Get a practical introduction to the methodology of corpus linguistics for researchers in the social sciences and humanities.

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.

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...

Explore the works of three influential figures in Argentine literature and experience Argentine culture, history, and geography.

This course is a survey of significant orchestral masterworks composed during three centuries. Listening assignments include 34 symphonies and 24 concertos, composed from the 1720s to the 1990s. Class discussion and oral presentations focus on the works in 18 miniature scores; prior score-reading experience...

This course is a history of architecture from a global perspective. About this Course *Note - This is an Archived course* How do we understand architecture? One way of answering this question is by looking through the lens of history. This course will examine architecture through time, beginning with...

Through some of the most celebrated examples of the early Renaissance architecture and the most important statements of the early Renaissance theories, the course will examine problems of the architectural spaces, technology and forms looking to the antiquity in the XV century in Italy. Early Renaissance...

This course aims to enhance your understanding and appreciation of Ludwig van Beethoven’s music by exploring a genre at the very core of his development as a composer: the string quartet. Evenly distributed among the periods into which his life and work are customarily divided, his 16 quartets offer...

Explores the factors — musical and cultural — that led to the birth of American rock 'n' roll music in the early 1950s. How did rock 'n' roll music come to be? Join us to explore Music's Big Bang -- how music brought to America by immigrants evolved, blended and eventually became the delectable stew...

The disciplines of music history and music theory have been slow to embrace the digital revolutions that have transformed other fields' text-based scholarship (history and literature in particular). Computational musicology opens the door to the possibility of understanding—even if at a broad level...

Explore how Othello has been performed and interpreted, from its original staging to the modern day, with this free online course.

"Creative activity (isn't) the icing on the cake. Human creativity is the cake." (Jerry Hirschberg) Creativity - "the mastery of information and skills in the service of dreams" (Hirschberg) - is much prized in the arts, science, business and the classroom. What does the creative process look like...

CMS.611J / 6.073 Creating Video Games is a class that introduces students to the complexities of working in small, multidisciplinary teams to develop video games. Students will learn creative design and production methods, working together in small teams to design, develop, and thoroughly test their...

Explore emerging innovations in vocal production, audio engineering, recording, and mixing. We are in the midst of an explosion of musical creativity as a result of technologies that allow you to record music using your laptop or tablet. Whether you are a singer, music producer, audio engineer, or just...

Arts and culture leaders have a rewarding but tough task: creating sustainable organizations that deliver real social value. There is a lot of competition out there. Being an effective leader means constantly adapting, cleverly using the best tools to reach as many people as possible. This course is...

Learn the basic concepts of improvisation from Gary Burton, one of the most renowned improvisers in the jazz world, including the mental, melodic, and harmonic processes that contribute to the instinctive skills that an improviser puts to use when taking a solo. While many people are fans of jazz and...

This course has two parallel aims: To improve student writing about technical subject matters, including forms of writing commonly employed in technical organizations, and Critically to examine the nature of technologically-assisted communication, focusing somewhat on professional communication among...

Heading out on a rural placement? Ready for adventure? Get the most out of your placement by completing this series of short modules aimed to help you prepare, be proactive about engaging with your site and supervisor, and upskill your understanding of some of the core systems and practices in clinical...