UC Davis Free Online Courses on Audio & Video

Who were the Romantics? In this free course conducted by Timothy Morton, listeners will learn about an innovative literary period between 1790 and 1820 that produced influential writers such as William Blake, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Mary Shelley.

Taught by UC Davis computer science professor Dan Gusfield, tthis undergraduate course introduces fundamental techniques and viewpoints for the design and the analysis of efficient computer algorithms, and to study important specific algorithms.

This course focuses on the institutional structure and economic functions of futures and options markets. Price formation in both commodity (e.g., corn, crude oil, cotton, and cattle) and financial (e.g., Eurodollar, Treasury Bonds, and stock indexes) futures and options markets will be examined in detail.

UC Davis Professor John Owens teaches this introduction to the design and analysis of the architecture of computer graphics systems.

This course details the nature and development of economies from pre-history to the Industrial Revolution.

This is the introductory class for biophotonics with an overview of the UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology.

This is a rigorous undergraduate course taught by UC Davis computer science professor Dan Gusfield on the Theory of Computation.

What is ecology? What is nature? What is ecological literature? In this class Timothy Morton, professor of English and nature and culture, investigates these profound and very urgent questions.

Introduction to human information processing, mental representation and transformation, imagery, attention, memory, language processing, concept formation, problem solving, and computer simulation.

This course covers fundamental algorithms for efficient analysis of biological sequences and for building evolutionary trees.