Creative Arts & Media Courses

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

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

Learn about the psychology of music and movement, and how researchers study music-related movements, with this free online course.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

Get an introduction to agile product development and design thinking so you can build better digital products.

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

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.

What science discoveries will you choose to write about?

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

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

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’.

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

Learn how to master online communication and personal brand image in the post-pandemic business world.

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

Answer some of the big questions about being human, and get an introduction to the skills needed in the humanities.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 how they are linked

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.

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

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

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