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

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

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.

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...

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

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...

This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to...

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

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students will explore the Holocaust from the overlapping perspectives of literature and history—through memoirs, historical documents, poetry, documentary...

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

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 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 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 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 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...