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Free Online Classes: Social Sciences

Students everywhere are learning that they can expand their education without spending a penny or even leaving their rooms. The answer: free online courses.


Social science majors can enjoy free online classes like MIT's popular "American Soap Operas" or Notre Dame's "Terrorism, Peace, and Other Inconsistencies." There's something for everyone, so check them out.

Course Title School
A Europe of the Regions? (DD200_1) The Open University
A Workshop on Geographic Information Systems MIT
Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design MIT
Advanced Topics in Real Estate Finance MIT
Advanced Writing Seminar MIT
Advances in International Relations Theory MIT
American Foreign Policy: Past, Present, and Future MIT
American Foreign Policy: Theory and Method MIT
American National Security Policy MIT
American Political Thought MIT
American Science: Ethical Conflicts and Political Choices MIT
American Soap Operas MIT
American Urban History I MIT
American Urban History II MIT
Analyzing & Accounting for Regional Economic Change MIT
Analyzing Projects and Organizations MIT
Argumentation and Communication MIT
Beijing Urban Design Studio MIT
Big Plans MIT
Bioethics MIT
Brains and Culture: Love, Lies & Neurotransmitters MIT
Brownfields Policy and Practice MIT
Causes and Prevention of War MIT
Causes of War: Theory and Method MIT
Children's rights (D218_5) The Open University
Chinese Foreign Policy MIT
Cities in Conflict: Theory and Practice MIT
Citizen Participation, Community Development, and Urban Governance in the Developing World MIT
Citizenship and Pluralism MIT
City to City: Comparing, Researching and Writing about Cities MIT
City Visions: Past and Future MIT
CityScope: New Orleans MIT
Civil Society and the Environment MIT
Civil Society, Social Capital, and the State in Comparative Perspective MIT
Civil War MIT
Civil-Military Relations MIT
Claiming connections: a distant world of sweatshops? (DD205_2) The Open University
Climate change: island life in a volatile world (DD205_3) The Open University
Cold War Science MIT
Collective Choice I MIT
Community Growth and Land Use Planning MIT
Community-Owned Enterprise and Civic Participation MIT
Comparative Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine MIT
Comparative Health Policy MIT
Comparative Land Use and Transportation Planning MIT
Comparative Politics and China MIT
Comparative Security and Sustainability MIT
Computer Games and Simulations for Investigation and Education MIT
Congress and the American Political System I MIT
Congress and the American Political System II MIT
COUFAM 626 - Collaborative Consultation and Larger Systems, Fall 2007 U Mass Boston
COUFAM 672 - Substance Abuse and the Family U Mass Boston
Crafting Research Questions and Qualitative Methodology MIT
CRCRTH 692 - Processes of Research and Engagement, Spring 2007 U Mass Boston
CRCRTH 693 - Action Research for Educational, Professional, and Personal Change, Fall 2007 U Mass Boston
CS 4300 - Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2007 Dixie State
CS 470/670 - Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2008 U Mass Boston
Cultural History of Technology MIT
Defense Politics MIT
Democratization in Asia, Africa, and Latin America MIT
Developing countries in the world trade regime (DU321_1) The Open University
Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences (D218_7) The Open University
Disaster, Vulnerability and Resilience MIT
Disease and Society in America MIT
Doctoral Research Seminar: Knowledge in the Public Arena MIT
Documenting Culture MIT
Does prison work? (D315_3) The Open University
Downtown MIT
Downtown Management Organizations MIT
Drugs, Politics, and Culture MIT
Economic Development & Technical Capabilities MIT
Economic Development, Policy Analysis, and Industrialization MIT
Economic Institutions and Growth Policy Analysis MIT
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market (D319_1) The Open University
Economics of Education MIT
Educational Theory and Practice I MIT
Educational Theory and Practice III MIT
Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century MIT
Energy and Environment in American History: 1705-2005 MIT
Engendering citizenship (D218_6) The Open University
Engineering Apollo: The Moon Project as a Complex System MIT
Environment and Society MIT
Environmental Conflict and Social Change MIT
Environmental Justice MIT
Environmental Management Practicum: Brownfield Redevelopment MIT
Environmental Politics and Policy MIT
EPOCH Psychology history timeline (DSE212_2) The Open University
Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier MIT
Ethnic Politics I MIT
Ethnic Politics II MIT
Ethnicity and Race in World Politics MIT
Ethnography MIT
Exploring K-12 Classroom Teaching MIT
FCHD2400 - Marriage & Family Relationships, Spring 2005"> Utah State
FCHD3350 - Family Finance, Spring 2005"> Utah State
FCS1500 - Human Development Across the Lifespan, Fall 2007 Dixie State
Feminist Political Thought MIT
Feminist Theory MIT
Field Seminar in International Political Economy MIT
Field Seminar in International Relations Theory MIT
Financing Economic Development MIT
Finding information in Society (LIB_9) The Open University
Food and Power in the Twentieth Century MIT
Force and Strategy Tufts University
Forms of Political Participation: Old and New MIT
Foshan China Workshop MIT
Foundations of Political Science MIT
Frameworks of Urban Governance MIT
From Print to Digital: Technologies of the Word, 1450-Present MIT
Fundamentals of Public Policy MIT
Game Theory and Political Theory MIT
Gaoming Studio - China MIT
Gateway: Planning Action MIT
Gateway: Planning Economics MIT
Gender and Race, Work, and Public Policy MIT
Getting started with SPSS (DSE212_4) The Open University
Getting Things Implemented: Strategy, People, Performance, and Leadership MIT
Globalization MIT
Globalization, Migration, and International Relations MIT
Godzilla and the Bullet Train: Technology and Culture in Modern Japan MIT
Government and Politics of China MIT
Governors' target setting: primary schools (E500_5) The Open University
Governors' target setting: primary schools (E500_6) The Open University
Great Power Military Intervention MIT
Heritage Futures in a Digital Age UC Berkeley
History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology MIT
History and Theory of Historic Preservation MIT
History of Media and Technology MIT
History of Media and Technology: Sound, the Minority Report -- Radical Music of the Past 100 Years MIT
History of Science MIT
Housing and Human Services MIT
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences (D218_4) The Open University