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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
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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
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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
MIT OCW
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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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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
MIT OCW
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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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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free
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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free
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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
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free
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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
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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
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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
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free
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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free
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Popular Musics of the World
Prof. Patricia Tang
This course focuses on popular music, i.e. music created for and transmitted by mass media. Various popular music...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Business & Management
intermediate
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Islam/Media
Dr. Peter McMurray
This course is an introduction to Islam from the perspective of media and sound studies, intended for advanced...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Media Studies
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
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
Music Since 1960
Prof. Brian Robison
This course begins with the premise that the 1960s mark a great dividing point in the history of 20th century...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Popular Culture and Narrative: Serial Storytelling
Prof. James Buzard
Serial Storytelling examines the ways the passing and unfolding of time structures narratives in a range of media....
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Studies in Western Music History: Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Music History
Prof. Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
The disciplines of music history and music theory have been slow to embrace the digital revolutions that have...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Film as Visual and Literary Mythmaking
Prof. Irving Singer
This course examines problems in the philosophy of film as well as literature studied in relation to their making of...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
French Photography
Catherine E Clark
This course introduces students to the world of French photography from its invention in the 1820s to the present....
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Language
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Music and Technology (Contemporary History and Aesthetics)
Prof. Christopher Ariza
This course is an investigation into the history and aesthetics of music and technology as deployed in experimental...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Computational Design I: Theory and Applications
Prof. Terry Knight
This class introduces design as a computational enterprise in which rules are developed to compose and describe...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Holographic Imaging
Prof. Michael Halle
MAS.450 is a laboratory course about holography and holographic imaging.
This course teaches holography from a...
Art, Design & Architecture
Cognitive Science
Computer Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Stravinsky to the Present
Prof. Emily Richmond Pollock
This course provides an overview of the musical styles and techniques developed over the past 115 years. The...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Hip Hop
Prof. Thomas DeFrantz
This class explores the political and aesthetic foundations of hip hop. Students trace the musical, corporeal,...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations
Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa
We will explore images that pertain to the emergence of Japan as a modern state. We will focus on images that depict...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Culture Tech
James Rising
This class is divided into a series of sections or “modules”, each of which concentrates on a particular large...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Media Education and the Marketplace
Mr. Manish Gaudi
This instance of “Media, Education, and the Marketplace” focuses on the rise of information and communications...
Art, Design & Architecture
Business & Management
Communication
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Music of India
Prof. George Ruckert
This course focuses on Hindustani classical music of North India, and also involves learning about the ancient...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Modern Music: 1900-1960
Prof. Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
This subject covers a specific branch of music history: Western concert music of first sixty years of the twentieth...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Musical Analysis
Prof. Peter Child
This class is an introduction to the analysis of tonal music. Students develop analytical techniques based upon...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
BSAD Foundations in the Visual Arts
Prof. Sanjit Sethi
This class offers a foundation in the visual art practice and its critical analysis for beginning architecture...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
German Culture, Media, and Society
Dr. Kurt Fendt
The topic for Fall 2006 is short film and radio plays. This course investigates current trends and topics in German...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes
Prof. Jan Wampler
This subject introduces skills needed to build within a landscape establishing continuities between the built and...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Building Technology Laboratory
Prof. Les Norford
In this class, concepts of building technology and experimental methods are studied, in class and in lab...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Built Environment
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Musical Improvisation
Dr. Mark Harvey
In this course, students study concepts and practice techniques of improvisation in solo and ensemble contexts. The...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Science, Technology, & World
Prof. Rosalind Williams
This class is an introduction to studies in science, technology, and society (STS), through examining a series of...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Communication
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Games for Social Change
Scot Osterweil
Run as a workshop, students collaborate in teams to design and prototype games for social change and civic...
Art, Design & Architecture
Game Design
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Modern Drama
Prof. Diana Henderson
This course analyzes major modern plays featuring works by Shaw, Pirandello, Beckett, Brecht, Williams, Soyinka,...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Advanced Studio on the Production of Space
Prof. Gediminas Urbonas
This class is developed around the concept of disobedient interference within the existing models of production of...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Civil Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Architecture Studio: Intentions
Prof. Joel Turkel
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
Music of Africa
Prof. Patricia Tang
This course is an introduction to selected musical traditions of West Africa. A variety of musical practices and...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Developing Musical Structures
Prof. Jeanne Bamberger
The goal of this class is practical: to interrogate, make explicit, and thus to develop the powerful...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Shakespeare, Film and Media
Prof. Peter S. Donaldson
Filmed Shakespeare began in 1899, with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree performing the death scene from King John for the...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Transmedia Storytelling: Modern Science Fiction
Shariann Lewitt
Transmedia narratives exist across multiple storytelling platforms, using the advantages of each to enhance the...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Signals, Systems and Information for Media Technology
Prof. Rosalind W. Picard
This class teaches the fundamentals of signals and information theory with emphasis on modeling audio/visual...
Art, Design & Architecture
Electrical Engineering
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Global Africa: Creative Cultures
Prof. M. Amah Edoh
This course examines contemporary and historical cultural production on and from Africa across a range of registers,...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Musical Time
Dr. Martin Marks
This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of three broad topics concerning music in relation to time.
Music...
Art, Design & Architecture
Cognitive Science
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Queer Cinema and Visual Culture
Dr. K.J. Surkan
This course analyzes mainstream, popular films produced in the post-World War II 20th century U.S. as cultural texts...
Art, Design & Architecture
Gender Studies
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Philosophy In Film and Other Media
Prof. Irving Singer
This course examines works of film in relation to thematic issues of philosophical importance that also occur in...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War
Prof. Diana Henderson
This course explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Globalism in Modern Art
Prof. Caroline Jones
This course studies how international modernism interacted with the concept of “nation” and how contemporary...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Literary Interpretation: Literature and Photography: The Image
Marja Roholl
This course introduces the practice and theory of literary criticism. The seminar focuses on topics such as the...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to Stagecraft
Karen Perlow
Offered in the spring and fall terms, Introduction to Stagecraft is a hands-on course that gets students working...
Art, Design & Architecture
Performing Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Topics in Indian Popular Culture: Spectacle, Masala, and Genre
Arundhati Banerjee
This course aims to provide an overview of Indian popular culture over the last two decades, through a variety of...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
intermediate