This class will teach you the core elements and mechanisms of a moral panic, providing examples and clarifying historical fact from the Middle Ages to the present. You will learn…

The romanticised image of ships fighting one another in the age of sail is a powerful tug on the reader's imagination. This course gives the aspiring author a better understanding…

Whether your characters are exploring alien ruins on a tidelocked world or drifting lightyears from any star, how you present local space can provide verisimilitude for your fictional galaxy.  In…

There are many fictional accounts of the sea and ships, in books, movies and video games that have emerged over the years and many or most of them get it…

Was ancient Egypt the first culture to develop true writing? Were hieroglyphs simply pictographs, or could they encode more sophisticated meanings? Who created and used them—and why were hieroglyphs eventually…