I went to Yale (at lunch)
Well, almost. We’ve talked here before about listening to great university lectures through podcasts: I found free lectures and recordings from Yale, Princeton, and Oxford all through iTunes. Just yesterday, and many of you may know of this already, a colleague told me about “Open Yale Courses,” a Yale website where you can choose either to watch or hear a full semester of an introductory Yale course. The main page offers courses in philosophy, religious studies, astronomy, psychology, physics, political science, and English. I’ll be spending my next month of lunches watching Professor Langdon Hammer teach Modern Poetry. Here’s the page for the class, and here’s the course schedule. I have little doubt that my watching will be in any way comparable to knowing the professor and being in the actual class, but it’s far better than watching bootlegged movies and YouTube drivel during my lunch break.




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Thanks for this. Related to your pet issue of college reform, it’s amazing in that, if you think about it, all of the info that colleges, even the best ones like Yale, Princeton, MIT, impart to their students is available for free.
Think of that scene in “Good Will Hunting” where Matt Damon bests the Harvard Grad. Student and informs him his education costs him 50 cents — the cost of a Boston Public Library card.
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I frequently listen to lecture series from the Learning Company. Also you can get entire MIT courses online.
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This reminds me of one of my favorite “Dilberts.” The pointy-haired-boss is interviewing a guy and says, “I hear you went to Yale” and the guy replies, “Yeah, I yust got out.”
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I wonder if there’s a way to get the lectures in written format over the web … for those of us who have limited access to internet video? Generally I love modern poetry ….
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Mommy,
And I’m slow, I yust got the yoke, about six hours after I read it the first time.
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Kimberly, they have transcripts in html for each lecture.
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