English Literature, History & Cultural Studies

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Course Overview

This course provides an interdisciplinary study of English literature, historical developments, and cultural theories to help learners understand how texts, events, and societies shape one another. By examining literary works alongside historical contexts and cultural perspectives, students gain deeper insight into human experience, identity, and social change. The course is suitable for students, educators, writers, and anyone interested in literature and the humanities.

Duration: 3 weeks, 4 days | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

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Course Curriculum

English Literature
Elizabethan Drama and Shakespeare's Hamlet
	The History of Drama	00:10:00
	Elizabethan Drama	00:12:00
	William Shakespeare	00:06:00
	Hamlet: A Synopsis of the Play	00:04:00
	Hamlet: An Anlaysis of the Play	00:19:00
	Hamlet’s Soliloquies	00:05:00
Jacobean Literature and the Metaphysical Poets
	Jacobean Literature Poetry and Prose	00:12:00
	Puritanism & The English Civil War	00:11:00
	Metaphysical Poetry	00:08:00
	Metaphysical Poetry	00:08:00
	George Herbert	00:05:00
	Andrew Marvell	00:07:00
	John Milton	00:08:00
The Rise of the Novel and Satire
	The Restoration & Glorious Revolution	00:06:00
	The Novel	00:08:00
	Early Novelists: Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding	00:11:00
	English Satire: John Dryden & Alexander Pope	00:06:00
	Jonathan Swift & Gulliver’s Travels	00:10:00
	Swift’s A Modest Proposal	00:08:00
The Emergence of American Literature
	Colonialism & John Smith	00:07:00
	Pilgrim Writers	00:10:00
	The Revolutionary Period Writers	00:07:00
	The Knickerbocker Era: Washington Irving	00:14:00
	Frontier Fiction: James Fenimore Cooper	00:10:00
The New England Renaissance
	The Westward Expansion	00:04:00
	Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson	00:10:00
	Transcendentalism: Henry David Thoreau	00:08:00
	Anti-Transcendentalism: Nathaniel Hawthorne	00:05:00
	Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter	00:08:00
	Herman Melville	00:05:00
	Edgar Allan Poe	00:06:00
	Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”	00:05:00
	Poe’s “The Raven”	00:07:00
The American Civil War Era and the Gilded Age
	The American Civil War Era & Harriet Beecher Stowe	00:07:00
	Walt Whitman	00:09:00
	Whitman’s “Drum Taps”	00:06:00
	Emily Dickinson	00:09:00
	The Gilded Age	00:07:00
	Local Color Writing: Mark Twain	00:08:00
	Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn	00:11:00
	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court	00:07:00
Women Writers of the 19th Century
	Female Writers & The French Revolution	00:12:00
	Mary Wollstonecraft	00:09:00
	Helen Maria Williams	00:08:00
	Unitarianism	00:04:00
	Harriet Martineau	00:12:00
	Anna Laetitia Barbauld	00:06:00
	Lucy Aikin	00:05:00
British Romantic Poets and the Poetic Imagination
	The Napoleonic Wars	00:08:00
	The Romantic Period	00:05:00
	William Blake	00:08:00
	William Wordsworth	00:08:00
	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	00:08:00
	Percy Bysshe Shelley	00:08:00
	John Keats	00:09:00
	Lord George Gordon Byron	00:07:00
Victorian Novels
	Gothic Novels	00:10:00
	Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice	00:14:00
	Victorian Novels	00:09:00
	Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights	00:11:00
	Charles Dickens and Great Expectations	00:15:00
The Imagist Movements after World War I
	Anti-Victorianism & Edwardian England	00:05:00
	Imagism & Gertruid Stein	00:05:00
	Post War Literature & Ezra Pound	00:10:00
	T.S. Eliot	00:13:00
	William Carlos Williams	00:05:00
	Archibald MacLeish	00:05:00
Modernist Fiction
	Modernist Fiction	00:07:00
	Henry James	00:07:00
	James Joyce	00:07:00
	Joyce’s “Araby”	00:19:00
	Joyce’s Ulysses	00:07:00
	Virginia Woolf	00:06:00
	Virgina Woolf’s To the Lighthouse	00:12:00
The Lost Generation
	Ernest Hemingway and the Lost Generation	00:05:00
	Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises	00:10:00
	F. Scott Fitzgerald	00:04:00
	Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby	00:08:00
	ee cummings	00:06:00
	Robert Lowell	00:05:00
	The Beat Generation & Allen Ginsberg	00:11:00
Resources
	Resources – English Literature	00:00:00
Assignment
	Assignment – English Literature	1 week, 1 day
Medieval History
Module 01: Timeline of the Middle Ages
	Timeline of the Middle Ages	00:13:00
Module 02: The Kings and the Vikings
	The Kings and the Vikings	00:16:00
Module 03: Byzantine Empire: Survival, Revival and Collapse
	Byzantine Empire: Survival, Revival and Collapse	00:17:00
Module 04: The Christian World
	The Christian World	00:21:00
Module 05: Heresy to Christianity
	Heresy to Christianity	00:21:00
Module 06: The Islamic World
	The Islamic World	00:25:00
Module 07: Medieval Life and Means of Living
	Medieval Life and Means of Living	00:23:00
Module 08: Women in the Medieval Era
	Women in the Medieval Era	00:28:00
Module 09: Literature
	Literature	00:19:00
Module 10: Art and Architecture
	Art and Architecture	00:34:00
Module 11: Magic and Science
	Magic and Science	00:23:00
Module 12: Military and Warfare
	Military and Warfare	00:25:00
Module 13: The Emergence of State Power
	The Emergence of State Power	00:22:00
Module 14: Medieval Calamities: The Great Famine and the Black Death
	Medieval Calamities: The Great Famine and the Black Death	00:25:00
Assignment
	Assignment – Medieval History	2 weeks, 2 days