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Introduction to Western Music
Teresa M. Neff
This class will convey a broad overview of the history, culture, styles, and repertoires of what is generally...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Introduction to Art History
Prof. Kristel R Smentek
This course investigates the power of art in historical perspective, focusing on Euro-American traditions of art...
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Creating Video Games
Philip B. Tan
CMS.611J / 6.073 Creating Video Games is a class that introduces students to the complexities of working in small,...
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Real Estate Finance and Investment
Prof. David Geltner
This course is an introduction to the most fundamental concepts, principles, analytical methods and tools useful for...
Art, Design & Architecture
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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Computational Music Theory and Analysis
Prof. Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
This course presents major approaches to computational music theory and musicology in the symbolic (score-based)...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Mathematics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Introduction to Urban Design and Development
Prof. Susan Silberberg
This course examines the evolving structure of cities and the way that cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas can...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
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free
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Modern Art and Mass Culture
Prof. Caroline Jones
This class provides an introduction to modern art and theories of modernism and postmodernism. It focuses on the way...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
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free
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Digital Humanities
Dr. Kurt Fendt
This course examines the theory and practice of using computational methods in the emerging field of digital...
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
Data Science
intermediate
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free
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The Making of Cities
Dr. Roi Salgueiro Barrio
This iteration of 4.241 is structured around four key topics: 1) the city and the urban, 2) spatial forms of...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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Introduction to Photography
Prof. Reiner Leist
This course combines practical instruction, field trips, group discussions, and individual reviews intended to...
Art, Design & Architecture
Visual Arts
intermediate
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free
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Real Estate Economics
Prof. William Wheaton
This course, offered by the MIT Center for Real Estate, focuses on developing an understanding of the macroeconomic...
Art, Design & Architecture
Economics
Policy and Administration
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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Building Technology I: Materials and Construction
Prof. John Fernandez
This course offers an introduction to the history, theory, and construction of basic structural systems as well as...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Civil Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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Chinese Calligraphy
Kang Zhou
Chinese calligraphy (书法 / 書法, shūfǎ)—the art of expressive brush writing—is one of the most esteemed and enduring...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Language
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Fundamentals of Music
Ms. Pamela Wood
This class introduces students to the rudiments of Western music through oral, aural, and written practice utilizing...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Theory of City Form
Prof. Julian Beinart
This course covers theories about the form that settlements should take and attempts a distinction between...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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Principles of Design
Karen Perlow
This course deals with advanced design theories and textual analysis. Emphasis is placed on script analysis in...
Art, Design & Architecture
Performing Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Art, Craft, Science
Dr. Franco Rossi
This course examines how people learn, practice, and evaluate traditional and contemporary craft techniques. Social...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Sustainable Real Estate
Prof. Siqi Zheng Siqi Zheng
The course provides a systematic framework to understand the most challenging issues in sustainability in the real...
Adaptation and Resilience
Art, Design & Architecture
Built Environment
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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Game Design
Philip B. Tan
This course provides practical instruction in the design and analysis of non-digital games. Students cover the...
Art, Design & Architecture
Game Design
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Basic Structural Design
Prof. John Ochsendorf
This course provides students with a basic knowledge of structural analysis and design for buildings, bridges and...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Civil Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Introduction to Architecture & Environmental Design
Lorena Bello Gomez
This course provides a foundation to the design of the environment from the scale of the object, to the building to...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
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free
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Design for Sustainability
Dr. Eric Adams
The course considers the growing popularity of sustainability and its implications for the practice of engineering,...
Adaptation and Resilience
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Computational Camera and Photography
Prof. Ramesh Raskar
A computational camera attempts to digitally capture the essence of visual information by exploiting the synergistic...
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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Music and Technology: Recording Techniques and Audio Production
Dr. Florian Hollerweger
This course is an introduction to music recording and audio production from both a practical and a theoretical...
Art, Design & Architecture
Electrical Engineering
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Digital Design Fabrication
Prof. Lawrence Sass
This course will guide graduate students through the process of using rapid prototyping and CAD/CAM devices in a...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Engineering
advanced
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free
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User Interface Design and Implementation
Prof. Robert Miller
6.831/6.813 examines human-computer interaction in the context of graphical user interfaces. The course covers human...
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
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free
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Software Engineering for Web Applications
Prof. Harold Abelson
6.171 is a course for students who already have some programming and software engineering experience. The goal...
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Introduction to Game Design Methods
Mikael Jakobsson
This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of the process of designing games and playful experiences....
Art, Design & Architecture
Game Design
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Digital Anthropology
Prof. Alex Pentland
Digital Anthropology is a Spring 2003 applied social science and media arts seminar, surveying the blossoming arena...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Media Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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Introduction to Musical Composition
Prof. Keeril Makan
Through a progressive series of composition projects, students investigate the sonic organization of musical works...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Art of Color
Dr. Peter Dourmashkin
This seminar introduces, through studio projects, the basic principles regarding the use of color in the visual...
Art, Design & Architecture
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
This course explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, as a research method, and as a medium of inquiry...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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Learn to Build Your Own Videogame with the Unity Game Engine and Microsoft Kinect
Kyle Keane
This is a 9-day hands-on workshop about designing, building, and publishing simple educational videogames. No...
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Introduction to the Visual Arts
Prof. Joe Zane
This class will introduce students to a variety of contemporary art practices and ideas. The class will begin with a...
Art, Design & Architecture
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Music and Technology: Sound Design
Dr. Florian Hollerweger
In this course, we will rebuild the everyday sounds of nature, machines, and animals from scratch and encapsulate...
Art, Design & Architecture
Electrical Engineering
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Interactive Music Systems
Eran Egozy
This course explores audio synthesis, musical structure, human computer interaction (HCI), and visual presentation...
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Computer Games and Simulations for Education and Exploration
Prof. Eric Klopfer
This course immerses students in the process of building and testing their own digital and board games in order to...
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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Introduction to Design Computing
Prof. Lawrence Sass
This course will introduce students to architectural design and computation through the use of computer modeling,...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Urban Design Seminar
Jota Samper
This seminar focuses on understanding the role of high-quality design as a tool to address urban social problems....
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Built Environment
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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Heavy Metal 101
Joe Diaz
This is not a metallurgy class! Learn everything you ever wanted to know about heavy metal music. Topics of this...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
beginner
MIT OCW
free
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Environmental Technologies in Buildings
Prof. Christoph Reinhart
This course focuses on the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of buildings, examining the basic scientific...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Built Environment
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to the History and Theory of Architecture
Prof. Mark Jarzombek
This course is a global-oriented survey of the history of architecture, from the prehistoric to the sixteenth...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Japan in the Age of the Samurai: History and Film
Aaron Moore
This course covers medieval Japanese society and culture from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries, when...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Real Estate Capital Markets
Prof. David Geltner
This half-semester course introduces and surveys the major public capital market real estate vehicles, REITs and MBS...
Art, Design & Architecture
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Art Since 1940
Prof. Caroline Jones
This subject focuses on the objects, history, context, and critical discussion surrounding art since World War II....
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Project Evaluation: Essays and Case Studies
Carl D. Martland
This book, Project Evaluation: Essays and Case Studies, is based primarily upon materials prepared between 1997 and...
Art, Design & Architecture
Built Environment
Civil Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Site and Infrastructure Systems Planning
Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph
This course is a client-based land analysis and site planning project. The primary focus of the course changes from...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Civil Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Dance Theory and Composition
Prof. Thomas DeFrantz
This course introduces students to the art and formal ideologies of contemporary dance. We explore the aesthetic and...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to Building Technology
Prof. Marilyne Andersen
The course aims at providing a fundamental understanding of the physics related to buildings and to propose an...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Built Environment
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to Videogame Studies
Clara Fernandez-Vara
This course offers an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of videogames as texts through an examination of...
Art, Design & Architecture
Game Design
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Composing with Computers I (Electronic Music Composition)
Peter Whincop
This class explores sound and what can be done with it. Sources are recorded from students’ surroundings - sampled...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to Media Studies
Dr. Andrea Walsh
Introduction to Media Studies is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Technologies for Creative Learning
Prof. Mitchel Resnick
This course explores the design of innovative educational technologies and creative learning environments, drawing...
Educational Technology
Education & Teaching
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Advanced Topics in Real Estate Finance
Prof. David Geltner
This half-semester course introduces and surveys a selection of cutting-edge topics in the field of real estate...
Art, Design & Architecture
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
The Mathematics in Toys and Games
Jing Li
We will explore the mathematical strategies behind popular games, toys, and puzzles. Topics covered will combine...
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Japanese Literature and Cinema
Prof. Ian Condry
This course surveys both cinematic and literary representations of diverse eras and aspects of Japanese culture such...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to Integrated Design
Prof. Angela Watson
During this course, we will be exploring basic questions of architecture through several short design exercises....
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Lighting Design for the Theatre
Karen Perlow
This class explores the artistry of Lighting Design. Students gain an overall technical working knowledge of the...
Art, Design & Architecture
Performing Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Architecture Design Fundamentals I: Nano-Machines
Skylar Tibbits
This is the second undergraduate architecture design studio, which introduces design logic and skills that enable...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Ambient Intelligence
Prof. Patricia Maes
This course will provide an overview of a new vision for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in which people are...
AI
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Studies in Film
Prof. Alvin Kibel
This course investigates relationships between two media, film and literature, studying works linked across the two...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
French Film Classics
Catherine E Clark
This course covers the history and aesthetics of French cinema from the advent of sound to present-day. It treats...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Language
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
History of Media and Technology
Prof. Beth Coleman
History of Media and Technology addresses the mutually influential histories of communications media and...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Media and Methods: Sound
Prof. John Picker
This course explores the ways in which humans experience the realm of sound and how perceptions and technologies of...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Tools for Analysis: Design for Real Estate and Infrastructure Development
Prof. Richard de Neufville
This course is an introduction to the analytical tools that support design and decision-making in real estate and...
Art, Design & Architecture
Business & Management
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Urban Design
Prof. Carol Burns
For many years, Cambridge, MA, as host to two major research universities, has been the scene of debates as to how...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
The Film Experience
Prof. David Thorburn
This course concentrates on close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, from the early silent period,...
Art, Design & Architecture
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Theory and Method in the Study of Architecture and Art
Prof. Caroline Jones
This seminar is open to graduate students, and is intended to offer a synoptic view of selected methodologies and...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings
Prof. Leon Glicksman
This design-based subject provides a first course in energy and thermo-sciences with applications to sustainable...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
German IV
Ellen Crocker
This course focuses on development of interpretive skills, using literary texts (B. Brecht, S. Zweig) and...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Language
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Beginning Costume Design and Construction
Leslie Cocuzzo Held
This is an intermediate workshop designed for students who have a basic understanding of the principles of...
Art, Design & Architecture
Performing Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Motion Based Design
Prof. Jerome Connor
This course presents a rational basis for the preliminary design of motion-sensitive structures. Topics covered...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Civil Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Music and Technology: Live Electronics Performance Practices
Prof. Christopher Ariza
This course is a creative, hands-on exploration of contemporary and historical approaches to live electronics...
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Visualization for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education
Violeta Ivanova
This course is an introduction to principles and techniques of visual communication, and provides opportunities for...
Art, Design & Architecture
Communication
Educational Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Harmony and Counterpoint I
Prof. Brian Robison
In this subject we will study the basic harmonic, melodic, and formal practices of western music, principally the...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Early Music
Prof. Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
This course examines European music from the early Middle Ages until the end of the Renaissance. It includes a...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City
Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph
The course is designed to be an introduction to methods of analyzing, evaluating, and recording the urban...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Experiencing Architecture Studio
Prof. William Hubbard
This course uses scale models to design environments that orchestrate contrasting material properties and...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Music and Technology: Algorithmic and Generative Music
Prof. Christopher Ariza
This course examines the history, techniques, and aesthetics of mechanical and computer-aided approaches to...
Algorithms and Data Structures
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to World Music
Prof. George Ruckert
This course explores the ways that music is both shaped by and gives shape to the cultural settings in which it is...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Playwriting I
Laura Harrington
This class introduces the craft of writing for the theater. Through weekly assignments, in class writing exercises,...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Natural Light in Design
Prof. Marilyne Andersen
Today, computer-based simulations are becoming increasingly popular, especially when daylighting and energy...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
The Art Museum: History, Theory, Controversy
Prof. Kristel R Smentek
Art museums are powerful and contested institutions. They are also innovative sites of architectural and artistic...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Writing and Experience: Reading and Writing Autobiography
Dr. Andrea Walsh
The reading and writing in this course will focus on the art of self-narrative or autobiographical writing. Such...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Analysis of Contemporary Architecture
Mr. Dan Cheng-ta Chen
The goal of this course is to investigate with students backgrounds on some of the pivotal events that have shaped...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Indistinguishable From... Magic as Interface, Technology, and Tradition
Greg Borenstein
With a focus on the creation of functional prototypes and practicing real magical crafts, this class combines...
Art, Design & Architecture
Biology
Game Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Special Problems in Architectural Design
Prof. Alexandros Tsamis
This class focuses on representation tools used by architects during the design process and attempts to discuss the...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
The Craft of Costume Design
Leslie Cocuzzo Held
This class provides an overview of some of the techniques used in creating costume pieces that are crafted rather...
Art, Design & Architecture
Performing Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Interrogative Design Workshop
Prof. Krzysztof Wodiczko
“Parrhesia” was an Athenian right to frank and open speaking, the right that, like the First Amendment, demands a...
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
Media Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Script Analysis
Michael Ouellette
This class focuses on reading a script theatrically with a view to mounting a coherent production. Through careful,...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
The City in Film
Ezra Haber Glenn
Using film as a lens to explore and interpret various aspects of the urban experience in both the U.S. and abroad,...
Art, Design & Architecture
Social Sciences
Urban Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Science Writing and New Media: Science Writing for the Public
Karen Boiko
This class is an introduction to writing about science—including nature, medicine and technology—for general...
Art, Design & Architecture
Communication
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Data Storytelling Studio: Climate Change
Rahul Bhargava
This course explores visualization methodologies to conceive and represent systems and data, e.g., financial, media,...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Communication
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Design Across Scales, Disciplines and Problem Contexts
Prof. Meejin Yoon
This course explores the reciprocal relationships among design, science, and technology by covering a wide range of...
Art, Design & Architecture
Game Design
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Fundamentals of Computational Media Design
Prof. Barry Vercoe
This class covers the history of 20th century art and design from the perspective of the technologist. Methods for...
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to Photography and Related Media
Reilly Rabitaille
This course provides practical instruction in the fundamentals of analog and digital SLR and medium/large format...
Art, Design & Architecture
Media Studies
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Media and Methods: Seeing and Expression
Prof. D. Fox Harrell
In this course students create digital visual images and analyze designs from historical and theoretical...
Art, Design & Architecture
Media Studies
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to Drama
Prof. Diana Henderson
Drama combines the literary arts of storytelling and poetry with the world of live performance. As a form of...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra
Prof. Erik Demaine
This course focuses on the algorithms for analyzing and designing geometric foldings. Topics include reconfiguration...
Algorithms and Data Structures
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Architectural Design: Intentions
Prof. Paul Lukez
This is the second undergraduate design studio. It introduces a full range of architectural ideas and issues through...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture from 1750 to the Present
Prof. Arindam Dutta
This class is a general study of modern architecture as a response to important technological, cultural,...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Media Technology and City Design and Development
Prof. Ceasar McDowell
This workshop explores the potential of media technology and the Internet to enhance communication and transform...
Art, Design & Architecture
Communication
Media Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Composing Your Life: Exploration of Self through Visual Arts and Writing
Graham Gordon Ramsay
In this interdisciplinary seminar, we explore a variety of visual and written tools for self exploration and self...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Architectural Design Workshop: Collage - Method and Form
Prof. Mark Jarzombek
This class investigates the theory, method, and form of collage. It studies not only the historical precedents for...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Philosophy of Film
Prof. Irving Singer
This course is a seminar on the philosophical analysis of film art, with an emphasis on the ways in which it creates...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
City Visions: Past and Future
Prof. Diane Davis
This class is intended to introduce students to understandings of the city generated from both social science...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Ecologies of Construction
Prof. John Fernandez
Ecologies of Construction examines the resource requirements for the making and maintenance of the contemporary...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Major Media Texts
Prof. Diana Henderson
This class does intensive close study and analysis of historically significant media “texts” that have been...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Architectural Construction and Computation
Prof. Joel Turkel
This class investigates the use of computers in architectural design and construction. It begins with a pre-prepared...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
The Supernatural in Music, Literature and Culture
Prof. Charles Shadle
This course explores the relationship between music and the supernatural, focusing on the social history and context...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Special Topics: Designing Sociable Media
Prof. Judith Donath
This project-based course explores new design strategies for social interaction in the computer mediated world....
Art, Design & Architecture
Communication
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Daylighting
Prof. Christoph Reinhart
This course explores natural and electric lighting that integrates occupant comfort, energy efficiency and daylight...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Built Environment
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Applications
Prof. Henry Lieberman
This course will explore the state of the art in common sense knowledge, and class projects will design and build...
Art, Design & Architecture
Cognitive Science
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Music Composition
Prof. Peter Child
This course features directed composition of larger forms of original writing involving voices and/or instruments....
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Forms of Western Narrative
Prof. James Cain
This class will investigate the ways in which the formal aspects of Western storytelling in various media have...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
High-Intermediate Academic Communication
Isaiah WonHo Yoo
The goal of this course is to review grammar and develop vocabulary building strategies to refine oral and written...
Art, Design & Architecture
Communication
Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Producing Educational Videos
David Custer
Production of Educational Videos is an introduction to technical communication that is situated in the production of...
Art, Design & Architecture
Educational Technology
Education & Teaching
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Germany Today: Intensive Study of German Language and Culture
Ellen Crocker
Prepares students for working and living in German-speaking countries. Focus on current political, social, and...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to Video
Prof. Joe Gibbons
This class serves as an introduction to video recording and editing, presenting video as a tool of personal...
Art, Design & Architecture
Media Studies
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
New Century Cities: Real Estate, Digital Technology, and Design
Prof. David Geltner
The course draws on faculty members from the Center for Real Estate, the City Design and Development Group...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced