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.

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

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...

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...

Developed by David Owens at Vanderbilt University and customized for the cultural sector with National Arts Strategies, this course will help arts and culture leaders create an environment where new ideas are constantly created, shared, evaluated and the best ones are successfully put to work. One of...

This course surveys seven Baroque and Classical genres: opera, oratorio, cantata, sonata, concerto, quartet, symphony, and includes work by composers Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart, Purcell, Sch Normal 0 false false false...

Focus: What can we believe when we read an autobiography? How do writers recall, select, shape, and present their lives to construct life stories?  Readings that ground these questions include selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent (pseudonym for Harriet Jacobs), "A...

Explore why the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the 20th century’s leading writers in this free online course

This course focuses on Hindustani classical music of North India, and also involves learning about the ancient foundations of the rich classical traditions of music and dance of all Indian art and culture. Students explore the practice the ragas and talas through learning songs, dance, and drumming compositions...

Are you a life long learner? Do you like comic books? Do you think it would be interesting to discuss social issues using comic books as a lens? Are you an educator looking for different methods to present your material? If so, this course is for you! From the creator of Gender Through Comic Books (aka...

Learn to hear and appreciate the nuances of each instrument in the orchestra, enabling you to listen more deeply to any kind of music. The world’s greatest orchestras have the incredible ability to sound so unified they feel like one single instrument. Listening to the music of an orchestra can feel...

This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of commercial videogames as texts, examining their cultural, educational, and social functions in contemporary settings. Students play and analyze videogames while examining debates surrounding how games function within socially situated contexts...

This course centers on historical eras in which the form and function of media technologies were radically transformed. It includes consideration of the "Gutenberg Revolution," the rise of modern mass media, and the "digital revolution," among other case studies of media transformation and cultural change...