Learn how to read poetry in French, developing a poetry toolkit to better understand poetic language, poetic form, tone, and more.

Get started with your own fiction writing, focusing on the central skill of creating characters, with this hands-on course.

Demystify renowned Shakespeare myths and get introduced to corpus-based methods for analysing his use of language in context.

This online course explores the key concepts and fundamental principles involved in the process of screenwriting.

Dig deeper into the life and works of Robert Burns, with this free University of Glasgow course.

Understand the basics of poetry analysis and learn key skills for studying English literature by exploring a variety of texts.

Answer some of the big questions about being human, and get an introduction to the skills needed in the humanities.

Get underneath the skin of a novel by understanding some of the main building blocks of modern fiction.

Design for Hackers is a book that teaches the principles of good visual design to programmers, developers, and makers of any kind. It debuted at #18 on all of Amazon. Each email from our 12-week course is based upon a chapter of Design for Hackers. Buy Design for Hackers to learn along with the course...

Want to discover the smartest ways to mix social media, content marketing, and SEO for lead generation and converting those leads to customers and clients? This 10-installment email course and newsletter delivers the techniques and strategies you need to know when marketing art online. Here’s what...

A report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers shows that employers want job candidates with strong communication skills. Similarly, educational success also requires the ability to articulate your thoughts clearly. In this class, we will study the principles of public speaking; critically...

"Becoming Digital" traces the change in practice, theory and possibility as mechanical and chemical media are augmented or supplanted by digital media. These changes will be grounded in a semester length study of "reports from the front." These reports, found and introduced by students throughout the...

This class explores the artistry of Lighting Design. Students gain an overall technical working knowledge of the tools of the trade, and learn how, and where to apply them to a final design. However essential technical expertise is, the class stresses the artistic, conceptual, collaborative side of the...

Directed practice in acting, production, or design on a sustained theater piece, either one-act or full length, from pre-rehearsal preparation to workshop production. Consult Theater Arts Office. Includes directed practice in stagecraft. Dramashop rehearses a production of Eric Bogosian's play "subUrbia...

As the course title suggests, this class is meant to acquaint you with the literary and rhetorical tradition of the essay, a genre which has been described by one scholar as "the meeting ground between art and philosophy," and by another as "the place where the self finds a pattern in the world, and...

Transmedia narratives exist across multiple storytelling platforms, using the advantages of each to enhance the experience of the audience. No matter which medium nor how many, the heart of any successful transmedia project is a good story. In this class we will spend time on the basics of solid storytelling...

In this era of globalization, many of us have multi- or bi-cultural, multilingual or bilingual backgrounds, and even if we don't have such a background, we need urgently to understand the experiences of people who do. You will very likely work outside the United States at some point in your future; you...

This class investigates theory and practice of digital or new media poetry with emphasis on workshop review of digital poetry created by students. Each week students examine published examples of digital poetry in a variety of forms including but not limited to soundscapes, hypertext poetry, animation...

These skills are applicable for product styling, set styling, photography styling or interior styling. This course, endorsed by the Home Beautiful editorial team, will take you through the elements and principles of design; focus on interiors with functional floor plans; reveal how to create...

Learn to listen to orchestra music and appreciate works that span various styles and genres. Explore orchestral pieces written by notable composers Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, R. Strauss, and Bartók. Build foundational skills for listening to orchestra music and gain insights that will enrich your...