What are Open Yale Courses?

Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

• Registration is not required
• No course credit, degree, or certificate is available through the Open Yale Courses website.

The online courses are designed for a wide range of people around the world, among them self-directed and life-long learners, educators, and high school and college students. The integrated, highly flexible web interface allows users, in effect, to audit Yale undergraduate courses if they wish to. It also gives the user a wide variety of other options for structuring the learning process, for example downloading, redistributing, and remixing course materials.

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Each course includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, and problem sets. The lectures are available as downloadable videos, and an audio-only version is also offered. In addition, searchable transcripts of each lecture are provided.

Who Leads Open Yale Courses?

Diana E. E. Kleiner, Dunham Professor of History of Art and Classics and former Deputy Provost, is Founding Project Director and Principal Investigator of Open Yale Courses. Professor Kleiner brings to the project a wealth of experience in the development of Internet educational offerings as well as her long-time experience as Yale professor, scholar, and administrator. 

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Who is Participating in Open Yale Courses?

Leading Yale scholars and scientists who teach outstanding courses at the introductory undergraduate level are participating in Open Yale Courses. The project website provides brief biographical information and links to their departmental affiliation.

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Who is Supporting Open Yale Courses?

Open Yale Courses is supported by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, CA. Through its Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative, launched in 2001, the Hewlett Foundation “seeks to use information technology to help equalize access to knowledge and educational opportunities across the world.” The initiative supports “the development and dissemination of high quality content, innovative approaches to remove barriers to the creation, use, re-use and sharing of high quality content, and projects that seek to improve understanding of the demand for openly available content.”

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Can I earn course credit for Open Yale Courses?  

Although no course credit can be earned for courses viewed on the Open Yale Courses website, two of the courses made available through the project can be taken for Yale College credit through the Yale Summer Online. 

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Both professors are teaching their courses to admitted students this summer in an online format. Both courses feature extensive interaction with faculty and fellow students. 

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What License is Used for Open Yale Courses?

The license that covers most of the lectures and other course material on Open Yale Courses is Creative Commons’ Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. This license permits the free use or re-purposing of the Open Yale Courses material by others. Under this license you are allowed to download and redistribute the Open Yale Courses material or remix, tweak, and build upon this material to produce new lectures or other types of creations. To be allowed to do so, however, your use of the material must be non-commercial and you must credit Yale [and the appropriate Yale faculty member] as the originators of the material. Additionally, you must license any new use of the Open Yale Courses material under identical terms. 

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Courses

Each course includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, exams, and problem sets. The lectures are available as downloadable videos, and an audio-only version is also offered. In addition, searchable transcripts of each lecture are provided.

Department	Course number	Course title	Professor name	Date
African American Studies	AFAM 162	African American History: From Emancipation to the Present (2010)	Jonathan Holloway	Spring 2010
American Studies	AMST 246	Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner	Wai Chee Dimock	Fall 2011
Astronomy	ASTR 160	Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics	Charles Bailyn	Spring 2007
Biomedical Engineering	BENG 100	Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering	W. Mark Saltzman	Spring 2008
Chemistry	CHEM 125a	Freshman Organic Chemistry I	J. Michael McBride	Fall 2008
Chemistry	CHEM 125b	Freshman Organic Chemistry II	J. Michael McBride	Spring 2011
Classics	CLCV 205	Introduction to Ancient Greek History	Donald Kagan	Fall 2007
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	EEB 122	Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior	Stephen C. Stearns	Spring 2009
Economics	ECON 252	Financial Markets (2008)	Robert J. Shiller	Spring 2008
Economics	ECON 252	Financial Markets (2011)	Robert J. Shiller	Spring 2011
Economics	ECON 251	Financial Theory	John Geanakoplos	Fall 2009
Economics	ECON 159	Game Theory	Ben Polak	Fall 2007
English	ENGL 300	Introduction to Theory of Literature	Paul H. Fry	Spring 2009
English	ENGL 220	Milton	John Rogers	Fall 2007
English	ENGL 310	Modern Poetry	Langdon Hammer	Spring 2007
English	ENGL 291	The American Novel Since 1945	Amy Hungerford	Spring 2008
Environmental Studies	EVST 255	Environmental Politics and Law	John Wargo	Spring 2010
Geology and Geophysics	GG 140	The Atmosphere, the Ocean, and Environmental Change	Ronald B. Smith	Fall 2011
History	HIST 116	The American Revolution	Joanne Freeman	Spring 2010
History	HIST 119	The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877	David W. Blight	Spring 2008
History	HIST 210	The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000	Paul Freedman	Fall 2011
History	HIST 202	European Civilization, 1648-1945	John Merriman	Fall 2008
History	HIST 234	Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600	Frank Snowden	Spring 2010
History	HIST 251	Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts	Keith E. Wrightson	Fall 2009
History	HIST 276	France Since 1871	John Merriman	Fall 2007
History of Art	HSAR 252	Roman Architecture	Diana E. E. Kleiner	Spring 2009
Italian Language and Literature	ITAL 310	Dante in Translation	Giuseppe Mazzotta	Fall 2008
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology	MCDB 150	Global Problems of Population Growth	Robert Wyman	Spring 2009
Philosophy	PHIL 181	Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature	Tamar Gendler	Spring 2011
Philosophy	PHIL 176	Death	Shelly Kagan	Spring 2007
Physics	PHYS 200	Fundamentals of Physics I	Ramamurti Shankar	Fall 2006
Physics	PHYS 201	Fundamentals of Physics II	Ramamurti Shankar	Spring 2010
Political Science	PLSC 270	Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform	Douglas W. Rae	Fall 2009
Political Science	PLSC 114	Introduction to Political Philosophy	Steven B. Smith	Fall 2006
Psychology	PSYC 110	Introduction to Psychology	Paul Bloom	Spring 2007
Psychology	PSYC 123	The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food	Kelly D. Brownell	Fall 2008
Religious Studies	RLST 152	Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature	Dale B. Martin	Spring 2009
Religious Studies	RLST 145	Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible)	Christine Hayes	Fall 2006
Sociology	SOCY 151	Foundations of Modern Social Theory	Iván Szelényi	Fall 2009
Spanish and Portuguese	SPAN 300	Cervantes’ Don Quixote	Roberto González Echevarría	Fall 2009

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