California Institute of the Arts Courses

Ableton Live Course: Sound Production for Musicians and Artists

46 reviews

This course provides hands-on experience in producing, mixing, and sound design with a digital audio workstation. Students will learn the fundamentals (physics) of sound and digital audio, proper gain staging, where and how distortion enters recordings a…

• Kadenze
• 9 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

Fundamentals of Graphic Design

22 reviews

Graphic Design is all around us! Words and pictures—the building blocks of graphic design—are the elements that carry the majority of the content in both the digital world and the printed world. As graphic design becomes more visible and prevalent in our…

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

Introduction to Real-Time Audio Programming in ChucK

36 reviews

The course, lecture, and examples build on each other to teach the fundamentals of programming in general (logic, loops, functions, objects, classes) and also deals with advanced topics including multi-threading, events and signals. Throughout the course…

• Kadenze
• 8 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop

19 reviews

Why just write poems when you can write better ones? This course is built on the notion that the most exciting writing begins after the first draft.

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 23rd Jan, 2023
• 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)

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)

World Design for Video Games

5 reviews

Start creating your world. A game world is not just a backdrop for your game—be it minimal or detailed, contained or part of a much bigger universe, it provides the context for your player. Ultimately, a game world should feel alive and wholly unique to…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Web Design: Strategy and Information Architecture

1107 ratings at Coursera

This course is focused on the early user experience (UX) challenges of research, planning, setting goals, understanding the user, structuring content, and developing interactive sequences. While the concepts covered will translate to many kinds of intera…

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

UX Design Fundamentals

1949 ratings at Coursera

This hands-on course examines how content is organized and structured to create an experience for a user, and what role the designer plays in creating and shaping user experience. You will be led through a condensed process that acts as a roadmap for dev…

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

Visual Elements of User Interface Design

5359 ratings at Coursera

This design-centric course examines the broad question of what an interface is and what role a designer plays in creating a user interface. Learning how to design and articulate meaning using color, type, and imagery is essential to making interfaces fun…

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

Web Design: Wireframes to Prototypes

746 ratings at Coursera

This course is focused on the application of the early UX research to actual user interfaces: the creation of wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and clickable prototypes. Along the way we will also discuss: - Responsive web design and mobile web challe…

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

Fondamentaux de l’infographie

L’infographie est partout ! Les mots et les images, les composantes de l’infographie, sont les éléments qui véhiculent la majorité du contenu à la fois dans le monde numérique et dans celui des documents imprimés. À mesure que l’infographie devient plus…

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

Основы графического дизайна

263 ratings at Coursera

Графический дизайн — повсюду вокруг нас. Слова и изображения — структурные элементы графического дизайна — несут в себе большую часть контента как в цифровом, так и в печатном мире. Графический дизайн становится все более заметным и распространенным в на…

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

Game Design Document: Define the Art & Concepts

230 ratings at Coursera

The Capstone project is a place for you to develop your game idea into a fully-fleshed proposal. A game design document is your game bible, the go-to document that defines the genre of your game, its look and feel, and the evolution of gameplay. This fou…

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

Grundlagen des Grafikdesigns

Grafikdesign ist präsenter als je zuvor! Wörter und Bilder – die Bausteine des Grafikdesigns – sind die Elemente, die den größten Teil des Inhalts der digitalen wie auch der gedruckten Welt beinhalten. Da Grafikdesign in unserem Leben sichtbarer und vorh…

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