Renaissance Courses and Certifications

The American Renaissance and Walt Whitman

Trace how a printer became a poet: Whitman's working-class context, his free verse in post-Jacksonian American society, and the reasons behind his revisions.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The American Renaissance and Harriet Beecher Stowe

Read Harriet Beecher Stowe through keywords like melodrama, serialization, sentimentalism, and material culture, and trace the evangelical tradition in American literature.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The American Renaissance and Mark Twain

Examine Mark Twain's rivalry with Harriet Beecher Stowe, Huckleberry Finn as tall tale, realism and naturalism, and blackface minstrelsy alongside Life on the Mississippi.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The American Renaissance and Nathaniel Hawthorne

Explore Nathaniel Hawthorne's talent for romance, his path from civil servant to author, and key plot points and "second-thinking" in The Scarlet Letter.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The American Renaissance and Herman Melville

Explore Moby-Dick through short lectures on its historical and cultural context: Starbuck's argument with Ahab, Pip's drowning as testimony, and ideological appropriations of the novel.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Greek Renaissance - Colonization and Tyranny - Hoplite Warfare and the Phalanx

2 ratings

A lecture on the emergence, equipment, tactics, and historical significance of the Greek hoplite phalanx in the early polis.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Art in Renaissance Venice

22 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Art in Renaissance Venice, considers the art of Renaissance Venice and how such art was determined in many ways by the city's geographical location and ethnically diverse ...

• OpenLearn
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

The American Renaissance: Classic Literature of the 19th Century

1 rating

Explore the writings of famous American authors from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mark Twain, and examine the historic role Dartmouth College played in their formation.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance

101 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

Study masterpieces by such great Renaissance artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian in this visually-rich course taught by an art historian.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 18 hours 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Rome Redux: The Tetrarchic Renaissance - Roman Architecture

1 rating

Examines how Diocletian’s Tetrarchy revived Roman building through monuments, baths, palaces, and villas across the empire.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Exploring Renaissance Sensibilities in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and John Webster

Explore how humanism, ambition, power, morality, and knowledge shape Renaissance drama in plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Webster.

• Swayam
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

ENGL405: The American Renaissance

Study American Renaissance writing: trace changes in poetic form, the invention of the short story, the rise of the novel, and abolitionist and women's-rights literature.

• Saylor University
• 127 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Brandon Acker

Introducing the Renaissance Lute

Explore the Renaissance lute and its distinctive place in the world of early music.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Career Certificate

Shakespeare's Life, Work, and Characters

1 rating

Explore Shakespeare's outsiders — Hamlet's Ghost, Shylock, and Othello — through Renaissance beliefs about the afterlife, Jewish history in Venice, and four centuries of performance interpretation.

• edX
• 16 weeks, 5-7 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $536.00
• 4 courses

Joey Carlino

Animation Renaissance in Blender 4.3 - New Features for Geometry Nodes and Grease Pencil

Discover the powerful integration of geometry nodes and grease pencil in Blender 4.3, exploring new animation possibilities through mesh conversion, curve filling, and hair system techniques.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video