Free Online Art & Design Courses

12 Art & Design Courses

Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (MIT 4.125)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This subject introduces skills needed to build within a landscape establishing continuities between the built and natural world. Students learn to build appropriately...

Blues Guitar

Berklee College of Music

Take your guitar skills to the next level with this free Blues Guitar course from the Berklee College of Music.

Christian Themes in Art

Gresham College

This is a series of free public lectures investigating the portrayal of Christian themes in art from the first Christians through to the modern day. These lectures...

Funk/Rock and R & B Guitar

Berklee College of Music

Listen, learn, and groove like the great Funk and R&B artists, from Parliament to Sly and the Family Stone. This course covers the finer points of mastering...

God, Caesar and Robin Hood: How the Middle Ages were Built

Gresham College

When the English nation rose out of the ruins of the Roman Province of Britannia, people remained obsessed with their Roman past. Seismic social and political change...

Holocaust in Film and Literature

University of California, Los Angeles

German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination of challenges...

Music Production Analysis with Steven Webber

Berklee College of Music

Learn from others' experience as you go through the step-by-step approach of the essential elements of making a great recording. While music may change, the basic...

Philosophy in Film and Other Media

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This course examines works of film in relation to thematic issues of philosophical importance that also occur in other arts, particularly literature and opera. Emphasis...

Roman Architecture

Yale University

This course is an introduction to the great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire, with an emphasis on urban planning and individual monuments...

Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This course explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, of investigating landscapes and expressing ideas. Readings, observations, and photographs form the...

The Elements of Drawing

University of Oxford

Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin's teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing. This series accompanies...

The Unanswered Question 1973 - Leonard Bernstein’s Masterful Lectures on Music

Harvard University

In 1972, the composer Leonard Bernstein returned to Harvard, his alma mater, to serve as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, with "Poetry" being...