WORK/STUDY Program Lectures

LECTURE TITLE (Professor/Lecturer) Number of tapes/lessons Audio Video
The Joy of Science (Hazen) - an integrated jargon-free view of 300 years of scientific discovery 15/60 V
Business Statistics (Geis) - probabilities, distributions, confidence, hypothesis & testing 6/16 V
Finance and Accounting  for the Non-financial Manager (Schwartz) 6/16 V
The Great Ideas of Philosophy (Robinson) - Kant, Bacon, Newton, Locke, Descartes: Foundations. Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romanticism, Scientism 15/50 V
World Philosophy (Higgins) - "Culturalism, Universalism and the Future of Philosophy" 6/24 V
The Quest for Meaning: Values, Ethics and the Modern Experience (Kane) 6/24 V
European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century (Kramer) 6/24 V
Augustine: Philosopher and Saint (Cary) - the man, Christian Platonist & rhetorician 3/12 V
Europe and Western Civilization the Modern Age (Childers) - revolutions and world wars 12/48 V
The History of the English Language (Lerer) - why we speak and spell the way we do 12/36 V
A History of Freedom (Fears) - the meaning of freedom from ancient Greece to today 9/36 V
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (Greenberg) -A trip through music history: ancient, early baroque, high baroque, the classical eras, romanticism, modernism 18/48 V
How to Listen to and Understand Opera (Greenberg) - concepts explained in layman's terms 12/32 V
Elements of Jazz (Messenger) - From Cakewalks to Fusion 3/8 V
Iliad of Homer (VanDiver) - the wrath of Achilles and the battles of the Trojan wars 3/12 V
Odyssey of Homer (VanDiver) - Odysseus' great adventure coming home from the wars 3/12 V
No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life (Solomon) - Camus through Sartre 6/24 V
Algebra One (Neagoy) - the basics: numbers, linear & quadratic functions, graphs, equations 6/30 V
Algebra Two (Siegal) - more functions & equation illustrated by real-world situations 6/30 V
Geometry (Noggle) - the mysteries of lines, planes, angles, solids and reasoned proofs 6/30 V
Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear (Starbird) - the concepts of calculus in plain English 6/24 V
Great World Religions: Beliefs, Practices & Histories (Henricks/Eck/Green/Oden/Swanson) 25/50 A
Great Ideas of Psychology (Robinson) - The three traditions: empiricism, rationalism, materialism 24/48 A
Energy and Climate: Science for Citizens in the Age of Global Warming (Wolfson) 5/10 A
God & Mankind: Comparative Religion (Oden) - How the major religious system address the origin of being, life, death, suffering and redemption -belief and ritual 4/8 A
The History of Hitler's Empire (Childers) - National socialism, German politics & the Third Reich 4/8 A
History of the U.S. Economy: 20th Century (Taylor) -the 20's, depression, boom, stagflation 5/10 A
Soul and The City: Art, Literature & Urban Life (Weinstein) 4/8 A
Explaining Social Deviance (Wolpe) - demonism, social disorganization, control & learning 6/10 A
Using Literature to Understand the Human Side of Medicine (Weinstein) - the mysteries of life 5/10 A
Biology and Human Behavior (Sapolsky) - Neurological Origins of Individuality 3/8 V
Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy  (Fillipenko) - planets, stars, galaxies 15/40 V
Understanding the HUman Body: An Introduction top Anatomy & Physiology (Goodman) 12/32 V
Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists (Wolfson) 6/24 V
     

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