Free Online Arts and Humanities Courses

Arts and humanities courses offer a broad understanding of human culture and expression. From philosophy to music, these courses delve deep into various subjects that form the core of human understanding. An arts and humanities course provides a strong foundation for careers in teaching, journalism, or even law.

148 Arts and Humanities Courses

Toledo: Deciphering Secrets of Medieval Spain

University of Colorado System

This course evaluates the medieval history of Toledo from the era of the Visigoth Kingdom (6th-8th centuries) through its Islamic period (8th to 11th centuries)...

Transmedia Writing

Michigan State University

Do you have a desire to write a novel, write a screenplay, design a video game? In this project-centered course you will develop your own, original, intellectual...

UI / UX Design

California Institute of the Arts

The UI/UX Design Specialization brings a design-centric approach to user interface and user experience design, and offers practical, skill-based instruction centered...

Ukraine: History, Culture and Identities

University of Washington

Explore the history, culture and society of the people of Ukraine from the Middle Ages to the present in this introductory course developed by the Ukrainian Institute,...

Violences et religions

University of Geneva

La question « violences et religions » est d’actualité, et pas seulement depuis les attentats d’Al-Qaïda ou de Daech. Pour bien la comprendre, ce cours propose...

Visual Elements of User Interface Design

California Institute of the Arts

This design-centric course examines the broad question of what an interface is and what role a designer plays in creating a user interface. Learning how to design...

Web Design: Wireframes to Prototypes

California Institute of the Arts

This course is focused on the application of the early UX research to actual user interfaces: the creation of wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and clickable prototypes....

What Is Contemporary Art?

The Museum of Modern Art

What is contemporary art? In this course, you’ll consider this question through more than 70 works of art made between 1980 and the present, with a focus on art...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Comedy, Conflict, and Community

University of Colorado Boulder

This course introduces and explores William Shakespeare’s classic comedy, Twelfth Night. Interviews with actors who appeared in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s...

Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan

The University of Tokyo

In their ambition to capture “real life,” Japanese painters, poets, novelists and photographers of the nineteenth century collaborated in ways seldom explored...

Write Like Mozart: An Introduction to Classical Music Composition

National University of Singapore

This course introduces students to strategies for style writing of common practice European art music. The issues of harmonic progression, voice leading, and texture...

Writing a Personal Essay

Wesleyan University

This class is the chance to create your personal essay or extend into a full memoir -- from planning and structure to bold narrative brushstrokes to the layering...

Writing Stories About Ourselves

Wesleyan University

In this course, creative nonfiction writers will explore traditional storytelling methods, especially those which overlap between fiction and memoir. By looking...

《新教伦理与资本主义精神》导读

Fudan University

德国思想巨擎马克斯·韦伯在20世纪初,以其深邃的洞察力发现了欧洲文明进程中宗教信仰对近代资本主义诞生做出的特殊贡献,从而提出了不同于马克思“经济基础决定上层建筑”的历史发展观,并由此引发了一系列引人深思的文化、社会和宗教学问题。本课程将以对马克斯·韦伯的《新教伦理与资本主义精神》的深度阅读为基础,让学生对韦伯的宗教社会学研究有初步的了解,进而深入思考文化与社会互动的基本关系,提升学生的人文素养和培养独立思维精神。...

中國園林文學 (一) (Chinese Garden Literature (1))

National Taiwan University

本課程以文人園林為窗口,觀察中國古典文學如何處理人與空間的關係。中國園林自秦漢上林宮苑樹立規模,隨著歷朝社會文化發展,唐宋以降逐漸凝塑出文人園林的主要美學型態。園林營造出一個可居可遊的人文活動空間,相關的書寫活動亦蓬勃展開。本課程選擇具代表性的案例,觀察園主如何營造一個可居可遊的人文活動空間,並藉由詩文記存相關的審美經驗、精神意趣與人生觀省。...

剪辑:像编剧一样剪辑

Fudan University

剪辑台前,剪辑师就像厨师对待食材一样,摆弄着拍摄现场记录下来的影像片段,用影像和声音去捕捉线索和瞬间,讲述一个故事,同时赋予故事以力量、以情感。怎样平衡剪辑給画面带来的跳跃?当有几条情节线索相互穿插时,又应使用哪些剪辑手法?剪辑过程和编剧的过程一样,以叙事和抒情为最高准则,同时不断突破陈规,创造专属于自己的独特风格。本课程将带领学习者从剪辑开始,认识镜头,认识剪辑的语法,揭开微电影创作的神秘面纱。...

杏林探宝——认知中药

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

《杏林探宝——认知中药》是由上海中医药大学推出的一门关于中药学的慕课课程,由上海中医药大学杨柏灿教授主讲。 上海中医药大学(Shanghai...

東亞儒家:人文精神一(East Asian Confucianisms: Humanism (1))

National Taiwan University

本課程從現代觀點探討東亞儒家人文傳統之核心價值,包括孔子、孟子、朱子及日韓儒者的生命智慧,以及作為儒家對照系統的道家與佛教的生命智慧等主題,討論儒家人文傳統在臺灣及其與21世紀的互動。藉由講授、單元作業等,提昇修課學生對於東亞人文精神的熟悉度,奠定其運用傳統文化精神資源,以因應21世紀新挑戰的能力。...