Great Courses at the Teaching Company

For the last two weeks, I’ve started listening to courses by The Teaching Company and have mostly been pleasantly surprised. Very worth listening to (or watching, if you get them in video format).

Right now, I’m going through “Great Ideas of Psychology,” and I’ve done the following courses so far:

• America’s Religious History
• Books that Have Made History – Books that Can Change Your Life (in part)
• Lost Christianities
• Machiavelli in Context
• Origin of the Modern Mind
• Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations
• Science and Religion
• Theory of Evolution – History of a Controversy

There seems to be plenty of good material at The Teaching Company. Here are some examples (just looking at this list makes me feel like a little boy having stumbled upon a treasure chest):

1. A Brief History of the World

2. A Modern Look at Ancient Greek Civilization

3. Abolitionism, Anti-Slavery and the Origins of the American Civil War

4. Abraham Lincoln – In His Own Words

5. Aeneid of Virgil

6. After the New Testament – The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers

7. African Experience from Lucy to Mandela

8. Age of Henry VIII

9. Age of Pericles

10. Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age

11. American Civil War

12. American Identity

13. American Military Experience

14. American Mind

15. Americas in the Revolutionary Era

16. America’s Religious History

17. Ancient Greek Civilization

18. Ancient Near Eastern Mythology

19. Apocalypse Now, Apocalypse Then – Prophecy, The Creation of the Modern World

20. Apostle Paul

21. Argumentation – The Study of Effective Reasoning

22. Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Poetics, and Logic

23. Augustine – Philosopher and Saint

24. Bach and the High Baroque

25. Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas

26. Between Crescent and Cross – Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza

27. Bible and Western Culture

28. Biological Anthropology – An Evolutionary Perspective

29. Biology and Human Behavior – The Neurological Origins of Individuality

30. Biology – The Science of Life

31. Birth of the Modern Mind

32. Book of Genesis

33. Books that Have Made History – Books that Can Change Your Life

34. Buddhism

35. Business Law

36. Business Statistics

37. Can the Modern World Believe in God?

38. Chamber Music of Mozart

39. Change and Motion – Calculus Made Clear

40. Christmas Traditions in Victorian Britain and America

41. Christian Religions and Religious Fundamentalism

42. Churchill

43. Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights

44. Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome

45. Classical Mythology

46. Classics of American Literature

47. Classics of Russian Literature

48. Comedy Through the Ages

49. Concert Masterworks

50. Concerto

51. Conquest of the Americas

52. Contemporary Economic Issues

53. Detective Fiction

54. Discovering the Middle Ages (Video)

55. Discovery of Ancient Civilizations

56. Doctors – The History of Scientific Medicine Revealed Through Biography

57. Early Christianity – Experience of the Divine

58. Early History of National Soc

59. Early Middle Ages

60. Earth’s Changing Climate

61. Economics

62. Einstein’s 100^th Anniversary – Two Complimentary Lectures

63. Einstein’s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution

64. Elements of Jazz – From Cakewalk to Fusion

65. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement

66. Energy and Climate – Science for Citizens in the Age of Global Warming

67. Era of the Crusades

68. Ethics of Aristotle

69. Europe and the Wars of Religion (1500-1700)

70. Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age

71. European History and European Lives

72. European Thought and Culture in the 19^th Century

73. European Thought and Culture in the 20^th Century

74. Explaining Social Deviance

75. Famous Greeks

76. Famous Romans

77. Finance and Accounting

78. Foundations of Western Civilization

79. Foundations of Western Civilization II

80. Francis of Assisi

81. Freedom – The Philosophy of Liberation

82. From Jesus to Constantine – A History of Early Christianity

83. From Monet to Van Gogh – A History of Impressionism

84. From Yao to Mao – 5000 Years of Chinese History

85. God and Mankind

86. Great American Music – Broadway Musicals

87. Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor

88. Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance

89. Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition

90. Great Figures of the New Testament

91. Great Figures of the Old Testament

92. Great Ideas of Classical Physics

93. Great Ideas of Philosophy

94. Great Ideas of Psychology

95. Great Masters

i. Beethoven

ii. Brahms

iii. Haydn

iv. Liszt

v. Mozart

vi. Shostakovich

vii. Stravinsky

viii. Tchaikovsky

96. Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition

97. Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt

98. Great World Religions

i. Buddhism

ii. Christianity

iii. Hinduism

iv. Islam

v. Judaism

vi. The Religions of India

99. Greece and Rome – An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean

100. Greek and Person Wars

101. Heroes, Heroines, and the Wisdom of Myth

102. History of the Construction of St. Peter’s Basillica

103. History of the English Language

104. History of World Literature

105. How to Listen to and Understand Great Music

106. Ideas in Western Culture – The Medieval and Renaissance World

107. Introduction to the Study of Religion

108. Italian Renaissance

109. Italians Before Italy – Conflict and Competition in the Mediterranean

110. Jesus and the Gospels

111. Jewish Intellectual History

112. Jewish Mysticism

113. Joy of Thinking – The Beauty and Power of Classical Mathematical Ideas

114. Joy of Mathematics

115. Joy of Science

116. Joyce’s Ulysses

117. King Arthur and Chivalry

118. Late Middle Ages

119. Legacies of Great Economists

120. Lewis and Clark – The Explorers

121. Life of the Mind – An Introduction to Psychology

122. Life and Legacy of the Roman Empire

123. Life and Operas of Verdi

124. Life and Work of Mark Twain

125. Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis

126. Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer

127. Life and Writings of John Milton

128. Literary Modernism

129. Lives and Works of English Romantic Poets

130. Lives of Great Christians

131. Long 19^th Century (1789-1914)

132. Lost Christianities

133. Love and Vengeance – A Course on Human Emotion

134. Luther – Gospel, Law and Reformation

135. Machiavelli in Context

136. Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature

137. Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind – Literature’s Most Imaginative Works

138. Masterpieces of the Early 20^th Century Literature

139. Meaning from Data

140. Medieval Europe – Crisis and Renewal

141. Medieval Heroines in History and Legend

142. Mind of the Enlightenment

143. Modern British Drama

144. Modern Economic Issues

145. Mr. Lincoln – The Life of Abraham Lincoln

146. Museum Masterpieces

147. Must History Repeat the Great Conflict of This Century?

148. My Favorite Universe

149. Natural Law and Human Nature

150. Neolithic Europe

151. New Testament

152. Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition

153. No Excuses – Existentialism and the Meaning of Life

154. Odyssey of Homer

155. Old Testament

156. Operas of Mozart

157. Origin of the Modern Mind

158. Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution

159. Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations

160. Origins of Life

161. 1492 – Ferdinand, Isabella, and the Making of an Empire

162. Palestine, Zionism, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

163. Papal Elections

164. Particle Physics for Non-Physicists

165. Peoples and Cultures of the World

166. Philosophy and Human Values

167. Philosophy and the Religion in the West

168. Philosophy as a Guide to Living

169. Philosophy of Mind

170. Philosophy of Science

171. Plato, Socrates and the Dialogues

172. Plato’s Republic

173. Poetry – A Basic Course

174. Popes and the Papacy

175. Power Over People

176. Practical Philosophy – Greco-Roman Moralists

177. Psychology of Human Behavior

178. Quest for Meaning

179. Questions of Value

180. Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World

181. Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Nations

182. Representing Justice – Stories of Law and Literature

183. Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism

184. Robert E. Lee and His High Command

185. Rome and the Barbarians

186. Roots of Human Behavior

187. Science and Religion

188. Science Fiction – The Literature of Technological Imagination

189. Science in the Twentieth Century – A Social-Intellectual History

190. Science Wars – What Scientists Know and How They Know It

191. Search for a Meaningful Past – Philosophies, Theories and Interpretations of Human History

192. Search for Intelligent Life in Space

193. Self Under Siege – Philosophy in the 20^th Century

194. Sensation, Perception, and the Aging Process

195. Shakespeare – Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies

196. Shakespeare – Word and Action

197. Sociology of Sexuality

198. Soul and the City – Art, Literature and Urban Living

199. St. Augustine’s Confessions

200. St. Patrick – The Patron Saint of Ireland

201. Story of Human Language

202. Story of the Bible

203. Superstring Theory – The DNA of Reality (Video)

204. Swift – Gulliver’s Travels

205. Terror of History – Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition

206. The American Dream

207. The Developing Adult

208. The English Novel

209. The Enlightenment – Invention of the Modern Self

210. The Human Body

211. The Olympics from Ancient Greece to Athens 2004

212. The Passions – Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions

213. Theories of Human Development

214. Theory of Evolution – A History of Controversy

215. Thomas Aquinas – The Angelic Doctor

216. Thomas Jefferson – Visionary American

217. Tocqueville and the American Experiment

218. Tools of Thinking

219. Truth or Fiction in The DaVinci Code

220. Twentieth Century American Fiction

221. Understanding Genetics

222. Understanding Literature and Life – Drama, Poetry and Narrative

223. Understanding the Human Body (Video)

224. Understanding the Universe – What’s New in Astronomy

225. Understanding the Universe – Introduction to Astronomy

226. Using Literature to Understand the Human Side of Medicine

227. Utopia and Terror in the Twentieth Century

228. Victorian Britain

229. Vikings

230. Voltaire and the Triumph of Enlightenment

231. World of Byzantium

232. World Philosophy

233. World War I – The “Great War”

234. World War II – A Military and Social History

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