Free online courses to keep you entertained during self-isolation

While we’re stuck inside, you don’t need to read Dostoyevsky or become a pastry chef, but there are a bunch of free online courses run by universities online that might be a right hoot.

Harvard: The Architectural Imagination

If, like us, you’ve always nursed a secret obsession for design and architecture, now’s your chance to scratch that itch. The course teaches architectural drawing and looks at the overall power of architecture in society.

The Open University: Forensic Psychology

Watched enough CSI Miami and think you’ve got what it takes to be the next hotshot forensic psychologist? Put that theory to the test with this course, which uses videos of real witnesses to explore the psychology of testimony.

Yale: Introduction to Classical Music

Don’t know your Brahms from your Beethoven, but fancy getting learning what that great piano tune you always listen to on that ‘Relaxation’ playlist is? This is the course for you.

Yale: The Science of Well-Being

This is the most popular course ever taught in Yale’s history, and hit headlines when it launched in 2018 with record numbers of applicants. It explores misconceptions of happiness and how to build happier habits.

University of Pennsylvania: Hollywood: History, Industry, Art

Always loved film but wished you knew more about its history and what it is about Good Will Hunting (or She’s the Man) that makes it so iconic? Look no further.

For an extensive round-up of free Ivy League courses on offer, click here.