Course Name - Global Problems of Population Growth

Yale, Spring 2009

Course Number - POL 1.2010

Field - Biology / Politics

Description - "This survey course introduces students to the important and basic material on human fertility, population growth, the demographic transition and population policy. Topics include: the human and environmental dimensions of population pressure, demographic history, economic and cultural causes of demographic change, environmental carrying capacity and sustainability. Political, religious and ethical issues surrounding fertility are also addressed. The lectures and readings attempt to balance theoretical and demographic scale analyzes with studies of individual humans and communities. The perspective is global with both developed and developing countries included."

Format -  Video Lectures, audio MP3, transcripts

URL - http://oyc.yale.edu/molecular-cellular-and-developmental-biology/global-problems-of-population-growth/content/class-sessions

Professor(s) -  Robert Wyman

 

Tuition - FREE 

Upon completion -

optional: certificate: Certificate of Completion from
Cosmopolitan-University. Certificate wording: English

Testing -- available

Language (if not English)  --    

Notes:

Course Name - Introduction to Political Philosophy

Fall, 2006
 

Course Number - POL 1.2010 

Field - Political Science (Open Yale)

Description -    This course is intended as an introduction to political philosophy as seen through an examination of some of the major texts and thinkers of the Western political tradition. Three broad themes that are central to understanding political life are focused upon: the polis experience (Plato, Aristotle), the sovereign state (Machiavelli, Hobbes), constitutional government (Locke), and democracy (Rousseau, Tocqueville). The way in which different political philosophies have given expression to various forms of political institutions and our ways of life are examined throughout the course

Format -  Videos

URL -    http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/introduction-to-political-philosophy/content/class-sessions

Professor(s) -   Professor Steven B. Smith

 

Tuition - FREE 

Upon completion -

optional: certificate: Certificate of Completion from

Cosmopolitan-University. Certificate wording:

English

Testing --   

Language (if not English)  --    

Notes: