The Great Courses and Wondrium
by The Teaching Company
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About The Great Courses and Wondrium
- Consult Objectivism: Reality Anchored Principles, Part 7, Sections 7 through 11 and Final Remarks, Section 4.
- Course lengths range from 6 to 96 lectures each, usually 24 to 48.
- Music lectures tend to be about 45-minutes in duration. Otherwise, most lectures are about 30-minutes in duration.
- The Great Courses and Wondrium websites are separate and unique.
- Both sites list courses under multiple browsing categories, in a pleasantly graphical manner.
- To go to The Great Courses website, tap or click this link: The Great Courses.
- That site hosts more extensive course descriptions than those residing on the Wondrium website.
- Every course goes on sale about once or twice each year, at about a 70% discount from its listed retail price. I doubt that anyone ever pays those retail prices.
- To go to the Wondrium website, tap or click the picture ad.
- Wondrium is The Teaching Company’s low-cost, unlimited streaming service.
- Wondrium apps are available for every popular device type.
- You can explore, view trailers, or open a free trial or paid account from the apps.
- I highly recommend Wondrium because it is so useful and inexpensive. For the price of a few DVD courses, you get one year’s worth of unlimited viewing from Wondrium.
- As of Feb. 2022, Wondrium incorporates about 60% of The Great Courses.
- It includes several ways to identify those courses that are incorporated.
- Consult the Wondrium FAQs for discounts offered for purchasing courses that are not incorporated.
- Otherwise, with a little thought, good substitutes can sometimes become identified.
Notes on This Project’s Great Course Lists:
- There is probably no single “right” way to organize a Great Courses list.
- The Page of Reason’s course lists are derived exclusively from The Great Courses website, not from Wondrium.
- The lists are text based and list each course, uniquely categorized on only one line.
- In this respect, The Teaching Company’s listings are somewhat discombobulated: courses are often listed under multiple categories, with no unique identifier, except for a numerical course id.
- The Study Record and Short List roughly follow the Great Course categories that existed at the times of their completions.
- The Long List roughly follows the Great Course categories, as of Feb. 2022, but with my own customizations.
- The Long List files contain identical content:
- An editable Microsoft Excel 2016 spreadsheet that can be downloaded and adapted for one’s own needs.
- A Pdf file for those who are unable to view the spreadsheet or just want to more easily view the list.
- The Long List spreadsheet incorporates some unique functionality:
- Create and modify study plans and track progress via the statistics tables that reside at the bottom of the spreadsheet.
- Revise topical categories, add newly released courses, etc. For better or for worse, just about anything can be edited.
- The spreadsheet incorporates several complex functions:
- Be careful how you edit this spreadsheet. Proceed with your own edits at your own risks.
- It is possible but unlikely that I will adding more courses to this list.
- Please do not request support from me.
- You can always get a fresh copy from this page.
- Detailed instructions reside at the bottom of the spreadsheet.
- The lists are text based and list each course, uniquely categorized on only one line.
This Project’s Great Course Files:
- To usefully view these pdfs, a large screen will usually be necessary.
- Orrin’s Great Course Study Record:
- Consult the text: Part 4, Section 4, Apr. 1, 2008.
- Orrin’s study record: 330 courses plus 48 repeats, through July of 2015.
- Click this link to view or download: GreatCoursesRecord.pdf
- The Great Courses Long List:
- Consult the text: Part 7, Section 9, and the Final Remarks, Section 4.
- 867 courses as of February 2022.
- Pdf: Click this link to view or download: GreatCoursesLongList.pdf
- Xls: Click to download: GreatCoursesLongList.xlsx