Want to Go to Film School? Try MIT - For Free

By Gentle Thug Productions


If you've ever wanted to attend film school (or, at the very least, brush up on some specific film courses) but you don't want to give up an arm and a leg to do so, then the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare (OCW) project is for you.

A totally free and permanent project, OCW offers a web-based database of online classes in filmmaking and film studies (along with every other conceivable subject and topic known to humankind); these are non-credit courses, but you can gain a wealth of information and education by pursuing them.

Check them out:

• • Introduction to Video (Spring 2004)

  • Advanced Projects in the Visual Arts: Personal Narrative (Spring 2004)

  • The City in Film (Spring 2015)

  • Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show (January IAP 2015)

  • Philosophy In Film and Other Media (Spring 2004)

  • Philosophy of Film (Fall 2004)

  • Film as Visual and Literary Mythmaking (Fall 2005)

  • Documenting Culture (Spring 2004)

  • DV Lab: Documenting Science Through Video and New Media (Fall 2012)

  • Topics in Indian Popular Culture: Spectacle, Masala, and Genre (Fall 2006)

  • Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema (Spring 2003)

  • French Film Classics (Spring 2015)

  • Visual Histories: German Cinema 1945 to Present (Fall 2003)

  • Japanese Literature and Cinema (Fall 2013)

  • Contemporary French Film and Social Issues (Spring 2014)

  • German Culture, Media, and Society (Fall 2006)

  • Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Films of Luis Buñuel (Fall 2013)

  • Japan in the Age of the Samurai: History and Film (Fall 2006)

  • The Film Experience (Fall 2013)

  • Small Wonders: Staying Alive (Spring 2007)

  • Small Wonders: Media, Modernity, and the Moment: Experiments in Time (Fall 2010)

  • Understanding Television (Spring 2003)

  • Shakespeare, Film and Media (Fall 2002)

  • Introduction to Literary Theory (Fall 2014)

  • Studies in Film (Fall 2005)

  • Islam/Media (Spring 2015)

  • Music and Technology: Sound Design (Spring 2016)

  • Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion (Spring 2016)

  • Transmedia Storytelling: Modern Science Fiction (Spring 2014)

  • Introduction to Media Studies (Fall 2014)

  • American Soap Operas (Spring 2008)

  • At the Limit: Violence in Contemporary Representation (Fall 2013)

  • Special Subject: The Rise of Film Noir (January IAP 2012)

  • Visualization for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (Spring 2016)

  • Producing Educational Videos (Spring 2015)

  • Special Topics in Cinematic Storytelling (Spring 2004)

  • Screen Women: Body Narratives in Popular American Film (Spring 2014)

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