Improve your literary understanding and analysis with top universities and get to know the literary greats with our literature online courses on Austen, Shakespeare, Burns, Wordsworth, Wilde and more.

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The University of Edinburgh

How to Read a Novel

4 weeks

2 hrs per week

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The University of Glasgow

Robert Burns: Poems, Songs and Legacy

3 weeks

4 hrs per week

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The Open University

Start Writing Fiction

8 weeks

3 hrs per week

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Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)

A Panoramic View of China: Introducing Chinese Culture

8 weeks

3 hrs per week

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Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)

Cultural Dialogues: An Intercultural Reading of The Analects and Tao Te Ching

6 weeks

6 hrs per week

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Ralston College

Robert Frost: The American Voice

4 weeks

3 hrs per week

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The University of Glasgow

An Introduction to Playwriting

4 weeks

4 hrs per week

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Film Distributors' Association

A Beginner’s Guide to Film Genres

4 weeks

3 hrs per week

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