Online Courses


These naval-related online courses should be of interest to teachers, students, and self-learners. If you know of any others, please contact me using the Comment Form.


Degree Granting Courses

Military History
BBC: BBC – History – Find out about wars, their causes and their effects, through articles, 3-d virtual tours, games and animations. Includes essays by a number of noted military historians.

National Security
MIT OpenCourseWare: MIT Department of Political Science – The complete course materials for some of the courses in MIT’s Security Studies Program. These courses emphasize grand strategy, technology, arms control, and bureaucratic politics issues. The Program’s prime task is educating those who will be the next generation of scholars and practitioners in international security policy making. The courses include:
17.42 Causes and Prevention of War,
17.432 Causes of War: Theory and Method,
17.436 Territorial Conflict,
17.460 Defense Politics,
17.462 Innovation in Military Organizations,
17.466 Organization Theory and the Military,
17.471 American National Security Policy,
17.484 Comparative Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine,
17.582 Civil War,
17.584 Civil-Military Relations,
17.908 Reading Seminar in Social Science: Intelligence and National Security,
17.950 Understanding Modern Military Operations,
17.951 Intelligence: Practice, Problems and Prospects,
17.952 Great Power Military Intervention and
17.953 U.S. Military Budget and Force Planning.

MIT Department of Anthropology – 21A.217 Anthropology of War and Peace

Naval Intelligence Operations

US Naval Reserve Intelligence Program: United States Naval Reserve Intelligence Program Ready-for-Sea Modular Course & Handbook – A course designed to provide the minimum essential information for drilling Naval Reserve Intelligence Professionals prior to performing an annual training period at sea. The course gives a good introduction to the type of intelligence processing systems likely to be encountered aboard ship. A better formated version is here.

US Navy: NAVEDTRA 13159 – Naval Intelligence – A brief course that is based on Naval Doctrine Publication 2 – Naval Intelligence. It addresses the broad scope of Naval Intelligence, the definition, purpose, fundamentals, intelligence cycle, coordination, training, and readiness to meet future challenges and support to operating forces. It describes the ways Naval Intelligence supports military planning for routine peacetime operations, operations other than war and combat, and identifies specific challenges for Naval Intelligence in the future.

Ocean Engineering
MIT OpenCourseWare: MIT Department of Ocean Engineering – The complete course materials for the majority of the courses offered by MIT’s Department of Ocean Engineering. The courses cover the areas of Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, and Ocean Engineering.

War Studies
University of North Carolina Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense: Course Syllabi for a number of its courses are online.

US Naval War College: Course Syllabi are online for its courses in Strategy and Policy, National Security Decision Making, and Joint Military Operations.

War Studies Primer – an introductory course on the study of war.

Miscellaneous
Both Syllabus Finder and World Lecture Hall index a variety of free online course materials from around the world. Try typing “naval history” or “naval sciences” or “military history” or “oceanography,” etc. into their search engines and see what courses are available.


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