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students will explore the Holocaust from the overlapping perspectives of literature and history—through memoirs, historical documents, poetry, documentary...

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 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 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...

Taking this course, students will question for themselves the meaning of human freedom, responsibility and identity by reading and responding to Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

This course is for curious students and aspiring authors with a passion for writing for young readers. This course will guide you with a combination of video lectures, online...

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

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

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

This online course teaches about Shakespeare’s plays and their influence through a focus on emotions such as love, hate, and jealousy.

This online course program gives an overview of Chinese cultural knowledge, including traditions, philosophy, religion, strategic thinking, as well as paintings, operas and...

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 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.

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

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 program explores the cultural significance of Shakespeare’s plays.

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...