This course is suitable for those who learned to play instruments in childhood, but have already forgotten everything, and for people without a musical background. Here, in a concise and understandable form, a theoretical basis will be given — from musical notation, the basics of rhythm and size to tonality, intervals, frets and chords. After the course, you will understand how to use music to evoke emotions in listeners. During the training, you need to do homework, which will be checked by the teacher. And as a graduation work, you will have to compose your first melody.
This basic course for beginners without special education will not replace sessions with a specialist. But it will help you find out how the psyche works and what influences our behavior and emotions. A separate section is dedicated to communication: how to build healthy communication and by what parameters you can understand that you are being manipulated. With this information, it will be easier to become aware of your repetitive behaviors and possibly improve your quality of life.
This is not just a course on drawing techniques, but classes aimed at developing your own style. The starting block of the program is dedicated to the development of intuition and understanding of creativity. Students will learn why people like this or that work, how not to depend on inspiration, what styles and techniques of fine art exist. During the learning process, you can create your own work. And not only a pencil or watercolor sketch, but a full-fledged work in the technique of collage or application.
This course will be of interest to those who are interested in history and sociology: important social processes can be viewed through the prism of changing tastes in clothing. The program is also suitable for those who work in the fashion field ‑ from stylists to editors and authors of thematic blogs on social networks. The course does not cover the entire history of fashion, but only that part of it that originated in the nineteenth century, along with regular fashion shows, specialized magazines and department stores of ready-made suits. The last block of training is devoted to modern trends: for example, students will learn how the trend for oversize and ugly shoes appeared.
You've probably seen memes with engravings and funny inscriptions on the Web. To understand what they are really about, you can take this short and fascinating course on the history of the Middle Ages. The teachers are professors of the Higher School of Economics from the Master's program "Medieval Studies". The lessons will be devoted to a variety of spheres of life in this era: family and marriage, law, religion, science, the status of women, culture and urbanism. And the course will also tell you how medieval ideas influenced modernity — literature, architecture, cinema and the judicial system.
If you have been thinking about triumphantly "entering IT" for a long time, but do not understand at all where to start, then this short course will help you. Here you will learn about the main directions of the field, myths about the profession, the threshold for entering different specialties and how you can use existing skills in a new job. The course involves homework and a small graduation project: You will be able to assemble your first game.
The program was invented by the authors of Russia's oldest film history magazine, The History of Cinema. It is aimed at a wide audience: it is suitable for both enthusiastic viewers and professionals writing scripts or reviews. The training consists of 20 lectures that cover the period from the birth of cinema in the late XIX century to the trends of the early XXI century. The experts of the magazine will help to trace the main stages of the development of this art form in the context of the history and cultural characteristics of different countries. So, you will learn how to read the director's handwriting, homages and Easter eggs in order to perceive more deeply both recognized movie hits and rare festival masterpieces.
