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10 University Art Classes You Can Take For Free Online

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1. ART of the MOOC: Public Art and Pedagogy. Duke University. Workload: 7 weeks; 4–6 hours per week. Tania Bruguera , Hans Haacke. , Claire Doherty, and Tom Finkelpearl all appear as guest lecturers in this star-studded course.
2. Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology. Harvard University. Time commitment: 8 weeks; 2–4 hours per week. Led by Harvard Egyptology professor Peter Der Manuelian, this course digs into ancient Egypt’s most famous archeological site: the Giza Plateau.
3. Charting the Avant-Garde: from Romanticism to Utopic Abstraction. School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Workload: 4 sessions; 13 hours of work per session.
4. Visualizing Japan. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, University of Tokyo. Workload: 4 weeks per course; 3–6 hours per week. This three-part series examines the modern history of Japan, from the 1850s to 1930s, as well as post-war Tokyo.
5. Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime. University of Glasgow. Workload: 3 weeks; 4 hours per week. Twenty-eight years ago, two men dressed as policemen forced their way into Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and stole half a billion dollars worth of art.
6. Psychology of Art and Creativity. University of Central Florida. Workload: 4 hours per week. What is creativity? And can it be measured? Both questions are posed by this course, which focuses on the intersection between art and psychology.
7. Comics: Art in Relationship. California College of the Arts. Workload: 5 classes; 10 hours of work per class. With the release of Black Panther in early 2018, the mainstream interest in comic book characters has reached a fever pitch.
8. Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR. Michigan State University. Workload: 7 months; 4 hours per week. Ready to graduate from iPhone photography to something more powerful?
9. Ideas from the History of Graphic Design. California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Workload: 4 weeks; 2–3 hours per week. From the first 19th-century mass-marketing campaigns to the radical, psychedelic imagery of the 1960s and ’70s, this course traces the development of graphic design over the past hundred years.
10. Age of Cathedrals. Yale University. Workload: 9 weeks; 4 hours per week. In 1144, the cathedral of Saint-Denis—the first church to contain every element of.

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