Art, Design & Architecture Learning Resources

MIT OCW

free

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 Humanities History

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Game Design Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Science & Math Mathematics

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Real Estate Business & Management

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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

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 Visual Arts Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Social Sciences

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Media Studies Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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

MIT OCW

free

Theory of City Form

Prof. Julian Beinart

This course covers theories about the form that settlements should take and attempts a distinction between...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Social Sciences

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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

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

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 Real Estate Social Sciences

advanced

MIT OCW

free

The Battlecode Programming Competition

Maxwell Mann

This course is conducted as an artificial intelligence programming contest in Java. Students work in teams to...

Art, Design & Architecture Game Design Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Real Estate Science & Math

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Engineering

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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

Basic Structural Design

Prof. John Ochsendorf

This course provides students with a basic knowledge of structural analysis and design for buildings, bridges and...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Engineering

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Engineering

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Media Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Media Studies Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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

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

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Media Studies Engineering

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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

Digital Anthropology

Prof. Alex Pentland

Digital Anthropology is a Spring 2003 applied social science and media arts seminar, surveying the blossoming arena...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Social Sciences

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Design for Sustainability

Dr. Eric Adams

The course considers the growing popularity of sustainability and its implications for the practice of engineering,...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Game Design Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Introduction to Design Computing

Prof. Lawrence Sass

This course will introduce students to architectural design and computation through the use of computer modeling,...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Game Design Performing Arts

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Media Studies Humanities

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Game Design Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Performing Arts Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Game Design Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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

Interactive Music Systems

Eran Egozy

This course explores audio synthesis, musical structure, human computer interaction (HCI), and visual presentation...

Art, Design & Architecture Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology Software Design and Engineering

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Real Estate Business & Management

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

NextLab I: Designing Mobile Technologies for the Next Billion Users

Mr. Jhonatan Rotberg

Can you make a cellphone change the world? NextLab is a hands-on year-long design course in which students research,...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Business & Management

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design and Development

Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn

This workshop provides an introduction to urban environmental design and explores the potential of information...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Art Since 1940

Prof. Caroline Jones

This subject focuses on the objects, history, context, and critical discussion surrounding art since World War II....

Art, Design & Architecture Art History Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Architecture Design Fundamentals I: Nano-Machines

Skylar Tibbits

This is the second undergraduate architecture design studio, which introduces design logic and skills that enable...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Environmental Technologies in Buildings

Prof. Christoph Reinhart

This course focuses on the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of buildings, examining the basic scientific...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Urban Design Seminar

Jota Samper

This seminar focuses on understanding the role of high-quality design as a tool to address urban social problems....

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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

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 Media Studies Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Introduction to Literary Theory

Prof. Shankar Raman

This subject examines the ways in which we read. It introduces some important strategies for engaging with literary...

Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Ambient Intelligence

Prof. Patricia Maes

This course will provide an overview of a new vision for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in which people are...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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

Networks, Complexity and Its Applications

Prof. Cesar Hidalgo

Networks are a ubiquitous way to represent complex systems, including those in the social and economic sciences. The...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Business & Management

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Media Literacy in the Age of Deepfakes

Prof. Joshua Glick

Media Literacy in the Age of Deepfakes aims to equip students with the critical skills to better understand the past...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

beginner

MIT OCW

free

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 Real Estate Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema

Prof. Charity Scribner

21G.031 examines the terms “avant garde” and “Kulturindustrie” in French and German culture of the early twentieth...

Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Art History

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Art, Craft, Science

Prof. Heather Paxson

This course examines how people learn, practice, and evaluate traditional and contemporary craft techniques. Social...

Art, Design & Architecture Social Sciences Anthropology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Media Studies Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Japanese Literature and Cinema

Prof. Ian Condry

This course surveys both cinematic and literary representations of diverse eras and aspects of Japanese culture such...

Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Media Studies Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Introduction to Integrated Design

Prof. Angela Watson

During this course, we will be exploring basic questions of architecture through several short design exercises....

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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

Playwriting I

Laura Harrington

This class introduces the craft of writing for the theater. Through weekly assignments, in class writing exercises,...

Art, Design & Architecture Performing Arts Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra

Prof. Erik Demaine

This course focuses on the algorithms for analyzing and designing geometric foldings. Topics include reconfiguration...

Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

advanced

MIT OCW

free

German IV

Ellen Crocker

This course focuses on development of interpretive skills, using literary texts (B. Brecht, S. Zweig) and...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Education & Teaching

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Special Topics: New Textiles

Prof. Leah Buechley

This project-based course will explore the future of textiles, focusing particularly on blending rich crafting...

Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Social Sciences Anthropology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Humanities History

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Media Studies Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Media Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Real Estate Business & Management

advanced

MIT OCW

free

The Ancient City

Prof. William Broadhead

This course focuses on the archaeology of the Greek and Roman city. It investigates the relationship between urban...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Real Estate Business & Management

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Game Design Performing Arts

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Art History

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Data Storytelling Studio: Climate Change

Rahul Bhargava

This course explores visualization methodologies to conceive and represent systems and data, e.g., financial, media,...

Art, Design & Architecture Game Design Visual Arts

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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

Experiencing Architecture Studio

Prof. William Hubbard

This course uses scale models to design environments that orchestrate contrasting material properties and...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Media Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Hip Hop

Prof. Thomas DeFrantz

This class explores the political and aesthetic foundations of hip hop. Students trace the musical, corporeal,...

Art, Design & Architecture Social Sciences Anthropology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Art History

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology User Experience

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Visual Arts

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Special Topics in Cinematic Storytelling

Prof. Glorianna Davenport

This seminar explores approaches to representation for distributed cinematic storytelling. The relationship between...

Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Engineering

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Media Studies Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Performing Arts Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Photography and Related Media

Prof. Reiner Leist

Subject combines practical instruction, readings, lectures, field trips, visiting artists, group discussions, and...

Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Performing Arts Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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,...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

The Once and Future City

Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn

Class website: The Once & Future City What is a city? What shapes it? How does its history influence future...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

English Renaissance Drama: Theatre and Society in the Age of Shakespeare

Prof. Shankar Raman

Shakespeare “doth bestride the narrow world” of the English Renaissance “like a colossus,” leaving his...

Art, Design & Architecture Performing Arts Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Unmanageability: Pathless Realities and Approaches

Gabriel Kahan

Over the last 40 years, new managerial technologies in Western democratic societies have emerged to dominate our...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Business & Management

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Ecologies of Construction

Prof. John Fernandez

Ecologies of Construction examines the resource requirements for the making and maintenance of the contemporary...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Legal Aspects of Property and Land Use

Prof. Balakrishnan Rajagopal

This course is designed to offer an advanced introduction to key legal issues that arise in the area of property and...

Art, Design & Architecture Real Estate Social Sciences

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Daylighting

Prof. Christoph Reinhart

This course explores natural and electric lighting that integrates occupant comfort, energy efficiency and daylight...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Energy, Climate & Sustainability

advanced

MIT OCW

free

E-Commerce and the Internet in Real Estate and Construction

Dr. John Macomber

1.464 examines the long term effects of information technology on business strategy in the real estate and...

Art, Design & Architecture Real Estate Business & Management

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Anthropology of the Middle East

Prof. Susan Slyomovics

This course examines traditional performances of the Arabic-speaking populations of the Middle East and North...

Art, Design & Architecture Performing Arts Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Media Studies Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Architectural Design: Intentions

Prof. Paul Lukez

This is the second undergraduate design studio. It introduces a full range of architectural ideas and issues through...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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

Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop

Prof. Erik Demaine

Inspired by the work of the architect Antoni Gaudi, this research workshop will explore three-dimensional problems...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Business & Management

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Historiography of Islamic Architecture

Prof. Nasser Rabbat

This seminar offers a critical review of scholarship on Islamic architecture through close reading of scholarly...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Humanities

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Media Studies Humanities

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Art History

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Introduction to Shape Grammars I

Prof. George Stiny

Shape grammars are systems of visual rules by which one shape may be transformed into another. By applying these...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Science & Math

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Engineering

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Furniture Making

Christopher Dewart

Furniture making is in many ways like bridge building, connections holding posts apart with spans to support a deck....

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Engineering

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures

Prof. Nasser Rabbat

This course introduces the history of Islamic cultures through their most vibrant material signs: the religious...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Beijing Urban Design Studio

Prof. Dennis Frenchman

The Beijing Urban Design Studio is a joint program between the MIT and Tsinghua University Schools of Architecture...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Introduction to Anglo-American Folk Music

Prof. George Ruckert

This course examines the production, transmission, preservation and qualities of folk music in the British Isles and...

Art, Design & Architecture Performing Arts Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Introduction to Sculpture

Prof. Sanjit Sethi

This class introduces fundamental issues in sculpture such as site, context, process, psychology and aesthetics of...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Principles and Practice of Science Communication

Prof. John Durant

This course helps in developing skills as science communicators through projects and analysis of theoretical...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Media Studies Social Sciences

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Making Science and Engineering Pictures: A Practical Guide to Presenting Your Work

Felice C. Frankel

In this course you will learn the basics of photography and gain an intriguing new perspective into the visual...

Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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

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 Media Studies Engineering

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Natural Light in Design

Prof. Marilyne Andersen

Today, computer-based simulations are becoming increasingly popular, especially when daylighting and energy...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Gender and Japanese Popular Culture

Prof. Ian Condry

This course examines relationships between identity and participation in Japanese popular culture as a way of...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Writing in Tonal Forms I

Prof. Peter Child

Written and analytic exercises based on 18th- and 19th-century small forms and harmonic practice found in music such...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Music

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Topics in South Asian Literature and Culture

Arundhati Banerjee

This subject aims to provide an overview of contemporary texts in regional languages in South Asian Literature and...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Small Wonders: Media, Modernity, and the Moment: Experiments in Time

Prof. Noel Jackson

The “small wonders” to which our course will attend are moments of present time, depicted in the verbal and visual...

Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Social Sciences

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Business & Management Marketing

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes

Prof. Jan Wampler

This subject introduces skills needed to build within a landscape establishing continuities between the built and...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Building Technology III: Building Structural Systems

Prof. John Fernandez

This course addresses advanced structures, exterior envelopes and contemporary production technologies. It continues...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Engineering

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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

Seminar on Deep Engagement

Prof. Cynthia Breazeal

Innovation in expression, as realized in media, tangible objects, performance and more,  generates new...

Media Studies Communication Psychology

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Digital Mock-Up Workshop

Prof. Lawrence Sass

This is an advanced subject in computer modeling and CAD CAM fabrication, with a focus on building large-scale...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Engineering

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Urban Design Policy and Action

Prof. J. Mark Schuster

Governments at every level assume a measure of responsibility for seeking good design. Some of that responsibility...

Art, Design & Architecture Policy and Administration Urban Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Digital Typography

Prof. John Maeda

This class introduces studies in the algorithmic manipulation of type as word, symbol, and form. Problems covered...

Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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...

Visual Arts Philosophy Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Media Studies Music Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Social Visualization

Prof. Judith Donath

Millions of people are on-line today and the number is rapidly growing - yet this virtual crowd is often invisible....

Media Studies Anthropology Computer Science

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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...

Visual Arts History Gender Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Sites in Sight: Photography as Inquiry

Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn

This course explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, of investigating landscapes and expressing ideas....

Environmental Design Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Musical Analysis

Prof. Peter Child

This class is an introduction to the analysis of tonal music. Students develop analytical techniques based upon...

Music Art, Design & Architecture Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Advanced Projects in the Visual Arts: Personal Narrative

Prof. Joe Gibbons

This advanced video class serves goes into greater depth on the topics covered in 4.351 Introduction to...

Visual Arts Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Media in Cultural Context: Popular Readerships

Prof. Sarah Brouillette

What is the history of popular reading in the Western world? How does widespread access to print relate to...

History Media Studies Literature

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Sustainable Design and Technology Research Workshop

Prof. Leon Glicksman

This workshop investigates the current state of sustainability in regards to architecture, from the level of the...

Adaptation and Resilience Climate Science Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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...

Visual Arts Media Studies Literature

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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

Cyberpolitics in International Relations: Theory, Methods, Policy

Prof. Nazli Choucri

This course focuses on cyberspace and its implications for private and public, sub-national, national, and...

Policy and Administration Media Studies Political Science

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Music Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Music Art, Design & Architecture Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Media Studies Art History

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Building Technologies III: Building Structural Systems II

Prof. John Ochsendorf

This course addresses advanced topics in structures, exterior envelopes and contemporary production technologies. It...

Materials Science and Engineering Architecture Civil Engineering

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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...

Media Studies Music Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Thinking About Architecture: In History and at Present

Prof. Mark Jarzombek

This class will be constructed as a lecture-discussion, the purpose being to engage important theoretical issues...

Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Studies in Literary History: Modernism: From Nietzsche to Fellini

Dr. Howard Eiland

How do literature, philosophy, film and other arts respond to the profound changes in world view and lifestyle that...

History Media Studies Literature

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Workshop II: Qualitative Social Science Methods for Media Studies

Prof. Ian Condry

This course focuses on a number of qualitative social science methods that can be productively used in media studies...

Sociology Communication Media Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Introduction to Design Inquiry

Prof. Terry Knight

This subject explores the varied nature and practice of computation in design. We will view computation and design...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Beethoven to Mahler

Teresa M. Neff

This course surveys Romantic musical genres including song, choral music, opera, piano sonata, character cycle,...

Music Art, Design & Architecture Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Issues of Representation: Women, Representation, and Music in Selected Folk Traditions of the British Isles and North America

Prof. Judith Tick

This subject investigates the special relation of women to several musical folk traditions in the British Isles and...

Art, Design & Architecture Sociology Social Sciences

advanced

MIT OCW

free

A Passage to India: Introduction to Modern Indian Culture and Society

Prof. Sunil H. Sharma

This course is an introduction to modern Indian culture and society through films, documentaries, short stories,...

Media Studies Sociology Literature

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Building Technology Laboratory

Prof. Les Norford

In this class, concepts of building technology and experimental methods are studied, in class and in lab...

Architecture Civil Engineering Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Internet Technology in Local and Global Communities

Mr. Manish Gaudi

This course is based on the work of the MIT-African Internet Technology Initiative (MIT-AITI). MIT-AITI is an...

Educational Technology Media Studies Electrical Engineering

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Architectural Design Workshops: Computational Design for Housing

Gabriela Celani

An intensive nine day remote collaborative workshop involving MIT and Miyagi University in Japan. The objective is...

Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Urban Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Music of India

Prof. George Ruckert

This course focuses on Hindustani classical music of North India, and also involves learning about the ancient...

Sociology Music Performing Arts

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Analysis of Historic Structures

Prof. John Ochsendorf

An analysis of historical structures is presented themed sections based around construction materials. Structures...

Architecture Civil Engineering Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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...

Communication Urban Studies Media Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Intentional Public Disruptions: Art, Responsibility, and Pedagogy

B. Stephen Carpenter II

During the fall of 2017, art educator B. Stephen Carpenter II began a residency at the MIT Center for Art, Science...

Visual Arts Policy and Administration Sociology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Relational Machines

Prof. Cynthia Breazeal

This course examines the issues, principles, and challenges toward building relational machines through a...

Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Electrical Engineering

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Design for the Theater: Scenery

William Fregosi

This course will examine theory of scenic design as currently practiced, as well as historical traditions for use of...

Performing Arts Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Techno-identity: Who we are and how we perceive ourselves and others

Prof. Judith Donath

The nature of human identity - how we think of ourselves, how we perceive others - is a mutable concept, changing...

Media Studies Philosophy Anthropology

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Property Rights in Transition

Prof. Annette M. Kim

This course examines the theories and policy debates over who can own real property, how to communicate and enforce...

Humanities Real Estate Law

advanced

MIT OCW

free

The Anthropology of Cybercultures

Prof. Lucy Suchman

This course explores a range of contemporary scholarship oriented to the study of ‘cybercultures,’ with a focus on...

Anthropology Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

International Politics in the New Century - via Simulation, Interactive Gaming, and 'Edutainment'

Prof. Nazli Choucri

This workshop is designed to introduce students to different perspectives on politics and the state of the world...

Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Computer Science

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Philosophy Music Cognitive Science

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Theater Arts Topics

Prof. Janet Sonenberg

Directed practice in acting, directing, or design on a sustained theater piece, either one-act or full length, from...

Performing Arts Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Inquiry into Computation and Design

Prof. Terry Knight

This subject explores the varied nature and practice of computation in design. We will view computation and design...

Architecture Systems Engineering Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Drawings & Numbers: Five Centuries of Digital Design

Leonardo Diaz Borioli

The aim of this course is to highlight some technical aspects of the classical tradition in architecture that have...

Mathematics Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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...

Media Studies Literature Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Special Topics in Multimedia Production: Experiences in Interactive Art

Prof. Glorianna Davenport

This class deals with interactive art. Visiting artists will discuss their work from a theoretical and practical...

Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Culture Tech

James Rising

This class is divided into a series of sections or “modules”, each of which concentrates on a particular large...

History Anthropology Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities History

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

New Culture of Gender: Queer France

Prof. Bruno Perreau

This course addresses the place of contemporary queer identities in French discourse and discusses the new...

Media Studies Anthropology Gender Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Special Topics in Media Technology: Cooperative Machines

Prof. Cynthia Breazeal

This course examines the issues, principles, and challenges toward building machines that cooperate with humans and...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Computer Science

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Special Topics: Designing Sociable Media

Prof. Judith Donath

This project-based course explores new design strategies for social interaction in the computer mediated world....

Engineering Visualization Media Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Writing and Experience: MIT: Inside, Live

Lucy Marx

During this seminar, students will chronicle their MIT experiences and investigate MIT history and culture. Visits...

Media Studies Literature Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Music of Africa

Prof. Patricia Tang

This course is an introduction to selected musical traditions of West Africa. A variety of musical practices and...

History Anthropology Music

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Humanities History

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

American Popular Music

Teresa M. Neff

This course surveys the development of popular music in the United States and in a cross-cultural milieu relative to...

Music Art, Design & Architecture Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Geometric Disciplines and Architecture Skills: Reciprocal Methodologies

Brandon Clifford

This course is an intensive introduction to architectural design tools and process, and is taught through a series...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Workshop I

Dr. Edward C. Barrett

This course fulfills the first half of the Comparative Media Studies workshop sequence requirement for entering...

Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Case Studies in City Form

Prof. Michael Dennis

This course serves as an introduction to urban form and design, focusing on the physical, historical, and social...

Urban Studies Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

The Beatles

Teresa M. Neff

This class surveys the music of the Beatles, from the band’s early years to the break-up of the group, mapping how...

Visual Arts Music Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Robocraft Programming Competition

Prof. Michael Ernst

The 6.370 Robocraft programming competition is a unique challenge that combines battle strategy and software...

Electrical Engineering Game Design Computer Science

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Writing in Tonal Forms II

Prof. Charles Shadle

This course builds on the composition techniques practiced in 21M.303 Writing in Tonal Forms I. Students undertake...

Music Art, Design & Architecture Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Music Art, Design & Architecture Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Dialogue in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism

Prof. Antonio Muntadas

In this class we will examine how the idea of the city has been “translated” by artists, architects, and other...

Visual Arts Urban Studies Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

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,...

Visual Arts Anthropology History

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Games for Social Change

Scot Osterweil

Run as a workshop, students collaborate in teams to design and prototype games for social change and civic...

Media Studies Game Design Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Studio Seminar in Public Art

Prof. Antonio Muntadas

How do we define Public Art? This course focuses on the production of projects for public places. Public Art is a...

Visual Arts Art History Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Visualizing the Birth of Modern Tokyo

Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa

This course shows the emergence of modern Tokyo through artist renderings of its neighborhoods, daily life and...

Visual Arts History Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Gaoming Studio - China

Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph

The studio will focus on the district of Gaoming, located in the northwest of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) - the...

Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Current Debates in Media

Dr. Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin

This class addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of popular perceptions and policy...

Sociology Media Studies Communication

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Motion Based Design

Prof. Jerome Connor

This course presents a rational basis for the preliminary design of motion-sensitive structures. Topics covered...

Architecture Civil Engineering Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Visual Histories: German Cinema 1945 to Present

Prof. Bernd Widdig

This course is an invitation to German film-making since the end of the Second World War. We investigate how German...

Visual Arts Sociology History

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Numeric Photography

Prof. John Maeda

The aim of the students from the Numeric Photography class at the MIT Media Laboratory was to present an exhibition...

Visual Arts Media Studies Computer Science

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Modern Drama

Prof. Diana Henderson

This course analyzes major modern plays featuring works by Shaw, Pirandello, Beckett, Brecht, Williams, Soyinka,...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

The Beat of Brazil: Brazilian Society Through Its Music

Dr. Nilma Dominique

This course will present students with an overview of Brazilian popular music, from the late nineteenth century to...

History Language Sociology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Stories Without Words: Photographing the First Year

Mr. Keith McCluskey

The transition from high school and home to college and a new living environment can be a fascinating and...

Visual Arts Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Technical Design: Scenery, Mechanisms, and Special Effects

Michael Katz

This class looks at the special structural and practical needs of theatrical scenery and effects and how they can be...

Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Mechanical Engineering

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

The Production of Space: Art, Architecture and Urbanism in Dialogue

Prof. Ute Meta Bauer

This seminar engages in the notion of space from various points of departure. The goal is first of all to engage in...

Visual Arts Urban Studies Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

MArch Portfolio Seminar

Prof. Mark Jarzombek

The aim of the Portfolio Seminar is to assist in developing a critical position in relationship to their design...

Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

The City of Athens in the Age of Pericles

Prof. William Broadhead

This course investigates the relationship between urban architecture and political, social, and cultural history of...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities History

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Small Wonders: Staying Alive

Prof. John Hildebidle

This course closely examines a coherent set of short texts and/or visual works. The selections may be the shorter...

Visual Arts Media Studies Literature

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

The Space Between Workshop

Prof. Jan Wampler

This workshop explores how designers might become as sensitive to space as they are to objects. Through a number of...

Architecture Art, Design & Architecture Environmental Design

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Media Education and the Marketplace

Mr. Manish Gaudi

This instance of “Media, Education, and the Marketplace” focuses on the rise of information and communications...

Media Studies Communication Digital Business & IT

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Visual Arts Media Studies Anthropology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Emergent Materials II

Prof. John Fernandez

This course will focus on providing students with the tools needed to practice responsible architecture in a...

Materials Science and Engineering Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Schubert to Debussy

Prof. Charles Shadle

This course is a survey of developments in Western musical style, 1815-1915. Students will study works by 35...

Music Art, Design & Architecture Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Research Topics in Architecture: Citizen-Centered Design of Open Governance Systems

Daniel Greenwood

In this seminar, students will design and perfect a digital environment to house the activities of large-scale...

Policy and Administration Media Studies Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate

Prof. Arindam Dutta

This class, required of all Master of Architecture students, presents a critical review of works, theories, and...

Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Godzilla and the Bullet Train: Technology and Culture in Modern Japan

Dr. Takashi Nishiyama

This course explores how and why Japan, a late-comer to modernization, emerged as an industrial power and the...

Sociology Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Chinese Popular Musics in Dialogue

Dr. Meredith Schweig

This course provides an introduction to the major popular music cultures of the Chinese-speaking world. We will...

Anthropology Sociology Music

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Special Topics in Media Technology: Computational Semantics

Prof. Deb Roy

How do words get their meanings? How can word meanings be represented and used by machines? We will explore three...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Mathematics

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Films of Luis Buñuel

Prof. Elizabeth Garrels

This course considers films spanning the entire career of pioneering Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), from...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Contemporary French Film and Social Issues

Catherine E Clark

This course covers issues in contemporary French society as expressed through movies made in the 2000s. Topics...

Visual Arts Language Literature

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Harmony and Counterpoint II

Prof. Brian Robison

In this subject, we explore the harmonic, melodic, and formal practices of western music, principally the so-called...

Art, Design & Architecture Music Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

At the Limit: Violence in Contemporary Representation

Prof. Eugenie Brinkema

This course focuses on novels and films from the last twenty-five years (nominally 1985–2010) marked by their...

Visual Arts Media Studies Literature

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

History of Urban Form: Locating Capitalism: Producing Early Modern Cities and Objects

Lauren Jacobi

What was the early modern economy like, and how did monetization impact artistic production, consumption, and the...

History Art History Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Special Problems in Architecture Studies

Daniel Greenwood

The course investigates e-Learning systems from a business, policy, technical and legal perspective. The issues...

Educational Technology Media Studies Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

A Global History of Architecture Writing Seminar

Prof. Mark Jarzombek

This course will study the question of Global Architecture from the point of view of producing a set of lectures on...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Literature

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Environmental Management Practicum: Brownfield Redevelopment

James Hamilton

Through site-specific client-based work, this course will allow students to materially contribute to redevelopment...

Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Policy and Administration

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Science, Technology, & World

Prof. Rosalind Williams

This class is an introduction to studies in science, technology, and society (STS), through examining a series of...

Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Anthropology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Composing for Jazz Orchestra

Dr. Mark Harvey

This class explores composition and arrangement for the large jazz ensemble from 1920s foundations to current...

Music Art, Design & Architecture Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Technopolitics, Culture, Intervention

Prof. Arindam Dutta

Twentieth and twenty-first century architecture is defined by its rhetorical subservience to something called...

Architecture Environmental Design Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Architectural Design, Level I: Perceptions and Processes

Prof. Meejin Yoon

This studio explores the notion of in-between by engaging several relationships; the relationship between...

Environmental Design Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Symphony and Concerto

Prof. Lowell Lindgren

This course is a survey of significant orchestral masterworks composed during three centuries. Listening assignments...

Art, Design & Architecture Music Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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 Visual Arts

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800

Teresa M. Neff

This course surveys seven Baroque and Classical genres: opera, oratorio, cantata, sonata, concerto, quartet,...

Music Art, Design & Architecture Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Technologies of Humanism

Dr. Kurt Fendt

This course explores the properties of non-sequential, multi-linear, and interactive forms of narratives as they...

Media Studies Literature Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Photography and Truth

Prof. James Howe

Still photography, a practice and form of expression that has worked its way into every facet of social life and...

Visual Arts Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Networked Social Movements: Media & Mobilization

Prof. Sasha Costanza-Chock

This seminar is a space for collaborative inquiry into the relationships between social movements and the media....

Art, Design & Architecture Sociology Communication

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Foundations of Theater Practice

Prof. Janet Sonenberg

The goals of this class are two-fold: the first is to experience the creative processes and storytelling behind...

Literature Performing Arts Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show

Elizabeth Choe

Becoming the Next Bill Nye is about using video production techniques to develop your ability to engagingly convey...

Visual Arts Media Studies Communication

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Modern Mexico: Representations of Mexico City's Urban Life

Maria Luisa Martinez

The goal of this course is to offer a general introduction to 20th and 21st century literature and cultural...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Downtown

Prof. Bernard Frieden

This seminar focuses on downtowns in U.S. cities from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century....

History Urban Studies Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Designing Paths to Peace

Prof. Alex Slocum

Teaches creative design based on the scientific method through the design, engineering, and manufacture of a...

Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Visual Arts

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Urban Design Studio: Providence

Prof. Greg Morrow

This studio discusses in great detail the design of urban environments, specifically in Providence, RI. It will...

Environmental Design Urban Studies Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Landscape Experience: Seminar in Land/Art

Dr. Rebecca K. Uchill

This seminar explores “land” as a genre, theme, and medium of art and architecture of the last five decades....

History Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Theater and Cultural Diversity in the U.S.

Prof. Thomas DeFrantz

This course explores contemporary American theatrical expression as it may be organized around issues of gender and...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Anthropology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Screen Women: Body Narratives in Popular American Film

Dr. Emily Fox-Kales

Using film and related popular media as our texts, this course will examine how screen “embodiments” of the woman...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Sociology

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Advanced Topics: Plotting Terror in European Culture

Prof. Charity Scribner

This interdisciplinary course surveys modern European culture to disclose the alignment of literature, opposition,...

Media Studies Anthropology Sociology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Studies in Drama: Too Hot to Handle: Forbidden Plays in Modern America

Dr. Anne Fleche

Unlike film, theater in America does not have a ratings board that censors content. So plays have had more freedom...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Literature

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Media in Cultural Context

Dr. Joshua Green

This course explores the international trade in television text, considering the ways in which ‘foreign’ programs...

Media Studies Literature Anthropology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Architecture and Communication in Organizations

Prof. Diane Burton

While no businesses succeed based on their architecture or space design, many fail as a result of inattention to the...

Management Communication Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Architecture Design, Level II: Cuba Studio

Prof. Jan Wampler

This architectural studio will have one main project for the semester: to explore the issues surrounding the...

Environmental Design Anthropology Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Traditions in American Concert Dance: Gender and Autobiography

Melissa Blanco

This course explores the forms, contents, and context of world traditions in dance that played a crucial role in...

Art, Design & Architecture Anthropology Gender Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Territory: Spatial Reification of Power

Gabriel Kozlowski

This course proposes that investigating the ways in which territory is produced, maintained and strategized,...

International Development Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Cultural Performances of Asia

Prof. Ian Condry

This course examines cultural performances of Asia, including both traditional and contemporary forms, in a variety...

Anthropology Media Studies Sociology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Architectural Design, Level II: Material Essence: The Glass House

Prof. Andrew Scott

The theme that unites the Level II studios in the fall semester is a focus upon the ‘making of architecture and...

Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Introduction to Doing Research in Media Arts and Sciences

Dr. V. Michael Bove

This course is intended for students pursuing research projects at the Media Laboratory. Topics include Media Lab...

Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

History Literature Performing Arts

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

From Print to Digital: Technologies of the Word, 1450-Present

Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel

There has been much discussion in recent years, on this campus and elsewhere, about the death of the book....

History Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

DV Lab: Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

Prof. Christine Walley

This course is an introductory exploration of documentary film theory and production, focusing on documentaries...

Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Understanding Television

Prof. David Thorburn

The subtitle of this course for the spring 2003 term is “American Television: A Cultural History.” The class takes a...

Visual Arts Anthropology Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Media in Transition

Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel

This course centers on historical eras in which the form and function of media technologies were radically...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities History

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Architectural Design, Level II: New Orleans Studio

Prof. Jan Wampler

The project for this studio is to design a demonstration project for a site near the French Quarter in New Orleans....

Architecture Environmental Design Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Studies in Drama: Stoppard and Company

Prof. Diana Henderson

Taking as its starting point the works of one of Britain’s most respected, prolific—and funny—living dramatists,...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Literature

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Playful Augmented Reality Audio Design Exploration

Mikael Jakobsson

Students explore augmented reality audio through the design and evaluation of prototypes. Participants will probe...

Media Studies Economics Game Design

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Topics in Culture and Globalization: Reggae as Transnational Culture

Dr. Wayne G. Marshall

This course considers reggae, or Jamaican popular music more generally—in its various forms (ska, rocksteady, roots,...

Art, Design & Architecture Sociology Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

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...

Environmental Engineering Art, Design & Architecture Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Topics in Performance Studies: Comedy Across Media

James Stanley

This multidisciplinary lecture / workshop engages students in a variety of approaches to the study and practice of...

Media Studies Literature Performing Arts

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Major Authors: Melville and Morrison

Dr. Wyn Kelley

This seminar provides intensive study of texts by two American authors (Herman Melville, 1819-1891, and Toni...

Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Media Studies

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Playwrights' Workshop

Prof. Alan Brody

This course provides continued work in the development of play scripts for the theater. Writers work on sustained...

Literature Performing Arts Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Springfield Studio

Prof. Ceasar McDowell

The Springfield Studio is a practicum design course that focuses on the physical, programmatic, and social renewal...

Sociology Urban Studies Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Brownfields Policy and Practice

James Hamilton

There are several hundred thousand Brownfield sites across the country. The large number of sites, combined with how...

Policy and Administration Urban Studies Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Special Studies in Urban Studies and Planning - The Cardener River Corridor Workshop

Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph

This landscape and environmental planning workshop investigates and propose a framework for the enhancement,...

Environmental Engineering Urban Studies Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Architectural Design, Level III: A Student Center for MIT

Prof. Fernando Domeyko

This studio will investigate the social, programmatic, tectonic and phenomenological performance and character of a...

Environmental Design Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Architectural Design, Level II: Material and Tectonic Transformations: The Herreshoff Museum

Prof. Paul Lukez

This semester students are asked to transform the Hereshoff Museum in Bristol, Rhode Island, through processes of...

Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Precedents in Critical Practice

Prof. Ana Miljački

This course provides students with the opportunity to develop a map of contemporary architectural practice and...

Art, Design & Architecture Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Writing About Race: Narratives of Multiraciality

Dr. Kym L. Ragusa

In this course we will read essays, novels, memoirs, and graphic texts, and view documentary and experimental films...

Media Studies Literature Anthropology

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Topics in Culture and Globalization

Prof. Ian Condry

The concept of globalization fosters the understanding of the interconnectedness of cultures and societies...

Anthropology Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Strobe Project Laboratory

Dr. James Bales

This is a laboratory experience course with a focus on photography, electronic imaging, and light measurement, much...

Physics Electrical Engineering Visual Arts

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Vocal Repertoire and Performance: Women Composers

Ms. Pamela Wood

This course is for the singer and/or pianist interested in collaborative study of solo vocal performance. This term...

Music Art, Design & Architecture Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Revitalizing Urban Main Streets: Mission Hill & Egleston Square, Boston

Prof. Karl Seidman

Revitalizing Urban Main Streets focuses on the physical and economic renewal of urban neighborhood Main Streets by...

Policy and Administration Sociology Urban Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Vocal Repertoire and Performance: African American Composers

Ms. Pamela Wood

The primary focus of this Vocal Repertoire and Performance course is placed upon the works of African American...

Music Art, Design & Architecture Humanities

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

The Architecture of Cairo

Prof. Nasser Rabbat

Cairo is the quintessential Islamic city. Founded in 634 at the strategic head of the Nile Delta, the city evolved...

History Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Popular Narrative: Masterminds

Prof. John Hildebidle

Our purpose is to consider some of the most elaborate and thoughtful efforts to define and delineate...

Media Studies Literature Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Theater Arts Topics - Suburbia

David R. Gammons

Directed practice in acting, production, or design on a sustained theater piece, either one-act or full length, from...

Performing Arts Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Immaterial Limits: Process and Duration

Prof. Meejin Yoon

This studio proposes to engage tectonics as a material process. By exploring transformation, indeterminacy and...

Architecture Art, Design & Architecture

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Introduction to Civic Media

Prof. Sasha Costanza-Chock

This course examines civic media in comparative, transnational and historical perspectives through the use of...

Media Studies Communication Art, Design & Architecture

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Ecuador Workshop

Prof. Jan Wampler

This is a project to assist in the design, drawing, modeling and hopefully constructing of a small Community...

Sociology Architecture Environmental Design

intermediate

MIT OCW

free

Revitalizing Urban Main Streets: St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans

Prof. Karl Seidman

This course focuses on the physical and economic renewal of urban neighborhood Main Streets by combining classroom...

Environmental Design Policy and Administration Sociology

advanced

MIT OCW

free

Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development

Prof. Lawrence Vale

Kevin Lynch’s landmark volume, The Image of the City (1960), emphasized the perceptual characteristics of the urban...

Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Urban Studies

advanced

MIT OCW

free

CityScope: New Orleans

Cherie Miot Abbanat

Do you want to think about ways to help solve New Orleans’ problems? CityScope is a project-based introduction to...

Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Urban Studies

intermediate