Bibliography

Preparatory:
Hartshorne:Chapt. IV (section 4 on Elliptic curves excluded)
Mumford: Curves and their Jacobians
Harris and Morrison: Moduli of curves (Facts about moduli of stable curves as in Chapter 1 Section A, and Chapter 3 Section A)




For the courses:

GEOMETRY OF MODULI OF HIGHER SPIN CURVES:

J. HARRIS and I. MORRISON: Moduli of curves, Springer ARBARELLO, CORNALBA, GRIFFITHS, HARRIS: Geometry of algebraic curves I (1985) and II (2011), Springer
G. FARKAS: Birational aspects of the geometry of M_g, Surveys in Differential Geometry Vol 14 (2010), 57-110.
G. FARKAS: Koszul divisors on moduli spaces of curves, American Journal of Math. 131(2009), 819-867.
G. FARKAS and K. LUDWIG: The Kodaira dimension of the moduli space of Prym varieties, JEMS 12(2010), 755-795.



STABLE CANONICALLY POLARIZED VARIETIES:

J. KOLLAR AND S. MORI: Birational geometry of algebraic varieties, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, vol. 134, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998
C. D. HACON AND S. J. KOVACS: Classification of higher dimensional algebraic varieties, Oberwolfach Seminars, Birkhauser Boston, Boston, MA, 2010
J. KOLLAR AND S. J. KOVACS: Log canonical singularities are Du Bois, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 23 (2010), no. 3, 791-813
S. J. KOVACS: Young person's guide to moduli of higher dimensional varieties, Algebraic geometry---Seattle. Part 2, Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., vol. 80, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2009, pp. 711-743.
S. J. KOVACS AND K. SCHWEDE: Hodge theory meets the minimal model program: a survey of log canonical and Du Bois singularities, preprint, 2009.?arXiv:0909.0993v1 [math.AG]