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

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

This online course explores the foundations of gender and sexuality, covering key topics in the fields of literature, language, geography, history, political science, sociology,...

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

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 "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present. The course traces the formal and thematic developments of the novel in...

This online course focusses on the historical and cultural background, literary aesthetics, music, and performance of Kunqu, China’s classical opera. After viewing the lecture...

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 explores the richness and diversity of Chinese culture by analyzing the role of art, literature and the concept of the 'noble hero'.

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

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

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...

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 online lecture series gives an introduction to design thinking. The main focus of the lectures is the theoretical background of design thinking, including the relevant...

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 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 (MOOC) teaches about the history and development of world literature. The course explores how literature developed within cultures and how literary works and...

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.