Cosmopolitan University offers a worldwide network of courses both online and off-line,
many of which are FREE. You can also graduate from CU by completing certain courses
and programs. See details on various department pages and here.
Note: Most courses no longer require
enrollment - but some still do.
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Course - Milton
Yale University, Fall 2007, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes.
Number - ENG 2010.4
Field - English, Poetry
Description -
This course is a study of Milton's poetry, with attention paid to his literary sources, his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his decisive influence on the course of English poetry. Throughout the course, Professor Rogers explores the advantages and limitations of a diverse range of interpretive techniques and theoretical concerns in Milton scholarship and criticism. Lectures include close readings of lyric and epic poetry, prose, and letters; biographical inquiries; examinations of historical and political contexts; and engagement with critical debates. more >>
Format - Online streaming Video Lectures, low and high bandwidth, Audio (MP3).
HTML course pages, all media downloadable
URL http://oyc.yale.edu/english/milton/content/sessions.html
Professor(s) - Professor John Rogers
Tuition - FREE
Upon Completion - Optional: Certificate: Certificate of Completion from
Cosmopolitan-University
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Course - Introduction to Theory of Literature
Yale University, Spring, 2009, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Spring, 2009.
Number - ENG 2010.3
Field - English
Description -
This is a survey of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while attempting to develop a coherent overall context that incorporates philosophical and social perspectives on the recurrent questions: what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?
Format - Online streaming Video Lectures, low and high bandwidth, Audio (MP3).
HTML course pages, all media downloadable
URL http://oyc.yale.edu/english/introduction-to-theory-of-literature/content/class-sessions
Professor(s) - Professor Paul H. Fry
Tuition - FREE
Upon Completion - Optional: Certificate: Certificate of Completion from
Cosmopolitan-University
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Language (if not English)
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Course - Modern Poetry
This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Spring 2007.
Number - ENG 2010.2
Field - English
Description -
This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Frost with additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance. Diverse methods of literary criticism are employed, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism. more >>
Format - Online streaming Video Lectures, low and high bandwidth, Audio (MP3).
HTML course pages, all media downloadable
URL http://oyc.yale.edu/english/modern-poetry/content/class-sessions
Professor(s) - Langdon Hammer
Tuition - FREE
Upon Completion - Optional: Certificate: Certificate of Completion from
Cosmopolitan-University
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Language (if not English)
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Course - The American Novel Since 1945
Number - ENG 20101
Field -
Description - In "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present. The course traces the formal and thematic developments of the novel in this period, focusing on the relationship between writers and readers, the conditions of publishing, innovations in the novel's form, fiction's engagement with history, and the changing place of literature in American culture. The reading list includes works by Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, J. D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth and Edward P. Jones. The course concludes with a contemporary novel chosen by the students in the class.
Format - Video Lectures
URL http://oyc.yale.edu/english/american-novel-since-1945/content/sessions.html
Professor(s) - Professor Amy Hungerford
Tuition - FREE
Upon Completion - Optional: Certificate: Certificate of Completion from
Cosmopolitan-University
Testing --
Language (if not English)
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English: Writing:
Principles of Composition
Course # : ENG 2
Formats: Internet based course
Language: English
Prof.: Prepared by Professor of English/Humanities Charles Darling
Notes: Hosted by Capital Community
College; Hartford, Connecticut
FREE
URL: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/comp_textonly.htm
Certificate: Certificate of Completion from
Cosmopolitan-University
Testing:
NONE
Enrollment: none required
English: Grammar
Course # : ENG 3
Formats: Internet based course
Language: English
Prof.: Prepared by Professor of English/Humanities Charles Darling
Notes: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY CU. Hosted by Capital Community College; Hartford, Connecticut
FREE
URL: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/textonly.htm
Certificate: Certificate of Completion from
Cosmopolitan-University
Testing:
Interactive Quizzes
Enrollment: none required
English:Vocabulary:
Building a Better
Vocabulary
Course # ENG 4
Formats: Internet based course
Language: English
Prof.: Prepared by Professor of English/Humanities Charles Darling
Notes: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY CU. Hosted by Capital Community College; Hartford, Connecticut
FREE
URL: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/vocabulary.htm
Certificate: Certificate of Completion from
Cosmopolitan-University
Testing:
Interactive Quizzes
Enrollment: none required
English: Modern
English Grammar
Course # : ENG 5
Formats: Internet based
course, Hyperlink Book
Language: English
Prof.: Daniel Kies, Department of English,
College of DuPage
Notes: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY CU.
FREE
URL: http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/
Testing:--
Certificate: Certificate of Completion from
Cosmopolitan-University
Enrollment: none required
English: MISC: Selfstudy: ESL - QUIZZES
Self-Study
Quizzes, Exercises and Puzzles for ESL Students
Formats: Internet based - HTML-only, "...quizzes should work on any
computer that is able to access the Web. These quizzes DO NOT require
JavaScript, Java or a special plugin such as Flash" [website]
Language: English, plus bilingual quizzes
Notes: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY CU. For the English Learner - Quizzes, exercises and puzzles to help you study
English as a Second Language
FREE
URL: http://a4esl.org/
Enrollment: none required
English: Writing:
Writing skills
Course # : ENG 1
Formats: Internet based course, including practice
Language: English
Prof.: http://markmccracken.com/resume.html
Notes: brief, simple
FREE
URL: http://learnhowtowrite.com/
Certificate: Certificate of Completion from
Cosmopolitan-University
Testing:
NONE
Enrollment: none required
Semiotics for Beginners
Probably the best starting
location for web research into semiotics and structuralism' - Peter Every,
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
English: Semiotics
Course # : ENG 100
Formats: hypertext guide to semiotics
Language: English
Prof.: Daniel Chandler at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Notes:
FREE
URL: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html
Certificate: Certificate of Completion from
Cosmopolitan-University
Testing:
NONE
Enrollment: none required
English: Idioms,
Quizz
Course # : --
Formats: interactive quizzes
Language: English
Notes:
FREE
URL: http://www.goenglish.com/idiomquiz.asp
Certificate: NONE
Enrollment: none required
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