Great Courses

This is a list of high-quality courses that, for one reason or another, didn't make it into the curriculum. The most common reasons are that the course isn't available often enough, or that there was an alternative that fit better into the curriculum.

Global and Thematic

Courses Duration Effort
The French Revolution (University of Melbourne on Coursera; audit free) 9 weeks 3-5 hours/week
The American Revolution (Open Yale Courses) 25 lectures 2-3 hours/lecture
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Open Yale Courses) 27 lectures 2-3 hours/lecture
The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry (University of California, Santa Cruz on Coursera; audit free) 8 weeks 4-6 hours/week
Russia's History: From Lenin to Putin (University of California, Santa Cruz on edX; audit free) 6 weeks 3-5 hours/week

Regional

Courses Duration Effort
Modern China’s Foundations: The Qing Dynasty to the Birth of the Republic (Harvard Online; free) Self-paced 4-6 hours/module
The Emergence of the Modern Middle East (Tel Aviv University on Coursera; audit free) 8 weeks 2-4 hours/week
Modern Latin America, 1808-Present (MIT OpenCourseWare) Full semester Variable

Online Learning - Great Courses

Courses Duration Effort
Learning How to Learn 4 weeks 2 hours/week
Mindshift 4 weeks 2 hours/week
Powersearching with Google 3 weeks 4-6 hours/week