Build your skills in literary analysis and creative writing by exploring the meaning of fairy tales.

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

Develop detailed knowledge of one of the most popular and widely read literary sub-genres of crime fiction

Learn about the history, production and design of papers used inside Japanese Rare Books.

Discover effective techniques to analyse unseen poetry and learn about the creative writing process.

Learn new ways of interpreting literary texts, from time-tested methods to computer-assisted practices such as distant reading.

Explore visual culture for children and young people including, picturebooks, comics, film, television and drama

Discover the writer, collector and cultural icon who remains one of Scotland’s most enduring literary legends.

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

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

Understand the dynamics of buildings’ thermal behavior and learn how to optimize their design and operation through thermal modeling. Many engineers are puzzled by questions such as: how to shift or reduce peak heating demand to obtain a better match with a smart grid or renewable energy system? What...

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...

Arnold Steinhardt, first violin of the internationally acclaimed Guarneri String Quartet, invites music listeners to the world of the string quartet repertoire and ensemble. Journey with him and interpretive analysis instructor Mia Chung through the history and features of quartet music, colored by stories...

The course aims to provide a clear view of the historical development of music and emphasizes the training...

In this course you will learn about audio signal processing methodologies that are specific for music and of use in real applications. You will learn to analyse, synthesize and transform sounds using the Python programming language. Audio signal processing is an engineering field that focuses on the...

The reading and writing in this course will focus on the art of self-narrative or autobiographical writing. Such writing can be crafted in the form of a longer autobiography or of separate, shorter autobiographically-inspired essays. The various forms of autobiographical narrative can both reflect on...

This course examines the relation of advertising to society, culture, history, and the economy. Using contemporary theories about visual communications, we learn to analyze the complex levels of meaning in both print advertisements and television commercials. The course covers a wide range of topics...

Explore the Victorian craze for photography, examine its history, from the earliest images in 1839 and how it has influenced the way we capture and share images today as photography moved from being a niche concern of the few, to one of the most important cultural forms of the modern world. This is a...

Did Ben Franklin really fly that kite? What are the ethical dimensions of the creation of chimeras—and what should the public know in order to take part in the conversation about them? Is the science of nutrition really science? How did the technology of birth control end up in the delivery system...