Learn how to get to a net zero energy use of an existing building. Reduction of energy consumption of buildings is an important step in the move towards a sustainable economy. How can buildings be made net zero energy, in different climates?This course introduces you to zero energy design. It will teach...

Learn how to define, explore, conserve, utilize and manage cultural heritage. In recent decades the sustainable conservation of cultural heritage has become a crucial global challenge. In this context, the trend towards largescale urbanization raises questions as to how new development can take place...

Discover Humphry Davy and his contribution to science and the arts.

Aprende sobre la construcción de obras civiles y de edificación con encofrados y cimbras. Este es un curso en línea básico de construcción de obras civiles y de edificación con encofrados y cimbras. Es un curso de construcción e ingeniería que no...

Explore the important roles that books have played in the cultural history of Japan.

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

Explore the history of the book during the early modern period and learn how the invention of printing revolutionized our world.

Learn how to 'make' your own poetry by exploring different poetic techniques and styles.

Uncover the literary history of Penshurst Place, the 16th-century home of the Sidney family of writers and poets.

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...

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

Whether you are an outstanding or a struggling student, "Learning How to Learn" will give you powerful mental tools that will help you learn more effectively in tough-to-master subjects. You will discover practical, immediately useful insights that will help you to more deeply master your studies. This...

What is the good life, and can you shop there? Would you want that life if you couldn't? Has shopping replaced working as the activity that gives the most meaning to our lives? The theme for this Expository Writing class is Consumer Culture. The class will explore what it means to belong to a consumer...

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

Identifique las contribuciones del autor a la literatura universal mediante el estudio de tres de sus grandes obsesiones.

A production course geared to performers, choreographers, and other artists interested in producing site-specific work. Through three assignments, students will have the opportunity to plan and conceptualize a site-specific work. This course focuses on the creation of live site-specific choreography...

This course examines the theory and practice of using computational methods in the emerging field of digital humanities. It develops an understanding of key digital humanities concepts, such as data representation, digital archives, information visualization, and user interaction through the study of...

This is an introduction to predicate logic and how it is applied in computer science, electronic engineering, linguistics, mathematics and philosophy. Building on your knowledge of propositional logic, you will learn predicate logic—its language, interpretations and proofs, and apply it to solve problems...

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...