Listen To Mental Health College Lectures Online For Free
May 31, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
I really want to go back to school and get a Master’s Degree. In what, I don’t know yet, but while I was at my sister’s graduation earlier this month I got myself bitten by the academia bug. I tried to fight it (because I seriously don’t have the money to go back to college right now), but being back in that environment overwhelmed me with the urge to learn.
Ah, well. One day.
In the meantime, Productivity 501 has compiled a list of 105 free college lectures you can listen to online, and some of them have podcasts and RSS feeds to which you can subscribe.
Those related to the brain and mental health include:
- UC Berkeley’s Animal Behavior Biology: An Evolutionary Perspective Behavioral View
- UC Berkeley’s Clinical Psychology
- UC Berkeley’s Developmental Psychology
- UC Berkeley’s Developmental Psychopathology
- UC Berkeley’s Social Psychology
- Southwest Wisconsin Technical College’s Mental Health
- University of Cambridge’s Smart drugs? What do you think of brain-boosting drugs?
Online courses aren’t really my thing (especially those that don’t actually count toward a degree), as I thrive on the whole classroom environment (and want another degree), but given that our schedules get busier as we get older, they do make sense.
Of course, I realize that a degree is just a piece of paper (albeit, a powerful one) and that learning is the real goal. If I find time, I hope to listen to some of these.
If you do, or already have, feel free to share your thoughts!
Image: Newscom
Air is currently rockin’ out in the This Is Why I ROCK! series here at Mental Health Notes. If you have a mental illness and are still living the life you love, head on over the the official announcement post and enter!
Why don’t you simply work on a bit of research, as well as you can and with the best tools there are, in your own time, and then test it by presenting it ‘published’ on the internet. If it is any good, you should get comments from the people who matter for you. Then the step to where you want to be will be much easier.
Feeling inspired by your post, I downloaded some of the lectures on psychology from MIT that appears in Itunes.
I’ve only listened to one but I found it really interesting so this was definitely a really handy tip as far as I was concerned (even if it wasn’t one of the ones you specifically mentioned, it was definitely inspired by this post!) so thank you for that!
I’ll be listening to the others, but have a feeling it will take me a long time to get through them.
@ Ron – Thanks for the thoughts
I’m thinking that one day I may want to make the move from consumer and advocate to actual counselor or therapist, and in this area it’s difficult to get any kind of job in the mental health field with just an English degree. (And rightly so – I don’t think I’d want a counselor who had a degree that wasn’t related to psychology, haha.) However, I know that whatever research I do in the meantime will undoubtedly only help if the day ever comes that I do decide to get another degree.
@ cb – No problem! I’m glad it could help. As I was glancing over all the links provided by each college, I noticed that each link seemed to take readers to a site that provided multiple lectures, and that’s exactly what I thought – wow, this is going to take some time