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The Great Courses and Wondrium

by The Teaching Company

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.

As a Won­dri­um Affil­i­ate, I earn com­mis­sions from free tri­al and paid account open­ings. If just before sign­ing up you go to Won­dri­um via this ad, the Earth­wide Per­sua­sions project will earn a mean­ing­ful com­mis­sion. All such earn­ings go towards sup­port­ing this project.

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.

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 Short List:
    • Con­sult the text: Part 7, Sec­tion 8.
    • A rea­son­able sam­pling of these 50 cours­es can serve to enrich one’s objec­tivist foundations.
    • Click this link to view or down­load: GreatCoursesShortList.pdf
  • The Great Cours­es Long List:

 

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