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

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

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 explores the role of books during the Enlightenment and how literature emerged as a modern form of culture.

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...

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...

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.

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

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 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 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...

The Systems Biology and Biotechnology Specialization covers the concepts and methodologies used in systems-level analysis of biomedical systems. This course will focus on...

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...

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