Free Literature Courses

The course will be organized around various attempts to reinterpret the Judeo/Christian God, and to determine in what sense, if at all, such a God is still a living God.

Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it.

Most human lives contain major turning points: crises that transform an individual’s future development...

Professor Ken Hiltner surveys nearly 5000 thousand years of literature in order to explore the literary history of the relationship we have with our planet.

Built around Plato's Symposium, Shakespeare (including A Midsummer Night's Dream), Catholic writings (including Humanae Vitae), and several movies, this course explores the nature of romance and erotic love.

The Romantic period witnessed the birth of major new forms of writing and thinking that are still relevant today. The social transition from an age of commerce and colonialism to an era of industry and imperialism radically changed the entire surface of the world.

American Passages: A Literary Survey is a 16-part American literature course. The video programs, print guides, and Web site place literary movements and authors within the context of history and culture.

In "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present.

Complete lecture series from U-M English Professor Ralph Williams's course on Shakespeare's Principal Plays. Recorded Fall Term 2008--Williams's final semester teaching this course at the University of Michigan.

Critical examination of major and selected minor writers from the colonial period through Hawthorne and Melville.