Creative Arts & Media Courses

Discover embedded system design and work your way through the product design lifecycle. Supported by Google.

Keen to take your baking skills up a notch? Become a better baker with BBC Good Food’s brand-new course on baking for beginners.

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

Understand biodiversity in the context of fashion and create a plan for fashion that protects our earth’s systems.

Increase your problem-solving skills and develop your design thinking mindset using the principles of human-centred design.

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

Learn how to design MMIs and ensure their effectiveness in selecting healthcare professionals and students.

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

Discover the power you hold to better serve the community you live in and explore the role of mentorship with the Compton Cowboys.

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

Improve your chances of raising funds for arts and culture by developing your leadership and entrepreneurial skills.

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

Explore the craft of Production Design with award-winning filmmakers and learn how it adds meaning and depth to screen stories.

Explore the product design process of MedTech devices and examine future trends in healthcare technology and the MedTech industry.

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

Explore visual culture for children and young people including, picturebooks, comics, film, television and drama

Discover how managing finances dictates your creative business world. Learn key tools needed for successfully financed projects.

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

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

Learn effective branding strategies from the world's most creative marketer – Burger King CMO Fernando Machado – and his team.

Analyse successful audio marketing strategies and learn how to create memorable podcast and radio ads that hit marketing goals.

Learn about the history, production and design of papers used inside Japanese Rare Books.

Learn how fashion designers and businesses can make more compassionate choices to build fur-free, sustainable fashion brands.

Learn how to preserve, restore and utilize cultural properties in universities—a case study from Keio University, Tokyo.

Understand how video can expand and enhance your organisation’s communications and develop practical skills for your productions.

Exercise creative brand development skills and learn how to build a brand with an authentic identity and style.

Discover how to build a brand identity, how to translate it into the consumer experience, and how to successfully communicate it.

Explore fashion from a historical and sociological perspective and understand evolving fashion business models.

Take a look at the future of fashion, focusing on sustainability and entrepreneurship.

Learn all about the fashion product, including how to define different fashion product categories, and how to build a collection.

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

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

Reclaim power over your own self-worth and learn from Jameela Jamil how you can transform your body image and practice self-love.

Improve your teaching strategies and skills as a music teacher or vocal coach with this ABRSM online course.

How has the cultural sector been affected by technology? Has tech created new opportunities? Get answers with this course.

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

Discover how crafting an engaging story can deliver a message that inspires audiences and effects real change.

Learn content marketing strategy from the best in the business, with insights from Nike, Goop, Glossier, Burger King and more.

Chief marketing officer Raja Rajamannar on his personal view on what marketers need to know to be successful tomorrow.

Identify how one of the world’s trendiest sparkling wines is produced and the future challenges that face Prosecco production.

Explore customer journey mapping and its role in ensuring quality user experience.

Learn about the role of customer profiling and design sprints in creating positive user experiences.

Discover the role of creativity, innovation and strategy in UX design and consider the benefits and challenges of remote working.

Discover CX design methods and explore the importance of CX in business success.

Prepare to become an experienced solo jazz piano player and go deeper into advanced jazz techniques and theories.

Discover jazz improvisation on the piano, and learn to play and improvise on the blues and a jazz standard.

Explore advanced blues sequences, ballads, special devices and composing to incorporate Latin and funk into your jazz piano style.

Improve your jazz improvisation with this course on jazz piano, where you’ll learn to play along to bass and drum soundtracks.

Learn the role of design thinking in UX – from the five stages of design thinking to defining and creating an ideation plan.

Uncover the role of business strategy and adopt a customer-centric mindset to become a successful user experience designer.

Learn the fundamental UX skills, principles and other essentials required to kickstart your career as a digital UX designer.

Better understand the UX design process and learn how to build a user-centred product from concept to prototype.

Why should a designer learn to code? Find out with the University of Michigan and build your skills in design computing.

Learn how to evaluate your designs using effective UX testing methods on this UX design course from the University of Michigan.

Get an introduction to the mechanics of songwriting and learn how to write a song of your own with our established songwriters.

Get under the bonnet of social media and explore digital storytelling with Dines, founder and creative director of Studio Blup.

Learn how to identify your brand’s authentic purpose and build a socially-driven and ethical business from the inside, out.

Learn how to improve your presentation skills and add personality into your presentation style on this three-week course.

Explore how British royalty have influenced fashion over the last 500 years, from the Tudors to the Windsors.

Discover a new side to the colourful history of Pop Art alongside experts at the world-famous Centre Pompidou.

Discover the business of fashion and understand the cultural impact of the fashion industry with Institut Français de la Mode.

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

Explore the thriving independent video games industry, and develop the skills to kickstart your career in the sector.

Grow your visual analysis skills as you learn how to describe and learn from public sculpture artworks at the University of York.

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

Explore the fashion industry’s impact on people and planet, what the Sustainable Development Goals are, and the link between them.

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.

Explore the world of user interfaces and accessible design, and discover how you can start a career as a UX designer.

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

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