Literature

155 resources

MIT OCW
free
The Bible
Ina Lipkowitz
This course is an introduction to major books from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Particular attention...
History Literature Religion
intermediate
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free
Classics of Western Philosophy
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This course will introduce you to the Western philosophical tradition through the study of thinkers such as Plato,...
Humanities History Literature
intermediate
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The Science Fiction of Freedom
Prof. Ben Mangrum
What does it mean to be free? Is freedom a state of mind? An inalienable property of the self? The absence of...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Old English and Beowulf
Prof. Arthur Bahr
This course is an intensive introduction to Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon), the ancestor of modern English...
Language Literature Humanities
intermediate
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free
Victorian Literature and Culture
Prof. James Buzard
The course covers British literature and culture during Queen Victoria’s long reign, 1837-1901. This was the...
History Anthropology Literature
intermediate
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Robert Speer
How are math, art, music, and language intertwined? How does intelligent behavior arise from its component parts?...
Humanities Engineering Networks and Security
intermediate
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free
Introduction to French Literature
Prof. Bruno Perreau
This course is a study of major French literary genres and an introduction to methods of literary analysis. This...
Humanities Language Literature
intermediate
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free
Ancient Greek Philosophy and Mathematics
Dr. Lee Perlman
This course explores the relationship between ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics. We investigate how ideas of...
Humanities History Mathematics
intermediate
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free
Rhetoric
Dr. Steven Strang
This course is an examination of the theory, the practice, and the implications of rhetoric & rhetorical...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
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free
Literature and Ethical Values
Prof. Alvin Kibel
The aim of this subject is to acquaint the student with some important works of systematic ethical philosophy and to...
Literature Philosophy Humanities
intermediate
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free
Writing and Reading Short Stories
Shariann Lewitt
This course is an introduction to the short story. Students will write stories and short descriptive sketches....
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Communication Skills for Academics
Prof. Joanne Yates
Your success as an academic will depend heavily on your ability to communicate to fellow researchers in your...
Communication Literature Social Sciences
advanced
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free
Writing Workshop
Jessica Young
MIT students are challenged daily to solve for x, to complete four problem sets, two papers, and prepare for an exam...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
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free
Introduction to Media Studies
Dr. Andrea Walsh
Introduction to Media Studies is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia...
Media Studies Literature Anthropology
intermediate
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free
Crafting Research Questions and Qualitative Methodology
Prof. Judith Tendler
This course covers approaches to research and evaluation in the planning field, for those preparing to write...
Urban Studies Literature Humanities
advanced
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free
Foundations of Western Culture: Homer to Dante
Prof. Arthur Bahr
As we read broadly from throughout the vast chronological period that is “Homer to Dante,” we will pepper our...
Humanities Literature Philosophy
intermediate
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free
Fans and Fan Cultures
Prof. Edward Schiappa
This subject examines media audiences—specifically, fans—and the subcultures that evolve around them. Explores...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Classics of Chinese Literature
Prof. Emma Teng
This course is an introduction to three of the major genres of traditional Chinese literature—poetry, fiction and...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Literary Theory
Prof. Shankar Raman
This subject examines the ways in which we read. It introduces some important strategies for engaging with literary...
Visual Arts Literature Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Writing and Reading the Essay
Prof. Anthony Lioi
As the course title suggests, this class is meant to acquaint you with the literary and rhetorical tradition of the...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Argumentation and Communication
Cherie Miot Abbanat
This Communication and Argumentation seminar is an intensive writing workshop that focuses on argumentation and...
Humanities Communication Literature
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Linear Algebra - Communications Intensive
Andrew Brooke-Taylor
This is a communication intensive supplement to Linear Algebra (18.06). The main emphasis is on the methods of...
Mathematics Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Science Communication: A Practical Guide
Prof. John Durant
This class develops the abilities of students to communicate science effectively in a variety of real-world...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Philosophy of Love
Dr. Lee Perlman
This course explores the nature of love through works of philosophy, literature, film, poetry, and individual...
Literature Philosophy Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema
Prof. Charity Scribner
21G.031 examines the terms “avant garde” and “Kulturindustrie” in French and German culture of the early twentieth...
Visual Arts Anthropology Art History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Science Writing and New Media: Science Writing for the Public
Karen Boiko
This class is an introduction to writing about science—including nature, medicine and technology—for general...
Media Studies Communication Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Japanese Literature and Cinema
Prof. Ian Condry
This course surveys both cinematic and literary representations of diverse eras and aspects of Japanese culture such...
Visual Arts Anthropology Literature
intermediate
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free
Writing and Experience: Reading and Writing Autobiography
Dr. Andrea Walsh
The reading and writing in this course will focus on the art of self-narrative or autobiographical writing. Such...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Graduate Technical Writing Workshop
Caroline Beimford
This course is designed to improve the student’s ability to communicate technical information. It covers the basics...
Literature Humanities
advanced
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free
Reading Poetry: Social Poetics
Prof. Joshua Bennett
The central concern of this class is the historical relationship between the social lives of everyday people and...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
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free
Playwriting I
Laura Harrington
This class introduces the craft of writing for the theater. Through weekly assignments, in class writing exercises,...
Literature Performing Arts Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Ancient World: Greece
Prof. William Broadhead
This course elaborates the history of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander. It covers major...
History Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
German IV
Ellen Crocker
This course focuses on development of interpretive skills, using literary texts (B. Brecht, S. Zweig) and...
Media Studies Language Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Studies in Film
Prof. Alvin Kibel
This course investigates relationships between two media, film and literature, studying works linked across the two...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
French Film Classics
Catherine E Clark
This course covers the history and aesthetics of French cinema from the advent of sound to present-day. It treats...
Visual Arts Language Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Writing Science Fiction
Shariann Lewitt
This class will focus on the craft of writing genre science fiction. Students write and read science fiction and...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Masterworks in American Short Fiction
Prof. John Hildebidle
For some reason, American literature (like French, Irish, and Russian, among others) has been especially productive...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
German III
Dagmar Jaeger
This course expands skills in speaking, reading, listening, and writing. Students develop analytic and...
Language Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Shakespeare
Prof. Diana Henderson
Three hundred and eighty years after his death, William Shakespeare remains the central author of the...
Humanities Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Writing and Rhetoric: Rhetoric and Contemporary Issues
Dr. Andrea Walsh
This course seeks to provide a supportive context for students to grow significantly as writers by discovering and...
Policy and Administration Communication Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Contemporary Literature: British Novels Now
Prof. Sarah Brouillette
What is Britain now? Its metropolises are increasingly multicultural. Its hold over its distant colonies is a thing...
Humanities Literature Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Composing Your Life: Exploration of Self through Visual Arts and Writing
Graham Gordon Ramsay
In this interdisciplinary seminar, we explore a variety of visual and written tools for self exploration and self...
Visual Arts Literature Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Supernatural in Music, Literature and Culture
Prof. Charles Shadle
This course explores the relationship between music and the supernatural, focusing on the social history and context...
Art, Design & Architecture Literature Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Ancient World: Rome
Prof. William Broadhead
This course covers the history of Rome from its humble beginnings to the 5th century A.D. The first half covers...
Humanities History Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Ancient Philosophy
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This course will acquaint the student with some of the ancient Greek contributions to the Western philosophical and...
Literature Philosophy Humanities
intermediate
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free
Anthropology Through Speculative Fiction
Prof. Erica James
This class examines how anthropology and speculative fiction (SF) each explore ideas about culture and society,...
Anthropology Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Classical Literature: The Golden Age of Augustan Rome
Prof. James Cain
Roman Literature of the Golden Age of Augustus Caesar, produced during the transition from Republican to Imperial...
History Literature Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Reading Fiction
Prof. Alisa Braithwaite
Reading Fiction is designed to sharpen your skills as a critical reader. As we explore both short stories and novels...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
American Literature
Dr. Wyn Kelley
This course studies the national literature of the United States since the early 19th century. It considers a range...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Experimental Molecular Genetics
Prof. Jing-Ke Weng
This project-based laboratory course provides students with in-depth experience in experimental molecular genetics,...
Literature Biology Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-Between
Prof. Margery Resnick
This subject examines the paradoxes of contemporary globalization. Through lectures, discussions and student...
Anthropology Economics Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Special Topics in Cinematic Storytelling
Prof. Glorianna Davenport
This seminar explores approaches to representation for distributed cinematic storytelling. The relationship between...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series: Developing Professional Skills
Dr. Mya Poe
This course consists of a series of seminars focused on the development of professional skills. Each semester...
Literature Philosophy Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Writing and Reading Poems
William Corbett
This course is an examination of the formal structural and textual variety in poetry. Students engage in extensive...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Transmedia Storytelling: Modern Science Fiction
Shariann Lewitt
Transmedia narratives exist across multiple storytelling platforms, using the advantages of each to enhance the...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Script Analysis
Michael Ouellette
This class focuses on reading a script theatrically with a view to mounting a coherent production. Through careful,...
Literature Performing Arts Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Expository Writing for Bilingual Students
Patricia Brennecke
The purpose of this course is to develop your writing skills so that you can feel confident writing the essays, term...
Language Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Drama
Prof. Diana Henderson
Drama combines the literary arts of storytelling and poetry with the world of live performance. As a form of...
Literature Performing Arts Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Genre Fiction Workshop
Shariann Lewitt
Some argue that genre fiction is only a marketing category, but other critics say that different genres meet...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
English Renaissance Drama: Theatre and Society in the Age of Shakespeare
Prof. Shankar Raman
Shakespeare “doth bestride the narrow world” of the English Renaissance “like a colossus,” leaving his...
Literature Performing Arts Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Film as Visual and Literary Mythmaking
Prof. Irving Singer
This course examines problems in the philosophy of film as well as literature studied in relation to their making of...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
World Literatures: Travel Writing
Prof. Mary Fuller
This semester, we will read writing about travel and place from Columbus’s Diario through the present. Travel...
Humanities Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Writing About Literature: Writing About Love
Rosa Martínez
This course is designed around analyzing intimate bonds and the permutations of heartbreak. Through the analysis of...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Workshop in Writing for Social Sciences and Architecture (ELS)
Patricia Brennecke
This workshop is designed to help you write clearly, accurately and effectively in both an academic and a...
Language Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Anthropology of the Middle East
Prof. Susan Slyomovics
This course examines traditional performances of the Arabic-speaking populations of the Middle East and North...
Performing Arts Anthropology Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Literary Interpretation: Virginia Woolf's Shakespeare
Prof. Diana Henderson
How does one writer use another writer’s work? Does it matter if one author has been dead 300 years? What...
Humanities Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Major Media Texts
Prof. Diana Henderson
This class does intensive close study and analysis of historically significant media “texts” that have been...
Media Studies Literature Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to French Culture
Catherine E Clark
This course examines major social and political trends, events, debates and personalities which help place aspects...
Language Literature Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Philosophy of Love in the Western World
Prof. Irving Singer
This course is a seminar on the nature of love and sex, approached as topics both in philosophy and in literature....
Humanities Literature Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Popular Culture and Narrative: Use and Abuse of the Fairy Tale
Dr. William Donaldson
This course takes a deep look at a big subject. We ask where Fairy Tales come from and we examine the structure of...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Modern Poetry
Prof. Stephen Tapscott
This course considers some of the substantial early twentieth-century poetic voices in America. Authors vary, but...
Humanities Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Workshop in Writing for Science and Engineering (ELS)
Jane Dunphy
This course offers analysis and practice of various forms of scientific and technical writing, from memos to journal...
Humanities Language Literature
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Foundations of Western Culture: The Making of the Modern World
Dr. Howard Eiland
This course comprises a broad survey of texts, literary and philosophical, which trace the development of the modern...
Humanities History Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Writing Seminar
Cherie Miot Abbanat
The purpose of this seminar is to expose the student to a number of different types of writing that one may...
Literature Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
High-Intermediate Academic Communication
Isaiah WonHo Yoo
The goal of this course is to review grammar and develop vocabulary building strategies to refine oral and written...
Media Studies Communication Literature
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Communicating in Technical Organizations
Dr. Edward C. Barrett
This course focuses on an exploration of the role that communication plays in the work of the contemporary...
Communication Literature Organizations & Leadership
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Writing and Experience: Exploring Self in Society
Dr. Andrea Walsh
The reading and writing for this course will focus on what it means to construct a sense of self and a life...
Humanities Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
American Classics
Prof. Pauline Maier
This subject is devoted to reading and discussing basic American historical texts that are often cited but often...
History Anthropology Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Major English Novels
Prof. James Buzard
This course studies several important examples of the genre that between the early 18th century and the end of the...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Classical Rhetoric and Modern Political Discourse
Prof. Leslie Perelman
This course is an introduction to the history, theory, practice, and implications of rhetoric, the art and craft of...
Communication Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Topics in South Asian Literature and Culture
Arundhati Banerjee
This subject aims to provide an overview of contemporary texts in regional languages in South Asian Literature and...
Media Studies Anthropology Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Small Wonders: Media, Modernity, and the Moment: Experiments in Time
Prof. Noel Jackson
The “small wonders” to which our course will attend are moments of present time, depicted in the verbal and visual...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Shakespeare, Film and Media
Prof. Peter S. Donaldson
Filmed Shakespeare began in 1899, with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree performing the death scene from King John for the...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Special Topics in Literature: Milton's "Paradise Lost"
Prof. Mary Fuller
In this 3-unit class, we will read Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost. The goal of the class is for students to come...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Medieval Literature: Love, Sex, and Marriage
Dr. Emily Griffiths Jones
It is easy to think of love as a “universal language” - but do ideas about love translate easily across history,...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Writing About Literature
Dr. Wyn Kelley
Students, scholars, bloggers, reviewers, fans, and book-group members write about literature, but so do authors...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Literary Studies: The Legacy of England
Prof. Stephen Tapscott
Topic: The English sense of humor. This course examines English literature across genre and historical periods. It...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Writing with Shakespeare
Prof. Diana Henderson
William Shakespeare didn’t go to college. If he time-traveled like Dr. Who, he would be stunned to find his words on...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
French Photography
Catherine E Clark
This course introduces students to the world of French photography from its invention in the 1820s to the present....
Visual Arts Language Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Bestsellers: Out for the Count
Dr. William Donaldson
This class uses a range of literary texts to trace the growth of the vampire trope from its first appearance in...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Genre Fiction Workshop: Fantasy
Shariann Lewitt
Fantasy is currently one of the most popular genres across every platform in fiction. From film to gaming to...
Humanities Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Writing and Rhetoric: Designing Meaning
Dr. Suzanne T. Lane
This course takes rhetoric as a system for designing meaning that helps us understand complex situations and ideas,...
Communication Literature Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Medieval Literature: Dante, Boccaccio, Chaucer
Prof. James Cain
The course explores the literary masterworks of three of the most celebrated authors of the Middle Ages in their...
Humanities History Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Rhetoric: Rhetoric of Science
Dr. Mya Poe
This course is an introduction to the history, theory, practice, and implications of rhetoric, the art and craft of...
Communication Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Leadership Stories: Literature, Ethics, and Authority
Prof. Leigh Hafrey
This course explores how we use story to articulate ethical norms. The syllabus consists of short fiction, novels,...
Management Literature Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Fiction
Dr. Elizabeth M. Fox
This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles, traditional...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Angles
Jared David Berezin
Angles is an annual online magazine of exemplary writing by MIT students. All of the works published in Angles since...
Communication Literature Humanities
beginner
MIT OCW
free
Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology
Prof. Irving Singer
This course is a seminar on creativity in art, science, and technology. We discuss how these pursuits are jointly...
Literature Philosophy Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Arthurian Literature and Celtic Colonization
Prof. James Cain
The course examines the earliest emergence of stories about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in the...
History Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Media in Cultural Context: Popular Readerships
Prof. Sarah Brouillette
What is the history of popular reading in the Western world? How does widespread access to print relate to...
History Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature
Prof. Margery Resnick
This course studies important twentieth century texts from Spain and Latin America. The readings include short...
Language Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Popular Culture and Narrative: Literature, Comics, and Culture
Prof. John Picker
In this course, we will investigate popular culture and narrative by focusing on the relationship between literary...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Philosophy In Film and Other Media
Prof. Irving Singer
This course examines works of film in relation to thematic issues of philosophical importance that also occur in...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
North America through French Eyes
Prof. Bruno Perreau
The course offers an analysis of the keen interest shown by France and the French in North American cultures since...
Language Literature Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Comedy
Rosa Martínez
This course is designed around analyzing what’s so funny and why is it that we laugh when we do. How is comedy...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Reading Poetry
Prof. Mary Fuller
How do you read a poem? Intuition is not the only answer. In this class, we will investigate some of the formal...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Studies in Literary History: Modernism: From Nietzsche to Fellini
Dr. Howard Eiland
How do literature, philosophy, film and other arts respond to the profound changes in world view and lifestyle that...
History Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Medieval Literature: Legends of Arthur
Prof. Arthur Bahr
As a quasi-historical, quasi-legendary figure of consistently great popularity, King Arthur has been subject to an...
Humanities History Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
A Passage to India: Introduction to Modern Indian Culture and Society
Prof. Sunil H. Sharma
This course is an introduction to modern Indian culture and society through films, documentaries, short stories,...
Media Studies Sociology Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Science Writing and New Media: Communicating Science to the Public
Jared David Berezin
This course provides an introduction to writing about science (including medicine, technology, and engineering) for...
Humanities History Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Women's Novels: A Weekly Book Club
Faye Kasemset
This pass/fail seminar should be a fun setting where we can all enjoy a love of good books together. Students will...
Literature Gender Studies Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Narrative Ethics: Literary Texts and Moral Issues in Medicine
Prof. Martha Montello
This eight-session course, designed for a mixed group of first, second, third and fourth-year medical students, uses...
Literature Philosophy Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Science Writing and New Media: Perspectives on Medicine and Public Health
Dr. Cynthia Taft
Like other scientists, medical researchers and clinicians must be capable of presenting their work to an audience of...
Literature Public Health Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Contemporary Literature: Literature, Development, and Human Rights
Prof. Sarah Brouillette
Central to our era is the gradual movement of all the world’s regions toward a uniform standard of economic and...
Humanities Sociology Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Survival Skills for Researchers: The Responsible Conduct of Research
Prof. Elizabeth R. Myers
This course is designed to provide graduate students and postdoctoral associates with techniques that enhance both...
Literature Philosophy Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Bestsellers: Detective Fiction
Prof. Stephen Tapscott
This course focuses on works that caught the popular imagination in the past or present. It emphasizes texts that...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Foundations of World Culture I: World Civilizations and Texts
Dr. Ghenwa Hayek
This course aims to introduce students to the rich diversity of human culture from antiquity to the early 17th...
Humanities Anthropology Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Literary Interpretation: Literature and Urban Experience
Prof. Sarah Brouillette
Alienation, overcrowding, sensory overload, homelessness, criminality, violence, loneliness, sprawl, blight. How...
Urban Studies Literature Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Art of the Probable: Literature and Probability
Prof. Noel Jackson
“The Art of the Probable” addresses the history of scientific ideas, in particular the emergence and development of...
Humanities History Mathematics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Non-violence as a Way of Life
Dr. Lee Perlman
This course addresses the philosophical question of what a non-violent life entails. It investigates its ethical...
Literature Philosophy Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Forms of Western Narrative
Prof. James Cain
This class will investigate the ways in which the formal aspects of Western storytelling in various media have...
Media Studies Literature Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Renaissance Literature
Prof. Mary Fuller
The Renaissance has justly become both famous and notorious as an age of discovery, and its voyages took place in...
History Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Medieval Literature: Medieval Women Writers
Prof. James Cain
This survey provides a general introduction to medieval European literature (from Late Antiquity to the Fifteenth...
History Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
New Culture of Gender: Queer France
Prof. Bruno Perreau
This course addresses the place of contemporary queer identities in French discourse and discusses the new...
Media Studies Anthropology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Contemporary French Society
Sabine Levet
This course is an intermediate subject designed to help students gradually build an in-depth understanding of...
Language Literature Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Reading Fiction: Imaginary Journeys
Prof. James Buzard
Great works of fiction often take us to far-off places; they sometimes conduct us on journeys toward a deeper...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Literature, Ethics and Authority
Prof. Alvin Kibel
Our subject is the ethics of leadership, an examination of the principles appealed to by executive authority when...
Anthropology Literature Philosophy
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Writing and Experience: MIT: Inside, Live
Lucy Marx
During this seminar, students will chronicle their MIT experiences and investigate MIT history and culture. Visits...
Media Studies Literature Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Childhood and Youth in French and Francophone Cultures
Prof. Bruno Perreau
This course studies the transformation of childhood and youth since the 18th century in France and the development...
Language Literature Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America
Dr. Wyn Kelley
This seminar looks at two bestselling nineteenth-century American authors whose works made the subject of slavery...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Modern Fiction
Prof. James Buzard
Tradition and innovation in representative fiction of the early modern period. Recurring themes include the role of...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Germany and its European Context
Prof. Charity Scribner
This course focuses on main currents in contemporary German literary and visual culture. Taking Nietzsche’s...
Humanities Sociology Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Ethnic Literature in America
Dr. Wyn Kelley
Although this class starts by critically examining the term “ethnic” as it defines a wide range of cultural forms...
Humanities Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Studies in Poetry: 20th Century Irish Poetry: The Shadow of W. B. Yeats
Prof. John Hildebidle
William Butler Yeats occupies a dominant position in the lives and work of the Irish poets who followed him. We will...
Literature Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Science Writing and New Media: Explorations in Communicating about Science & Technology
Dr. Janis Melvold
Proficiency in communicating about science and technology comes from both knowledge and practice, and this course...
Literature Humanities
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