Renegade University is an alternative to the traditional higher education system that offers a community of people who would rather think and speak and write about ideas than police them.
We don’t “train citizens,” “educate leaders” or “serve society” as most universities pledge to do.
We value intellectual freedom: curiosity, skepticism, creative analysis, and the conflict of ideas.
Renegade University is a place for people to learn, to think, to argue, and to enjoy the life of the mind.
Video COURSES
Streaming course videos taught by our faculty and produced by RU videographers.
Office Hours
One-on-one sessions with instructors online, on the phone, or in person. Ranging from personal consultations to full customized courses.
The Quad
A place to hang out, find out what’s going on, eavesdrop on fascinating conversations or to start a new one.
Live Events
Interactive seminars, workshops, live streams, lectures and performances by our instructors and artists. Online and in cities across the world.
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VIDEO Courses
Postmodernism & Critical Theory
This course is unique among university courses in that it is co-taught by two scholars of critical theory and postmodernism who are on opposite sides of many of these questions. It will not only be a three-week discussion but also a civil, respectful debate involving the instructors and participants.
Talkin’ Shit: The History of Hip-Hop
This course examines the origins and rise of one of the most prolific yet misunderstood forms of popular culture in American history.
Talkin’ Shit: The History of African-American Culture
This course examines the origins and ascendancy of the most loved, hated, and powerful popular culture in American history.
Sex Positivity
Sexologist Carol Queen tells the history of this culture-changing movement, whose roots lie in the emergent academic discipline of sexology in the 19th century, and argues for the value of establishing sex-positive cultures in a world full of diverse desires and boundaries.
Race: The History of an Idea
This course examines the origins of the idea of “races” of human beings in the United States, and traces its deployment over two centuries in efforts to conquer, exterminate, civilize, and assimilate various “races” of people both inside the U.S. and across the world.
The Politics of Sex Work
The history, politics, and cultural norms of sex work, with an argument for why it should be decriminalized.
An Introduction to Nietzsche
Examining Nietzsche's policy and politics of joy, radical life affirmation, and what it means to live outside of morality - with relentless ethics.
What is Postmodernism?
Learn the major arguments of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and other postmodernist philosophers - and new ways of thinking about the questions they raise.
Renegade History of the United States
It was not “good” citizens who established American liberty, but “immoral” and “degraded” people on the fringes of society.
Dangerous Nation:The U.S. & The World, 1776-1898
An argument that globalist, imperialist ideas were embedded in America's founding philosophy.
World War II: The Great Blowback
Examine the emergent, revisionist history whether America's "good war" was actually America's greatest blowback.
The War on Terror: A Global Catastrophe
An argument that U.S. military interventions created and sustained what appears to be a self-perpetuating war.
Afghanistan: America’s Longest Foreign War
A history of the origins and consequences of America’s longest war.
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