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Free Online Classes: History & Anthroplogy

With tuition costs on the rise and a hostile job market, students everywhere are looking for way to get the most out of their education, and one of the best new options is free online courses.


History and Anthropology fans have an assortment of classes to pick from like "How to Stage a Revolution" or "The Making of Modern South Asia."

Course Title School
Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage (A180_2) The Open University
AFAM 20367 - Islamic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Religion, History and Culture Notre Dame
AFAM 30202 - African American History II, Spring 2006 Notre Dame
AFAM 33302 - Faith and the African American Experience Notre Dame
AFAM 35775 - Creole Language and Culture, Spring 2007 Notre Dame
America in Depression and War MIT
America in the Nuclear Age MIT
American Civilization Eastern Utah
American Classics MIT
American Classics MIT
American Consumer Culture MIT
American Dream: Exploring Class in the U.S. MIT
American History to 1865 MIT
American Studies Notre Dame
American Urban History I MIT
American Urban History II MIT
AMST 30125 - Faith and the African American Experience Notre Dame
ANTH 121 - Introduction to Social Anthropology, Fall 2007 Capilano University
ANTH 20040 - Islamic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Religion, History, and Culture, Fall 2005 Notre Dame
ANTH 241 - Archaeology Field School, Summer 2008 Capilano University
ANTH 30012 - Creole Language and Culture, Spring 2007 Notre Dame
ANTH 35110 - Primate Behavior, Spring 2008 Notre Dame
ANTH1010 - Cultural Anthropology, Fall 2004 Utah State
ANTH3160 - Anthropology of Religion, Fall 2005 Utah State
Anthropological Theory MIT
Anthropology of Religion Utah State
Anthropology of the Middle East MIT
Anthropology of War and Peace MIT
Approaching plays (A210_1) The Open University
Approaching poetry (A210_3) The Open University
Approaching prose fiction (A210_2) The Open University
ARCH 50611 - Nature and the Built Environment, Spring 2007 Notre Dame
ASIA 20004 - Islamic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Religion, History, and Culture, Fall 2005 Notre Dame
Babylonian mathematics (MA290_2) The Open University
Brighton Pavilion (A207_7) The Open University
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (AA100_1) The Open University
Commemoration: visual texts (A103_3) The Open University
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective (AA302_1) The Open University
Cultural Anthropology Utah State
Culture, Embodiment and the Senses MIT
David Hume (A207_3) The Open University
Delacroix (A207_6) The Open University
Dilemmas in Bio-Medical Ethics: Playing God or Doing Good? MIT
Documenting Culture MIT
Downtown MIT
Drugs, Politics, and Culture MIT
Drugs, Politics, and Culture MIT
Dundee, jute and empire (A200_2) The Open University
East Asia in the World MIT
Egyptian mathematics (MA290_1) The Open University
Emotion: an introductory picture (AA308_2) The Open University
Environmental Struggles MIT
Ethnic and National Identity MIT
Europe's awakening (AS208_1) The Open University
European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present UC Berkeley
European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries MIT
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga (AA309_2) The Open University
Finding information in Arts and History (LIB_1) The Open University
Form and uses of language (A103_5) The Open University
France 1660-1815: Enlightenment, Revolution, Napoleon MIT
France Since 1871 Yale
French Revolution (A207_5) The Open University
From Print to Digital: Technologies of the Word, 1450-Present MIT
From the Silk Road to the Great Game: China, Russia, and Central Eurasia MIT
Gender and the Law in U.S. History MIT
Gender, Power, and International Development MIT
Gender, Sexuality, and Society MIT
GEOG 1000 - Physical Geography, Spring 2009 Eastern Utah
GEOG 208 - Canada: A Nation of Regions Capilano University
Getting started on Classical Greek (A296_1) The Open University
Getting started on Classical Latin (A297_1) The Open University
Goya (A207_4) The Open University
GSC 20425 - Islamic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Religion, History, and Culture, Fall 2005 Notre Dame
Guide to Writing in History Utah State
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century (A218_3) The Open University
Helen Langdon's "Caravaggio" (A840_1) The Open University
Heritage case studies: Scotland (A180_1) The Open University
HIST 201 - Monarchs, People, and History, Summer 2008 U Mass Boston
HIST 304 - The Dark Ages, Summer 2008 U Mass Boston
HIST 30626 - Medicine and Public Health in American History, Fall 2007 Notre Dame
HIST 30649 - Faith and the African American Experience Notre Dame
HIST 30800 - African American History II Notre Dame
HIST 313 - Nineteenth Century Europe U Mass Boston
HIST 339 - Modern Irish History from 1800 to present, Spring 2008 U Mass Boston
HIST 40630 - Crime, Heredity and Insanity in American History, Fall 2007 Notre Dame
HIST1700 - American Civilization, Summer 2009 Eastern Utah
HIST3850 - History of Utah, Fall 2003 Utah State
History and Civilization Utah State
History as commemoration (A103_6) The Open University
History of Jazz: New Orleans Open University of Washington
History of Utah Utah State
History of Western Thought, 500-1300 MIT
How to Stage a Revolution MIT
Identity and Difference MIT
IIPS 20714 - Islamic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Religion, History, and Culture, Fall 2005 Notre Dame
IIPS 30101 - Introduction to Peace Studies, Spring 2007 Notre Dame
IIPS 30401 - Terrorism, Peace, and Other Inconsistencies, Fall 2006 Notre Dame
ILS 20801 - Latino Theology and Christian Tradition, Spring 2007 Notre Dame
ILS 30102 - Creole Language and Culture, Spring 2007 Notre Dame
ILS 30804-01 - Border Issues Seminar, Winter 2009 Notre Dame
Imagination: the missing mystery of philosophy (AA308_4) The Open University
Imperial and Revolutionary Russia: Culture and Politics MIT
Introducing consciousness (AA308_5) The Open University
Introducing philosophy (A211_1) The Open University
Introducing the Classical world (A219_1) The Open University
Introduction to Anthropology MIT
Introduction to Asian American Studies: Literature, Culture, and Historical Experience MIT
Introduction to Environmental History MIT
Introduction to Latin American Studies MIT
Islam, the Middle East, and the West MIT
Japan in the Age of the Samurai: History and Film MIT
Jewish History from Biblical to Modern Times MIT
John Napier (MA290_3) The Open University
Language and thought: introducing representation (AA308_3) The Open University
Late nineteenth-century Britain and America: the people and the empire (AA303_1) The Open University
Law and Society MIT
Law and Society in US History MIT
Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Sunset Song (A300_2) The Open University
LLEA 20605 - Islamic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Religion, History, and Culture, Fall 2005 Notre Dame
Magic, Witchcraft, and the Spirit World MIT
Making sense of the arts – taster materials (Y160_1) The Open University
Marketing, Microchips and McDonalds: Debating Globalization MIT
Medical Anthropology MIT
Medicine transformed: on access to health care (A218_1) The Open University
Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora MIT
Medieval Economic History in Comparative Perspective MIT
MELC 20040 - Islamic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Religion, History, and Culture, Fall 2005 Notre Dame
MELC 20080 - Women in Islamic Societies, Spring 2005 Notre Dame
MI 40410 - Jews and Christians throughout History, Fall 2006 Notre Dame
Modern Latin America, 1808-Present: Revolution, Dictatorship, Democracy MIT
Monarchs, People, and History U Mass Boston
Musee du Louvre (A216_1) The Open University
Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism MIT
Napoleonic paintings (A207_11) The Open University
Nature, Environment, and Empire MIT
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust MIT
Nineteenth Century Europe U Mass Boston
People and Other Animals MIT
Philosophy: the nature of persons (A850_1) The Open University
Photography and Truth MIT
Picturing the family (A173_1) The Open University
Power: Interpersonal, Organizational and Global Dimensions MIT
Race and Gender in Asian America MIT
Race and Science MIT
Readings in American History Since 1877 MIT
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective (AA302_2) The Open University
Religion today: themes and issues (AD317_1) The Open University
Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History MIT
Robert Owen and New Lanark (A207_12) The Open University
Schubert's Lieder: settings of Goethe's poems (A207_2) The Open University
Science in the Scottish Enlightenment (AS208_2) The Open University
Seminar in Ethnography and Fieldwork MIT
Seminar in Historical Methods MIT
Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl: Chinese East Asia MIT
Social Theory and Analysis MIT
Soviet Politics and Society, 1917-1991 MIT
Start writing fiction (A174_1) The Open University
Studying the arts and humanities (A103_1) The Open University
Technology and Culture MIT
Textiles in Ghana (A216_2) The Open University
The Age of Reason: Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries MIT
The American Civil War Open University of Washington
The American Revolution Open University of Washington
The American Revolution MIT
The Ancient City MIT
The Ancient Mediterranean World UC Berkeley
The Ancient World: Greece MIT
The Ancient World: Rome MIT
The Anthropology of Computing MIT
The Anthropology of Sound MIT
The Civil War and Reconstruction MIT
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 Yale
The Conquest of America MIT
The Contemporary American Family MIT
The Dark Ages U Mass Boston
The Economic History of Work and Family MIT
The Emergence of Europe: 500-1300 MIT
The Emergence of Modern America 1865-Present MIT
The Enlightenment (A207_1) The Open University
The history of medicine: a Scottish perspective (A218_2) The Open University
The Holocaust (AA312_1) The Open University
The Making of a Roman Emperor MIT
The Making of Modern South Asia MIT
The Making of Russia in the Worlds of Byzantium, Mongolia, and Europe MIT
The Middle East in 20th Century MIT
The origins of the wars of the three kingdoms (A200_3) The Open University
The Places of Migration in United States History MIT
The poetry of Sorley MacLean (A319_1) The Open University
The Renaissance, 1300-1600 MIT
The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor (AA309_3) The Open University
The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich UC Berkeley
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms (AA309_1) The Open University
The Royal Family MIT
The World Since 1492 MIT
The World Since 1492 MIT
Theories and Methods in the Study of History MIT
Trials in History MIT
Two concepts of freedom (A211_2) The Open University
U.S. Institutions Utah State
US History: From Civil War to Present UC Berkeley
USU1300 - U.S. Institutions, Fall 2007 Utah State
USU1320 - History and Civilization, Fall, 2007 Utah State
Violence, Human Rights, and Justice MIT
Visualizing Cultures MIT
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground (AA314_1) The Open University
Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground (AA314_2) The Open University
Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background (AA314_3) The Open University
War & American Society MIT
War memorials and commemoration (A103_2) The Open University
Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1) The Open University
What is poetry? (A175_1) The Open University
Wilberforce (A207_9) The Open University
Women in South Asia from 1800 to Present MIT
Word and image (E301_1) The Open University
World War II Open University of Washington
Writing what you know (A215_1) The Open University