Open Course Materials for Humanities

MERLOT Collection:

Click on the topics below and MERLOT will provide you with a hitlist of online course materials in that subject area. You can explore the MERLOT collection of over 21,000 online materials, find ones that suit your instructional needs, and add the link to the online materials into your learning management system. It’s easy.

MERLOT also provides peer reviews, member comments, “playlists” of materials created by faculty and students, and learning exercises for using the materials in the classroom so you can make informed choices about the best materials for our classes and your students.

Entire Humanities Collection

• Africiana or African American or Black Studies
  
• American Indian or Native American Studies
  
• American Studies
  
• Asian or Asian American Studies
  
• Chicana or Latina Studies
  
• Chicano or Latino Studies
  
• Communication Studies
  
• Comparative Literature and Classics
  
• English
  Including English Language subdisciplines of Communications, Composition and Rhetoric, General, Linguistics and English Literature subdisciplines of drama, Poetry, Prose Fiction, Prose Nonfiction, and General.
• European Studies
  
• General
• History
  Including subdisciplines of Area Studies, Resources, Theory and Method, and Topical.
• Indigenous Studies
  
• Jewish Studies
  Including subdisciplines of Bible, Diaspora, Jewish culture, Jewish history, Jewish philosophy, Jewish religion, and Oral tradition.
• Journalism
  
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies
• Women and Gender Studies
  
• World Languages
  Including subdisciplines of Arabic, Chinese, ESL, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Less Commonly Taught Languages, Multilingual Resources, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Other Collections:

Connexions Humanities Collection
OER Commons Humanities Collection
GLOBE – International consortium for online course materials
Internet Public Library (ipl2)

Are you using open course materials already and would like to add them to the CSU MERLOT Collection?

It’s easy to do! By spending a few minutes cataloging the online materials you use, your fellow faculty and/or students will have a easier time finding the quality course materials that can help them teach and learn. If everyone pitches in just a little, we can build a shared collection of open courses materials.

Click here for more information about adding materials to MERLOT.