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This course explores the writings of famous American authors from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mark Twain, and examines the historic role Dartmouth College...

In this online course, bestseller author James Patterson teaches the art of the book writing process. The course includes more than 20 video lessons and various supplemental...

This series of online courses gives an introduction to Generative Art, i.e. the practice of generative systems (such as computers) applied to creative tasks. The courses include...

This online course explores the role of books during the Enlightenment and how literature emerged as a modern form of culture.

This online course explores several well-known European fairy tales and their meanings and interpretation.

This course examines major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, exploring their interconnections on three analytic scales: the macro history of the United States and...

Whether you're beginning your novel draft or nearing the end, this course is a unique opportunity to learn the essentials of strong fiction writing from award-winning authors...

This online course explores the history of the book during the early modern period and shows how the invention of printing revolutionized our world.

This online course gives an introduction to the fundamental components of advanced literature searches for professionals and researchers in the health sciences.

The course facilitates a close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque Spain. Students are also expected to read four of...

This online video lecture provides a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements in historical context,...

This online lecture explores Science Fiction as a genre.

This online course teaches the fundamentals of story structure. It shows how to complete a detailed, scene-by-scene outline of a novel idea. The course includes topics such...

This course will teach what social innovations are and how they can help solve societal problems. It also gives an overview of important literature and debates on social...

This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern became one of the crucial...

This online course explores the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

The course is an introduction to Dante and his cultural milieu through a critical reading of the Divine Comedy and selected minor works (Vita nuova, Convivio, De vulgari...

This module is the second of three modules that compose the full course. In this part, students are invited to follow the Pilgrim Dante, who emerges with Virgil onto the Isle of...

This course will cover key poetic terms and devices by studying poems by a handful of modern and contemporary poets and then get a chance to try our own hand at writing new poem...

This online course provides an exploration of Spain depicted in Cervante’s historic novel, Don Quixote – a Golden Age in which Spanish arts and literature reached worldwide...