AU wants to make sure that students are prepared to succeed in their courses. A certain level of English skills is recommended to complete assignments. This course offers a free English Language Assessment (ELA) that assesses your English language level and recommends resources based on your score.

This course uses selected literary texts to study the theme of mankind's search for spiritual and intellectual self-realization. Works of different genres by major authors from Canada, England, Germany, and Norway are examined. Through the study of these works, the symbolic figure of Faust is traced from the Renaissance to modern Canada via German Romanticism and nineteenth-century European drama. The course explores the changing image of Faust and examines the cultural and philosophical ideas that shaped each age's perception of the search for self.

On this site you will find a variety of open educational resources (OER), all related to writing and writing instruction.
This is a course of lessons and practice on the system of English. It is divided into eighty-six sections. Each section covers an area of basic grammar and contains a number of exercises.

The entire course can be downloaded as an HTML-based website in a zip file.