A master's level orientation in three subjects
Three 14 week programs, built from how Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Stanford, and Oxford teach these subjects at the graduate level, using free and public domain materials wherever they exist.
Modern Architecture and Architectural Design
From the Enlightenment and the iron age of building to critical regionalism and climate: history, theory, and a design studio track.
Electrical Engineering
A master's level core: circuits, signals, systems and control, devices, digital systems, communications, electromagnetics, power, and optimization, ending in a design project.
The Troubadours of France: Writing and Poetry
Occitan lyric from Guilhem IX to the Albigensian Crusade and beyond: trobar, the canso and its genres, the vidas and razos, the music and manuscripts, and the trouveres and Dante.
How to use this platform
- Pick one course to start. Running all three at once is about 30 to 37 hours a week, the load of a full graduate semester. One course at a time, or two in parallel, is realistic.
- Read the orientation and prerequisites first. Electrical Engineering begins with a math diagnostic; the Troubadours course runs an Old Occitan language track every week.
- Work each module in order: goals, then readings, then videos, then the exercise, then the assessment. Tick the four boxes as you go. Progress saves in this browser only (localStorage); export it from the Progress page to keep a backup.
- Use the Library to search every source. Badges tell you what each link is: a school's own course page, an open course or text, a public domain text (some with a local copy in the texts folder), or a citation for a book in copyright that you borrow or buy.
- Finish with the capstone. Each course ends in a two week project modeled on what the schools ask: a studio design and review, an M.Eng. style design project, or a critical edition with a conference talk.
What "master's level" means here
A real master's degree is 1 to 2 years of full time study with faculty feedback, which no self-study site can replace. These programs give you the orientation a first semester provides: the canon, the methods, the vocabulary, and a portfolio piece, and they point you to the full open courses for depth.
Copyright and sources
Full texts are included or linked only when they are public domain or openly licensed. Books still in copyright are cited with an Open Library search link so you can borrow or find them. Videos are linked, not downloaded. School course pages are cited so you can see the source of each design choice. RESEARCH.md lists every school source; SOURCES.md records the link check. Bundled texts are in the texts folder.
Offline note: the pages, your progress, and the bundled public domain texts work with no connection. Videos and external links need the internet.