Creative Courses and Certifications

History of Rock, Part One

18 ratings

Trace rock from Tin Pan Alley to psychedelia: Elvis, Chuck Berry, the Beatles, Motown and Stax soul, and the business and technology shaping each style.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

BYU

Creative Writing

27 ratings

I'm Brandon Sanderson, and I write stories of the fantastic: fantasy, science fiction, and thrillers. Learn about plot, wordbuilding, short stories, character, and publishing.

• YouTube
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Adobe Creative Cloud Crash Course (Live Online)

2637 ratings at CourseHorse

Learn essential InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator tools through hands-on instruction for creating print and digital media.

• CourseHorse
• 14 hours
• Self-Paced
• $375.00

Acadgild

Graphic Design Tutorials

95 ratings

Learn the fundamentals of Graphic Design and Photoshop Tools

• YouTube
• 2 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Adobe Career Certificate

Generative AI in Adobe Creative Cloud

1497 ratings at Coursera

Create visuals with generative AI in Adobe Creative Cloud: generate AI content, edit and retouch images in Photoshop, build vector graphics in Illustrator, and assemble a portfolio.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Career Certificate

Creative Thinking Tools for Success and Leadership

925 ratings at Coursera

Build creativity skills using brainstorming techniques, the creativity diamond framework, biomimicry, analogy, metaphor and AI-enabled platforms to generate ideas and tackle project challenges.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

TipTut

How to Animate

36 ratings

A start-to-finish animation workflow covering script, storyboards, character design, animatics, backgrounds, animation tips, and exhibition.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Rose Accord Nosedive (Live Online)

18 ratings at CourseHorse

This hands-on workshop series, led by a French-trained perfumer, explores the art and structure of some of perfumery’s most essential accords through guided smelling, analysis, and formulation exercises.

• CourseHorse
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• $85.00

Lilac Accord Nosedive (Live Online)

18 ratings at CourseHorse

This hands-on workshop explores the art of recreating lilac in perfumery, revealing how perfumers construct the scent of this unextractable flower through a careful blend of natural materials and aroma molecules.

• CourseHorse
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• $85.00

Printing with Copper: The Cuprotype Process (Live Online)

10 ratings at CourseHorse

Step into a nineteenth-century photographic printing method that uses copper salts to make richly toned images.

• CourseHorse
• 8 hours
• Self-Paced
• $570.00

Cornish College of the Arts

Introduction to Graphic Illustration

23 ratings

Create hand-drawn illustrative typography, posters, and trade ads, applying design principles, composition, and Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign techniques through a professional project workflow.

• Kadenze
• 50 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

• Best of All Time

Global Shakespeares: Re-Creating the Merchant of Venice

Learn how performance of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice provides occasions for creative, thoughtful communication across personal, historical, and cultural boundaries on topics including

• MITx Online
• 8 Weeks, 3-4 hours per week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Introduction to Creative Thinking: Tools for Success

799 ratings at Coursera

Learn creativity tools: apply list, sticky-note, grid and alphabet brainstorming, assess creativity with metrics, and use the creativity diamond to guide divergent and convergent phases.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Developing Your Musicianship

16 ratings

Build major and minor pentatonic scales, sing and identify intervals, construct triads and seventh chords, read chord sheets, and compose a blues riff tune.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Typography

11 ratings

Manipulate the visual form of language to control its meaning: study letterform anatomy, point measurements, typeface history, grids and hierarchy, and design a typographic poster.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course