NCB Literature Courses
Our NCB Literature Courses offer online tuition in Chaucer, Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch, Sylvia Plath, Short Story Writing, Milton's 'Comus' and 'Lycidas', Moll Flander's, Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend and a number of Shakespeare plays: Julius Caesar, Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Henry IV, As You Like It, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Macbeth, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.
NCB courses are delivered outside degree programmes - which means that as our students are learning for their own personal development rather than for academic credit, they can study with guidance from an experienced tutor without the pressure or additional costs of exams and essays.
There is no 'typical' NCB student - we welcome adult learners of all ages and nationalities. The one common trait our students share is their enthusiasm for their subject. Students may choose our courses because:
- We welcome students who are new to online study and those who have not studied for some time.
- There is no need to be in a set place at a set time - students can study online at a time that suits them.
- We do not expect students to have an academic background in their chosen subject
- ...but at the same time, our experienced tutors will 'stretch' more advanced students by presenting them with more challenging ideas or more complex material.
- Students can study a single NCB course, or several, and in any combination.
- NCB courses are an enjoyable way to keep mentally active, learn new things, develop IT skills and communicate with others who share your interests.
Summary of all NCB Literature Courses
Eighteenth-Century English Literature: Slaves, Rakes and Harlots
Monday 22nd February 2010 - Friday 2nd July 2010
This online course explores the interaction of history and politics through the English literature of 1660-1800, a period of experiment and innovation when new genres of writing - the novel and the periodical - emerged and began to settle into the forms we know today.
As we study the outspoken - ...
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Foundations of English Literature: Warriors, Lovers and Wicked Women
Monday 9th November 2009 - Friday 26th February 2010
This course introduces students to the study of English literature and includes texts by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and Daniel Defoe.
Delivery: Distance Learning (Online)
Deadline for Registrations: Thursday 29th October 2009
NB: Late entrants will be able to work through and catch ...
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Reading the City: The Life and Writing of Charles Dickens
Monday 9th November 2009 - Friday 19th February 2010
This online course focuses on the life and writing of Charles Dickens within the context of 19th-century London. Dickens lived in London most of his life, growing from an impoverished child to a publicly fêted, but often privately troubled, writer. The city which shaped his life also gave form to ...
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The Art of the Short Story
Monday 3rd May 2010 - Friday 23rd July 2010
This online course provides students - whether readers or writers - with confident insights into the nature and genre of the short story. Students will explore the subject from a number of angles: creative writers may find themselves thinking about literary analysis; avid readers may find themselves trying their hand at ...
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The Life and the Work: Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch and Sylvia Plath
Monday 22nd February 2010 - Friday 2nd July 2010
This online course looks at the lives and works of Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch and Sylvia Plath. Their writing explores pivotal themes of love and hate, intimacy and alienation, truth and deceit, while providing the reader with an entertaining read. In this course we will examine the stories these writers ...
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