Get the short on short courses

Enrolments for short courses have doubled, but how useful are they when it comes to advancing your artistic skills?
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Students at Work-Shop. Image: www.work-shop.com.au

A creative arts degree can take you anywhere, enriching your life, preparing graduates for interdisciplinary teamwork, and building emotional intelligence. But what if you don’t have the time or resources required to dedicate three years or more to full-time study or foot a mounting higher education bill?

Despite the plethora of YouTube how-to’s and online short courses, face-to-face opportunities to hone new creative and artistic skills are proving perennially popular.

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Madeleine Dore
About the Author
Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and founder of Extraordinary Routines, an interview project exploring the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She is the previous Deputy Editor at ArtsHub. Follow her on Twitter at @RoutineCurator