While Will Hunting may think an Ivy League degree is “$150,000 wasted on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library,” it turns out, he’s wrong. By now, in fact, you don’t even need the buck fifty. Because as of a few months back, Yale has put a handful of its best-loved courses online.

I’ve been taking advantage myself for the past week or two, downloading sessions of RLST 145 – Introduction to the Old Testament – to my iPhone, and listening on my way to work. But there are several others that look good, too, and two classes that I can highly recommend from past experience: PHIL 176 – Death, with Professor Shelly Kagan – which I much enjoyed my sophomore year, and PSYC 110 – Introduction to Psychology – a great survey course now taught by Paul Bloom, my favorite professor of any at Yale.