California Institute of the Arts Courses

Ableton Live Course: Sound Production for Musicians and Artists

45 reviews

This course provides hands-on experience in producing, mixing, and sound design with a digital audio workstation. Students will learn the fundamentals (physics) of sound and digital audio, proper gain staging, where and how distortion enters recordings a…

• Kadenze
• 9 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

Fundamentals of Graphic Design

22 reviews

Graphic Design is all around us! Words and pictures—the building blocks of graphic design—are the elements that carry the majority of the content in both the digital world and the printed world. As graphic design becomes more visible and prevalent in our…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Real-Time Audio Programming in ChucK

36 reviews

The course, lecture, and examples build on each other to teach the fundamentals of programming in general (logic, loops, functions, objects, classes) and also deals with advanced topics including multi-threading, events and signals. Throughout the course…

• Kadenze
• 8 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

Introduction to Game Design

13 reviews

Welcome! This course is an introduction to the primary concepts of gaming, and an exploration of how these basic concepts affect the way gamers interact with our games. In this course you will understand what defines a “game” and the mechanics and rules…

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Typography

11 reviews

Typography is the art of manipulating the visual form of language to enrich and control its meaning. It’s an essential area of skill and knowledge for graphic designers. Typography predates modern graphic design by around 500 years; it is rich in rules,…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

World Design for Video Games

5 reviews

Start creating your world. A game world is not just a backdrop for your game—be it minimal or detailed, contained or part of a much bigger universe, it provides the context for your player. Ultimately, a game world should feel alive and wholly unique to…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop

19 reviews

Why just write poems when you can write better ones? This course is built on the notion that the most exciting writing begins after the first draft.

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 28th Nov, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Web Design: Strategy and Information Architecture

1098 ratings at Coursera

This course is focused on the early user experience (UX) challenges of research, planning, setting goals, understanding the user, structuring content, and developing interactive sequences. While the concepts covered will translate to many kinds of intera…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Language of Design: Form and Meaning

651 ratings at Coursera

Recall and explain a lexicon of key terms relating to form, meaning, and audience, and apply them successfully within an appraisal of graphic design.

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 12th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UX Design Fundamentals

1930 ratings at Coursera

This hands-on course examines how content is organized and structured to create an experience for a user, and what role the designer plays in creating and shaping user experience. You will be led through a condensed process that acts as a roadmap for dev…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Visual Elements of User Interface Design

5330 ratings at Coursera

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 and articulate meaning using color, type, and imagery is essential to making interfaces fun…

• Coursera
• 16 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Brand New Brand

1099 ratings at Coursera

This course is the culmination of the Graphic Design Specialization and gives you an opportunity to tie together your knowledge and skills into a single project: a brand development guide for a company you will invent. This course takes you through the…

• Coursera
• 25 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 5th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Web Design: Wireframes to Prototypes

742 ratings at Coursera

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. Along the way we will also discuss: - Responsive web design and mobile web challe…

• Coursera
• 41 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 5th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Approaching Music Theory: Melodic Forms and Simple Harmony

139 ratings at Coursera

This course is about how music works. It is about the relationship between the technical and aesthetic details of music. It is also about how developing a meaningful theoretical vocabulary can help you think and talk about musical style, and how learning…

• Coursera
• 22 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 12th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Story and Narrative Development for Video Games

9 reviews

In this course, you will examine how storytelling acts as a vital mechanism for driving video gameplay forward. Looking at several historical and contemporary games, you will be asked to evaluate and interpret different story styles with the goal of iden…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 28th Nov, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)