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MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Deep Learning
Alexander Amini
This is MIT’s introductory course on deep learning methods with applications to computer vision, natural language...
Machine Learning
Visualization
Engineering
intermediate
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...
History
Art, Design & Architecture
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science I
Prof. Leslie Kaelbling
This course provides an integrated introduction to electrical engineering and computer science, taught using...
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science
Machine Learning
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Effective Programming in C and C++
Andre Kessler
This course is a fast-paced introduction to the C and C++ programming languages, with an emphasis on good...
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
Engineering
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,...
Media Studies
Game Design
Computer Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Distributed Computer Systems Engineering
Prof. Robert Morris
This course covers abstractions and implementation techniques for the design of distributed systems. Topics include:...
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python
Sarina Canelake
This course will provide a gentle, yet intense, introduction to programming using Python for highly motivated...
Engineering
Programming & Coding
Software Design and Engineering
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)...
Mathematics
Art, Design & Architecture
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Practical Programming in C
Daniel Weller
This course provides a thorough introduction to the C programming language, the workhorse of the UNIX operating...
Programming & Coding
Software Design and Engineering
Computer Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Computational Thinking
Prof. Alan Edelman
This is an introductory course on computational thinking. We use the Julia programming language to approach...
Mathematics
Climate Science
Computer Science
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...
Finance & Accounting
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 History
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Computer System Engineering
Dr. Katrina LaCurts
This class covers topics on the engineering of computer software and hardware systems. Topics include techniques for...
Computer Science
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
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...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving
Dr. George Kocur
This course presents the fundamentals of object-oriented software design and development, computational methods and...
Engineering
Systems Engineering
Computer Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to C and C++
Tom Lieber
This course provides a fast-paced introduction to the C and C++ programming languages. You will learn the required...
Computer Science
Engineering
Programming & Coding
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...
Environmental Design
Urban Studies
Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Computer System Architecture
Dr. Joel Emer
6.823 is a course in the department’s “Computer Systems and Architecture” concentration. 6.823 is a study of the...
Computer Science
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Computer Systems Security
Prof. Nickolai Zeldovich
This course covers design and implementation of secure computer systems. The lectures cover attacks that compromise...
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
Computer Science
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...
Urban Studies
Art, Design & Architecture
Architecture
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...
Media Studies
Computer Science
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Programming in Java
Evan Jones
This course is an introduction to software engineering, using the Java™ programming language. It covers concepts...
Computer Science
Engineering
Programming & Coding
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
Introduction to C++
Jesse Dunietz
This is a fast-paced introductory course to the C++ programming language. It is intended for those with little...
Computer Science
Engineering
Programming & Coding
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Performance Engineering of Software Systems
Prof. Charles Leiserson
6.172 is an 18-unit class that provides a hands-on, project-based introduction to building scalable and...
Engineering
Systems Engineering
Computer Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Database Systems
Prof. Samuel Madden
This course relies on primary readings from the database community to introduce graduate students to the foundations...
Digital Business & IT
Computer Science
Data Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Operating System Engineering
Prof. Frans Kaashoek
This course studies fundamental design and implementation ideas in the engineering of operating systems. Lectures...
Computer Science
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
advanced
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...
Sociology
Urban Studies
Architecture
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...
Language
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
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
Music
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Foundations of Software Engineering
Prof. Kevin Amaratunga
This is a foundation subject in modern software development techniques for engineering and information technology....
Computer Science
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
advanced
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...
Policy and Administration
Urban Studies
Real Estate
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
Computer Science
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...
Performing Arts
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Adaptation and Resilience
Energy
Climate Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Software Construction
Prof. Robert Miller
6.005 Software Construction introduces fundamental principles and techniques of software development, i.e., how to...
Computer Science
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
intermediate
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...
Materials Science and Engineering
Architecture
Civil Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Software Engineering Concepts
Prof. Nancy Leveson
This is a reading and discussion subject on issues in the engineering of software systems and software development...
Engineering
Systems Engineering
Computer Science
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...
Media Studies
Game Design
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Microelectronic Devices and Circuits
Prof. Clifton Fonstad
6.012 is the header course for the department’s “Devices, Circuits and Systems” concentration. The topics covered...
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science
Software Design and Engineering
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...
Architecture
Civil Engineering
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design
Dr. Neha Narula
Bitcoin and other cryptographic currencies have gained attention over the years as the systems continue to evolve....
Data Science
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits
Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan
6.374 examines the device and circuit level optimization of digital building blocks. Topics covered include: MOS...
Software Design and Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Software Business
Prof. Michael Cusumano
This subject is a seminar-style course aimed at anyone who is interested in founding a software company or working...
Digital Business & IT
Management
Computer Science
advanced
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
Engineering
Architecture
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...
User Experience
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
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
Engineering
Visualization
advanced
MIT OCW
free
STAR: Software Tools for Academics and Researchers
MIT Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
The Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR) program at MIT seeks to bridge the divide between scientific...
Physics
Computer Science
Environmental Engineering
beginner
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...
Electrical Engineering
Media Studies
Computer Science
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...
Visual Arts
Art, Design & Architecture
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....
Media Studies
Game Design
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Secure Hardware Design
Prof. Mengija Yan
MIT’s Secure Hardware Design Class (6.5950/6.5951) is an open-source course that teaches students both how to attack...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
advanced
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...
Visual Arts
Urban Studies
Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Computation Structures
Prof. Steve Ward
6.004 offers an introduction to the engineering of digital systems. Starting with MOS transistors, the course...
Electrical Engineering
Mathematics
Computer Science
intermediate
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...
Architecture
Art, Design & 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
Electrical Engineering
Media Studies
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...
Humanities
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Anthropology
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,...
Adaptation and Resilience
Climate Science
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introductory Digital Systems Laboratory
Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan
6.111 is reputed to be one of the most demanding classes at MIT, exhausting many students’ time and creativity. The...
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science
Software Design and Engineering
intermediate
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...
Media Studies
Game Design
Computer Science
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
Engineering
Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Parallel Computing
Prof. Alan Edelman
This is an advanced interdisciplinary introduction to applied parallel computing on modern supercomputers. It has a...
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
Algorithms and Data Structures
advanced
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
Engineering
Game Design
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...
History
Media Studies
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
Art, Design & Architecture
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
Music
Performing Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Analysis and Design of Digital Control Systems
Prof. David Trumper
This course is a comprehensive introduction to control system synthesis in which the digital computer plays a major...
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science
Mechanical Engineering
advanced
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...
Engineering
Art, Design & Architecture
Mathematics
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
Music
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Interactive Music Systems
Eran Egozy
This course explores audio synthesis, musical structure, human computer interaction (HCI), and visual presentation...
User Experience
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Real Estate
Finance & Accounting
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Computational Thinking with Julia, with Applications to Modeling the COVID-19 Pandemic
Prof. Alan Edelman
This half-semester course introduces computational thinking through applications of data science, artificial...
Mathematics
Computer Science
Engineering
intermediate
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...
History
Sociology
Anthropology
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,...
Electrical Engineering
Sociology
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Database, Internet, and Systems Integration Technologies
Dr. George Kocur
This course addresses information technology fundamentals, including project management and software processes, data...
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
Data Science
advanced
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...
Architecture
Sociology
Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction
Jerome H. Saltzer
Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction is published in two parts. Part I, containing chapters 1-6, is...
Systems Engineering
Computer Science
Systems Thinking
intermediate
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....
Anthropology
Art History
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Media Studies
Literature
Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Mathematical Programming
Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas
This course is an introduction to linear optimization and its extensions emphasizing the underlying mathematical...
Software Design and Engineering
Algorithms and Data Structures
Mathematics
advanced
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...
Architecture
Civil Engineering
Energy
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...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
Architecture
Civil Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Global Health Informatics to Improve Quality of Care
Dr. Ken Paik
This course will explore innovations in information systems for health care delivery in developing countries, and...
Engineering
Computer Science
Health Care Management
advanced
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....
Architecture
Real Estate
Civil Engineering
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...
History
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Performing Arts
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Urban Studies
Architecture
Civil Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to C Memory Management and C++ Object-Oriented Programming
Eunsuk Kang
Ever hang your head in shame after your Python program wasn’t as fast as your friend’s C program? Ever wish you...
Engineering
Programming & Coding
Software Design and Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Software Studio
Prof. Daniel Jackson
This course on software engineering covers design and implementation of medium-scale software systems, using web...
Computer Science
Engineering
Programming & Coding
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Building Programming Experience: A Lead-In to 6.001
Benjamin Vandiver
This course will serve as a two-week aggressively gentle introduction to programming for those students who lack...
Engineering
Programming & Coding
Software Design and Engineering
intermediate
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
Media Studies
Game Design
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
Music
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...
Visual Arts
Literature
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Elements of Software Construction
Prof. Daniel Jackson
This course provides an introduction to the fundamental principles and techniques of software development that have...
Computer Science
Engineering
Programming & Coding
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...
Media Studies
Computer Science
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Music
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
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
Engineering
Media Studies
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...
Media Studies
Computer Science
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Climate and Energy Policy
Real Estate
Economics
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...
Visual Arts
Anthropology
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...
Anthropology
Economics
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Media Studies
Communication
Literature
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...
Visual Arts
Anthropology
Literature
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
Humanities
Media Studies
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...
Performing Arts
Art, Design & Architecture
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,...
Literature
Performing Arts
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Principles of Computer Systems
Prof. Butler Lampson
6.826 provides an introduction to the basic principles of computer systems, with emphasis on the use of rigorous...
Computer Science
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
advanced
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...
Visual Arts
Mathematics
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
German IV
Ellen Crocker
This course focuses on development of interpretive skills, using literary texts (B. Brecht, S. Zweig) and...
Media Studies
Language
Literature
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...
Visual Arts
Educational Technology
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Knowledge-Based Applications Systems
Prof. Randall Davis
This course covers the development of programs containing a significant amount of knowledge about their application...
Machine Learning
Data Science
Engineering
advanced
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...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Literature
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...
Visual Arts
Language
Literature
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...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Communication
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Lego Robotics
James Rising
LEGO® robotics uses LEGO®s as a fun tool to explore robotics, mechanical systems, electronics, and programming. This...
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science
Mechanical Engineering
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...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Materials Science and Engineering
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,...
Visual Arts
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Anthropology
Music
Art, Design & Architecture
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
History
Music
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
Physics
Media Studies
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...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Art History
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...
Real Estate
Finance & Accounting
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...
History
Anthropology
Urban Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Autonomous Robot Design Competition
No Faculty
6.270 is a hands-on, learn-by-doing class, in which participants design and build a robot that will play in a...
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science
Engineering
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...
Urban Studies
Architecture
Environmental Design
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
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...
Systems Thinking
Urban Studies
Real Estate
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
Humanities
Game Design
advanced
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 History
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
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,...
Game Design
Visual Arts
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Theory of Parallel Hardware (SMA 5511)
Dr. Bradley Kuszmaul
6.896 covers mathematical foundations of parallel hardware, from computer arithmetic to physical design,...
Computer Science
Engineering
Algorithms and Data Structures
advanced
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...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Visual Arts
Literature
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Complex Digital Systems
Chris Terman
This course is offered to graduates and is a project-oriented course to teach new methodologies for designing...
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science
Mathematics
advanced
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
Literature
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Program Analysis
Prof. Michael Ernst
6.883 is a graduate seminar that investigates a variety of program analysis techniques that address software...
Computer Science
Engineering
Algorithms and Data Structures
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Parallel Programming for Multicore Machines Using OpenMP and MPI
Dr. Constantinos Evangelinos
This course introduces fundamentals of shared and distributed memory programming, teaches you how to code using...
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
Computer Science
advanced
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...
Media Studies
Architecture
Computer Science
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
Anthropology
Music
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...
History
Art History
Architecture
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...
User Experience
Art, Design & Architecture
Electrical Engineering
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...
Performing Arts
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Java Preparation for 6.170
Corey McCaffrey
This course focuses on introducing the language, libraries, tools and concepts of Javaᵀᴹ. The course is specifically...
Computer Science
Engineering
Programming & Coding
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Computer Language Engineering (SMA 5502)
Prof. Martin Rinard
6.035 is a course within the department’s “Computer Systems and Architecture” concentration. This course analyzes...
Computer Science
Engineering
Programming & Coding
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
Visual Arts
Architecture
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...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Literature
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
Engineering
Architecture
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...
User Experience
Engineering
Media Studies
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...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Literature
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
Environmental Design
Urban Studies
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,...
Literature
Performing Arts
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Literature
Performing Arts
Art, Design & Architecture
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
Visual Arts
Media Studies
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,...
Architecture
Art, Design & 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...
Architecture
Geography
Sociology
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...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Sociology
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...
Media Studies
Mathematics
Music
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...
Environmental Design
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Literature
Performing Arts
Art, Design & Architecture
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
Humanities
Visual Arts
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
Humanities
Media Studies
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...
Architecture
Art, Design & 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...
Humanities
Real Estate
Law
advanced
MIT OCW
free
High Speed Communication Circuits and Systems
Prof. Michael Perrott
6.976 covers circuit and system level design issues of high speed communication systems, with primary focus being...
Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Daylighting
Prof. Christoph Reinhart
This course explores natural and electric lighting that integrates occupant comfort, energy efficiency and daylight...
Built Environment
Energy
Architecture
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...
Digital Business & IT
Real Estate
Operations
advanced
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
Anthropology of the Middle East
Prof. Susan Slyomovics
This course examines traditional performances of the Arabic-speaking populations of the Middle East and North...
Performing Arts
Anthropology
Sociology
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...
Media Studies
Music
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Architecture
Art, Design & 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
Music
Humanities
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...
Systems Thinking
Architecture
Systems Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Computer Language Engineering
Prof. Saman Amarasinghe
This course analyzes issues associated with the implementation of higher-level programming languages. Topics covered...
Computer Science
Engineering
Programming & Coding
intermediate
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...
History
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Media Studies
Literature
Art, Design & Architecture
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
Urban Studies
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
Art History
Architecture
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...
Mathematics
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Architecture
Systems Engineering
Art, Design & Architecture
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....
Architecture
Mechanical Engineering
Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Beijing Urban Design Studio
Prof. Dennis Frenchman
This is the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Urban Design Studio, which is a joint program between the MIT and...
Environmental Design
Urban Studies
Economics
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...
Sociology
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Environmental Design
History
Sociology
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...
Music
Performing Arts
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Visual Arts
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...
Media Studies
Communication
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...
Media Studies
Communication
Literature
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...
Physics
Visual Arts
Engineering
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
Humanities
Visual Arts
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...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Performing Arts
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Laboratory in Software Engineering
Prof. Daniel Jackson
This course introduces concepts and techniques relevant to the production of large software systems. Students are...
Computer Science
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
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
Engineering
Electrical 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...
Environmental Design
Urban Studies
Real Estate
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Natural Light in Design
Prof. Marilyne Andersen
Today, computer-based simulations are becoming increasingly popular, especially when daylighting and energy...
Architecture
Systems Engineering
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Media Studies
Anthropology
Sociology
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
Music
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Fundamentals of Program Analysis
Prof. Armando Solar-Lezama
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of program analysis. It covers some of the major forms...
Engineering
Software Design and Engineering
Computer Science
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...
Media Studies
Anthropology
Literature
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...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Multicore Programming Primer
Dr. Rodric Rabbah
The course serves as an introductory course in parallel programming. It offers a series of lectures on parallel...
Engineering
Programming & Coding
Software Design and Engineering
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...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Literature
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...
Sociology
Media Studies
Anthropology
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
Marketing
Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Multithreaded Parallelism: Languages and Compilers
Prof. Arvind
The topics covered in this course include:
Languages and compilers to exploit multithreaded parallelism
Implicit...
Computer Science
Engineering
Programming & Coding
advanced
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...
Environmental Design
Art, Design & Architecture
Architecture
intermediate
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...
Music
Humanities
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Materials Science and Engineering
Architecture
Civil Engineering
advanced
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
French Photography
Catherine E Clark
This course introduces students to the world of French photography from its invention in the 1820s to the present....
Visual Arts
Language
Literature
intermediate
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...
Architecture
Systems Engineering
Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
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
Humanities
Visual Arts
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Adventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming
Prof. Gerald Sussman
This course covers concepts and techniques for the design and implementation of large software systems that can be...
Computer Science
Machine Learning
Engineering
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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