Short online courses

This online course explores the key concepts and fundamental principles involved in the process of screenwriting.

What science discoveries will you choose to write about?

Learn how to achieve consistent and excellent results in all aspects of dental photography with this free online course.

Understand how big fashion retailers innovate and discover the story behind a favourite piece of your clothing.

Learn how and why conversational interfaces have developed and the ways in which this exciting new technology is evolving.

Learn about Meyerhold’s form of physical theatre, biomechanics, and understand and perform ‘The Slap’.

Learn how to solve everyday problems using creativity with this online course about hands-on Creative Problem Solving.

Discover just some of the ways that heroism and the First World War is portrayed through art and film.

Understand the importance of copyright and learn its history, from the Renaissance to the Internet, with this free online course.

Get an introduction to issues, agendas and contexts relating to fashion and sustainability in a changing world.

Explore the role of copyright in the creative and cultural industries.

Learn from award-winning filmmakers how films go from script to screen with this film production course from the BFI Film Academy.

Discover how your favourite films make it to your local cinema or television screen, through the film distribution process.

Get an introduction to the wonderful world of playing jazz piano and learn to play and improvise on the blues and a jazz standard.

Take your jazz music to the next level and learn how to play a jazz waltz, play in root position and more.

Explore the fashion industry’s impact on people and planet, what the Sustainable Development Goals are, and how they are linked

Learn how to 'make' your own poetry by exploring different poetic techniques and styles.

Get a practical introduction to the mechanics of songwriting and meet established songwriters with this free online course

Discover the essentials of video game development and learn how you can start your own programming career.

Learn how to start a career in games development by hearing from leading games producers, recruiters, and new developers.

Explore the ways AI is changing the creative industries, and how you can develop your own career in creative AI.

Discover effective techniques to analyse unseen poetry and learn about the creative writing process.

Explore, challenge and shape your perceptions of dementia through science and the creative arts

Get an introduction to group music-making and the social contexts in which musicians participate.

Get started with your own fiction writing, focusing on the central skill of creating characters, with this hands-on course.

See how Japanese art absorbed, refigured and influenced Western art in the 20th century through Hijikata Tatsumi's butoh dance.

Explore how women are represented in the media and reflect on what it means for contemporary society and culture.

Find out how teaching with short film can bring alive the learning of languages and introduce rich cultural content to lessons.

Discover all things podcasting: learn how to plan, write and publish your own podcast.

From its impact on culture and society to consumer behaviour, discover the business of fashion with Institut Francais de la Mode.

Explore how British kings and queens have influenced fashion over 500 years. In partnership with Historic Royal Palaces.

Delve into the seedy underbelly of the art world, looking at smuggling, theft, fakes, and fraud, with this free online course.

Find out all about film education with this course from BFI, and its partners DFI, Cinémathèque Française and Vision Kino.

Find out how musicians turn the notation of a musical score into a memorable performance. Change how you listen to music.

Explore the field of medical humanities – the intersection of the arts, humanities and healthcare – with this free online course.

Film takes a starring role in this course exploring the emergence of a new medium that was set to capture the world's imagination

Learn about the history, production and design of papers used inside Japanese rare books.