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

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

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

This hands-on course helps learners to get started with their own fiction writing, focusing on the central skill of creating characters.

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 one of the most popular and widely read literary sub-genres of crime fiction. It includes modules on its history, the various sub-genres, narrative...

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

This online course explores literature and interpretation in the Digital Age. It shows new ways of interpreting literary texts, from time-tested methods to computer-assisted...

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

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...

The course presents the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while...

This online course (MOOC) explores various learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. It teaches how the...

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 the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

This online course prepares participants to read more deeply and write more clearly about works of literature. They will learn to appreciate literature from different genres....

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...