The Great Courses

In addition to my formal academic studies, I’ve been learning through The Great Courses for about a decade. I’ve done over 50 courses lasting over 500 hours. Learning is a deep passion of mine.

Recently completed

• The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works
• Transformational Leadership: How Leaders Change Teams, Companies, and Organizations
• Understanding Imperial China: Dynasties, Life, and Culture
• Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond
• Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustraitor via BYOL
• Structuring Machine Learning Projects (Coursera)
• Understanding Investments
• Improving Your Statistical Inferences (Coursera)
• Improving Your Statistical Questions (Coursera)

Philosophy

• Modern Intellectual Tradition - From Descartes to Derrida
• Consciousness and Its Implications
• Argumentation - The Study of Effective Reasoning
• Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life
• Rick Roderick’s “Philosophy and Human Values”
• Rick Roderick’s “Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition”
• Rick Roderick’s “Self Under Siege”
• Will to Power - The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
• Voltaire and the Triumph of Enlightenment
• Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement
• Ethics Of Aristotle
• Skepticism 101

Psychology

• Effective Communication Skills
• Nonverbal Communication
• Customs of the World
• Art of Teaching - Best Practices from a Master Educator
• The Intelligent Brain
• Optimizing The Brain
• The Art of Negotiating the Best Deal

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medicine

• Great Thinkers, Great Theorems (Mathematics)
• Physics And Our Universe How It All Works
• Understanding the Science for Tomorrow
• Secrets of Sleep Science
• Understanding Genetics
• Trails of Evidence (Forensic Science)
• Human Body - How We Fail, How We Heal
• Mastering Differential Equations
• How Music and Mathematics Relate

Music (courses by Robert Greenberg)

• How to Listen To and Understand Great Music
• Understanding the Fundamentals of Music
• Bach and the High Baroque
• Chamber Music of Mozart
• Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
• Great Masters - The Schumanns
• Great Masters - Shostakovich
• Great Masters - Mahler
• Great Masters - Stravinsky
• The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works
• The Symphony
• Concerto

History

• Capitalism versus Socialism: Comparing Economic Systems
• Barbarian Empires of the Steppes
• The Persian Empire
• Rome and the Barbarians
• World of Byzantium
• Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age
• History of Russia

Literature

• Understanding Literature and Life - Drama, Poetry and Narrative
• Aeneid Of Virgil
• Lives and Works of English Romantic Poets
• Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind
• Classics of Russian Literature
• Literary Modernism
• Poetry: A Basic Course
• How to Read and Understand Poetry
• Joyce’s Ulysses

Other

• How to Look At and Understand Great Art
• Fundamentals of Photography
• Espionage and Covert Operations
• Introduction to the Study of Religion
• Writing and Civilization
• The Everyday Guide To Wine
• The Everyday Guide to Spirits and Cocktails