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Free Online Classes: English & Literature

Free online classes are helping English and literature students alike, giving them a way to learn new skills and get experiences beyond their traditional education.


Free online classes cover everything from American literature to comedy writing to poetry slams, so don't miss out. Check out these great courses from MIT, Yale, UC Berkeley and others, and start learning.

Course Title School
20th-Century Fiction MIT
Advanced Essay Workshop MIT
After Columbus MIT
American Authors: American Women Authors MIT
American Literature MIT
Arthurian Literature and Celtic Colonization MIT
Becoming Digital: Writing About Media Change MIT
Bestsellers: Detective Fiction MIT
British Literature: Neoclassical and Romantic Weber State University
Classical Literature: The Golden Age of Augustan Rome MIT
Classical Rhetoric and Modern Politics MIT
Comedy MIT
Communicating in Cyberspace MIT
Communicating in Technical Organizations MIT
Consumer Culture MIT
Contemporary Literature MIT
Contemporary Literature: British Novels Now MIT
Contemporary Literature: Literature, Development, and Human Rights MIT
Darwin and Design MIT
Digital Poetry MIT
Documentary Photography and Photo Journalism: Still Images of A World In Motion MIT
Eighteenth-Century Literature: Versions of the Self in 18th-C Britain MIT
End of Nature MIT
ENGL 214 - The Dynamic Word: Textuality and Technology Capilano University
ENGL1010 - Introduction to Writing: Academic Prose, Spring 2007 Utah State
ENGL2010 - Intermediate Writing: Research Writing in a Persuasive Mode, Spring 2007 Utah State
ENGL3400 - Technology for Professional Writers, Spring 2005 Utah State
English Renaissance Drama: Theatre and Society in the Age of Shakespeare MIT
Expository Writing: Analyzing Mass Media MIT
Expository Writing: Autobiography - Theory and Practice MIT
Expository Writing: Exploring Social and Ethical Issues through Film and Print MIT
Expository Writing: Social and Ethical Issues in Print, Photography and Film MIT
Forms of Western Narrative MIT
Foundations of Language and Communication Western Governors University
Foundations of Western Culture II MIT
Foundations of Western Culture II: Modernism MIT
Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity MIT
Foundations of Western Culture: Homer to Dante MIT
Greek Mythology Open University of Washington
Gulliver's Gravels Open University of Washington
Hamlet Open University of Washington
Heroic Fantasy: Tolkien Open University of Washington
Humanistic Perspectives on Medicine: From Ancient Greece to Modern America MIT
Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice MIT
Intermediate Writing: Research Writing in a Persuasive Mode Utah State
Intro to Tech Communication MIT
Introduction to Anglo-American Folk Music MIT
Introduction to Drama MIT
Introduction to Fiction MIT
Introduction to Literary Theory MIT
Introduction to Media Studies MIT
Introduction to Technical Communication: Ethics in Science and Technology MIT
Introduction to Technical Communication: Explorations in Scientific and Technical Writing MIT
Introduction to Technical Communication: Perspectives on Medicine and Public Health MIT
Introduction to Writing: Academic Prose Utah State
Learning from the Past: Drama, Science, Performance MIT
Literary Interpretation: Beyond the Limits of the Lyric MIT
Literary Interpretation: Interpreting Poetry MIT
Literary Interpretation: Literature and Photography: The Image MIT
Literary Interpretation: Virginia Woolf's Shakespeare MIT
Literary Studies: The Legacy of England MIT
Literature and Ethical Values MIT
Literature in English UC Berkeley
Literature Reviews Utah State
Major Authors: After the Masterpiece: Novels by Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison MIT
Major Authors: John Milton MIT
Major Authors: Melville and Morrison MIT
Major Authors: Oscar Wilde and the '90's MIT
Major English Novels MIT
Major English Novels: Reading Romantic Fiction MIT
Major European Novels MIT
Major Poets MIT
Masterworks in American Short Fiction MIT
Media in Cultural Context MIT
Media in Cultural Context: Popular Readerships MIT
Medieval Literature: Dante, Boccaccio, Chaucer MIT
Medieval Literature: Medieval Women Writers MIT
Milton Yale
Modern Drama MIT
Modern Poetry Yale
Modern Poetry MIT
Popular Narrative: Masterminds MIT
Prizewinners MIT
Race and Identity in American Literature: Keepin' it Real Fake MIT
Reading Fiction MIT
Reading Fiction: Dysfunctional Families MIT
Research, Writing, and Oral Presentation Western Governors University
Rhetoric MIT
Rhetoric: Rhetoric of Science MIT
Rhetorical and Critical Writing Western Governors University
Romantic Poetry MIT
ROSP 40767 - Women's Narrative in the Southern Cone, Spring 2007 Notre Dame
Science and Engineering Writing for Phase II MIT
Shakespeare MIT
Shakespeare, Film and Media MIT
Shakespeare's Comedies Open University of Washington
Small Wonders: Staying Alive MIT
Special Topics in Literature: Milton's "Paradise Lost" MIT
Studies in Drama: Stoppard and Churchill MIT
Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War MIT
Studies in Fiction: Rethinking the American Masterpiece MIT
Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America MIT
Studies in Film MIT
Studies in Poetry - British Poetry and the Sciences of the Mind MIT
Studies in Poetry: "Does Poetry Matter" MIT
Studies in Poetry: "What's the Use of Beauty?" MIT
Studies in Poetry: 20th Century Irish Poetry: The Shadow of W. B. Yeats MIT
Studies in Poetry: From the Sonneteers to the Metaphysicals MIT
Studies in Poetry: Gender and Lyric -- Renaissance Men and Women Writing about Love MIT
Technologies of Humanism MIT
Technology for Professional Writers Utah State
The American Novel MIT
The American Novel since 1945 Yale
The Art of the Probable: Literature and Probability MIT
The Bible MIT
The Creative Spark MIT
The Film Experience MIT
The Science Essay MIT
Theory and Practice of Non-linear and Interactive Narrative MIT
Tragedy MIT
Understanding Television MIT
Victorian Literature and Culture MIT
World Literatures: Contact Zone MIT
Writing About Literature MIT
Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues MIT
Writing About Race MIT
Writing About Race: Narratives of Multiraciality MIT
Writing and Experience MIT
Writing and Experience: Exploring Self in Society MIT
Writing and Reading Poems MIT
Writing and Reading Short Stories MIT
Writing and Reading the Essay MIT
Writing and the Environment MIT
Writing Early American Lives: Gender, Race, Nation, Faith MIT
Writing on Contemporary Issues: Culture Shock! Writing, Editing, and Publishing in Cyberspace MIT
Writing on Contemporary Issues: Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about the Cultures of Food MIT
Writing on Contemporary Issues: Imagining the Future MIT