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...

Learn and explore key scientific principles, technologies, and analysis techniques for designing comfortable indoor environments while reducing energy use and associated climate change effects. Meeting growing global energy demand, while mitigating climate change and environmental impacts, requires a...

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.

Discover medieval Ireland using the Book of Kells, a ninth-century manuscript featuring the four gospels of the new testament.

Discover the fascinating story of author Jane Austen, from her own life in Hampshire to what she means to a global audience today.

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

Discover how spatial design professionals make a difference in society Are you interested in studying architecture or urban planning? This course will help you understand what spatial design professionals really do, so you can decide if this is the right profession for you. First, we&rsquo...

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

Explore vocabulary teaching strategies and develop your ability to teach vocabulary with this course for teachers and educators.

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...

This course provides continued work in the development of play scripts for the theater. Writers work on sustained pieces in weekly workshop meetings, individual consultation with the instructor, and in collaboration with student actors, directors, and designers. Fully developed scripts are eligible for...

This section of Expository Writing provides the opportunity for students- as readers, viewers, writers and speakers - to engage with social and ethical issues that they care deeply about. Through discussing selected documentary and feature films and the writings of such authors as Maya Angelou, Robert...

Explore with us the fascinating ways of thinking about space in Viking Age and Old Norse culture. Together we will discuss how space is conceptualised and depicted in diverse Old Norse genres and traditions. Space is a basic category of human thought. Over the last decades it became a very productive...

This course surveys Romantic musical genres including song, choral music, opera, piano sonata, character cycle, concerto, symphony, and symphonic poem, including the composers Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Chopin, Brahms, Wagner, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler. Written essays and oral presentations...

Explorar por qué el autor de Cien años de Soledad es uno de los escritores más importantes del siglo XX.

In this 5-week course we’ll introduce the fundamentals of programming in Processing, an accessible introduction to combining arts and computing. The course will provide the essentials of programming in a visual context, allowing you to visualize, design, and create generative art with Processing. In...

Identify the author’s contributions to world literature through the study of three of his obsessions: power, history and love.

This course will survey key aspects of an evolving industry from recording, publishing, and distribution to legal issues confronting music commerce. About this Course Three things are clear about today’s music industry: The consumption of music is expanding at the greatest rate in history and from the...

In this 6-week course we’ll introduce the fundamentals of digital audio. The course will provide the essentials of recording and editing sound, and culminates with a piece using both recorded and synthesized sound. In this 5-week course we’ll introduce the fundamentals of digital audio. This is the final...