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Focused on Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings Online, this course explores what happens to stories and films when they are turned into online games.

This online course explores Shakespeare's mature plays of tragic love, Othello and King Lear, and what makes them so powerful and enduring.

This online coures explores the literature and heroes of ancient Greece through the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, the tragedies of Sophocles, the dialogues of Plato, and more.

This course offers an easy entry into interpreting common statistical concepts and understand these concepts is the best way to start a journey into the world of clinical...

This online course covers texts from the domains of classical literature, history, philosophy, and fine arts.

This course is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experimental verse, from Dickinson and Whitman to the present.

Through this course, students will learn the history of creative computing, what challenges writers, artists, and readers face in new media environments. They will also discover...

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

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 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...

This online course gives an introduction to Gothic cathedrals. The course explores the art, literature, intellectual life, economics, and social arrangements that arose in the...

This online course explores the dynamics of contemporary China using Chinese literature and literary analysis. The course includes direct engagement with five books and author...

In this course, students will explore the Holocaust from the overlapping perspectives of literature and history—through memoirs, historical documents, poetry, documentary...

This course is a unique and exciting introduction to the genre and craft of historical fiction, for curious students, aspiring authors--anyone with a passion for the past.

This online course explores the Shakespeare authorship question, i.e. the doubt about the authorship of Shakespeare's texts.

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...

This online course explores Shakespeare's plays of young love, Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night´s Dream, and what makes them so compelling and magical.

This online course (MOOC) aims at providing students with a deeper knowledge of Chinese culture, thus enabling them to better understand China. It covers topics such as...

This online course is to equip the learner with the knowledge required to comprehend the literature on anomalies so that he can replicate the strategies discovered by the extant...

This online course explores the important roles that books have played in the cultural history of Japan.