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Build the skills behind great work, at your own pace.
Our online courses are flexible and self-paced. Each one combines on-demand lessons with guided practice and feedback, and ends with a real piece of work you keep. They pair naturally with our research programs.
Creative Writing
Find your voice and tell stories only you can tell.
A flexible course that helps students grow as storytellers across fiction, poetry, and personal narrative, and leave with a portfolio of original work.
Course overview
Through short lessons, guided prompts, and supportive feedback, students build a portfolio of original work and learn the craft behind writing that holds a reader. The course moves from the first spark of an idea to a finished, shareable piece.
What you will learn
- Generate ideas and get past the blank page with reliable techniques.
- Build vivid characters and settings that readers remember.
- Shape a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
- Experiment with poetry, imagery, and voice.
- Revise thoughtfully and share your work with confidence.
Course modules
Foundations of Storytelling
Idea generation, observation, and the elements of a story.
Character and Setting
Creating believable characters and immersive worlds.
Plot and Structure
Conflict, stakes, pacing, and the shape of a story.
Poetry and Voice
Imagery, sound, line breaks, and finding a personal style.
Dialogue and Scene
Writing natural dialogue and dramatizing key moments.
Revision and Sharing
Self-editing, feedback, and preparing work to share.
What you create
A personal portfolio of polished pieces, including at least one short story and a small set of poems.
Research Methodology
Ask sharp questions, find trustworthy answers, prove your point.
A practical course that teaches how real research works, from a focused question to a clear, cited write-up. It is a strong foundation for our research programs and for school projects.
Course overview
Students move from forming a focused question to finding and evaluating sources, organizing evidence, citing responsibly, and writing up what they found. The course gives them a method they can reuse in any subject.
What you will learn
- Turn a broad interest into a focused, researchable question.
- Find sources and judge whether they are credible and relevant.
- Take organized notes and avoid plagiarism.
- Tell the difference between evidence, opinion, and inference.
- Cite sources correctly and structure a clear write-up.
Course modules
What Research Is
Types of research and the research process.
Asking Good Questions
Narrowing a topic and writing a research question.
Finding and Evaluating Sources
Searching effectively and assessing credibility.
Notes and Integrity
Note-taking systems and avoiding plagiarism.
Evidence and Analysis
Reading data, charts, and arguments critically.
Citing and Writing Up
Citation styles and structuring findings.
What you create
A short, fully cited research report on a question of your own choosing.
World History & Essay Writing
Learn the story of the world, and write powerfully about it.
A course that pairs a survey of world history with step-by-step essay training, because strong historical thinking and strong writing grow together.
Course overview
Many students know history but struggle to argue it on the page, and this course closes that gap. Each unit teaches a historical era alongside a concrete writing skill, building toward a complete, evidence-based history essay.
What you will learn
- Trace the major eras of world history and how they connect.
- Read and interpret primary sources, weighing point of view.
- Write a clear thesis and organize a logical historical argument.
- Support claims with well-chosen evidence and real analysis, not summary.
- Plan, draft, and revise a complete document-based history essay.
Course modules
Thinking and Writing Like a Historian
What historians do, and the building blocks of a paragraph and a claim.
Early Civilizations and the Thesis
Rivers, cities, and writing, plus turning a topic into a clear thesis.
Classical Empires and Evidence
Greece, Rome, China, and India, with quoting and citing sources correctly.
Connected Worlds and Argument
Trade routes and exchange, plus topic sentences and body-paragraph structure.
Revolutions and Document-Based Essays
Scientific, political, and industrial change, with analyzing documents.
The Modern World and Counterarguments
Twentieth-century change and globalization, plus addressing other perspectives.
Putting It Together
Planning, drafting, revising, and polishing the full history essay.
What you create
A complete, document-based history essay developed through full drafting and revision, plus the shorter pieces built along the way.