Free European Classics Courses

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.

The course facilitates a close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque Spain. Students are also expected to read four of Cervantes' Exemplary Stories, Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Casebook, and J.H. Elliott's Imperial Spain.

Works by major British authors representative of medieval, Renaissance, and neoclassical periods.

Works by major British authors representative of the romantic, Victorian, and modern periods.

Lectures on Shakespeare and readings of his best works.

New lecture series on Oscar Wilde, his life, his works and his philosophy delivered by Dr Sos Eltis, lecturer in English.

English 201 introduces student to the greatest stories in English Literature before 1800. The battle between Beowulf and Grendel, the challenge by the headless green knight to Sir Gawain, the adventures of “jolly body” of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath—these are only a few of the tales we discuss in English 201.

Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and Blake; the poetic genres; the rise of journalism and the novel; biography and drama; historical and philosophical background.