大學之理念 (The Idea of a University)
本課程旨在探討現代大學之起源、發展及其當前問題，分析當前大學社群之內部問題，以及大學社群與非學術社群...
University/Institute: National Taiwan University
Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan
In their ambition to capture “real life,” Japanese painters, poets, novelists and photographers of t...
University/Institute: The University of Tokyo
Wonders of Ancient Egypt
Colossal pyramids, imposing temples, golden treasures, enigmatic hieroglyphs, powerful pharaohs, str...
University/Institute: University of Pennsylvania
Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity
In this course we will seek to “understand Einstein,” especially focusing on the special theory of r...
University/Institute: Stanford University
Toledo: Deciphering Secrets of Medieval Spain
This course evaluates the medieval history of Toledo from the era of the Visigoth Kingdom (6th-8th c...
University/Institute: University of Colorado System
The Talmud: A Methodological Introduction
The Talmud is one of the richest and most complicated works of literature the world has ever known....
University/Institute: Northwestern University
The Politics of Skepticism
This is a course about the history of Skepticism from the ancient Greeks to today, with special atte...
University/Institute: Erasmus University Rotterdam
The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2)
This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in Europea...
University/Institute: Wesleyan University
The Kennedy Half Century
When John F. Kennedy entered the presidential limousine at Love Field in Dallas, Texas on November 2...
University/Institute: University of Virginia
The Holocaust - An Introduction (II): The Final Solution
The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its inn...
University/Institute: Tel Aviv University & Yad Vashem
The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World
The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its inn...
University/Institute: Tel Aviv University & Yad Vashem
The Epistemic Quest for Truth: Introduction to epistemology
The introduction of the internet and of social media has drastically changed our information positio...
University/Institute: Erasmus University Rotterdam
The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part II
This course will discuss the developments in the Middle East from the early 20th century to the pres...
University/Institute: Tel Aviv University
The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World
Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of...
University/Institute: Universiteit Leiden
The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archaeology and History of the Palatine Hill
Studying ancient - as well as medieval or modern - cities basically means telling local urban storie...
University/Institute: Sapienza University of Rome
The Bible's Prehistory, Purpose, and Political Future
With its walls razed to ground by Babylon’s armies, Jerusalem joined a long line of ancient vanquish...
University/Institute: Emory University
The Ancient Greeks
This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. A...
University/Institute: Wesleyan University
Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity
It is often claimed that relativism, subjectivism and nihilism are typically modern philosophical pr...
University/Institute: University of Copenhagen
Sustainable Development - Ideas and Imaginaries
Ideas and imaginaries inspire human capacity for great endeavours, but ‘conventional wisdom’ frequen...
University/Institute: University of Copenhagen
Russian History: from Lenin to Putin
In this course, Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, explains the events of modern Russ...
University/Institute: University of California, Santa Cruz