Duke University Audio & Video

Gain an better understanding and appreciation for the works of T.S. Eliot, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century.

This "course" is freely available. Both the videos and the course materials are in the public domain. You are welcome to reuse or reproduce parts of the lectures, or use them in their entirety, so long as you credit Prof. Michael Munger as the instructor and Shaun King as the producer of the video content.

The course will explore the tone combinations that humans consider consonant or dissonant, the scales we use, and the emotions music elicits, all of which provide a rich set of data for exploring music and auditory aesthetics in a biological framework.

This course examines the relation of advertising to society, culture, history, and the economy. Using contemporary theories about visual communications, we learn to analyze the complex levels of meaning in both print advertisements and television commercials.

Introduction to Genetics and Evolution is a college-level class being offered simultaneously to new students at Duke University. The course gives interested people a very basic overview of some principles behind these very fundamental areas of biology.

Explore the fascinating world of human physiology and learn about the body's organ systems, their functions, and how they maintain health.

Sports play a giant role in contemporary society worldwide. But few of us pause to think about the larger questions of money, politics, race, sex, culture, and commercialization that surround sports everywhere.

Chimpanzees are one of our closest living relatives, yet almost nothing was known about their behavior in the wild until Jane Goodall started her groundbreaking study of the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania in 1960.

You will gain a foundation for college-level writing valuable for nearly any field. Students will learn how to read carefully, write effective arguments, understand the writing process, engage with others' ideas, cite accurately, and craft powerful prose.

So how does the American political system work? Who are some of the key actors? What are key concepts for a student trying to understand what's going on? How can I as a citizen influence politics?