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

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

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 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 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 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.

In this online course, eighteen experienced faculty members from across the United States present their analyses of ground-breaking modern American poets—from Whitman and...

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...

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

Diese Online-Vorlesung gibt eine literaturwissenschaftliche Einführung in die Neuere Deutsche Literatur.In 10 Videovorlesungen verschiedener Dozenten werden viele grundlegende...

Exil – Literatur – Judentum

Diese Vorlesungsserie beleuchtet die verschiedenen Facetten des Werks von Rousseau (u.a. politische Philosophie, Literatur und Sprache, Pädagogik) und seiner Aktualität ebenso...

Dieser Kurs gibt Tipps zum Schreiben von Büchern, den nötigen Zeitrahmen und widmet sich der Planung und Gliederung sowie der Kapitelerstellung.

Diese Online-Vorlesung untersucht moderne Ästhetikkonzepte und Ansätze mittelalterlicher Kunsttheorie bei literarischen Texten des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts.

Dieses Videoseminar ist als Online-Version verfügbar. Es gibt eine Einführung in die deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur seit 1945. Enthalten sind diverse Schriftsteller und...