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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

This course is a partnership between the leading content marketing authority, Copyblogger, and UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education.

This course, taught by Owen Carmichael, assistant professor at UC Davis, deals with the techniques for automated extraction of high-level information from images generated by cameras, three-dimensional surface sensors, and medical devices.