Free Online Political Science Courses

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• African Amer­i­can Stud­ies: Intro to African Amer­i­can Polit­i­cal Thought — Free Online Video — Mark Sawyer, UCLA
• Amer­i­can Democ­ra­cy and Cit­i­zen­ship — Free Online Video — Patrick Scott, Mis­souri State
• British Gov­ern­ment — Free Online Video — Tony Tra­vers, Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics
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• Con­cep­tu­al Foun­da­tions of Inter­na­tion­al Pol­i­tics — Free Online Video — Lisa Ander­son, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty
• Elec­tion 2012 - Free Online Video — Rob Reich, David Kennedy, Jim Stey­er, Stan­ford
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• Faith and Glob­al­iza­tion — Free iTunes Video — Tony Blair, Miroslav Volf, Yale
• Geog­ra­phy of US Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tions — Free Online Video — Mar­tin Lewis, Stan­ford
• Inter­na­tion­al Polit­i­cal Econ­o­my — Free iTunes Audio — James Mor­ri­son, Mid­dle­bury Col­lege
• Intro­duc­tion to Ger­man Pol­i­tics — Free iTunes Audio — Free Online Audio — Andreas Busch, Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty
• Intro­duc­tion to Polit­i­cal Phi­los­o­phy — Free Online Course — Steven B. Smith, Yale
• Jus­tice: A Jour­ney in Moral Rea­son­ing — Free Online Course — Michael Sandel, Har­vard
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• Pow­er and Pol­i­tics in Today’s World — Free Online Video — Ian Shapiro, Yale
• Pro­gres­sive Alter­na­tives — Free Online Video — Rober­to Mangabeira Unger, Har­vard
• Sem­i­nar in Polit­i­cal Phi­los­o­phy: Marx — Free Online Audio — Leo Strauss, U Chica­go
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• Sex­u­al­i­ty and Pow­er — Free Online Video — Véronique Mot­ti­er, Uni­ver­si­ty of Lau­sanne
• Sci­ence Fic­tion and Pol­i­tics — Free iTunes Audio —  Court­ney Brown, Emory Uni­ver­si­ty
• State of the Union 2014 — Free Online Course — Rob Reich, Jim Stey­er, David Kennedy, Stan­ford
• The Euro­pean Union in the New Mil­le­ni­um — Free iTunes Audio — Ste­fan Auer, LaTrobe Uni­ver­si­ty, Aus­tralia
• The Moral Foun­da­tions of Pol­i­tics — Free Online Video — MOOC ver­sion — Ian Shapiro, Yale
• The Ori­gins of Polit­i­cal Sci­ence — Free Online Audio — Leo Strauss, U. Chica­go

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