Campus Courses

Keith Lockitch

Vice President of Content & Senior Fellow

Introduction to Writing | 2024

4 Lessons

9h 46m

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This course teaches the basic principles and methods of objective communication. We’ll treat communication as a science, as a skill that has certain objective principles that can be learned and applied to the improvement of...

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Yaron Brook

Chairman of the Board

Oral Communication: Basics | 2024

10 Lessons

19h 41m

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Ayn Rand was interested in conveying her ideas to new audiences; we at ARI are too. More widely, learning to effectively communicate your ideas to new audiences is an important skill to learn. This course...

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Harry Binswanger

Member, Board of Directors

Philosophy of Math | 2024

32 Lessons

30h 53m

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Mathematics is the arch-example of the absolutism of logic and the power of reason. “The proper epistemological ideal,” Ayn Rand once said, “is to have your knowledge in as precise a form as mathematics. Or...

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Nikos Sotirakopoulos

Visiting Fellow

Marx and Communism | 2024

8 Lessons

20h 24m

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One of the most influential thinkers of all times. The political movement for which millions were ready to kill, and die for. Welcome to the ARU course on Karl Marx and communism! Together, we will...

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Keith Lockitch

Vice President of Content & Senior Fellow

Honors Seminar | 2024

17 Lessons

19h 47m

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This is a seminar series for developing white papers. This course is by invitation only....

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Onkar Ghate

Chief Philosophy Officer & Senior Fellow

Objectivism through Ayn Rand’s Fiction (Q3-Q4) | 2024

16 Lessons

17h 42m

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Ayn Rand’s novels, We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged, are self-consciously philosophical novels, containing abstract themes, characters driven by opposing moral principles, and conflicts rooted in clashing worldviews. And more than that,...

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Gena Gorlin

An Introduction to Psychology | 2024

8 Lessons

17h 55m

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This course will cover the major schools of thought, methods of inquiry, and empirical findings taught in a typical Introduction to Psychology course. But it will explore how to understand and evaluate these theories, methods,...

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Keith Lockitch

Vice President of Content & Senior Fellow

Foundations of Physical Science: Motion and Gravitation | 2024

34 Lessons

49h 1m

Level

ARU

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This course will trace the development of man’s understanding of motion and gravitation, starting with the earliest astronomical observations of pre-Greek civilizations, and culminating in the achievements of Isaac Newton. How did mankind progress from...

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Tara Smith

Professor of Philosophy University of Texas at Austin

Introduction to the Objectivist Ethics | 2024

8 Lessons

16h 11m

Level

ARU

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This course will examine the foundational principles of Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy while addressing core questions that her theory typically raises. Its major topics will be: the foundations of value; the objectivity of value (in...

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Harry Binswanger

Member, Board of Directors

Objectivist Logic | 2024

64 Lessons

62h 25m

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Ayn Rand embraced Aristotelian logic but took it much further. This course, through lectures and homework exercises, reviews the three most important ideas of Aristotelian logic and then focuses on the new principles of proper...

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Shoshana Milgram

Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs | 2024

9 Lessons

18h 49m

Level

ARU

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Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs: The Hero with the Passion and Power of Prometheus. The Man Who Laughs, according to Ayn Rand, was the best novel ever written by Victor Hugo, her favorite novelist. Together, we...

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Gregory Salmieri

Senior Scholar of Philosophy at the Salem Center, University of Texas at Austin

Plato and Aristotle | 2024

31 Lessons

65h 52m

Level

ARU

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This course will survey the essentials of the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. We’ll trace the development of Plato’s thought from the early dialogues, which focus on various ethical theses and on the standards for...

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