Art & Design Courses

The Architectural Imagination

12 reviews

Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.

• edX
• 3-5 hours a week, 10 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

University of Rochester

History of Rock, Part One

18 reviews

This course covers the music of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, and many more artists, with an emphasis both on cultural context and on the music itself. We will also explore how…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 23rd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

University of Rochester

The Music of the Beatles

18 reviews

The Music of the Beatles will track the musical development of the band, starting from the earliest days in Liverpool and Hamburg, moving through the excitement of Beatlemania, the rush of psychedelia, and the maturity of Abbey Road. While the focus will…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 23rd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

3D Printing Software

13 reviews

This course will demonstrate how to use 3D printing software to create digital designs that can be turned into physical objects. It will also demonstrate how 3D scanners work to turn physical objects into digital designs. This course is hands-on in natur…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Radio para internet con Podcast: creación y conceptos básicos

46 reviews

Aprende a crear emisoras de radio para Internet con Podcast, podrás dotar a cada una de ellas de una señal de identidad acorde con tu finalidad, y el alcance es mundial, a través de la red, pudiendo tener seguidores en cualquier continente.

• edX
• 3-4 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Game Design

13 reviews

Welcome! This course is an introduction to the primary concepts of gaming, and an exploration of how these basic concepts affect the way gamers interact with our games. In this course you will understand what defines a “game” and the mechanics and rules…

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Curtis Institute of Music

Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas

15 reviews

Our relationship to Beethoven is a deep and paradoxical one. For many musicians, he represents a kind of holy grail: His music has an intensity, rigor, and profundity which keep us in its thrall, and it is perhaps unequalled in the interpretive, technica…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 12 weeks long
• 23rd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Physical Theatre: Exploring the Slap

26 reviews

Learn about Meyerhold’s form of physical theatre, biomechanics, and understand and perform ‘The Slap’.

• FutureLearn
• 2 hours a week, 2 weeks long
• 2nd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Stanford Seminar - Mobile, Social, and Fashion: Three Stories from Data-Driven Design

1 review

How to leverage data to build better design tools and scaffold the design process? How can one understand how to use designs to leverage preferred outcomes?

• YouTube
• Less than 1 hour of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society

18 reviews

This is a course aimed at making you a better designer. The course marries theory and practice, as both are valuable in improving design performance. Lectures and readings will lay out the fundamental concepts that underpin design as a human activity. We…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 9th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Typography

11 reviews

Typography is the art of manipulating the visual form of language to enrich and control its meaning. It’s an essential area of skill and knowledge for graphic designers. Typography predates modern graphic design by around 500 years; it is rich in rules,…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Stanford Seminar - Making "Making" Accessible

Syllabus: Introduction. Methodology: User Collaboration. PAD: Prototyping and Design Lab. What is Assistive Technology?. Sharing 3D Designs on Thingiverse. Teaching 3D Printing to Clinicians Graduate Intro Physical. PT Graduate Design Exercises. T…

• YouTube
• 1-2 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

CS25 I Stanford Seminar - Audio Research: Transformers for Applications in Audio, Speech and Music

Syllabus: Introduction. Transformers for Music and Audio: Language Modelling to Understanding to Synthesis. The Transformer Revolution. Models getting bigger .... What are spectograms. Raw Audio Synthesis: Difficulty Classical FM synthesis Karplus S…

• YouTube
• Less than 1 hour of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

18th-Century Opera: Handel & Mozart

5 reviews

Study Baroque and Classical opera through Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s Don Giovanni

• edX
• 3-4 hours a week, 5 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics

25 reviews

There’s a songwriter lurking somewhere inside you, peeking around corners, wondering if it’s safe to come out. Now it is. This course is an invitation to let your inner songwriter step into the sunlight. All it takes is a simple “yes” and you’ll be climb…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 30th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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