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

This course of lectures provides an overview of literature written in English in India. This body of work can be usefully subdivided into Anglo-Indian literature on the one hand...

This course gives an introduction to Romanticism from various perspectives.

This lecture course provides a survey of nineteenth century British literature and culture. It addresses cultural phenomena, objects, fashions, innovations, ideologies in the...

This lecture provides an overview of English Literature in the 17th Century.

This online course provides a journey through the literature of English country houses from the time of Thomas More to Oscar Wilde.

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 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 teaches learners how to read and interpret poetry and enhances their reading and writing skills.

This online course explores how poems, plays and novels can help us understand and cope with deep emotional strain.

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

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....

Focused on Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings Online, this course explores what happens to stories and films when they are turned into online games.

This online course explores how to interpret plays.

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

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 offers participants an introduction to the field known as cognitive poetics – applying cognitive science (the study of the mind and its processes) to how we...

This online lecture gives an overview of travel narratives from the Middle Ages to contemporary literature.