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Chinese Calligraphy
Kang Zhou
Chinese calligraphy (书法 / 書法, shūfǎ)—the art of expressive brush writing—is one of the most esteemed and enduring...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Language
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to the Visual Arts
Prof. Joe Zane
This class will introduce students to a variety of contemporary art practices and ideas. The class will begin with a...
Art, Design & Architecture
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Philosophy of Film
Prof. Irving Singer
This course is a seminar on the philosophical analysis of film art, with an emphasis on the ways in which it creates...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Music and Technology: Live Electronics Performance Practices
Prof. Christopher Ariza
This course is a creative, hands-on exploration of contemporary and historical approaches to live electronics...
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Musical Improvisation
Dr. Mark Harvey
In this course, students study concepts and practice techniques of improvisation in solo and ensemble contexts. The...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Philosophy In Film and Other Media
Prof. Irving Singer
This course examines works of film in relation to thematic issues of philosophical importance that also occur in...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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free
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Composing for Jazz Orchestra
Dr. Mark Harvey
This class explores composition and arrangement for the large jazz ensemble from 1920s foundations to current...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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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...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Computational Music Theory and Analysis
Prof. Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
This course presents major approaches to computational music theory and musicology in the symbolic (score-based)...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Mathematics
intermediate
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Introduction to Photography
Prof. Reiner Leist
This course combines practical instruction, field trips, group discussions, and individual reviews intended to...
Art, Design & Architecture
Visual Arts
intermediate
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Introduction to Architecture & Environmental Design
Lorena Bello Gomez
This course provides a foundation to the design of the environment from the scale of the object, to the building to...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
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Art, Craft, Science
Dr. Franco Rossi
This course examines how people learn, practice, and evaluate traditional and contemporary craft techniques. Social...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Social Sciences
intermediate
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Music and Technology: Sound Design
Dr. Florian Hollerweger
In this course, we will rebuild the everyday sounds of nature, machines, and animals from scratch and encapsulate...
Art, Design & Architecture
Electrical Engineering
Engineering
intermediate
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free
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Interactive Music Systems
Eran Egozy
This course explores audio synthesis, musical structure, human computer interaction (HCI), and visual presentation...
Art, Design & Architecture
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
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free
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Introduction to Musical Composition
Prof. Keeril Makan
Through a progressive series of composition projects, students investigate the sonic organization of musical works...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
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Art of Color
Dr. Peter Dourmashkin
This seminar introduces, through studio projects, the basic principles regarding the use of color in the visual...
Art, Design & Architecture
Visual Arts
intermediate
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Dance Theory and Composition
Prof. Thomas DeFrantz
This course introduces students to the art and formal ideologies of contemporary dance. We explore the aesthetic and...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
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free
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Composing with Computers I (Electronic Music Composition)
Peter Whincop
This class explores sound and what can be done with it. Sources are recorded from students’ surroundings - sampled...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Media Studies
intermediate
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free
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Beginning Costume Design and Construction
Leslie Cocuzzo Held
This is an intermediate workshop designed for students who have a basic understanding of the principles of...
Art, Design & Architecture
Performing Arts
intermediate
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The Anthropology of Sound
Prof. Ian Condry
This course examines the ways humans experience sound and how perceptions and technologies of sound emerge from...
Anthropology
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Introduction to World Music
Prof. George Ruckert
This course explores the ways that music is both shaped by and gives shape to the cultural settings in which it is...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
intermediate
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free
course
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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...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
intermediate
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Experiencing Architecture Studio
Prof. William Hubbard
This course uses scale models to design environments that orchestrate contrasting material properties and...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
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free
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Playwriting I
Laura Harrington
This class introduces the craft of writing for the theater. Through weekly assignments, in class writing exercises,...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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free
course
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Early Music
Prof. Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
This course examines European music from the early Middle Ages until the end of the Renaissance. It includes a...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
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free
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Introduction to Drama
Prof. Diana Henderson
Drama combines the literary arts of storytelling and poetry with the world of live performance. As a form of...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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free
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Harmony and Counterpoint I
Prof. Brian Robison
In this subject we will study the basic harmonic, melodic, and formal practices of western music, principally the...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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The Craft of Costume Design
Leslie Cocuzzo Held
This class provides an overview of some of the techniques used in creating costume pieces that are crafted rather...
Art, Design & Architecture
Performing Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Introduction to Video
Prof. Joe Gibbons
This class serves as an introduction to video recording and editing, presenting video as a tool of personal...
Art, Design & Architecture
Media Studies
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Analysis of Contemporary Architecture
Mr. Dan Cheng-ta Chen
The goal of this course is to investigate with students backgrounds on some of the pivotal events that have shaped...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
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free
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Script Analysis
Michael Ouellette
This class focuses on reading a script theatrically with a view to mounting a coherent production. Through careful,...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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free
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Design Across Scales, Disciplines and Problem Contexts
Prof. Meejin Yoon
This course explores the reciprocal relationships among design, science, and technology by covering a wide range of...
Art, Design & Architecture
Game Design
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Architectural Design: Intentions
Prof. Paul Lukez
This is the second undergraduate design studio. It introduces a full range of architectural ideas and issues through...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Introduction to Photography and Related Media
Reilly Rabitaille
This course provides practical instruction in the fundamentals of analog and digital SLR and medium/large format...
Art, Design & Architecture
Media Studies
Visual Arts
intermediate
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Music Composition
Prof. Peter Child
This course features directed composition of larger forms of original writing involving voices and/or instruments....
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
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free
course
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Studies in Western Music History: Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Music History
Prof. Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
The disciplines of music history and music theory have been slow to embrace the digital revolutions that have...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
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free
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Modern Drama
Prof. Diana Henderson
This course analyzes major modern plays featuring works by Shaw, Pirandello, Beckett, Brecht, Williams, Soyinka,...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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free
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Composing Your Life: Exploration of Self through Visual Arts and Writing
Graham Gordon Ramsay
In this interdisciplinary seminar, we explore a variety of visual and written tools for self exploration and self...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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free
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Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes
Prof. Jan Wampler
This subject introduces skills needed to build within a landscape establishing continuities between the built and...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Modern Music: 1900-1960
Prof. Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
This subject covers a specific branch of music history: Western concert music of first sixty years of the twentieth...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
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free
course
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Stravinsky to the Present
Prof. Emily Richmond Pollock
This course provides an overview of the musical styles and techniques developed over the past 115 years. The...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Seminar: Fusion and Plasma Physics
Prof. Kim Molvig
This course uses lectures and discussion to introduce the range of topics relevant to plasma physics and fusion...
Physics
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Music of Africa
Prof. Patricia Tang
This course is an introduction to selected musical traditions of West Africa. A variety of musical practices and...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War
Prof. Diana Henderson
This course explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Introduction to Stagecraft
Karen Perlow
Offered in the spring and fall terms, Introduction to Stagecraft is a hands-on course that gets students working...
Art, Design & Architecture
Performing Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Learning from the Past: Drama, Science, Performance
Prof. Diana Henderson
This class explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of...
History
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Physics of Rock Climbing
David Custer
SP.255 is a lecture, discussion, and project based seminar about the physics of rock climbing. Participants are...
Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Physics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Media Studies
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Introduction to Sculpture
Prof. Sanjit Sethi
This class introduces fundamental issues in sculpture such as site, context, process, psychology and aesthetics of...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Introduction to Civic Media
Prof. Sasha Costanza-Chock
This course examines civic media in comparative, transnational and historical perspectives through the use of...
Art, Design & Architecture
Communication
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Playwrights' Workshop
Prof. Alan Brody
This course provides continued work in the development of play scripts for the theater. Writers work on sustained...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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free
course
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. IAP Design Seminar
Tobie Weiner
This seminar facilitates the design and construction of installations and other community projects in conjunction...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
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free
course
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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
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Gender Studies
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Music and Technology: Recording Techniques and Audio Production
Dr. Florian Hollerweger
This course is an introduction to music recording and audio production from both a practical and a theoretical...
Art, Design & Architecture
Electrical Engineering
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Art Since 1940
Prof. Caroline Jones
This subject focuses on the objects, history, context, and critical discussion surrounding art since World War II....
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
The Film Experience
Prof. David Thorburn
This course concentrates on close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, from the early silent period,...
Art, Design & Architecture
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800
Teresa M. Neff
This course surveys seven Baroque and Classical genres: opera, oratorio, cantata, sonata, concerto, quartet,...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Playful Augmented Reality Audio Design Exploration
Mikael Jakobsson
Students explore augmented reality audio through the design and evaluation of prototypes. Participants will probe...
Art, Design & Architecture
Economics
Game Design
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Symphony and Concerto
Prof. Lowell Lindgren
This course is a survey of significant orchestral masterworks composed during three centuries. Listening assignments...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Introduction to Western Music
Teresa M. Neff
This class will convey a broad overview of the history, culture, styles, and repertoires of what is generally...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Modern Art and Mass Culture
Prof. Caroline Jones
This class provides an introduction to modern art and theories of modernism and postmodernism. It focuses on the way...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Principles of Naval Architecture
Prof. Joel Harbour
This course presents principles of naval architecture, ship geometry, hydrostatics, calculation and drawing of...
Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Ocean Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Fundamentals of Music
Ms. Pamela Wood
This class introduces students to the rudiments of Western music through oral, aural, and written practice utilizing...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Principles of Design
Karen Perlow
This course deals with advanced design theories and textual analysis. Emphasis is placed on script analysis in...
Art, Design & Architecture
Performing Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Media and Methods: Sound
Prof. John Picker
This course explores the ways in which humans experience the realm of sound and how perceptions and technologies of...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Japan in the Age of the Samurai: History and Film
Aaron Moore
This course covers medieval Japanese society and culture from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries, when...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Lighting Design for the Theatre
Karen Perlow
This class explores the artistry of Lighting Design. Students gain an overall technical working knowledge of the...
Art, Design & Architecture
Performing Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Studies in Film
Prof. Alvin Kibel
This course investigates relationships between two media, film and literature, studying works linked across the two...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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French Film Classics
Catherine E Clark
This course covers the history and aesthetics of French cinema from the advent of sound to present-day. It treats...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Language
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Music Since 1960
Prof. Brian Robison
This course begins with the premise that the 1960s mark a great dividing point in the history of 20th century...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Fundamentals of Computational Media Design
Prof. Barry Vercoe
This class covers the history of 20th century art and design from the perspective of the technologist. Methods for...
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Music of India
Prof. George Ruckert
This course focuses on Hindustani classical music of North India, and also involves learning about the ancient...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Geiger Counters
Prof. Michael Short
This experimental one-week course is a freshman-accessible hands-on introduction to Nuclear Science and Engineering...
Electrical Engineering
Energy
Energy, Climate & Sustainability
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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English Renaissance Drama: Theatre and Society in the Age of Shakespeare
Prof. Shankar Raman
Shakespeare “doth bestride the narrow world” of the English Renaissance “like a colossus,” leaving his...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Signals, Systems and Information for Media Technology
Prof. Rosalind W. Picard
This class teaches the fundamentals of signals and information theory with emphasis on modeling audio/visual...
Art, Design & Architecture
Electrical Engineering
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Spanish Conversation and Composition
Douglas Morgenstern
A third-year intermediate course designed to improve speaking and writing, with opportunities for vocabulary...
Humanities
Language
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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French Photography
Catherine E Clark
This course introduces students to the world of French photography from its invention in the 1820s to the present....
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Language
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Musical Analysis
Prof. Peter Child
This class is an introduction to the analysis of tonal music. Students develop analytical techniques based upon...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Advanced Workshop in Writing for Social Sciences and Architecture (ELS)
Patricia Brennecke
This workshop is designed to help you write clearly, accurately and effectively in both an academic and a...
Humanities
Language
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Nationalism, Internationalism, and Globalism in Modern Art
Prof. Caroline Jones
This course studies how international modernism interacted with the concept of “nation” and how contemporary...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Architecture Studio: Intentions
Prof. Joel Turkel
This is the second undergraduate design studio. It introduces a full range of architectural ideas and issues through...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Developing Musical Structures
Prof. Jeanne Bamberger
The goal of this class is practical: to interrogate, make explicit, and thus to develop the powerful...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Beethoven to Mahler
Teresa M. Neff
This course surveys Romantic musical genres including song, choral music, opera, piano sonata, character cycle,...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Performing Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Introduction to Anglo-American Folk Music
Prof. George Ruckert
This course examines the production, transmission, preservation and qualities of folk music in the British Isles and...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Language
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition
Margarita Ribas Groeger
En este curso el estudiante perfeccionará su comunicación oral y escrita mediante el estudio y la discusión de temas...
Communication
Humanities
Language
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Portuguese Advanced Conversation and Composition
Dr. Nilma Dominique
This is an advanced course that aims to build vocabulary competence and improve oral communication through the study...
Humanities
Language
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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How and Why Machines Work
Prof. Joseph Smith
Subject studies how and why machines work, how they are conceived, how they are developed (drawn), and how they are...
Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Biomimetic Principles and Design
Prof. Michael Triantafyllou
Biomimetics is based on the belief that nature, at least at times, is a good engineer. Biomimesis is the scientific...
Biological Engineering
Biology
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Introduction to Integrated Design
Prof. Angela Watson
During this course, we will be exploring basic questions of architecture through several short design exercises....
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Calculus for Beginners and Artists
Daniel Kleitman
This online textbook provides an overview of Calculus in clear, easy to understand language designed for the...
Mathematics
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Media and Methods: Seeing and Expression
Prof. D. Fox Harrell
In this course students create digital visual images and analyze designs from historical and theoretical...
Art, Design & Architecture
Media Studies
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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BSAD Foundations in the Visual Arts
Prof. Sanjit Sethi
This class offers a foundation in the visual art practice and its critical analysis for beginning architecture...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Performing Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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Lean Research Skills for Conducting Interviews
Elizabeth Hoffecker
This course introduces effective techniques for conducting interviews and is designed to help you develop and...
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity
Sanjoy Mahajan
In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision....
Engineering
Mathematics
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
text only
Theater Arts Topics - Suburbia
David R. Gammons
Directed practice in acting, production, or design on a sustained theater piece, either one-act or full length, from...
Art, Design & Architecture
Performing Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
text only
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...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
History
intermediate