative Alternative — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Edinburgh
Economics: Consumer Demand — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Babson
Economics of Money and Banking — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Columbia University
Economic Geography of the Industrial World — Free Online Video — Richard Walker, UC Berkeley.
Economic History of the Soviet Union — Free Online Video — Guinevere Liberty Nell, Marginal Revolution U.
Economics of the Media — Free Online Video — Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
Energy Decisions, Markets and Policies — Free Online Video — Course Info — Richard Schmalensee, MIT
Everyday Economics — Free Online Video — Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
Finance Theory 1 - Free Online Video — Free Online Video & Course Info — Andrew Lo, MIT
Financial Markets — Free Online Course — Robert Shiller, Yale (also Nobel Prize Winner)
Financial Markets — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Robert Shiller, Yale
Financial Markets 2011 — Free Online Video — Free iTunes Audio — Course Materials — Robert Shiller, Yale
Financial Theory — Free Online Course — John Geanakoplos, Yale
Game Theory — Free Online Course — Ben Polak, Yale
Game Theory — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Stanford University
Game Theory and Economics — Free Online Video — Free Video Download — Debarshi Das, IIT Guwahati
Great Big Ideas — Free Online Video — Steven Pinker, Larry Summers, Michio Kaku, etc, Floating University
Great Economists: Classical Economics and its Forerunners — Free Online Video — Tyler Cowan & Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Lund University
Historical Foundations of Political Economy — Free Online Video — Anwar M. Shaikh, New School for Social Research
History of Economic Theory — Free Online Video — Free Video Download — Dr. Shivakumar, IIT Madras
How to Win at Texas Hold ‘Em — Free Online Video — Will Ma, MIT
Intermediate Microeconomic Theory — Free Online Video — Maximilian Auffhammer, UC Berkeley
International Finance — Free Online Video — Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
International Finance — Free Online Video — Free Video Download — Arun K. Misra, IIT Kharagpur
International Political Economy — Free iTunes Audio — James Morrison, Middlebury College
International Trade — Free Online Video — Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
Introduction to Economic Theories — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Erasmus University Rotterdam
Introduction to Economics — Free Online Video — Martha Olney, UC Berkeley
Introduction to Macroeconomics — Free Online Video — Ricardo Cabellero, MIT
Introduction to Managerial Economics — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — IIMB
Lectures on Human Capital - Free Online Video — Gary Becker, U Chicago
Marx’s Kapital: Volumes 1 (2007) — Free Online Course — David Harvey, CUNY
Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 (2019) — Free Online Course — David Harvey, CUNY
Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 — Free Online Course — David Harvey, CUNY
Reading Marx’s Grundrisse - Free Online Course — David Harvey, CUNY
Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason - Free Online Course — David Harvey, CUNY
Marxian Economics — Free Online Video — Stephen Resnick, UMass — Amherst
Mastering Econometrics — Free Online Video — Josh Angrist, MIT
Math for Economists — Free Online Video — Jason Kronewetter, UC Irvine
Math of Finance — Free Online Video — Donald Saari, UC Irvine
Mexico’s Economy: Current Prospects and History — Free Online Video — Robin Grier, U. of Oklahoma
Microeconomics: The Power of Markets — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Pennsylvania
Microeconomics Principles — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Money and Banking — Free Online Video — Thomas Wyrick, Missouri State
Money Skills — Free Online Video — Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
Poker Theory and Analytics — Free Online Course — Kevin Desmond, MIT
Principles of Economics: Microeconomics — Free Online Video — Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason/MRUniversity
Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics — Free Online Video — Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason/MRUniversity
Principles of Macroeconomics (2023) — Free Online Video — Ricardo J. Caballero
Principles of Microeconomics (2023) - Free Online Video & Course Materials — Jonathan Gruber, MIT
Principles of Macroeconomics — Free Online Video — Thomas Wyrick, Missouri State
Psychology and Economics — Free Online Video — Daniel Acland, UC Berkeley
Public Economics — Free Online Video — Raj Chetty, Harvard
Public Economics and Finance — Free Video & Course Info — Free Online Video — Nirupama Rao, NYU
Reading Marx’s Capital: Vol 1 — Free Online Video — David Harvey, City University of New York
Reading Marx’s Capital: Vol 2 - Free Online Video — David Harvey, City University of New York
Sports Economics — Free iTunes Audio — Liam Lenten, La Trobe University
The Age of Sustainable Development — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Columbia University
The Eurozone Crisis — Free Online Video — Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason
The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis - Free Online Video — Ben Bernanke at George Washington University
The Future of Money — Free Online Video — Nigel Dodd, London School of Economics
The Austrian School of Economics: An Introduction — Free Online Audio — Friedrich A. Hayek & colleagues — Recorded at University of Colorado
The Challenge of World Poverty — Free Online Video — Related Materials — Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee, MIT
The Elements of Economic Analysis — Free Online Video — Glen Weyl, U Chicago
The Global Financial Crisis — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Yale University
Understanding Data — Free Online Video — Thomas Stratmann, George Mason
Wealth and Poverty — Free Online Video — Robert Reich, UC Berkeley
World Economic History Before the Industrial Revolution — Free Online Video & Syllabus — Free iTunes Video — Gregory Clark, UC Davis
Bookmark our collection of free online courses in Economics. And find free econ textbooks in our Free Textbook collection.
Education Courses
Foundations of Virtual Instruction — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — UC Irvine
How to Teach Online: The Essentials — Free Online Video — Stanford Online High School
Learning to Teach Online — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — The University of New South Wales
Teaching Your Class Online — Free Online Video — Stanford Online High School
Film Courses
An Introduction to Screenwriting — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of East Anglia
Existentialism in Literature & Film – Free Online Audio — Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
Holocaust in Film and Literature – Free Online Course – Todd Presner, UCLA
Introduction to Film Studies — Free Online Video — Free Video Download — Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, IIT Madras
Philosophy in Film and Other Media – Free Online Video – Related Materials - Irving Singer, MIT
Scandinavian Film and Television — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Copenhagen, Eva Novrup Redvall
The Film Experience — Free Online Course — David Thorburn, MIT
Food Courses
Edible Education 101 (Spring 2014) — Free Online Video — Michael Pollan, UC Berkeley
Edible Education 101 (2015) – Free Online Course – Michael Pollan, UC Berkeley
Edible Education 103 with Michael Pollan - Free Online Video — Michael Pollan, UC Berkeley
Exploring Japanese Avant-garde Art Through Butoh Dance — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Keio University
Nutrition and Wellbeing — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Aberdeen
Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter — Free Online Course — Course Info — Team taught, Harvard
Speak Italian with Your Mouth Full — Free Online Course — Dr. Paola Rebusco, MIT
Story of a Wine: The Importance of Being Prosecco - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Padova
Wine — Free Online Course — Professor Maynard Amerine, UC Davis
Geography Courses
Economic Geography of the Industrial World - Free Online Course — Richard Walker, UC Berkeley
Geography of US Presidential Elections — Free iTunes Video — Free Online Video — Martin Lewis, Stanford
Geography of World Cultures - Free iTunes Audio — Martin Lewis, Stanford University
Global Geopolitics — Free iTunes Audio — Martin Lewis, Stanford University
Introduction to Ozark Studies — Free Online Video — Brooks Blevins, Missouri State
World Regions, Peoples, and States — Free Online Audio — Nathan Sayre, UC Berkeley
Health Courses
Biohacking Your Brain’s Health — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Emory University
Causes of Human Disease: Understanding Causes of Disease — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Leeds
COVID-19, SARS-CoV‑2 and the Pandemic — Free Online Video — Multiple faculty, MIT
Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University College London
Engineering Health: Introduction to Yoga and Physiology — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — NYU
Epidemics — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Hong Kong
Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases — Free Online Video — Professor Tomas Aragon, UC Berkeley
Exploring Play: the Importance of Play in Everyday Life — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — The University of Sheffield
Finding Purpose and Meaning In Life: Living for What Matters Most — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Michigan
Food and Mood: Improving Mental Health Through Diet and Nutrition — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Deakin University
Foundations of Understanding and Combating Cancer — Free Online Video — Harold Varmus, Cornell Medicine/World Science U.
Hacking Exercise For Health. The Surprising New Science of Fitness — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — McMaster University
Healing with the Arts — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Florida
Machine Learning for Healthcare — Free Online Video + Course Materials — David Sontag, Peter Szolovits, MIT
Medical Cannabis: The Health Effects of THC and CBD Specialization — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — UC Boulder
Physics of COVID-19 Transmission — Free Online Video — Video & Course Materials — Prof. Martin Bazant & Dr. Joey Gu, MIT
Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — The University of Sydney
Science Matters: Let’s Talk About COVID-19/Coronavirus — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Imperial College London
Traditional Herbal Medicine in Supportive Cancer Care: From Alternative to Integrative — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Technion Israel Institute of Technology
The Addicted Brain — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Emory University
The Science of Exercise — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — UC Boulder
Vital Signs: Understanding What the Body Is Telling Us — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Pennsylvania
History Courses
African American History: Emancipation to the Present — Free Online Course - Jonathan Holloway, Yale
African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle — Free Online Course — Clay Carson, Stanford
Age of Cathedrals — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Howard Bloch, Yale University
Age of Jefferson — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Virginia
America Through Foreign Eyes — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Rice University
American Economic History (Syllabus) — Free Online Video — Martha Olney, UC Berkeley
American Economic History — Free Online Video — Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst
Ancient Greece: City and Society — Free iTunes Audio — Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia
Ancient Greece: Myth, Art & War — Free iTunes Audio - Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia
Ancient Greek History — Free Online Course — Donald Kagan, Yale
Ancient Israel — Free Online Video + Course Info — Daniel Fleming, NYU
Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations — Free Online Video & Course Info — John Dower, MIT
Australian Aboriginal History — Free iTunes Audio — Richard Broome, La Trobe University
Ben Franklin and the World of the Enlightenment — Free iTunes Audio — Bruce Thompson, Stanford/UC Santa Cruz
Big History — Free Online Video — David Christian, Macquarie University
Chinese Politics — Free Online Video — Rory Truex, Princeton
Church History — Free iTunes Audio — Westminster Theological Seminary
CIA in the Third World — Free Online Video — Thomas O’Brien, University of Houston
Colonial and Revolutionary America — Free iTunes Audio — Jack Rakove, Stanford
Coexistence in Medieval Spain: Jews, Christians, and Muslims — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — UC Boulder
Deciphering Secrets: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Colorado
Economic History of the Soviet Union — Free Online Video — Guinevere Liberty Nell, Marginal Revolution U.
Early Imperial Russia — Free Audio iTunes — Adrian Jones, La Trobe University, Australia
Early Modern England: Politics, Religion & Society under the Tudors and Stuarts — Free Online Video — Course Materials — Keith E. Wrightson, Yale
Emperors of Rome — Free iTunes Audio — Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University, Australia
Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 — Free Online Course — Frank Snowden, Yale
European Civilization, 1648–1945 — Free Online Video — Course Materials — John Merriman, Yale
European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present - Free Online Video - Thomas Laqueur, UC Berkeley
European Cultural History, 1500–1815 - Free Online Audio — George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
European Cultural History, 1660–1870 - Free Online Audio — George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
European Cultural History, 1880–1920 - Free Online Audio — George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
France Since 1871 — Free Online Video — Course Materials — John Merriman, Yale
Hannibal — Free Online Audio — Patrick Hunt, Stanford
Harvey Goldberg Lectures (1975–1983) — Free Online Audio — Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin
Harvey Goldberg Lectures. Marxism and History: The 1970s Bootleg Student Tapes — Free Audio — Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin
Historical Jesus — Free iTunes Audio — Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
History of Information — Free Online Video — Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley
History of Iran to the Safavid Period — Free Audio — Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan - Free Online Audio — John Wallace, UC Berkeley
History of the International System — Free iTunes Audio — James Sheehan, Stanford University
History of MIT — Web — David Mindell and Merritt Roe Smith, MIT
History of New York City: A Social History — Free Online Course - Daniel Walkowitz, NYU
History of the United States Since 1877 — Internet Archive — Dominic Capeci, Missouri State
History of the World to 1500 CE — Free Online Video — Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
History of the World Since 1500 CE — Free Online Video — Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 - Free Online Audio — Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
Introduction to Ancient Egypt and Its Civilization — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Pennsylvania
Introduction to Ancient Greek History — Free Online Course — Donald Kagan, Yale
Introduction to American Studies — Free Online Video — Michael Cohen, UC Berkeley
Ireland in Rebellion (1782–1916) — Free Online Video — More Info — Trinity College Dublin
Latin American History through the Novel — Free Online Video — Lois Zamora, University of Houston
21 Hours of Lectures by Howard Zinn — Spotify — Boston University
Magic in the Middle Ages - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Barcelona
Medieval Europe (500‑1500) - Free Online Video — David E. Thornton, Bilkent University
Medieval British History — Free Online Video — David Thornton, Bilkent University (Turkey)
Modern Civilization: 1750 to Present - Free Online Video — Lynn Hunt, UCLA
Modern Jewish History — Free Online Audio — George Mosse, University of Wisconsin — Madison
Pirates, Smugglers, and the Modern World — Free Online Video — Thomas O’Brien, University of Houston
Russian History: From Lenin to Putin — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — UC Santa Cruz
Science, Magic and Religion - Free Online Video — Courtenay Raia, UCLA
The American Founders and Their World — Free iTunes Audio — Jack Rakove, Gordon Wood, etc. Stanford
The American Revolution — Free Online Video — Joanne B. Freeman, Yale
The Americas: Identity, Culture, and Power — Free Online Video — Cesar Seveso, University of Houston
The Ancient Mediterranean World — Free Online Audio — Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
The Ancient Greeks — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Wesleyan University
The Book of Kells: Exploring an Irish Medieval Masterpiece — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Trinity College Dublin
The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archaeology and History of the Palatine Hill — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Sapienza University of Rome
The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — The Universiteit Leiden
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877 - Free Online Course — David Blight, Yale
The Crusades — Free Online Video — Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
The Early Middle Ages, 284‑1000 — Free Online Video — Paul H. Freedman, Yale
The French Revolution — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Melbourne
The Great War and Modern Philosophy — Free Online Video — Nicolas de Warren, KU Leuven University
The Holocaust — An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Tel Aviv University
The Holocaust — An Introduction (II): The Final Solution — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Tel Aviv University
The Flowering of the Middle Ages — Free Online Video — Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
The Kennedy Half Century — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Larry Sabato, University of Virginia
The Making of Modern Ukraine — Free Online Video — Timothy Snyder, Yale
The Modern World, Part One: Global History from 1760 to 1910 — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Virginia
The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910 — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Virginia
The Normans — Free Online Video — Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848–2000 — Free Online Audio — James Vernon, UC Berkeley
The Roman World — Free iTunes Audio — Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University
The Vietnam War — Free Online Video - Robert Buzzanco, University of Houston
The Vikings — Free Online Video — Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
US History: from Civil War to Present — Free Online Audio — Jennifer Burns, UC Berkeley
20th Century United States History — Free Online Video — Tyrone Tillery, University of Houston
The Western Tradition (Video) — Free Online Video — Eugen Weber, UCLA
War, Globalization, and Terror — Free Online Video — Robert Buzzanco, University of Houston
World Revolutions — Free Online Video — Thomas O’Brien, University of Houston
World Civilization to 1500 — Free Online Video — Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
World Civilization Since 1500 — Free Online Video — Thomas O’Brien, University of Houston
World Economic History Before the Industrial Revolution — Free Online Video & Syllabus — Free iTunes Video — Gregory Clark, UC Davis
Bookmark our collection of free online courses in History.
Writing & Journalism Courses
Note: This section includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). If you want to enroll in a free version of a MOOC, please select the “Full Course, No Certificate” (edX) or “Audit” (Coursera) option. If you opt to take the course for a certificate/credential, you will be charged.
A Beginner’s Guide to Writing in English for University Study — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Reading
An Introduction to Screenwriting — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of East Anglia
Advanced Writing — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — UC Irvine
Business Writing — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — UC-Boulder
Creative Writing: The Craft of Character — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Wesleyan
Creative Writing: The Craft of Plot — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Wesleyan
Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Wesleyan
Creative Writing: The Craft of Style — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Wesleyan
Discovering Science: Science Writing — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Leeds
English for Journalists, Part 1 — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — UC Berkeley
English for Journalists, Part 2 — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — UC Berkeley
Getting Started with Essay Writing — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — UC Irvine
Grammar and Punctuation — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — UC Irvine
Grammar and Punctuation Advanced — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — UC Irvine
How To Make A Poem — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Manchester Metropolitan University
How to Write an Essay — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — UC Berkeley
Journalistic Ethics — Free Online Course — Jim Newton, UCLA
Journalism Under Siege — Free Online Course — Multiple Faculty, Stanford University
Memoir and Personal Essay: Managing Your Relationship with the Reader — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Wesleyan University
Press and Society — Free iTunes Audio — Christopher Scanlon, La Trobe University
Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Harvard University
Script Writing: Write a Pilot Episode for a TV or Web Series — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Michigan State
Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Cal Arts
Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Berklee College of Music
Start Fiction Writing — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Open University
Start Writing Essays — Free Course - Open University
Writing in the Sciences — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Stanford University
Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy — Free Online Videos — BYU, Brandon Sanderson
Writing Stories About Ourselves — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Wesleyan University
Language Lessons
Arabic for Beginners 1 — Free Online Video — Darlarna University
Ancient Greek — Free Online Video — Brandeis/Harvard
Ancient Greek Introduction — Web Site — UT-Austin
Ancient Languages (Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Old English, etc) — Free Web Site — UT-Austin Linguistics Research Center
Chinese for Beginners – Free Online Video/MOOC — Peking University
More Chinese for Beginners – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Peking University
Beginner’s Chinese - Free iTunes Audio — Open University
Chinese Course — Seton Hall
Beginning Chinese — Free iTunes Audio — Seton Hall
Beginning Chinese Reader — Free iTunes Audio — Seton Hall
Intermediate Chinese — Free iTunes Audio — Seton Hall
Intermediate Chinese Reader — Free iTunes Audio — Seton Hall
Advanced Chinese — Free iTunes Audio — Seton Hall
Advanced Chinese Reader — Free iTunes Audio — Seton Hall
Chinese: Start Talking with 1.3 Billion People - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Tsinghua University
Fall in Love With Mandarin — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — National Chiao Tung University
Introduction to Dutch — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Groningen
Basic English 1: Elementary — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — King’s College London.
Basic English 2: Pre-Intermediate — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — King’s College London
Business English: Finance and Economics – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Arizona State
English for Academic Study — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Coventry University
English for Business and Entrepreneurship – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Pennsylvania
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English for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Pennsylvania
English Pronunciation in a Global World — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Write Professional Emails in English — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Georgia Tech
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Foundations of French for Global Communication — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — King’s College London
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Italian Language and Culture: Beginner — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Wellesley College
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Basic Spanish 1: Getting Started – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University Polytechnica Valencia
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Basic Spanish 3: Getting there – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University Polytechnica Valencia
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Japanese Culture Through Rare Books — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Keio University
Latin American History through the Novel — Free Online Video — Lois Zamora, University of Houston
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Old English in Context - Free Online Audio — Stuart Lee, Oxford University
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Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Leiden
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