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<title>Introduction to the Old Testament</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/3238/Introduction-to-the-Old-Testament</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Introduction to the Old Testament Online Course Video Lectures by Yale.]]></description>
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<title>Listening to Music</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/3239/Listening-to-Music</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Listening to Music Online Course Video Lectures by Yale.]]></description>
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<title>The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/3235/The-Early-Middle-Ages-284-1000</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 Online Course Video Lectures by Yale.]]></description>
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<title>Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/3233/Hemingway-Fitzgerald-Faulkner</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner Online Course Video Lectures by Yale.]]></description>
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<title>Freshman Organic Chemistry I</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/3231/Freshman-Organic-Chemistry-I</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Contents:<br />
Mechanism: How Energies and Kinetic Order Influence Reaction Rates - Peculiar Rate Laws, Bond Dissociation Energies, and Relative Reactivities - Rate and Selectivity in Radical-Chain Reactions - Electronegativity, Bond Strength, Electrostatics, and Non-Bonded Interactions - Solvatio...]]></description>
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<title>Modern Poetry</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/3229/Modern-Poetry</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Modern Poetry Online Course Video Lectures by Yale.]]></description>
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<title>Atmosphere, Ocean and Environmental Change</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/3226/Atmosphere-Ocean-and-Environmental-Change</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Contents:<br />
Introduction to Atmospheres - Retaining an Atmosphere - The Perfect Gas Law - Vertical Structure of the atmosphere; Residence Time - Earth Systems Analysis (Tank Experiment) - Greenhouse Effect, Habitability - Hydrostatic Balance - Horizontal Transport - Water in the Atmosphere - Cl...]]></description>
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<title>Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/3225/Philosophy-and-the-Science-of-Human-Nature</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Contents:<br />
Introduction - The Ring of Gyges: Morality and Hypocrisy - Parts of the Soul I - Parts of the Soul II - The Well-Ordered Soul: Happiness and Harmony - The Disordered Soul: Thémis and PTSD - Flourishing and Attachment - Flourishing and Detachment - Virtue and Habit I - Virtue and Hab...]]></description>
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<title>American History: From Emancipation to the Present</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/3220/American-History-From-Emancipation-to-the-Present</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Contents:<br />
Dawn of Freedom - Dawn of Freedom (continued) - Reconstruction - Reconstruction (continued) - Uplift, Accommodation, and Assimilation - Uplift, Accommodation, and Assimilation (continued) - Migration and Urbanization - Migration and Urbanization (continued) - The New Negroes - The N...]]></description>
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<title>Financial Theory</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2875/Financial-Theory</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This course attempts to explain the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy. Rather than separating off the financial world from the rest of the economy, financial equilibrium is studied as an extension of economic equilibrium. The course also gives a picture of the kin...]]></description>
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<title>Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2869/Capitalism-Success-Crisis-and-Reform</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this course, we will seek to interpret capitalism using ideas from biological evolution: Firms pursuing varied strategies and facing extinction when those strategies fail are analogous to organisms struggling for survival in nature. For this reason, it is less concerned with ultimate judgment of ...]]></description>
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<title>Cervantes\' Don Quixote</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2870/Cervantes\'-Don-Quixote</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The course facilitates a close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque Spain. Students are also expected to read four of Cervantes' Exemplary Stories, Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Casebook, and J.H. Elliott's Imperial Spain. Cervantes' work will be discu...]]></description>
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<title>Early Modern England</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2871/Early-Modern-England</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This course is intended to provide an up-to-date introduction to the development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. Particular issues addressed in the lectures will include: the changing social structure; households; local communities; gender roles; eco...]]></description>
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<title>Environmental Politics and Law</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2872/Environmental-Politics-and-Law</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Can law change human behavior to be less environmentally damaging? Law will be examined through case histories including: environmental effects of national security, pesticides, air pollution, consumer products, plastics, parks and protected area management, land use, urban growth and sprawl, public...]]></description>
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<title>Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2873/Epidemics-in-Western-Society-Since-1600</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This course consists of an international analysis of the impact of epidemic diseases on western society and culture from the bubonic plague to HIV/AIDS and the recent experience of SARS and swine flu. Leading themes include: infectious disease and its impact on society; the development of public hea...]]></description>
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<title>Foundations of Modern Social Theory</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2874/Foundations-of-Modern-Social-Theory</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This course provides an overview of major works of social thought from the beginning of the modern era through the 1920s. Attention is paid to social and intellectual contexts, conceptual frameworks and methods, and contributions to contemporary social analysis. Writers include Hobbes, Locke, Rousse...]]></description>
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<title>Fundamentals of Physics III</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2876/Fundamentals-of-Physics-III</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of 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....]]></description>
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<title>The American Revolution I</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2877/The-American-Revolution-I</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The American Revolution entailed some remarkable transformations--converting British colonists into American revolutionaries, and a cluster of colonies into a confederation of states with a common cause -- but it was far more complex and enduring then the fighting of a war. As John Adams put it, "Th...]]></description>
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<title>The Moral Foundations of Politics</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2878/The-Moral-Foundations-of-Politics</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This course explores main answers to the question "when do governments deserve our allegiance?" It starts with a survey of major political theories of the Enlightenment—Utilitarianism, Marxism, and the social contract tradition—through classical formulations, historical context, and contemporary deb...]]></description>
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<title>Financial Markets</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2389/Financial-Markets</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Finance and Insurance, Technology and Invention, Portfolio Diversification, Efficient Markets vs. Excess Volatility, Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation and Regulation, Stocks, Real Estate Finance, Stock Index, Oil and Other Futures Markets....]]></description>
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<title>New Testament History and Literature</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2716/New-Testament-History-and-Literature</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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 a...]]></description>
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<title>Introduction to Political Philosophy</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2129/Introduction-to-Political-Philosophy</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(PLSC 114) 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, ...]]></description>
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<title>The American Novel Since 1945</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2460/The-American-Novel-Since-1945</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(ENGL 291) In The American Novel Since 1945 students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present. The course traces the formal and thematic developments of the novel in this period, focusing on the relationship between writers and readers, the conditions of publishing, innovations in t...]]></description>
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<title>Death</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2470/Death</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(PHIL 176) There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered. Are we, in some sense, immort...]]></description>
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<title>Freshman Organic Chemistry</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2384/Freshman-Organic-Chemistry</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is the first semester in a two-semester introductory course focused on current theories of structure and mechanism in organic chemistry, their historical development, and their basis in experimental observation. The course is open to freshmen with excellent preparation in chemistry and physics,...]]></description>
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<title>Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2385/Principles-of-Evolution-Ecology-and-Behavior</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
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<title>Game Theory</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2386/Game-Theory</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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 exa...]]></description>
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<title>Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2387/Frontiers-of-Biomedical-Engineering</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Biomedical Engineering, Genetic Engineering, Cell Culture Engineering, Bio-molecular Engineering, Cardiovascular Physiology, Renal Physiology, Biomechanics and Orthopedics, Bioimaging, Tissue Engineering....]]></description>
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<title>Introduction to Psychology</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2388/Introduction-to-Psychology</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language? Why can’t we tickle ourselves? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and b...]]></description>
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<title>Introduction to Ancient Greek History</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2458/Introduction-to-Ancient-Greek-History</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Introduction to Ancient Greek History Online Course Video Lectures by Yale.]]></description>
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<title>Milton</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2459/Milton</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(ENGL 220) 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....]]></description>
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<title>Introduction to Theory of Literature</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2461/Introduction-to-Theory-of-Literature</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(ENGL 300) 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...]]></description>
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<title>European Civilization, 1648-1945</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2464/European-Civilization-1648-1945</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This course offers a broad survey of modern European history, from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the aftermath of World War II. Along with the consideration of major events and figures such as the French Revolution and Napoleon, attention will be paid to the experience of ordinary people in ti...]]></description>
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<title>France Since 1871</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2465/France-Since-1871</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(HIST 276) This course covers the emergence of modern France. Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France; the impact of France's revolutionary heritage, of industrialization, and of the dislocation wrought by two world wars; and the political response of the Left and...]]></description>
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<title>Roman Architecture</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2466/Roman-Architecture</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(HSAR 252) This course is an introduction to the great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire, with an emphasis on urban planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting. While architectural developments in Rome, Pompeii, and Central Italy are highli...]]></description>
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<title>Dante in Translation</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2467/Dante-in-Translation</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(ITAL 310) The course is an introduction to Dante and his cultural milieu through a critical reading of The Divine Comedy and selected minor works (Vita nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, Epistle to Cangrande). An analysis of Dante's autobiography, the Vita nuova, establishes the poetic and pol...]]></description>
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<title>Global Problems of Population Growth</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2468/Global-Problems-of-Population-Growth</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(MCDB 150) 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 cau...]]></description>
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<title>Fundamentals of Physics II</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2253/Fundamentals-of-Physics-II</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Course Introduction and Newtonian Mechanics, Vectors in Multiple Dimensions, Newton's Laws of Motion, Work-Energy Theorem and Law of Conservation of Energy, Kepler's Laws, Law of Conservation of Momentum, Rotations, Torque, Introduction to Relativity, Lorentz Transformation, Four-Vector in Relativit...]]></description>
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<title>Introduction to Astrophysics</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2254/Introduction-to-Astrophysics</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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 ex...]]></description>
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<title>The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877</title>
<link>http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2463/The-Civil-War-and-Reconstruction-Era-1845-1877</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(HIST 119) This course explores the causes,  course,  and consequences of the American Civil War,  from the 1840s to 1877. The primary goal of the course is to understand the multiple meanings of a transforming event in American history. Those meanings may be defined in many ways: national,  section...]]></description>
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