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450 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more. Our site also features collections of Online Certificate Programs and Online Degree & Mini-Degree Programs. Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). If you want to enroll in a free version of a MOOC, please select the “Full Course, No Certificate” (edX) or “Audit” (Coursera) option.

Humanities & Social Sciences Art & Art History Courses Classics Courses Communication Courses Economics & Finance Courses Bookmark our collection of free online courses in Economics. Education Courses Food Courses Geography Courses Health Courses. 1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology. Open Yale Courses. France Since 1871. Syllabus Professor John Merriman, Charles Seymour Professor of History Description This course covers the emergence of modern France.

France Since 1871

Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France; the impact of France's revolutionary heritage, of industrialization, and of the dislocation wrought by two world wars; and the political response of the Left and the Right to changing French society. Texts Barbusse, Henri. Bloch, Marc. Carles, Emilie. Farmer, Sarah. Sowerwine, Charles. Zola, Emile. Requirements In addition to the lectures, there will be a weekly discussion section, time to be arranged. Grading Grades will be determined by equally weighing the midterm, final and paper grades.

Join a Study Group. Financial Markets (2011) Professor Robert J.

Financial Markets (2011)

Shiller, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics Description An overview of the ideas, methods, and institutions that permit human society to manage risks and foster enterprise. Texts Main texts Fabozzi, Frank J., Franco Modigliani, Frank J. Shiller, Robert J. Course Packet. Free Online Course Materials. 6.00SC Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Spring 2011.

14.01SC Principles of Microeconomics, Fall 2011. 18.01SC Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2010. 18.02SC Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2010. Coursera. Coursera.org. About the Course Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind", game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents.

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Beyond what we call 'games' in common language, such as chess, poker, soccer, etc., it includes the modeling of conflict among nations, political campaigns, competition among firms, and trading behavior in markets such as the NYSE. How could you begin to model eBay, Google keyword auctions, and peer to peer file-sharing networks, without accounting for the incentives of the people using them? The course will provide the basics: representing games and strategies, the extensive form (which computer scientists call game trees), Bayesian games (modeling things like auctions), repeated and stochastic games, and more.

We'll include a variety of examples including classic games and real-world applications. Course Syllabus Week 1. Week 2. Week 3. Week 4. Week 5. Week 6. Week 7. Recommended Background. Introduction to Finance. Health Policy and the Affordable Care Act.