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Yale Offers FREE Courses You Can Test Drive!Yale has taken the exciting step of allowing anyone to see what an actual college course is like at an Ivy League institution. Called the Yale Open Courses they have used actual, recent courses and converted them into video formats that you can download over the web. Real courses, real professors, real assignments! There are 7 courses you can choose from. One each from the departments of Astronomy, English, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Pscyhology and Religious Studies. Here's what you can learn about: Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics Modern Poetry Death (a philosophy course) Fundamentals of Physics Introduction to Political Philosophy Introduction to Psychology Introduction to the Old Testament How cool is that? Now everyone can see the actual rigor of what it would be like to go to an Ivy! Now, if they'd just do the same thing for when their admissions committee reviews applicant files...
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