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Harvard College Lectures
The following distance education courses are based on courses at Harvard College, the University’s undergraduate college. The one exception is EDUC E-101 Improving Education Systems in Developing Countries, which is a Harvard Graduate School of Education course.
Spring Term 2009
- ANTH E-100 Anthropology and the Uses of History
- BIOS E-234 Principles of Human Disease: Cellular Metabolism
- CLAS E-116/W Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization and Beyond
- CSCI E-2 Bits
- CSCI E-64 Visualization
- CSCI E-124 Algorithms and Data Structures
- EDUC E-101 Improving Education Systems in Developing Countries
- ENGL E-126 A Silk Road Course: Travel and Transformation on the High Seas—An Imaginary Journey in the Early Seventeenth Century
- ENGL E-175 Southern Literature and Culture in the United States
- GOVT E-1061 The History of Modern Political Philosophy
- GOVT E-2001 Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology
- HARC E-178 Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
- HIST E-1351 Western Economies, Societies, and Polities: From 1648 to the Present
- HIST E-1851 Japan: Tradition and Transformation
- PSYC E-1020 Cognition
- SSCI E-102 World Poverty and Human Rights
Fall Term 2008
- ANTH E-175 Mesoamerican Civilizations
- BIOS E-105 Medical Detectives
- BIOS E-235 Principles of Human Disease: Physiology and Pharmacology
- CSCI E-52 Intensive Introduction to Computer Science Using C, PHP, and JavaScript
- CSCI E-207 Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation
- ENGL E-130 Shakespeare and Modern Culture
- ENGL E-196 American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac
- ENVR E-109 Environmental Politics
- GOVT E-1775 The Modern World Economy, 1873 to 2000
- HIST E-1600 Encounters: Early Modern British Exploration and Settlement in the Atlantic World
- HIST E-1825 China: Traditions and Transformations
- HIST E-1890 World War and Society in the Twentieth Century: World War II
- HIST E-1915 Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World
- PSYC E-1504 Positive Psychology
- RELI E-1076 Religion and Politics in Current "Fundamentalist" Movements