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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 course offers a systematic overview of the most important schools of literary theory. These are presented in historical perspective: after a brief look at some of the basic...

This online course program explores the cultural significance of Shakespeare’s plays.

The aim of this course of lectures is two-fold: On the one hand it presents a systematic overview of the historical development of English and American literature. On the other...

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

In this lecture course, a wide range of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries will be discussed in order to give an overview of this "golden age" of English drama....

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 lecture course will offer a survey and introduction to Shakespeare and the culture of his time. 

This series of online courses gives an introduction to Generative Art, i.e. the practice of generative systems (such as computers) applied to creative tasks. The courses include...

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 (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 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...

These short online courses provided by Skillshare cover various topics around creative writing, including creative fiction and non-fiction, screenwriting, ebooks, editorial...

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...

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...

Starting with a brief systematic overview of the history of the English novel, this course of lectures will introduce a map of the bewildering landscape of contemporary British...

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....