Campus Courses

Harry Binswanger

Member, Board of Directors

ITOE, Advanced Topics

24 Lessons

22h 43m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

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Sam Weaver

Junior Fellow

Leonard Peikoff’s “Eight Great Plays” | 2024

7 Lessons

14h 16m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

This is a guided study of Leonard Peikoff’s recorded lecture course “8 Great Plays,” in which Dr. Peikoff selects eight masterpieces of world literature and analyzes them as great works of drama and as works...

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Onkar Ghate

Chief Philosophy Officer & Senior Fellow

Objectivism through Ayn Rand’s Fiction | 2024

7 Lessons

14h 44m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

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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Peter Schwartz

Distinguished Fellow Ayn Rand Institute

Advanced Writing

7 Lessons

15h 8m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

A course that focuses on writing high quality op-ed articles, for ARU Graduate Center members (by invitation only)....

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Onkar Ghate

Chief Philosophy Officer & Senior Fellow

Objectivism Seminar

7 Lessons

18h 27m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

This is a two-quarter seminar exploring some of Objectivism’s central principles, especially in ethics and epistemology. Its goal is to help you learn how to better understand and “chew” various principles of Objectivism. The consequence...

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Onkar Ghate

Chief Philosophy Officer & Senior Fellow

How to Think about Current Events

5 Lessons

10h 19m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

In the age of social media everyone’s a self-proclaimed pundit, tweeting or posting on current events whether or not they possess any relevant knowledge or expertise. Meanwhile, our culture is saturated with stale, conventional thinking....

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Keith Lockitch

Vice President of Content & Senior Fellow

Introduction to Writing (Q4-Q1)

17 Lessons

42h 54m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

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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Don Watkins

Persuasion Mastery: How to Effectively Champion Radical Ideas

8 Lessons

16h 25m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

Persuading people of unpopular ideas is insanely difficult—and yet provably possible. In this course students will learn the key skillsets of persuasion, including clarity, framing, motivation, and fact/feeling integration, as well as how to avoid...

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Yaron Brook

Chairman of the Board

Oral Communication: Advanced Workshop

8 Lessons

16h 19m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

Yaron Brook will lead advanced workshops in which he discusses some of the principles of effective oral communication and some of the practical skills one needs to develop and automatize to gain mastery in this...

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Yaron Brook

Chairman of the Board

Oral Communication: The Basics

8 Lessons

15h 5m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

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

ITOE

49 Lessons

61h 42m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

A careful, systematic study of Rand’s monograph, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (ITOE). The course goal is to get fully clear on what the theory is, why it was needed–i.e., the failure of all previous solutions to the...

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Harry Binswanger

Member, Board of Directors

Objectivist Logic

49 Lessons

60h 23m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

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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