About Us
Who We Are
The Great Courses brings the most engaging professors into your home or car through courses on DVD, audio CD, and other formats. Since 1990, great teachers from universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, and more, have crafted over 300 courses for lifelong learners. We provide the adventure of learning, without the homework or exams.
Our mission:
Our values:
- Excellence. Start with the best, then make it better.
- Cultivate every resource. Confront, accept, and improve hard facts.
- Hard work for solid results.
- Fair and lasting relationships with our customers and our employees. And expect the same in return.
- Integrity. Period.
What we've done:
- With input and feedback from our customers since 1990, we've found the most engaging professors from the UK and America.
- With those great professors, we have produced 300 great courses-over 3,000 hours of material in literature, philosophy, history, fine arts, the sciences, economics, and religion.
- We have delivered millions of lectures to hundreds of thousands of people we are proud to call our customers.
The Great Courses is a trading name of The Teaching Company, 4840 Westfields Blvd, Suite 500, Chantilly, VA 20151-2299.
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How The Great Courses Began
The Great Courses was founded in 1990 by Thomas M. Rollins, former Chief Counsel of the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Years earlier, as a Harvard Law School student, Rollins had an unforgettable experience that opened his eyes to the extraordinary power of a great lecturer captured on tape.
Rollins was facing an important exam in the U.S. Federal Rules of Evidence but was not well prepared. He managed to obtain videotapes of 10 one-hour lectures by a noted authority on the subject, Professor Irving Younger.
"I dreaded what seemed certain to be boring," Rollins says. "I thought that few subjects could be as dull as the Federal Rules of Evidence. But I had no other way out."
Rollins planted himself in front of the TV and played all 10 hours nearly non-stop. The lectures, he says, "were outrageously insightful, funny, and thorough." Watching Professor Younger's lectures was one of Rollins's best experiences as a student.
Rollins made an "A" in the course. And he never forgot the unique power of recorded lectures by a great teacher.
After many years of government service, Rollins founded The Great Courses in 1990 to ignite people's passion for lifelong learning by offering great courses taught by great professors.
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Contact Us
You can reach us at the contact information provided below.
Thank you for your support, and we look forward to hearing from you!
E-mail: custserv@greatcourses.co.uk
Phone: 0800 298 9796
Office hours: 9 a.m. to midnight Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. After hours, an automated voice mail system is available.
Fax: 0800 298 0300
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The Great Courses
Unit A, Sovereign Business Park
Brenda Road
Hartlepool, TS25 1NN
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