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YaleCourses 457 Episodes Oct 14, 2026

YaleCourses provides access to lectures and academic programs from Yale University, including complete sets from the Open Yale Courses initiative. The channel aims to train a broadly based, highly disciplined intellect without prescribing how it will be used. Students can also find complementary syllabi, transcripts, and other resources on the Open Yale Courses website. The podcast offers a window into the core of the university's classrooms and academic offerings.

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4.5 | Master the Medical Software Risk Management Process — Medical Software Course
4.5 | Master the Medical Software Risk Management Process — Medical Software Course Oct 14, 2026 713 In this lesson, we delve into the essential steps of the medical software risk management process. We explore how to identify potential hazards, understand the unique nature of software failure probabilities, and learn to estimate risk using both quantitative and qualitative methods, ultimately aiming to ensure patient safety and product reliability.Uploaded 19-08-25🎯 Learning Objectives• Outline
13. Jacques Lacan in Theory
13. Jacques Lacan in Theory Oct 14, 2026 3474 Introduction to Theory of Literature (ENGL 300)Uploaded 01-09-09In this lecture on psychoanalytic criticism, Professor Paul Fry explores the work of Jacques Lacan. Lacan's interest in Freud and distaste for post-Freudian "ego psychologists" are briefly mentioned, and his clinical work on "the mirror stage" is discussed in depth. The relationship in Lacanian thought, between metaphor and metonymy i
5. What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought
5. What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought Oct 14, 2026 3342 Introduction to Psychology (PSYC 110)Uploaded 30-09-08This lecture explores issues and ideas related to the branch of psychology known as cognitive development. It begins with an introduction of Piaget who, interested in the emergence of knowledge in general, studied children and the way they learn about the world in order to formulate his theories of cognitive development. This is followed by an
Low-Cost, High-Nutrition Eating for Graduate Students: Quick and Tasty Cooking
Low-Cost, High-Nutrition Eating for Graduate Students: Quick and Tasty Cooking Oct 14, 2026 990 In this video, discover the key to cooking quick and tasty recipes perfect for busy student life. Dr. Nate Wood shares tips and tricks to prepare meals that are both delicious and time-efficient.Uploaded 11-11-25Managing your finances as a student is challenging. Yale’s Graduate and Professional Student Senate collaborated with Dr. Nate Wood, Assistant Professor and Director of Culinary Medicine a
Lecture 9. Sonata-Allegro Form: Mozart and Beethoven
Lecture 9. Sonata-Allegro Form: Mozart and Beethoven Oct 14, 2026 3325 Listening to Music (MUSI 112)Uploaded 11-02-26A brief foray into the formal characteristics of contemporary popular music is used to launch this lecture on musical form. After a discussion of the "verse-chorus" form often used in popular music, Professor Wright proceeds to take students into the realm of classical music, focusing particularly on ternary form and sonata-allegro form. Throughout his
26. Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion
26. Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion Oct 14, 2026 3271 Death (PHIL 176)Uploaded 30-09-08The lecture begins by examining the consequences a suicide has on both the person committing it and those around this person. The question is raised, however, whether this factor is the only that counts morally, as utilitarians claim, or whether other factors matter morally as well, as deontologists claim. The moral relevance of a deontological prohibition against
15.  Supermassive Black Holes
15. Supermassive Black Holes Oct 14, 2026 3262 Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)Uploaded 29-09-08The lecture begins with a question-and-answer session about black holes. Topics include the extent to which we are sure black holes exist in the center of all galaxies, how massive they are, and how we can observe them. The lecture then turns to strong-field relativity: relativistic effects that are unrelated to Newtonian theory. T
3. Centralized State and Republic
3. Centralized State and Republic Oct 14, 2026 3311 France Since 1871 (HIST 276)Uploaded 21-11-08Despite various attempts at reform, France remains the most centralized state in Europe. The organization of the country around the Parisian center was originally a consequence of the French Revolution, which gave birth to the departmental regions. These regions have retained an oppositional relationship towards the metropolitan center. In 1875, an endu
205 | Analyze Your Research and Uncover Insights with Free Tools - Social Entrepreneurship Course
205 | Analyze Your Research and Uncover Insights with Free Tools - Social Entrepreneurship Course Oct 14, 2026 583 Feeling overwhelmed by your research? This lesson guides you through effective strategies to analyze collected information, organize data, and uncover meaningful patterns. Learn how to transform vast amounts of data into clear, actionable insights using powerful visual tools.Uploaded 13-08-25🎯 Learning Objectives• Learn to organize and synthesize large volumes of research data.• Utilize visual too
Lecture 10  Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations
Lecture 10 Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations Oct 14, 2026 3580 Listening to Music (MUSI 112)Uploaded 11-02-26Professor Wright delves into sonata-allegro form in some depth in this lecture. He focuses especially on characterizing four types of music found within a sonata: thematic, transitional, developmental, and cadential. He then moves on to discuss a different form, theme and variations, which is accomplished through the use of examples from Beethoven's an
7. Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
7. Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul Oct 14, 2026 3202 Death (PHIL 176)Uploaded 30-09-08The discussion of Plato's Phaedo continues, presenting more arguments for the existence and immortality of the soul. One such argument is "the argument from the nature of the forms," which states that because the forms are non-physical objects and cannot be grasped by something physical like the body, it follows that they must be grasped by the soul which must be n
25. Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont.)
25. Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont.) Oct 14, 2026 3340 The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291)Uploaded 21-11-08In her final lecture of the course, Professor Hungerford evaluates Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated with respect to one of her areas of expertise, American writing about the Holocaust. She points out how the novel takes on some of the questions of trauma theory in its examination of both the pain and the healing power of repe

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