Course Terms of Use
All Saylor Academy courses are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. For licensing purposes, a "course" is defined as the structure, syllabus, learning outcomes, unit descriptions, and the framing text that accompanies resources curated from third parties. That excludes the third party resources themselves, including the following resources used in this course, which contain the individual licenses listed below:
Introduction to Sociology, 1st Canadian Edition:
- Attributed to William Little and Ron McGivern
- Licensed under CC BY 4.0
- Original version may be found here: https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/
Ellen Hallams' "From Crusader to Exemplar: Bush, Obama and the Reinvigoration of America's Soft Power"
- Attributed to European Journal of American Studies and Ellen Hallams
- Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.5
- Original version may be found here: http://ejas.revues.org/9157
Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World, Comprehensive Edition, v1.0:
- Provided without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensor
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
LSE Impact of Social Sciences Resources:
- Attributed to LSE Impact of Social Sciences and the articles' respective authors
- Licensed under CC BY 3.0
- Original version may be found here: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Writing Center Resources:
- Attributed to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Writing Center
- Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.5
- Original version may be found here: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/
Wikipedia Resources:
- Attributed to Wikipedia
- Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
- Original version may be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/
USHistory.org Resources:
- Attributed to Independence Hall Association
- Licensed under CC BY 4.0
- Original version may be found here: http://www.ushistory.org/gov/index.asp
American Government and Politics in the Information Age, v1.0:
- Provided without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensor
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
ThisNation.com Resources:
- Attributed to Jonathan Mott
- Licensed under CC BY 3.0
- Original version may be found here: http://www.thisnation.com/index.html
Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication, v1.0:
- Provided without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensor
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Boundless Resources:
- Attributed to Boundless
- Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
- Original version may be found here: https://www.boundless.com/
Lumen Learning Resources:
- Attributed to Lumen Learning
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Original version may be found here: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/
Journalist's Resource Resources:
- Attributed to Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center and Carnegie Knight Initiative
- Licensed under CC BY 3.0
- Original version may be found here: http://journalistsresource.org/
The Moderate Voice Resources:
- Attributed to The Moderate Voice and the articles' respective authors
- Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
- Original version may be found here: http://themoderatevoice.com/
US Government Resources:
- These materials are in the public domain
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance Resources:
- Attributed to International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) and the articles' respective authors
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
- Original version may be found here: http://www.idea.int/
A Primer on Politics, v0.0:
- Provided without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensor
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
- Attributed to Ian Shapiro and the Open Academy
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
- Original version may be found here: http://theopenacademy.com/content/moral-foundations-politics
Open Yale Courses Resources:
- Attributed to Yale University and the lectures' respective presenters
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
- Original version may be found here: http://oyc.yale.edu/
Murphy, Stevens, Trivers, and Roland's "National Socialism"
- Attributed to Alan Swallow and Raymond E. Murphy, Francis B. Stevens, Howard Trivers, and Joseph M. Roland
- This material is in the public domain.
- Original version may be found here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14058
World Economic Forum Resources
- Attributed to World Economic Forum and the videos' respective speakers
- Licensed under CC BY 3.0
- Original version may be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZXzyppiMDc
Social Problems: Continuity and Change, v1.0:
- Provided without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensor
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Waging Nonviolence Resources:
- Attributed to Waging Nonviolence and the articles' respective authors
- Licensed under CC BY 4.0
- Original version may be found here: http://wagingnonviolence.org/
How We Get to Next Resources:
- Attributed to How We Get to Next and the articles' respective authors
- Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
- Original version may be found here: https://howwegettonext.com/
Abderrahman Hassi and Giovanna Storti’s “Globalization and Culture: The Three H Scenarios”:
- Attributed to Intech and Abderrahman Hassi and Giovanna Storti
- Licensed under CC BY 3.0
- Original version may be found here: http://www.intechopen.com/books/globalization-approaches-to-diversity
Open Democracy and OpenDemocracyUK Resources:
- Attributed to OpenDemocracy and the articles' respective authors
- Licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0
- Original version may be found here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/
New World Encyclopedia Resources:
- Attributed to New World Encyclopedia and the articles' respective authors
- Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
- Original version may be found here: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Info:Main_Page
Peter Krause and Stephen Van Evera’s “Public Diplomacy: Ideas for the War of Ideas”:
- Attributed to Middle East Policy Council and Wiley-Blackwell Publishers and Peter Krause and Stephen Van Evera
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
- Original version may be found here: http://www.mepc.org/journal/middle-east-policy-archives/public-diplomacy-ideas-war-ideas
Foundations of Business Law and the Legal Environment, v1.0:
- Provided without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensor
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Colonel Nico W. Tak’s “Hobbes versus Locke: Redefining the War on Terror”
- Attributed to U.S. Army War College and Colonel Nico W. Tak
- This material is in the public domain
- Original version may be found here: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a482252.pdf
Buchholz and Sidor’s American Studies Resources:
- Attributed to Wikispaces users Buchholz and Sidor
- Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
- Original version may be found here: https://buchholtzsidoramericanstudies.wikispaces.com/
Dauletbek Raev and Mukan Saken’s “Critique of ‘Clash of Civilizations’”:
- Attributed to GISAP: Journal of Sociological, Political and Military Sciences and International Academy of Science and Higher Education (IASHE, London, UK) and Dauletbek Raev and Mukan Saken
- Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
- Original version may be found here: http://www.society.gisap.eu/
Gillian Ritcey’s “The Ethical Dilemmas of the Democratic Peace Theory in Relation to Copenhagen”:
- Attributed to Atlantic International Studies Organization (ATLIS) and Gillian Ritcey
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.5
- Original version may be found here: https://atlismta.org/
International Justice Resource Center: "Overview of the Human Rights Framework":
- Attributed to the International Justice Resource Center
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Original version may be found here: http://www.ijrcenter.org/
Cato Institute Resources:
- Attributed to the Cato Institute and the videos' respective speakers
- Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
- Original version may be found here: https://www.cato.org/
All other resources are copyrighted, and may not be reproduced without the explicit permission from the copyright holder.