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Stand Up!; Comedy Writing and Performance Poetry
by Abigail Docherty- 0.0
4 Weeks
Prepare to perform your comic writing and/or poetry to a live audience, as well as develop transferable writing skills and communication expertise that will be relevant in any profession. This course will broaden your understanding how to structure a stand-up comedy set, as well as allow you to understand how to use narrative form in your performance poetry texts....
$199
Social Media: How Media Got Social
by Tama Leaver , Gwyneth Peaty- 0.0
4 Weeks
Discover where social media came from, how it became integral to our everyday lives, and how that has changed the way we communicate. Social media and online communication dominate our daily lives in an unprecedented manner. By completing this course, you should be able to: Map significant milestones in the emergence of social media...
$139
Business Success in the Screen Industries
by Abigail Docherty- 0.0
4 Weeks
Learn how to network in the creative industries, how pitch your film to a producer, and how to hold your own in a TV writers’ room. Acquire the basic skills for setting up your own production company and learn how to transform creative ideas into work of commercial value. What tools do you need to start your own production company?...
$199
Capstone: Bringing it all together
by Abigail Docherty- 0.0
4 Weeks
Having completed the seven other courses in the MicroMasters in Writing for Performance and Entertainment Industries, this course gives you the opportunity to put it all together. Refine your favourite piece of work and, for those on the verified track, receive feedback from tutors. 1: Understanding story structure, dialogue, character and theme...
$199
Global Muckraking: Investigative Journalism and Global Media
by Anya Schiffrin- 0.0
5 Weeks
Learn how brave journalists can rock the world by exposing corruption and human rights and labor abuses. Using examples of investigative and crusading journalism from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this course will help you understand how raising public awareness can create political and social change. How journalists can act as government and corporate watchdogs...
$49
How to Do Things with Memes
by Mark Sample- 0.0
1 Weeks
Whatever you want to say, there’s a meme for that. But are memes more than just funny images and sarcastic text? Explore this and other elements of memes in this three day mini course. How do memes circulate? Why do memes circulate? What does it mean to express your feelings, attitudes, and even politics through memes?...
$29
DOCUMENTAL! Nuevas tendencias, nuevos formatos / DOCUMENTARY! New Trends, New Formats
by Pilar Carrera , Pedro Valiente , Clara Sainz de Baranda , Eva Herrero- 0.0
4 Weeks
Explora las nuevas tendencias y formatos del documental audiovisual en el siglo XXI y desarrolla una perspectiva global del género documental y su evolución. Explore new trends and formats of 21st century documentary, and gain a global perspective on documentary film and its evolution. Los vídeos serán en español o inglés....
$50
Making Sense of News
by Masato Kajimoto , Anne Kruger- 0.0
4 Weeks
With social media and a 24/7 news cycle, how do we — as news consumers — make sense of what we hear and read? At a time when we are flooded with an abundance of information and disinformation, it is essential for each one of us to become a more discerning news consumer....
$50
IMAGE | ABILITY - Visualizing the Unimaginable
by Martijn Stellingwerff- 0.0
6 Weeks
Enhance your communication skills and learn how to illustrate your thoughts through comparisons, metaphors and diagrams. Students and professionals in science, design and technology have to develop and communicate concepts that are often difficult to comprehend for the public, their peers and even themselves. This is a self-paced course. Visually present difficult concepts to an audience...
$50
Library Advocacy Unshushed
by Wendy Newman , Gwen Harris , Carolyn Dineen- 0.0
4 Weeks
Become a powerful advocate for the values and future of libraries and librarianship. Be informed, strategic, passionate, and unshushed! How can we strengthen libraries and librarians in the advancement of knowledge, creativity, and literacy in the 21st century? What is really essential about libraries and librarians, today and tomorrow? This course is based on what works....