TMS - Rings, Swords, and Monsters - Exploring Fantasy Literature
What Is Fantasy Literature - Genre, Canon, History
Origins of Modern Fantasy
Tolkien - Life and Languages
Tolkien - The Hobbit
Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien - The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Tolkien - The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and Other
Tolkien - Criticism and Theory
Imitations and Reactions - Brooks and Donaldson
Worthy Inheritors - Le Guin and Holdstock
Children’s Fantasy
It's Never Too Late
Arthurian Fantasy
Magical Realism and Conclusions
Assistant Professor of English Michael Drout is a medievalist who also studies the works of novelist and fellow Anglo-Saxon scholar J.R.R. Tolkien. English Professor Michael Drout, a nationally known medievalist and J.R.R. Tolkien scholar, has been selected as a Millicent C. McIntosh Fellow for 2006 by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The $15,000 award will support Drout's continuing scholarship on tenth century English literature. The McIntosh Fellowships are awarded to recently tenured humanities faculty "who demonstrate a deep commitment to excellent teaching and scholarship ... and who are exceptional citizens of their academic community," according to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. The awards are intended to provide outstanding young faculty with the time and resources needed to continue their scholarly work at a career juncture when professional and personal responsibilities present many competing challenges. One of six McIntosh Fellows selected this year, Drout is the William C.H. and Elsie D. Prentice Professor of English at Wheaton, where he teaches Old English (Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, medieval literature, fantasy, science fiction and writing. His scholarship on medieval literature combines literary expertise with innovative uses of contemporary information theory and evolutionary biology.

TTC - Theories of Human Development
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 197
Taught by Malcolm W. Watson
Brandeis University
Ph.D., University of Denver
Have you ever wondered where the terms "terrible twos’’ and "identity crisis" come from?
Did you know that the notion that children are different from adults, and require special care, is only about 200 years old?
Did you know we can trace most of our modern ideas about children to just two renowned thinkers of the 17th and 18th centuries?
These are just a few of the fascinating aspects of the field of "human development": the science that studies how we learn and develop psychologically, from birth to the end of life. To a large extent, the study of human development is the study of child development, because the most significant changes take place from infancy through adolescence. This very young science not only enables us to understand children and help them develop optimally, but also gives us profound insights into who we are as adults.
In Theories of Human Development, Professor Malcolm W. Watson introduces you to the six theories that have had perhaps the greatest influence on this field. You will meet the people who formulated each theory, become familiar with their philosophical backgrounds and the historical contexts in which they worked, and study the specific processes of human development that each theory describes.
Along the way, you will evaluate the strength and weaknesses of each theory. How do these six great theories complement or contradict one another? What do they tell us, as a whole, about human development?
Six Theories of How We Become Who We Are

English Discoveries
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Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World Through Experience and Reason