Course Descriptions

This project-based course teaches you how to design moving graphics. You learn the life cycle of producing animated media from concept storyboarding to final video distribution. You learn to creatively animate illustration, photography, vector graphics, video and typography components to express movement and narrative. You also learn about exporting for social media channels used in brand marketing while optimizing your work for online search.

As a designer, freelancer or small business owner seeking to expand your design background, you are adding motion to your graphics skill set. These skills can be helpful to transition to a new job or promotion and market you brand or services with engaging video.

Get an introduction to the world of 3D motion graphics and the endless possibilities of what you can create through animation, visual effects and simulations by altering realities and engaging audiences in unique ways.

You use the tools and techniques of animation, visual effects (VFX), digital painting and CGI to produce content for a variety of formats including film, traditional and 3D animation, motion graphics and GUI, real time rendering and video games. Through hands-on creative assignments, you learn these techniques and define your identity as a digital media producer. 

You gain introductory knowledge of the forms of 3D animation and its history, as well as producing your own animated pieces. You create and animate graphics within three dimensional space as well as flat animation for motion graphics as you learn the foundations of Cinema 4D, Blender and Adobe After Effects to navigate interfaces using transformation properties, keyframes, graph editor, camera systems, splines, primitives and motion-graphic tools. You practice designing graphics, typography, title animation and visual effects through the entire process of 3D workflow. The projects lead you to up-skill your motion-design practice as you navigate the third dimension with exploration of modelling techniques, texturing, shading, lighting, sculpting and rendering. Adding 3D into your toolkit will enhance your design practice and improve your portfolios with immersive and multimedia animated content. You can check out instructor Shoaib Ali Qureshi's site to see his professional work.

Explore abstraction as a philosophy and a process-based journey of discovery. Through drawing and painting, you develop a variety of aesthetic and conceptual approaches to non-representation, experimenting with diverse processes and techniques. You devise or refine a uniquely personal abstract language. Analyses of noted modern and postmodern abstract artworks complement your ongoing studio work.

Examine the organization, administration and policies associated with secondary institutions in the United States. Explore higher education through an organizational lens, looking at the university as an integrated and complex system, rather than as mutually exclusive divisions, departments or functions. By applying organizational theory, learn how institutions make decisions, develop policy and interact with their environment. Analyze the impact of student affairs/student services, and its partnership to the academic community in advancing the academic mission to serve students.

In this workshop-style course, you'll gain the instruction needed to improve your writing so that it is clear and has purpose. You’ll learn about the different kinds of essays while practicing skills to strengthen your writing. By the end of the course, you will write more confidently, produce more accurate work and be able to explain your approach to writing.

Gain mastery of business processes in accounting, including transactions, information systems and controls. Learn about the role of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) in accounting and how to use business analytics in a systemic approach to accounting processes. The California CPA Exam tests this material; those interested in earning the CPA designation should take this course.

In this intermediate-level course, you explore the standards of ethics for accountants and auditors. Study the nature and scope of ethics standards and the need for them in business and society. You also learn professional codes of conduct for principal governing bodies, which will be reviewed and their application discussed, as well as examine cases that challenge ethical decision-making.

Learn the concepts and practices of accounting for state and local governments and for nonprofit entities, including voluntary health and welfare agencies, hospitals, colleges and universities, and religious organizations. In addition, get an introduction to the role and process of budgeting in governmental and nonprofit organizations, as well as to the financial analysis of these organizations. This course is taught at an intermediate level.

Get an introduction to three essential Adobe applications for graphics professionals—Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. You learn the technical aspects of these essential digital tools, focusing on the features that have the widest usage in the industry for graphic and visual designers.

The Photoshop section of the course focuses on the creation of image composites, a design technique unique to Photoshop. You learn the fundamental concepts of the latest version of Photoshop—use of layers, selection and painting tools, masking, tonal and color management and correction, blending modes and photo retouching and editing. The course curriculum also covers basic management of master files and conversion to a variety of output formats. Former student Iva Larson chose the film Gravity to do her own ad campaign to promote the film. Matt Linzer did great work by combining many different skills and tools within Photoshop.

The Illustrator portion of the course teaches you how to create vector graphics and use Illustrator’s powerful drawing tools to create artwork such as drawings, icons, logos, and original print and digital artwork. You also learn to use many essential tools such as the pen and shape tools, which allow you to combine objects and create anything you can think of. Other drawing tools allow you to create using a variety of styles of art using gradients, type, patterns, brushes and other effects. Such art can be used by both print and web designers. Take a peek at the astonishing digital illustrations by former students Sophia Roudané and Jeff Faes.

The InDesign part of the course opens you up to InDesign’s powerful desktop publishing and typesetting tools. Use it to create any kind of print document—a postcard, a multipage flyer, brochure, poster or long report. You learn to use InDesign’s extensive tool set to create pages using master pages, guides, layers and to create styles for text and objects that will speed your production. You also learn shortcuts and tips to more efficiently use the program. InDesign is the tool to create the finest typography, and it also allows you to incorporate images and vector graphics in imaginative ways for any kind of project. You also learn how to prepare your print documents for presentation or prepress. Get a glimpse of what our former student Yuya Sano designed for the Adobe InDesign class.

Get a comprehensive understanding of consolidated financial statements and how to prepare them. Focus on the accounting principles, methods and techniques that relate to particular types of business and nonbusiness entities, including corporations, partnerships, government units, estates and trusts, and nonprofits. Limited time is devoted to exploring certain tax aspects of consolidated financial statements. You also learn about foreign-currency transactions and translation of foreign-currency financial statements.

Build on foundational database knowledge and explore more complex and specialized areas in database management for application development. Students will study relational and non-relational databases, including design and administration of architectures and con?gurations that support scalability, high-availability and security. Topics include complex SQL and optimization techniques, advanced data modeling and schema design, and optimization and performance techniques for SQL and NoSQL environments. Distributed databases and Big data systems are also explored, including data integration and ETL processes, as well as advanced transactions and consistency models. Emerging database technologies are also explored, such as utilizing AI to optimize database operations, performance, and security. This course is designed for students who want to advance their knowledge and expertise in databases in the context of software development.

Develop your skills in applying the principles of effective writing to the editing of nonfiction manuscripts. Examine two phases of substantive editing—line editing and developmental editing—and learn the art of proposing editorial changes other than those required to correct errors or to achieve a consistent editorial style. Learn how to refine and invigorate an author's style. Try out different methods of electronic editing, practice working with graphic elements, and examine comparisons between fiction and nonfiction editing. Enrollment is limited.

Designed for non-native English speakers, this course helps perfect and polish your English grammar with the goal of increasing your effectiveness and confidence in the workplace. Review and practice advanced grammar points in the contexts of oral communication, reading and writing.

Picking up where Revit ARCH X479.2 leaves off, this course covers more advanced commands and functional applications using Autodesk Revit's powerful building information modeling (BIM) software. Learn to harness the power of automatically generated information and master tools that create custom Revit families, lighting, materials, renderings, schedules, and details to improve work flow and productivity.

Agile product owners create paths for success by envisioning and evangelizing solutions. These solutions are business models that are based in understanding the context in which they work to propose a clear solution to improve outcomes.

Product owners collaborate with stakeholders to define, prioritize and manage requirements for the development of solutions and services. Through the application of Agile discovery processes and a customer journey, they manage the business requirements process. This process ensures that project’s business outcomes meets user needs while providing value as early as possible.

In this course, you explore all of the principles and practices, tools and techniques, and roles related to Agile product ownership. You learn how to engage all types of stakeholders; understand requirements discovery processes; and learn how to employ customer journey principles to understand a project’s value proposition, user needs, and appropriate product requirements and solutions.

As part of the course curriculum, you first create a vision and value proposition to propose how the organization creates value. You then align the team around themes, create user stories, define acceptance criteria and prioritize requirements in a product backlog. You define minimum viable solutions to create high-level product roadmaps.You also learn how product owners engage in development planning and delivery.

While the course curriculum focuses on the role of a product owner, your study also helps you define the contributions required from a variety of stakeholders, which can include customers, business leaders, product managers, IT teams, business analysts, customer journey analysts, scrum masters and subject matter experts to successfully define user, business, and solution requirements.

You learn how Agile product ownership applies to the development of different products and services in a variety industries and organizations. You also learn how to implement these practices utilizing Scrum, Kanban, Lean and other appropriate Agile frameworks.

As part of the course requirements, you create all of the core Agile product owner’s deliverables in the context of group projects, class activities and written assignments.

Examine HR's shift away from an administrative function to a more strategic vision within the organization that aims to bring high-value contributions to business success. Understand the changing role of HR, and learn how to develop and present initiatives that support and inform business demands, outsourcing, technology and compliance issues. Using basic business acumen, you gain skills and best practices to evaluate your company's strategic plan and help secure a C-level seat at the table.

Discover women artists from the Middle Ages to the present, and investigate their art from historical, aesthetic and gender-specific perspectives. Explore the inequity of female artists in worldwide museum collections and within the conversation on the history of art. Debate the existence of a female artistic sensibility. Gain an understanding of how multicultural artists and women such as Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, Kiki Smith and Hung Liu have pierced the contemporary art scene and changed it forever.

This is a foundational Artificial Intelligence course to help you understand the deep learning frameworks that build upon the underpinning neural network architecture. Artificial Intelligence is pervasive across all domains and can be used for meaningful applications in multiple fields, including cancer detection using MRI scans, autonomous vehicles, speech recognition, weather forecasting and more. You will gain an understanding of versatile AI algorithms such as CNN, RNN, and implement them using frameworks such as keras, pytorch and more.

Get a solid theoretical and practical background in auditing. Learn to examine an institution's financial statements to determine if they fairly present the organization's current financial position and results of operations and are free of significant errors. You also gain a background for the auditing section of the CPA Examination.

Develop your digital communication skills by using drafting and editing commands in Autodesk AutoCAD, the industry-standard computer-aided drawing software. Progress with more advanced commands such as XREFs, blocks with attributes and XCLIPs. Learn to translate your model space files into scaled paper space drawings and plot them using multiple viewpoints.

Gain an overview of a comprehensive range of topics essential for mastering back-end development with modern frameworks, blending theoretical knowledge with practical, hands-on activities to ensure students gain both understanding and experience. You will learn about back-end frameworks, as well as supporting methodologies, strategies and technologies to design, develop and implement real-world applications. This course is designed for students with a desire in back-end frameworks architecture, routing and controllers, user authentication and authorization, RESTful API development, error handling and logging, and back-end AI systems for monitoring performance. Students will also optimize application performance using caching strategies and conduct unit testing and integration testing using CI/CD pipelines.

Get an introduction to the concepts and methods that financial managers use to make effective investing and financing decisions, and begin to explore the ways in which value is created and measured. Devote specific attention to the financial management context, the time value of money, risk and return, the cost of capital, the valuation of stocks and bonds, capital budgeting decision-analysis tools, the impact of financial leverage on cost of capital and valuation, dividend policy and an overview of financial statement analysis.

Get an introduction to some of the basic chemical, physical and biological processes responsible for the survival and growth of humans and other complex life forms, bacteria and viruses. Explore the basic chemistry and overall structure of the most important biological macromolecules, including the study of enzyme catalysis; cellular architecture; intermediary metabolism; and special processes such as photosynthesis, biological oxidation and energy production. You also study the various ways that biological systems react to their environment. Learn to apply these topics to aspects of exercise, nutrition or inborn errors of metabolism.

Bioethics is the study of issues (ethical, social and legal) that arise in biomedicine and biomedical research. Bioethics includes medical ethics, which focuses on issues in health care; research ethics, which focuses on issues in the conduct of research; environmental ethics, which focuses on issues pertaining to the relationship between human activities and the environment; and public health ethics, which addresses ethical issues in public health. This course will introduce students to some of the major issues within the fields of biomedical ethics, health care ethics, research ethics and public health ethics.

Address questions of how the human brain and nervous system produce our range of behaviors—sensation, emotions, sleep and dreams, reproductive behavior, language and memory—as you explore brain-behavior relationships with an emphasis on clinical examples. Clinical examples include depression, schizophrenia, eating disorders, sleep disorders, aggression, post-traumatic stress disorder, visual agnosia, dyslexia and amnesias. You’ll begin with studying the basic structure and function of the nervous system, then move to explore the organic bases of behavior.

Aging is a process that has always intrigued humans, yet its causes and mechanisms have remained elusive. Medical advances within the last 150 years have dramatically increased human life expectancy, necessitating a better understanding of the molecular and cellular basis of the aging process to alleviate problems associated with longer life spans.

In this course, you learn about modern aging research and explore various theories of aging. You examine the events that contribute to the aging process at the organismal, cellular and molecular levels. Using this detailed understanding of aging, you also explore anti-aging interventions and means to increase life spans.  

This interdisciplinary studio course addresses the language, processes, and media of visual art through lectures and discussions that investigate the nature of art making and visual thinking. Course projects utilize autobiography guided by the concept of Biomythography—a literary style of composition that mixes myth, history and biography to highlight the idea of internal, external and multiple selves —while experimenting with alternative materials and unconventional ways of creating images.

Through a process of self-examination and self-discovery, you will examine ways to visually incorporate your personal vocabulary and communal customs while exploring notions of representation through different cultural lenses.

This advanced course simulates the demands of the contemporary design market. Refine your design and presentation skills by working on complex projects involving multiple components. Develop and produce design proposals for specific real-world projects involving two and three dimensions. Create an appropriate goal, timeline and final presentation for a comprehensive and dynamic design-identity program. The instructor selects and facilitates the design project and leads group and individual critiques of student work.

Gain an understanding of the components of a building and the sequence of construction in residential and commercial spaces. Learn how various building systems—plumbing, mechanical, electrical and structural—are designed and integrated into the building shell so you can effectively design safe, healthy and suitable environments for human activity.

In this course, students explore the impact of technology on the role of a facilities manager and get an overview of the multiple systems they are likely to utilize in the field. Students learn about various types of facilities management technologies and review case study examples. Students review systems such as telecom and cable management; basic information technology (IT); uninterrupted power supply (UPS); computer-aided facilities management (CAFM); asset management; cost management; and more. This course is ideal for anyone working in or considering a career in facilities management.

Gain a complete overview of the business analysis profession, as well as the knowledge, tools and techniques used by BAs. This course is appropriate for students wanting to learn more about the profession. It also provides a framework for certificate seekers before they launch into deeper learning and training.

In Focus: Business Analysis Competency Model

In this course, you will gain an overview of all six knowledge areas by learning about their underlying competencies and respective techniques. As you progress through the certificate’s following business analysis courses, you will dive deeper into each of the six knowledge areas.

Learn more about the IIBA® Business Analysis Competency Model.

Rapid and effective business and process transformation is vital in today's competitive world. Learn business analysis fundamentals and the “Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring” knowledge area, which is the first of six generally accepted areas that define the profession's framework. Discover how practitioners determine/plan which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort. You will master the essential analysis theories that govern the performance of all other business analysis/transformation tasks. Study other topics such as return on investment (ROI) analysis and practical techniques used by business analysts in the real world.

In Focus: Business Analysis Competency Model

In this course, you will gain skills in the Planning and Monitoring section, including:

• Stakeholder engagement
• Business analysis governance
• Business analysis information management
• Business analysis performance improvements

Learn more about the IIBA® Business Analysis Competency Model.

Learn to be more confident and effective when making written and oral presentations. Coursework includes drafting a wide range of documents—including emails, memos, letters and reports—as well as learning interpersonal communication techniques and presentation skills. Use examples from your work to draft and critique the varied types of business communications. By honing these skills, you’ll also gain confidence in your ability to make effective presentations.

Don't get mad. Don't get even. Get what you want. Learn the practical and positive strategies and tactics needed to influence others and reach long-lasting, profitable agreements. In this highly interactive course, you learn successful negotiation skills through roleplay and real-world case studies. You gain the knowledge and experience to handle difficult conversations, communicate with people from different cultures, uncover hidden value, discover optimal job interview techniques and negotiate salary. Learn techniques to overcome obstacles that prevent you from reaching your goals.

Develop the skills and knowledge to address the broad range of business and legal needs of the interior design professional. Class curriculum covers business development, financial management and strategic planning. You study practical aspects of the design business, including project management, contracts, record keeping, licensing, ways to limit your liability, and the legal and ethical aspects of the profession.

Gain a strong understanding of business process management (BPM) fundamentals, with particular attention on process modeling, analysis, design, transformation and organization. You focus on practical applications that enable immediate use of these tools and methods in your daily work environment. You study all the major types of process models and how to use them, including a review of the technologies that are available. Class discussions provide insight on planning, goals and metrics, project management, and decision-making within multinational corporations. Today, firms must rely on continuous change, innovation and a global-reaching network of suppliers and customers. As such, you study relevant challenges and learn critical problem-solving methods along with a study of concepts and useful tools with cases, projects, and presentations.  

You explore tools for analyzing gaps in business process, identify rules for redesign to focus improvements, and use a creative method to build the “to be” state so that you can achieve breakthrough results. Then, you build a transformation strategy so that these improvement efforts stick.

Whether you’re managing a process team or looking to improve your professional toolkit, this course can help you to become better equipped in today’s complex environment. In addition, you can integrate the insights learned from other BPM courses to deepen your operational leadership capability. Discussions include the organizing and leading of a cohesive team, working in partnership with internal and external cross-functional groups to proactively address the dynamic impact of changes and requirements throughout operations, thereby mitigating risks and maximizing opportunities with well-organized change management techniques.

Master the ability to identify a business need using enterprise and requirements analysis, which lets you refine and clarify the definition of that need and define a solution scope that can be feasibly implemented by the business. You learn how enterprise analysis describes problem definition and analysis, business case development, feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope. You also study how requirements analysis explains how business analysts prioritize stakeholder and solution requirements to better implement solutions. Gain the training and knowledge necessary to become a Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP®).

In Focus: Business Analysis Competency Model

In this course, you will gain skills in the Strategy Analysis and Requirements Analysis and Design Definition sections, including:

• Specify and mode requirements
• Verify requirements
• Validate requirements
• Define requirements architecture
• Define design options
• Analyze potential value and recommend solution

Learn more about the IIBA® Business Analysis Competency Model.

Gain the ability to assess proposed solutions to determine which solution best fits the business need, identify gaps and shortcomings in solutions, and determine necessary workarounds or changes to the solution. Learn how business analysts assess deployed solutions to see how well they met the original need so that stakeholders can assess the solution's performance and effectiveness. Understand how to engage different stakeholders in discussions of performance metrics. Learn how to create metrics-driven organizations. You examine underlying competencies such as behaviors, knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of business analysis. Gain the training and knowledge necessary to become a Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP®).

In Focus: Business Analysis Competency Model

In this course, you will gain skills in the Solution Evaluation section, including:

• Business analyst task description
• Performance and value assessment
• Barrier removal recommendations
• Interaction skills

Learn more about the IIBA® Business Analysis Competency Model.

Learn to apply financial and economic theory to investment, financing and dividend decisions to identify ways to maximize shareholder returns. Understand how practical methods to determine costs of capital, total invested capital, free cash flow and economic profits are used in the valuation analysis for mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, capital budgeting, initial public offerings and private placements, leveraged buyouts, performance-based executive compensation, agency costs, control premiums, and costs of marketability and real options.

C++ provides all the tools for object-oriented programming, such as data abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism and generic programming. Get a solid introduction to all the major features of American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) standard C++, including the newer syntactic and semantic constructs, by studying each concept through lucid, fluent examples. You learn all major features of C++, including objects, classes, pointers, and single and multiple inheritance.

Get an introduction to differential and integral calculus. Examine the key concepts of limit, derivative and continuity, as well as the main applications of derivatives in graphing and optimizing functions. Explore the fundamental theorem of calculus. Finally, apply the concept of integration to calculating volumes through solids of revolutions.

A continuation of the study of differential and integral calculus from MATH X11 - Calculus 1. This course covers further techniques and applications of integration, infinite sequences and series, and an introduction to differential equations. Key topics will include first-order ordinary differential equations, exact equations, second-order ordinary differential equations, oscillation and damping, and series solutions of ordinary differential equations. Emphasis will be placed on developing the ability to think critically and analytically in the realm of mathematics.

Examine how organizations are materially impacted by climate change and how they strategically respond to help minimize risks and maximize opportunities. New opportunities may include reduced costs, increased operational efficiency, products, enhanced supply chain engagement and improved brand image. Learn how companies integrate climate-related strategies within the context of their broader organizational business strategy. Explore best practices in emissions reporting and the common ways organizations report their GHG emissions and environmental impacts (e.g., CDP, CSR Reporting, GRI, etc.). Examine real-world examples and case studies that demonstrate the numerous ways organizations respond to climate change from a wide variety of industrial sectors.

Choosing a college major and exploring career options is of critical importance for high school students who face a changing workforce after graduation. Learn how career assessments and internship/job search tools (including professional and social networking) can help students and clients of all ages explore and choose college majors and career options.

Read more about the growing need for college admissions counselors.

For information about the equivalent course offered by our partner institution, please refer to the enrollment information for DSCTE Foundations at UCLA Extension.

In a time when prescription drugs and their uses are in the headlines, explore the range of medications used in mental health practice as well as recognize their side effects and interactions. What can medications offer in the treatment of depression, anxiety, psychosis, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other mental health conditions? What are the limitations of these medications? You also will explore complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), with sensitivity to diversity and multicultural issues, and discuss referral and consultation requirements as part of a team approach to clinical practice.

The third in a series of four courses, this course is designed to deepen your knowledge of the processes and procedures to implement clinical trials. The role of clinical trial monitors is highlighted in a detailed review of the various aspects of study monitoring, such as data review, safety reporting and drug accountability. You also review global drug development and issues such as subject recruitment and retention (which are crucial to meeting study timelines and regulatory requirements), site initiation processes, and setting up trial master files and investigator files.

The second in a series of four courses, this course covers the processes and procedures inherent to planning clinical trials, including protocol development, case report form design, IRB submission, site selection, developing and negotiating site contracts and budgets, pre-study visits, statistics in clinical trials, data management and capture, and electronic records.

The last in a series of four courses, this final course focuses on the clinical study report and other procedures at study close-out. You will be prepared to conduct regulatory audits and inspections. You’ll also gain an overview of project management and vendor selection as they pertain to clinical research.

The relevance and importance of sustainable artistic practices grows clearer with the planet on the edge of a global calamity after a century of unchecked production and consumption. Collage offers a way to promote socially responsible art by reusing the already-existing ephemera all around us. Illustrated lectures introduce the use of collage by artists of historic movements such as Dada, Surrealism, Outsider Art, Assemblage and Land Art. Course projects encourage you to explore the vast potential of using recycled and found discarded materials such as wood, used books, newspapers, cardboard and fabric to investigate new conceptual possibilities through juxtaposing images, materials and ideas.

A review of foundational college algebra skills and key mathematical concepts. Designed to provide a solid foundation in algebra, graphs, and functions in preparation for further study in mathematics or the sciences. Key skills include solving of linear, quadratic and other algebraic equations and identities; developing mathematical models; and the graphing of linear, exponential, rational, logarithmic and polynomial functions as well as 2-variable graphs of the conic sections. Key concepts will include general ideas and properties of functions and complex numbers.

Color is one of the most powerful, useful and expressive tools for designing compelling interior spaces. Review the color-based theories of Albert Munsell, Johannes Itten and Josef Albers. Learn how to change the value and intensity of colors using paint. Understand how light transforms color. Two-dimensional exercises teach you to apply theory to using color in interior space.

The Apple iPad is the sketchbook of the digital age. It offers a range of tools and apps comparable to the analog sketchbook and pens, pencils, watercolors, erasers and charcoals of the designer's toolbox and allows you to augment your analog skills for an effective blend of digital and analog design techniques and approaches.

The design process relies heavily on iteration, particularly in the early phases of looking at a range of ideas in a sketch format. With the iPad, you are able to work in layers, just as you would with layers of tracing paper, to build up a record of your design sketch ideas. With the tools and techniques taught in this course, your iPad becomes a portable design studio that you can take wherever you want. You also get training in mobile design and drawing experience and expression that can help prepare you for the active and ever-changing—and mobile—profession of interior design and interior architecture.

Interior architects and designers must be able to communicate to those who construct their designs. Learn how to produce a complete set of working drawings—from plans through details and specifications—so that your designs are realized efficiently and accurately.

Example Coursework

Student Michael Lipp created this drawing while taking the Construction Documents course.

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Understanding and applying scheduling and control to construction projects is essential to successful construction management. Project scheduling emphasizes network-based schedules, such as critical path method (CPM), network calculations, and computer applications. Project control focuses on achieving milestones, flow of information, time and cost control, and change management. Basic understanding of construction management principles and practices is advised.

Contemporary art’s succession of contending, and often conflicting, ideas and styles challenges those who view art as a mode of self-expression that nevertheless manages to be generally accessible. Examine the radical vision that drove disparate contemporary movements such as pop, minimalism and conceptualism. Explore how forms such as performance, body and land art expanded the concept of what it means to create fine art. You ultimately gain an understanding of the impulses, interests and innovations that have driven the art world from the middle of the 20th century to the present.

(Available spring term)

Learn to create effective content marketing copy for documents, online advertising, websites, e-blasts, direct mail and more in this project-based seminar. Explore copywriting best practices across all mediums, including print, online and video. Develop the knowledge to write powerful headlines and compelling copy content. Discover how to generate a Call-to-Action (CTA) that engages and motivates response. Investigate analytic options that offer meaningful feedback on your writing. Conceptualize, create and revise a marketing campaign that you present to the last class as a professional portfolio piece.

This hands-on computer course provides the skills to apply the theories, concepts and tools covered in Basic Corporate Finance BUS ADM X430.1 and Intermediate Corporate Finance BUS ADM X444.1 to develop your spreadsheet knowledge to use for effective financial analysis and decision making. Topics include developing spreadsheet skills for financial statement analysis and forecasting, stock and bond valuation, target capital structure estimation and capital budgeting.

Get an introduction to cost terms and purposes, and learn how to control and improve profitability through planning, budgeting, pricing and cost management. Learn about the foundations of successful business decision-making and financial performance evaluation process in various types of enterprises.

Hear from mental health professionals working in the field as you investigate the required training and review the various professional licensing options available. You’ll also explore multicultural issues and theoretical orientations. Through assignments, you’ll gain an understanding of the realities of the profession—financial or otherwise—to assist you in your decision process regarding a career in mental health.

This course does not cover careers in the psychopharmacology field (e.g., psychiatrist and psychiatric nurse practitioner).

Get an overview of several counseling theories and techniques. Emphasis will be placed on becoming familiar with counseling approaches that can be used by counselors, teachers, administrators and others in the K-12 school setting. You will learn and practice the basic tenets of Carkhuff’s Human Resource Development (HRD) Model in order to gain competence in applying basic counseling skills. Multicultural and diversity issues, as well as a variety of child and adolescent issues, will also be discussed.

Portrait, story and reflection: these are three forms of creative nonfiction. Learn to apply the techniques of storytelling to nonfiction prose pieces, including personal essays, features, commentaries, reviews, reports, journal entries and memoirs. In this course, you read outstanding writers in several of these genres, looking for the qualities that make their work vivid and meaningful, and with steady encouragement work on writing your own creative nonfiction. Together, the instructor and other participants form your audience, offering support and critical feedback about your pieces. Weekly class discussions and writing assignments focus on story principles—such as plot, tension, scene and dialogue—that increase the readability of your work and form your material into publishable pieces.

Living and working in a diverse, multicultural place such as the Bay Area, we may assume that we are inter-culturally competent, but are we really? In order to teach effectively in today's culturally diverse classroom, it is important for educators to be aware of how their identities and cultural framework shape their teachings.

In this class, you will explore how culture and identity inform the way we view the world, how we express ourselves and how we interact with others. You will investigate how cultural learnings may be expressed in the classroom and other settings, and how you can develop your own intercultural competence and that of your students. While primarily intended for those pursuing the TESOL certificate, this class is also appropriate for anyone who is living or working in a multicultural environment.

Please note: This course was previously called Cross-Cultural Communication.

Learn about recent scientific advances and emerging technologies in molecular and cell biology, neurobiology, genomics, immunology and infectious disease. Read current scientific literature, and learn how to analyze experimental data and critically evaluate the impact of research findings. Participate in classroom discussions and student presentations to enhance your ability to discuss some of the exciting scientific advances being published today. This course is intended for advanced science students with some previous knowledge of cell biology, molecular biology and genetics. Industry professionals and health professions students can also benefit from this course.

For information about the equivalent course offered by our partner institution, please refer to the enrollment information for Curriculum Design and Assessment in CTE at UCLA Extension.

Complete your own data analytics project that centers on a real-world problem to add to your portfolio of work. Throughout this course students demonstrate their knowledge of data analytics methods and techniques by planning, exploring, analyzing, interpreting and presenting their findings. The course emphasizes collaboration and problem-solving to promote applied, experiential learning.

Learn to analyze and mine data with the Structured Query Language (SQL). Building on the fundamentals of SQL, advance into data analysis and data mining with real applications. Use spreadsheets to further analyze, manipulate and present your data exploration and data mining findings in tabular and graphical formats. This course is ideal if you want to analyze data with SQL queries and use statistical methods to test the results. 

This course provides students the opportunity to conduct a data science project that centers on a real-world problem of the student’s choosing. The course focuses on data science from a project-based perspective. Throughout this course students demonstrate their knowledge of data science methods and techniques to plan, build models, analyze, interpret and present their findings. The course emphasizes collaboration and problem-solving to promote “hands-on”, applied and experiential knowledge.

This course provides a hands-on introduction to the practice of data science using the Python programming language. Python has become a popular language for data science, in part because of the many useful libraries available in it. During this course, you complete the process of a typical data science project, including: defining project goals; collecting, preparing and managing data; building models; evaluating models and results; presenting results using effective data visualization techniques; and deploying models to a production environment. To complete these projects, you use publicly available real-world datasets provided by the UCI Network Data Repository.

Get an overview and hands-on experience with some of the more popular data structures and algorithms used in industry today. The course focus includes arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, hash tables, trees, heaps, graphs, and their associated algorithms (e.g., searching, sorting, traversal, shortest path, compression, etc.).  You will also learn measuring complexity, recursion, dynamic programming, and data representation. You will examine these concepts in the context of various real-world situations. Course demonstrations are in Python, students can submit assignments in Python, Java, C/C++.

Explore how data visualization techniques create compelling stories and practice using modern tools to create visualizations. In this course, you will learn theoretical and practical elements to support a holistic approach to understanding data visualization and create multiple visualizations using R, Python, D3, and Tableau. This course is ideal for those who are looking to build out practical skill sets with visualization tools and develop an understanding of data characterization needed to build effective data visualizations. 

Learn how drawing can be most effective in the design process. Representing design ideas using software is commonly required, but what do we call those drawings? This course introduces you to the vocabulary of representing 3-D environments. You gain the ability to identify view types and know what to ask for from modeling software. You also develop your manual drawing style as you make your own perspective drawings. You gain hands-on experience drawing interiors in some of the most commonly occurring formats, not using lines that machines do best, but in your own hand.

You reinforce the skills learned in Design Communication II and advance to the next level of sketching and rendering skill by developing visual note taking and establishing a method for accurate freehand perspective drawing. Explore colored pencils, markers, pencil and drafting pens as media. Exercises, including the creation of quick ­sketch vignettes, expand your ability to visualize design concepts and communicate them rapidly and vividly.

Architecture is not just about forms, material and implementation of styles; good architecture is based on concepts and ideas. This first in a sequence of design studios is arranged about a series of design explorations that require you to think conceptually; frame an argument; materialize ideas; and clearly articulate, both verbally and visually, your design intent. On completion, you develop a personal toolkit of terms, concepts, drawing techniques and presentation skills that can serve as a solid base for future personal, academic and professional projects.

Conceptualize and design a residential project. Under direction, analyze spaces and refine layouts to satisfy functional requirements. Become familiar with residential lines of furnishings and finishings. Develop your color palette, and select suitable materials to produce a workable and aesthetic environment for everyday living.

Example Coursework

Student Sara Manning designed this room while taking Design Studio II.

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In this studio course, you take a commercial project (hospitality, workplace, retail or health care) through the schematic phase to the design-development phase. Employ your programming, space planning skills and code knowledge to develop a strong concept. Select appropriate colors, materials and furnishings. Study natural and artificial light as you manipulate spaces. Research solutions to acoustical concerns. As you sequentially develop your design solutions, learn to produce a high-quality, thoughtful project that is important for your portfolio.

Combine space planning, color theory, lighting, material selection, design and construction in this final studio that challenges you to apply these skills to a multistory, mixed-use project. Use study models to examine how light penetrates the various volumes of spaces. Understand how appropriate and sustainable solutions for window treatments, soft goods, finishes and furniture create a viable design.

Develop an understanding of interior architecture through research into the general principles of design and the specific histories of interiors and designers. During this course, you study contemporary and historic interior spaces to learn how to critically assess how their design creates a livable environment. Course lectures investigate specific components of interior design such as scale, density and the concept of place to understand how to communicate what creates a successful design and how to cultivate that success in your own work.

Design thinking (DT) and UX strategy (UXS) are both increasingly being adopted by organizations as essential tools for problem-solving and accelerating innovation. Although these two approaches—each part of the larger human-centered design (HCD) toolkit—are gaining in popularity, they are not always clearly understood or applied.

Review fundamental DT and UXS perspectives, concepts and techniques in this course. You learn to identify and solve real-world problems through Agile management and human-centered design. You also learn the importance of storytelling to distill design ideas through relevant readings and case studies, personal reflections, peer interactions and an overarching class project. Course curriculum helps you extract meaning and value, the whys of design, early usability testing, "diamonds" of the design process, and design iteration and design ideation beyond the readings and lectures.

You may be interested in your own life stories, but how do you make them engaging to others? Whether you are interested in writing a personal essay or book-length memoir, learn how to shape your story with essential elements of craft such as voice, structure, characterization, point of view, conflict, sensory description, dialogue and the dramatic reconstruction of events. Examine ethical and truth-telling issues that arise when writing about yourself and the people you know. By the end of the course, you are expected to have produced a self-contained memoir piece of 10 to 12 pages. Enrollment is limited.

Memoirs come in many forms, but what the best share in common is a quest for the truth. In this continuation of Developing the Memoir I ENGLISH X463, you continue that quest by studying a wide variety of forms and learning new ways to shape your stories. Practice essential craft elements such as the balance between scene, summary and musing and explore how memory and language collude to create new meaning. By the end of the course, you will have had the chance not only to produce fresh work but revise it too. Enrollment is limited.

Explore the craft of longer fiction and how to meet its creative challenges. Each session includes a lecture on craft, supported by discussion of assigned readings and exercises to unlock the potential of your ideas. Learn how to develop characters, language, voice, pace, tone, theme and setting, and participate in a group critique of student work. Enrollment is limited.

Diagramming and prototyping are essential tools to convert innovative ideas into tangible and profitable products. Designers use diagramming to visually communicate with end-users and other team members about the holistic experience they are developing. In prototyping, designers create representation of the products and conduct usability tests to quickly get feedback on their ideas as they translate their designs from low- to high-fidelity prototypes and iterate based on user research findings.

By going through multiple iterations of the prototype and usability testing, you can document your research processes, collect and apply feedback, and assess your product usability in a timely manner. Each in-class exercise builds your understanding and competencies as you design for various types of digital products (interactive kiosk, apps, enterprise website and mobile apps). By the end of the class, you will have gained the fundamental knowledge, critical thinking of UX trends and future expectation, and craftsmanship in order to create a final UX digital prototype portfolio project by using any of the following software: Sketch, Figma, Principle, Adobe XD and many more. Download the free trial versions to test these programs our, or purchase student discounted versions of any software.

Enhance your basic design and vector-based illustration techniques, and focus on conceptual approaches to digital illustration for specific design applications. Explore concept, composition, color and typography through design projects that require creating original graphics and illustrations. You pay particular attention to creative approaches to design solutions and developing your individual illustration style.

Advances in digital marketing allow small businesses with a modest advertising budget to begin advertising online to gain a competitive edge. Discover how businesses of all sizes can now target customers with laser precision, and how they can measure return on their advertising dollars much more accurately and effectively than before. Through the techniques taught in this course, you learn how to profitably apply new media channels of advertising to your own business or to your client’s companies so that advertising dollars realize the maximum return.

Learn the basics of digital cameras through an overview of photography and photographic terminology. Understand image-editing software and digital effects.

This course will help to place students' work in the context of contemporary photography practice. Learn to develop conceptual ideas, critique the work of your peers, and find where your work fits in the context of broader photographic practice. In addition to lectures, discussions, and readings the course will include a series of project-based assignments to develop composition and conceptual framework. Students should bring examples of their current work to the first class.

Learn additional skills in the use of Lightroom, including efficient digital work flow, color management and how to prepare files for printing or posting on the web. Improve your composition and techniques while building your own portfolio. Lectures, lab work and critiques enhance your knowledge, critical vocabulary and conceptual skills. Note: Bring samples of your current work to the first class.

Gain the skills to create effective concept and design drawings using 2-D and 3-D software. In this introductory course, learn how to use Google SketchUp and Adobe Photoshop and InDesign to augment your creative ideas. This class is perfect for students and design professionals alike, particularly in the fields of interior design, architecture and landscaping.

Learn how to use color to enhance your drawn imagery. You explore fundamental concerns of drawing—line, value, texture, shape and space—through assignments that emphasize the effective use of color, color mixing, color properties and color schemes. Demonstrations introduce wet and dry media including graphite, colored pencils, inks and watercolor. Course projects, ranging in topics from representational to abstraction, help develop your artistic voice as you delve into the use of color and drawing as a means of creative self-expression.

Develop observational abilities and rendering skills in this introduction to the fine art of drawing. Learn methods of describing objects in terms of line, value, shape and texture. Course projects help you explore the principles of light, space, composition and perspective using a variety of media and techniques.

Focus on rendering skills and creative approaches to composition and subject. You start by drawing almost exclusively from 3-D objects to hone representational skills and challenge your creativity. The class includes in-depth studies of value, forms in space, line, expressive and imaginative drawing, and an introduction to the figure.

For information about the equivalent course offered by our partner institution, please refer to the enrollment information for Early Orientation for CTE at UCLA Extension.

In this beginning copyediting course, get an overview of the editorial process, including the use of style manuals and reference books, creation of style sheets, and methods of querying authors and clients. Learn how to edit using conventional marks and symbols, as well as Microsoft Word's Track Changes feature; apply the appropriate level of copyediting; eliminate bias; and copyedit various types of text. You are also introduced to basic principles of good writing and to legal issues (copyright and permissions) that copyeditors may encounter in their work. Enrollment is limited.

Study the more complex aspects of copyediting and the fine points of editorial style that editors of book-length manuscripts must master. Refine querying technique and learn how to approach the issues that arise when working progressively on segments of a longer manuscript, including how to estimate time and cost for editing. Practice content editing by working with tables, references and footnotes. Enrollment is limited.

Learn the concepts, application, practice and strategies involved in becoming a highly effective leader. As organizational expectations continue to increase with heavy workloads, fewer staff, increased complexity and reduced resources, you explore how leadership behaviors can increase organization and employee performance. Topics include managing talent, developing teams, resolving conflicts, making decisions, working with the multigenerational workforce, tackling work-family challenges, and addressing diversity and cultural dilemmas. Learn how to move from the tactical to the strategic as a leader, as well as how to address challenges systemically. Learn concrete skills to improve your ability to lead teams and achieve business goals.

Whether you are writing a memo to your boss or a letter to the editor, it is crucial to craft your argument clearly and persuasively. Build confidence by improving your writing's organization, logic and style so that whatever kind of writing your work requires, you can get your point across eloquently and quickly. Delve into the details of the writing process: identifying an audience, choosing the best structure and revising early drafts of your work. Enrollment is limited.

Develop knowledge of past and present theories of human development as they relate to individuals aged 18–29. Learn to identify key characteristics of the emerging adulthood stage of human development. Apply course material through introspection, self-exploration and intentional goal setting as part of this experiential course.

Get an introduction to employee benefit plans: what they include and how are designed, administered and evaluated. Study the most common types of discretionary benefits, and learn how they are selected and administered. Explore legal requirements, administrative problems and available options, as well as government-mandated plans such as workers' compensation and Social Security. Examine important policy issues on sick leave, vacation, jury duty and leaves of absence, and learn how they are related to organizational culture and policy. Pay special attention to the effects of tax reform and other emerging developments in benefits planning.

Examine the current legal and social issues that impact the employee-employer relationship, and the practical actions in order to address them. Using a contemporary and practical framework for the employee-relations discipline, you take a dynamic investigation of issues across the employee lifecycle. Topics include the role of HR in employee relations, common transactions within the employment relationship including the assessment of risk in employment actions, quality of work life, culture and respect in the workplace, diversity and inclusion, and handling formal complaints and discipline.

Understand the powerful role that employment benefits play in a person's financial plan, with special emphasis on tax-advantaged retirement savings. Topics include IRAs, defined contribution, defined benefit, and non-qualified plans; cash compensation, stock options, life insurance, health insurance, FSAs, HSAs, and other company-sponsored benefits. Learn about current trends and advanced techniques for both individuals and business owners.

Become familiar with legislation and court decisions significant to human resources so that you can appreciate the concern related to employee rights and the sensitive nature of the employer’s role in dealing with evolving human resources management issues. The complex issues inherent in human resource management require a solid understanding of the interrelationship between state and federal legislation and court decisions, and of the daily activities of the human resources function. Explore issues that affect workplace policies such as the Americans With Disabilities Act, AIDS, alcohol and drugs, sexual harassment, privacy rights and related matters.

This course will investigate and understand the instructional leadership practices related to preschool through third grade (P-3) education including how to develop and enact a PK-3 vision, align and integrate Universal Transitional Kindergarten into the CA educational system, and implement strategies to build professional capacity through a culture of continuous improvement. With a focus on issues of educational inequality, course content and assignments will focus on ameliorating and improving public education with a P-3 focus.

Students must be pre-approved to enroll in this course. If not pre-approved, please follow this link: https://bit.ly/4a7f0DF

Gain an understanding of people management as the ability to work with people at all levels—on an individual, team and organizational basis—to maximize employee performance and happiness and achieve project goals and success. Learn strategies to manage people in all directions—upward, downward and across the organizational chart. Lectures and discussions help you streamline this vast subject into a small number of efficient and practical tenets that represent new principles and perspectives on managing people.

Explore the six core areas of human resources: management practices; selection and placement; training and development; compensation and benefits; employee and labor relations; and health, safety and security. Learn how these areas function within an organization, as well as how they relate to each other. You also investigate the growing multitude of laws, rules and regulations that affect the California employer, and the role of the human resources professional in an organizational setting.

In this hands-on business course, which is loaded with business case studies and guest speakers, you survey the history of the management field; explore the planning, organizing, leading and controlling dimensions of the manager's job; learn key interpersonal and managerial skills; and analyze the transition that takes place as an individual professional takes on a management position. Develop a company culture and tools to measure the effectiveness of a company and its employees. Learn how to think as a leader and explore the importance of emotional intelligence. Discuss real-world examples from the instructor’s experience as well as examples from legendary leaders such as Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Henry Ford, Bill Gates and many more.

Adobe After Effects is the essential software for any motion graphics designer and their skillset. Learn the fundamental tools of its timeline, graph editor, keyframing, blending modes, adjustment layers, pre-composing, mask reveals, track-mattes and sound effects to create dynamic objects, shapes, logos, and kinetic typographic compositions.

Understand export settings for video format output (MP4, GIF, MOV) and apply them across social media channels used in brand marketing. You learn to optimize your animated work for online search through SEO strategies such as keyword labeling and tagging.

You analyze real-world case studies to confidently speak to motion graphics trends and industry while producing portfolio-worthy pieces that launch your professional career.

Course Objectives

• Apply motion design to shapes, objects, vector graphics and typography
• Learn Adobe After Effects software tools such as adjustment layers, effects and presets, graph editor motion curves, track mattes, pick whip, easy-ease, pre-composing, mask reveals, timeline features and export settings
• Understand video export settings for various formats such as MP4, GIF, MOV through AE render queue and Adobe Media Encoder
• Learn how to upload different video formats into multiple social media platforms
• Optimize video content for SEO including: labeling, tagging, adding custom thumbnails and descriptions of one’s work
• Create the illusion of 3D space through the parallax effect and puppet tool
• Design kinetic typography and logos with smooth transitions and dynamic ease-in and ease-out
• Acquire skills on how to communicate design thinking and motion-based concepts in verbal and visual form during pre-production calls or workplace meetings
• Build a portfolio of motion graphics that showcase your design and animation skills to potential clients and employers

Delightful, intuitive and engaging user experience is integral to a company’s success. Gain the skills employers are searching for in this introductory course. You’ll study user-experience design concepts, processes and practices, including topics such as user research, personas, heuristic evaluation, information architecture, wireframing, design tools, rapid prototyping, usability assessment and design communication. You'll understand and learn how to apply user-centered design practices.

During the course of 10 weeks, you work on and then present a course project of your choosing using the UX design principles learned in class. This project serves as a cornerstone of your portfolio showcasing end-to-end design thinking.

Gain an in-depth study of the tax-oriented decisions and personal considerations that constitute an effective estate plan. Lectures and discussions cover the provisions of recent federal tax legislation and its impact on estate planning. You will analyze estate-planning objectives and prepare a plan for a hypothetical client.

Learn the general principles of exercise physiology and develop the ability to apply this knowledge in real-world settings. Explore the foundations of exercise and the importance of nutrition, environment and the impact of exercise training on performance and health with emphasis on the roles of the body's systems. Examine current topics in the field of exercise physiology by reviewing research studies and their clinical relevance through lectures, case studies and required readings.

Develop a unique partnership between a drawing medium and your imagination, intuition and experience. In studio projects, you experiment with abstractions based on realism, as well as sounds, ideas and words. In addition to studying the relationship of medium to mood while working with a variety of conventional media, you experiment with unconventional media—such as natural pigments, textural elements and found materials—to stretch your drawing technique in new directions.

More often than not, a product’s success is dependent on a smart and well-executed Go-to-Market Strategy (GTM). Take a deep dive into the logistics of a GTM Strategy Roadmap to plan, test and successfully execute complex product launches.

Augment your expertise and experience by applying cutting-edge tools and methods to be more creative, more precise, more convincing and more impactful at your organization.

In each session, you’ll have ample opportunities to apply, share and discuss real business cases, test new ideas with other experts, and ready yourself to move to the next level.

Your Instructor

Frederick Wehrle, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at UC Berkeley Extension
Frederick T. Wehrle is a researcher specializing in innate human behavior and an expert in academic innovation and design. At UC Berkeley Extension, he is developing fully integrated, transdisciplinary study programs that allow students and lifelong learners to acquire the specific skill set they need to succeed in their careers in the upcoming 4th Industrial Revolution. With his team, Frederick brings together world-leading researchers from UC Berkeley and industry experts from Silicon Valley who work and teach at the forefront of academic innovation.

Previously, Frederick founded the Center for Global Engagement of Planeta Education and Universities France, directed accreditation and international relations at Groupe EDC, and served as Academic Director at Groupe IGS. He founded the Eye-Tracking Lab of ICD International Business School and has lectured at UC Berkeley, Grupo Planeta, Groupe EDC, Groupe IGS, University of Paris 1, Toulouse Business School, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Groupe IAM.

Explainer videos are the most powerful way to connect and to broadcast brand-new products, services, ideas and concepts to the brand’s possible customers or clients and they propel marketing success of brands and businesses through engaging expeditious visualizations of their products or services in an innovative manner that influences and heartens your targeted demographics. Learn the streamlined pre-production development process and key aspects of these short animated videos such as character design, style frames, story-driven animation, scripting, voice-over, sound integration and editing.

You practice creating moving graphics that integrate strategic design thinking and simplify complex ideas while expanding on Adobe creative software skill set in After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro. Throughout the course, you analyze explainer video case studies to explore the relationship between animation and marketing strategies. This course and its final project teaches you how to apply cohesive art direction on longer timelines of motion graphics and employ storytelling through call-to-action narrative. This is a project-based course in which you learn by doing, working on projects to enhance your design skills. By the end of the semester, you will have create a comprehensive portfolio piece.

You can take a peek at instructor Ian Boldon's site to see his professional work.

Get an overview of common forms and genres of written self-expression, including personal essay/memoir, poetry, short fiction and novel. You experiment and discover in a safe environment. The course curriculum helps you learn and practice a variety of genres, forms and styles toward further developing your skills as a creative writer.

In class assignments, you focus on the shorter forms to maximize the number of genres in which you can experiment.

Explore experimental and traditional approaches to typography and custom lettering in the context of graphic design. Class projects and subjects help you understand a wide variety of technical and conceptual approaches to typography, including typeface design, experiments in conceptual lettering and real-world applications. You also review the basics of typography: the differences between functional and decorative typography, type history, terminology, and the how and why of choosing typefaces. You complete projects in a variety of media, including digital, hand-drawn and 3-D.

Expand your understanding of the planning processes, and learn to recognize the attributes of an effective business continuity plan. In-class exercises teach you how to create a variety of facilities plans. Guest speakers include representatives from Bay Area contracting, architectural and facilities management firms.

Focus on the interpretation, analysis and communication of information that is useful to a variety of users outside of the business organization. Examine economic events' and transactions' impacts on basic financial statements. Gain an applications-level understanding of financial accounting concepts, including preparation and analysis of financial statements.

Take a deeper focus into the financial theory and application in financial statement analysis. Start by reviewing financial statement analysis and then delve deeply into ratio analysis (liquidity and solvency) and valuation. This course is designed to take you past the standard financial ratio calculations and to encourage you to take a hard look at the information, keeping in mind that analysis is only as good as the data from which it is derived.

Examine fundamental programming concepts in Java and get an introduction to object-oriented programming. With its platform independence, Java is heavily used in Web applications and middleware that work on Windows, Macintosh, Linux and other platforms. On successful completion of the course, you are able to write simple applications and are prepared for courses that assume some familiarity with Java. This introductory course is designed for beginners new to programming and those with experience programming in other languages that want to learn Java.

For information about the equivalent course offered by our partner institution, please refer to the enrollment information for Health Education for Teachers at UCLA Extension.

This is the first course of a two-course sequence that introduces the knowledge and skills required to advise students in the transition from high school to college. Emphasis is placed both on acquiring specific knowledge of colleges and the admissions process and on becoming ethical, skilled practitioners in a rapidly changing profession.

Get an overview of the art of 1780 to 1900, a period of sweeping political and technological changes that had profound significance for the arts of European painting, sculpture, and decoration. The revolt against absolutism and the example of American independence fostered a spirit of rebellion and a desire for individual freedom of expression, while greater opportunity to travel resulted in the absorption of new mythologies emphasizing the imagination and personal development. Illustrated lectures examine the art of Versailles and the French Academy, Neoclassicism; the German Romantics; Millet, Corot and the Barbizon School; the realism of Courbet and Manet; and finally the Impressionists, Symbolists and Postimpressionists of 19th-century France.

Get an overview of the art of 1780 to 1900, a period of sweeping political and technological changes that had profound significance for the arts of European painting, sculpture and decoration. The revolt against absolutism and the example of American independence fostered a spirit of rebellion and a desire for individual freedom of expression, while greater opportunity to travel resulted in the absorption of new mythologies emphasizing the imagination and personal development. Illustrated lectures examine the art of Versailles and the French Academy, Neoclassicism; the German Romantics; Millet, Corot and the Barbizon School; the realism of Courbet and Manet; and finally the Impressionists, Symbolists and Postimpressionists of 19th-century France.

Learn to design and build effective, responsive, and user-friendly web applications. You learn the fundamentals of front-end development and contemporary architectures by creating robust and dynamic web applications. Course topics include HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as DOM manipulation, event handling, and responsive design. Core JavaScript concepts like async and ES6+ are also covered, as well as best practices for version control, debugging, and problem-solving.

Whether you are an engineer, architect, project manager, developer or contractor, familiarize yourself with the variety of legal issues affecting the construction industry. California construction law is emphasized in the context of the foundational rights, statutes, case law and legal obligations relating to the industry. Upon completion of this course, you should understand, in a broad sense, the legal aspects of a construction project and be able to identify issues and legal problems as they arise.

Gain familiarity with architectural lighting techniques in this introductory course. Learn the fundamentals of lighting—luminaire sources and types, regulations and technical terminology—and determine how to apply them to practical situations for residential and commercial interiors. Specific exercises, sightseeing and case studies train you to draw lighting plans, write specifications and create study models.

One of the biggest challenges facing most nonprofit agencies is either finding or retaining staff talent in the areas of fundraising and volunteer management. Most staff and volunteers working in nonprofits today are motivated by the opportunity to help meet the needs of vulnerable populations. Very few of them, however, bring skills in either soliciting donors or managing fundraising campaigns. Their skills are also limited in the areas of recruiting, training and retaining volunteers. Central to both of these skill sets are the marketing, planning and management capacities needed in most nonprofits.

This program addresses these staffing and volunteer challenges by bringing together highly experienced practitioners as instructors and staff members from small and large nonprofits. Program content takes you well beyond the basics by engaging you in the processes of donor cultivation, along with the design and implementation of volunteer and board member recruitment and retention.

Generously supported by The Bernard E. & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation for the Spring 2024 cohort

Instructor

Dustianne North, M.S.W., Ph.D., program coordinator and lead instructor, is a national expert and a program developer, technical assistance provider, and evaluator serving a wide array of human services programs.

Guest Presenters

Ginni Ring, M.S.W., joined Alameda County CASA as executive director in 2010. She has more than 30 years combined experience in direct service to youth and families, supervision, management, fund research and development, and program and fiscal analysis in both public and nonprofit social services and health care agencies.

Karolo Aparicio, M.A., M.B.A., is the annual giving officer at Bay Area Leads Fund San Francisco Foundation. He is a certified fundraising executive (CFRE).

Sara Ferree, M.A., currently services as the Director of Development at Homeless Children Network.

Camille Matson, M.A., is the annual giving officer at Global Fund for Women.

Alissa May, LL.M., has served the Bay Area for more than 10 years in corporate social responsibility, volunteer support and advocate roles with the Red Cross, Edgewood Center, SF CARD and Salesforce. She currently serves as senior ESG adviser at The ESG Institute.

Dolores Garay is the Membership Director at Donors of Color Network.

Theary Chan is the director of partnerships for Urgent Action Fund for Women's Rights.

Michael J. Austin, Ph.D., ACSW, is the Milton and Florence Krenz Mack Professor of Nonprofit Management at the School of Social Welfare University of California.

Stan Weisner, Ph.D., MSW, is the director of the Behavioral Health Sciences, Department at UC Berkeley Extension.

Learn fundamental concepts in biology, including prokaryotes; protists; fungi and plant development, form and function; population genetics; ecology; conservation; the origin of life; evolution; and classification. Designed for biology majors and premedical and prehealth students, this course is also appropriate for returning students interested in a refresher biology class and professionals in other disciplines considering a career change to the biological sciences. This course is associated with General Biology Laboratory II INTEGBI X15.1B. Lecture and laboratory courses do not need to be taken concurrently.

Get an introduction to fundamental concepts in biology, including cell structure and function; metabolism; molecular and organismal genetics; classification; and animal development, form and function. Designed for biology majors and premedical and prehealth students, this course is also appropriate for returning students interested in a refresher biology class and professionals in other disciplines considering a career change to the biological sciences. Develop laboratory skills such as instrumentation, data analysis and observation. This course is associated with General Biology I MCELLBI X15A. Lecture and laboratory courses do not need to be taken concurrently.

Learn fundamental concepts in biology, including prokaryotes; protists; fungi and plant development, form and function; population genetics; ecology; conservation; the origin of life; evolution; and classification. Designed for biology majors and premedical and prehealth students, this course is also appropriate for returning students interested in a refresher biology class and professionals in other disciplines considering a career change to the biological sciences. Develop laboratory skills such as instrumentation, data analysis and observation. This course is associated with General Biology II INTEGBI X15B. Lecture and laboratory courses do not need to be taken concurrently.

Get an introduction to the fundamental concepts of inorganic chemistry, including matter, atoms, molecules, solutions, thermochemistry, chemical bonding and intermolecular forces. This course is designed for biology, premedical and prehealth students. It is also appropriate for returning students interested in chemistry and for professionals in other disciplines considering a career change to the sciences. This course is associated with General Chemistry Laboratory I CHEM X19.1A. The lecture may be taken without the laboratory.

Study the fundamental concepts of inorganic chemistry, including properties of solutions, kinetics, equilibria, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, metals, nonmetals and other topics of interest. This course is aimed at biology, premedical and prehealth students. It is also appropriate for returning students interested in chemistry and for professionals in other disciplines considering a career change to the sciences. It is associated with General Chemistry Laboratory II CHEM X19.1B.

Get an introduction to the fundamental concepts of inorganic chemistry, including matter, atoms, molecules, solutions, thermochemistry, chemical bonding and intermolecular forces. Develop laboratory skills such as instrumentation, data analysis and observation skills. Designed for biology majors and premedical students, this course is also appropriate for returning students interested in chemistry and for professionals in other disciplines considering a career change to the sciences. It is associated with General Chemistry I CHEM X19A.

Learn the fundamental concepts of inorganic chemistry, including properties of solutions, kinetics, equilibria, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, metals, nonmetals and other topics of interest. Develop laboratory skills such as instrumentation, data analysis and observational skills. This course is aimed at biology majors and premedical students. It is appropriate for returning students interested in chemistry and for professionals in other disciplines considering a career change to the sciences. It is associated with General Chemistry II CHEM X19B.

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior. In a sense, each of us is a psychologist; we are curious, we explore our surroundings, we observe ourselves and others, and we try to understand and explain our behavior. Psychology is a unique science; it presents challenges not found in the other sciences. In this course, you focus on psychology's study of human subjects and discover how to remain objective as you learn to interpret human behavior.

Get an introduction to the principal areas, problems and concepts of psychology, including topics such as development, learning, perception, emotion, personality, stress and pathology. Then, demonstrate your understanding of the course topics through a research paper and final exam.

Editors must have a strong command of English grammar, syntax and mechanics to edit the work of others clearly, confidently and correctly. Gain a practical understanding of grammar and the logic governing syntax and punctuation use. Learn to analyze grammar and syntax, understand sentence structure, transition from one idea to another and choose the right words to convey meaning, among other topics. Homework exercises, frequent quizzes and multi-draft editing assignments help build your expertise and prepare you for the beginning copyediting course that follows next in the sequence. Enrollment is limited.

This exit seminar for the Professional Program in Graphic Design helps you develop a professional graphic design portfolio to present to future clients as a freelancer and for employment in the profession. You will have the opportunity to showcase your unique style and strengths, improve your limitations and knowledge gaps by accelerating your design projects during this course for stronger outcomes.

You’ll research best fits in today’s design marketplace and create a self-branding package: logo, résumé, cover letter, reference sheet, business card, thank you card and its envelope, a promo video  (scroll down to see Amanda Hinton’s creation) and an optional giveaway piece. The above mentioned pieces help you showcase who you are as a designer/person and the type of skills and strengths you possess to better position yourself for a new job, a freelance career or promotion. Guest speakers, alumni and industry professionals will share their stories, experiences and advice. We will pair you with industry professionals during the portfolio review, they’ll give you feedback about your projects and how to make them stronger and better. The main goal of this course is to improve the overall outcomes of your current projects, by tweaking, redesigning some of those existing projects and by adding new pieces if needed. Essentially you are putting together all graphic design skills you learned through our courses: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Visual Design, Web Design and Typography. By the end of the class, you would have a comprehensive graphic design portfolio website with at least 6 projects of multiple components that show your print and digital capabilities, you will be ready to apply for jobs while in the course, or right after finishing it.

Take a look at these amazing portfolio websites by Gita Adoni, Yuya Sano and Danielle McWaters, who decided to open her own freelance graphic design business called designsake studio before graduation. The three of them are former students of our graphic design program.

"Minor artists imitate; great artists steal," Picasso said. In this course, you'll study the writing of renowned authors—including James Baldwin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Raymond Carver, and Alice Munro—with an eye not toward plagiarism but gaining vital information and inspiration from their masterful work. California Book Award-winning author Lori Ostlund will make a guest appearance to talk about her short stories and the techniques she “stole” from other writers to create her own unique and distinguished voice. You'll leave this course with stronger skills in close reading, as well as new material for a story or novel chapter. Suitable for both beginning and more advanced writers. Enrollment is limited.

Green supply chains are an important part of sustainable business practice. If you are an environmental or business manager or someone who wants to develop knowledge and expertise in sustainable business practices, this course teaches you about green product and service supply chains and compliance requirements. Understand how products, businesses and services are measured against green standards. Examine the implications of Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, supply chain management and life-cycle analysis. Understand decision tools for managing supply chains and maximizing value while minimizing environmental impact.

Explore and learn about a variety of health-related careers, the requirements necessary to apply to most health professional schools, and how these should inform your course plan and extracurricular activities. Get an orientation to the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program and assistance in planning your course of study.

At the end of the course, you will create an academic and career plan for your chosen profession. After successful completion of the course, you will be eligible for a free 30-minute advising session to discuss your career path and receive advice on how to become a competitive health professional school applicant.

This course is open to the public. Public students will develop a plan toward their chosen health profession during their time with us. Students accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program must complete this course before they can officially gain access to future advising sessions.

Learn to master the written parts of your application to graduate-level health profession programs (medical, dental, veterinary, advanced nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant, public health, optometry and other health care programs). You are expected to come to class prepared with responses to specific writing prompts. You gain an understanding of what schools look for in a personal statement, and then determine your motivations and goals through in-class exercises. Revise and further develop your personal statement based on peer reviews. Explore the secondary application process and learn strategies to manage them. Attendance in this seminar provides access to a writing editor who has knowledge of health care applications and can review your statement up to two times.

Note: You are strongly encouraged to take this course 3 to 6 months prior to the beginning of the application cycle for your target programs. Enrollment in this seminar is required before you submit your Intent to Apply, if you are requesting a Composite Letter of Recommendation.

Learn effective strategies and techniques to interview successfully for your desired graduate-level professional school (medical, dental, veterinary, advanced nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant, public health, optometry and other health care programs). Examine both one-on-one and multiple mini interview (MMI) formats, and gain invaluable in-class practice experience. You also learn what a typical interview day may include and how to be best prepared. Various guest speakers—including senior post-bacc students, post-bacc alumni and professionals in the field—provide first-hand experiences and best practices.

Note: You are strongly encouraged to take this course at the beginning of the application cycle for your target programs. Enrollment and attendance in this seminar is required before scheduling one-on-one mock interviews with the program staff.

Understand the process of applying to graduate-level health profession programs (medical, dental, veterinary, advanced nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant, public health, optometry and other health care programs). After receiving a broad overview of the application steps, you then examine more specific timelines in relation to your specific profession. You research the academic and experiential aspects of applying, and then evaluate your readiness and competitiveness to apply.

Note: You are strongly encouraged to take this course 6 to 12 months prior to the beginning of the application cycle for your target programs. Enrollment in this seminar is required before you submit your Intent to Apply, if you are requesting a Composite Letter of Recommendation.

Get an historical overview of higher education in America, from colonial times to the recent past. You focus on postsecondary education as it developed in what became the United States of America over a span of almost four centuries. Examine the intersection of American higher education and major sociocultural developments in the broader history of the colonies and the nation.

Architecture and design changed rapidly from the time of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century to the period of cultural postmodernism in the late 20th century. In this continuation of the History of Architecture, Interiors and Decorative Arts I ARCH X412.4, you learn about Victorian revival style, the emergence of Arts and Crafts, and the Modern and Contemporary movements.

Survey the history of photography to learn how to incorporate the techniques and ideas developed by major photographers into your work. Explore skills such as stop-action composition and creative use of color theory. Classroom discussion topics include concepts of portraiture, depictions of nature, relationship to time, creation of narrative, conceptual practice and social reporting.

Understand the role that nutrition plays in human health and development through topics such as digestion and metabolism; variations in caloric and nutrient needs and calculations; recording of diet and evaluation of macro- and micronutrient content in relation to dietary reference intakes; phytochemicals and nutrients and their role in health and illness (especially in endocrine diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension and cardiovascular disease); disorders related to nutrient deficiency and excess and medical nutrition therapy; and biological variations related to diet, food safety and food-borne illnesses.

Learn various types of data visualization fundamentals that can be used most effectively for a given purpose, viewer and context. You examine case studies, and then work on your own projects to create and evaluate human-centered visualizations. You learn the essentials of visual design, visual encoding, information design and human computer interaction (HCI) that can be applied to data visualization. You also develop an understanding of human-centered design techniques that can be applied to real-world data visualization challenges. Other key aspects of this class include data processing, data-processing lifecycles, quantitative vs. qualitative data types, discrete vs. continuous, data summarization and statistics, and data strategies.

You learn to bridge the gap between best practices in the perception and cognition concepts used to build visualizations. You examine case studies, get hands-on training with visual journalism and data storytelling, and work on creating and evaluating user-centered visualizations. These visualization projects can be done with the formats and tools of your choice but are subject to instructor approval. You learn about important contributors to the field, as well as the essentials of visual design, information design and computer interaction that are relevant to data visualization strategies. Download Tableau for free. (Teachers and students get a one-year free license.)

Consider the practical questions confronting senior project engineers and principals during the design of an HVAC system. Prepare to discuss the design process, system selection and equipment selection, as well as business decisions (including determining competitive fees), and their relation to design. Additional subjects include energy conservation and Title 24, green building design and electrical considerations relating to HVAC design.

Develop a portfolio as a children's book illustrator. You will learn the creative process of designing art for picture books, as well as build your design skills and stretch your imagination. Discover the magic of book making from simple concept to finished and portfolio-worthy artwork. You will learn how to transform basic drawing through personal style and use of colors to develop your own character designs by using visual details to create a compelling storybook.

In this Illustrating Children's Books class, you’ll master the principles of successful children's books, pacing and creating a story arc. Learn about the importance of character consistency, page design, sequence, type placement and the double-page spread, and how to design all details accordingly. Understand why it’s important to have visual variety in one’s book and then identify your own style and technique. While in class, we will discuss the legal and practical aspects of publishing and an artist’s submission package to editors and art directors working at publishing houses.

Did you know that instructor Julie Downing has published more than 45 picture books in her career as a children's book artist?

Sonoma illustrator Gianna Marino, a graduate of our program, teams up with Chelsea Clinton on a children’s book called Don’t Let Them Disappear.

Adobe Illustrator is the industry standard tool for creating vector graphics, a must have skill in any graphic designer's toolbox. Through step-by-step instructions, you will learn to use Illustrator's powerful drawing tools to create drawings, icons, logos, brand identity and original print and digital artwork. 

You will build your knowledge for infographics, products, posters, photorealism drawings and other promotional marketing materials. You will learn how to use many crucial tools offered in the software such as pen and anchor points, Bézier curves, which allows you to draw anything you can think of. Other important aspects of this course are the following: transformation, selection, direct selection, type, blend, eye dropper and many more tools. We will teach you how to work with layers and organize your drawings, color palettes and gradients, as well as Illustrator's amazing typographic capabilities. This course is for both print and web designers, however, students need to learn how to use the tools accordingly, so your designs can be excellent for both formats. With the work produced in this course you will be able to add this to your personal portfolio.

Take a peek at the astonishing digital illustrations by Sophia Roudané and Jeff Faes for the photorealism project.

Get an introduction to the significant tax issues that affect individual taxpayers in the U.S. Topics include tax rates, brackets and filing statuses; exemptions, credits and itemized deductions; income, taxable income and AGI; capital gains and losses; bad debts, employee expenses, depreciation and property transactions; legal strategies for tax planning, minimization, management and timing; and methods for further tax research.

Note: This will be the final offering of this course. It will be replaced by IND/CTA Preparation, Submission and Agency Interfacing PB HLTH X404.8 in Fall 2019. The new course combines this class with IND/CTA Preparation and Submission PB HLTH X402.3.

Regulatory affairs plays an important role during the first stages of product development in ensuring that all appropriate studies are performed to prepare and submit the IND/CTA. Understand this role, and master the initial steps that regulatory affairs professionals take in the product development life cycle, including the responsibilities as facilitators and conduits between companies and regulatory agencies. Using case studies, understand the various elements of IND/CTA enabling studies and how to negotiate with agencies to achieve success.

Note: This will be the final offering of this course. It will be replaced by IND/CTA Preparation, Submission and Agency Interfacing PB HLTH X404.8 in Fall 2019. The new course combines this class with IND/CTA Enabling Studies and Agency Interfaces PB HLTH X402.4.

Master the role of regulatory affairs in the preparation, development, submission and approval of the IND/CTA, including the roles of project management professionals. Using case studies, examine the various components of the submission, how it is prepared using subject matter experts, how its accuracy can be assured, how it is submitted, how to respond to regulatory inquiries and the process for initiating trials.

Regulatory affairs plays an important role during the first stages of product development in ensuring that all appropriate studies are performed to prepare and submit the investigational new drug application and clinical trial application (IND/CTA). Understand this role, and master the initial steps that regulatory affairs professionals take in the product development life cycle, including the responsibilities as facilitators and conduits between companies and regulatory agencies. Learn the role of regulatory affairs in the preparation, development, submission and approval of the IND/CTA, including the roles of project management professionals. Using case studies to examine the various elements of IND/CTA enabling studies, learn how to negotiate with agencies to achieve success, navigate through the various components of the submission: how IND/CTA are prepared and its accuracy is assured, how it is submitted, how to respond to regulatory inquiries and how to initiate trials.

Adobe InDesign is a powerful desktop publishing and typesetting tool. You will explore the essentials of InDesign, including its unique typographic and graphic capabilities, while learning shortcuts and tips to efficiently use the program in your design work by learning how to do document setup: Single vs. facing pages, margins, guides, columns, creating a layout grid. It is essential to getting to know the work area in InDesign so you can navigate easily going forward, this includes changing magnification, panels and creating a custom workspace. You'll explore the overall process involved in producing a layout by typing, importing text and graphics, and working with master pages and understanding fonts and font formats.

When it comes to graphics you’ll learn: Vector vs. bitmap graphics, file formats and image resolution, linked vs. embedded graphics, display resolution and integration with text as well as placing graphics, sizing and fitting graphics, manipulation and integration of text with images (text wrap). Color principles, color spaces, creating and saving colors, process, spot colors (Pantone Matching System) and tints. Using the paragraph, character, control and properties panels, placing and threading text, formatting text and many more essential tools and skills that are needed to make multipage documents.

Through studio projects, students will explore the possibilities and limitations of print or digital publishing, and its many platforms. The objective is to develop several real-world projects for your final portfolio.

Get a glimpse of what our former student Yuya Sano designed for this Adobe InDesign class.

Information Architecture (IA) and content strategy (CS) play significant roles in improving user experience. The challenge lies in building the right content for users' needs. The solution is unifying design and content with IA and CS professionals—all working harmoniously together.

You’ll go from high-level conceptual thinking to real world practical designs in the organization of complex websites and projects. As part of this class you integrate SEO and accessibility initiatives to enhance content discovery, audits and analysis, content inventory and interaction behaviors, company user engagement, voice and tone assessment, content management systems (CMS), templates and microcopy in CS. In information architecture, you learn about mental models, task and user flows, sitemaps, and wayfinding. This course includes two projects: the first one is about content audit and chunking; the second one is related to tree testing by using Optimal Workshop, card sorting, labels, tags and taxonomies. There are two final presentations that can become part of your UX design portfolio.

For information about the equivalent course offered by our partner institution, please refer to the enrollment information for Instructional Strategies for CTE at UCLA Extension.

Survey risk management in the areas of life and health insurance; annuities; and property, casualty and liability coverage. Learn how to determine insurance needs, evaluate various insurance plans and evaluate contract selection criteria from a cost-benefit standpoint.

For information about the equivalent course offered by our partner institution, please refer to the enrollment information for Integrating Technology into the Curriculum for CTE at UCLA Extension.

Learn how to use finishes and materials appropriately for interior applications and addition to construction documentation. Study how materials are installed and how they transition into one another. Understand the substructure on which they are applied and how to specify materials properly. Activities include individual outreach to product representatives in each student's region/territory and virtual/in-person field trips to local showrooms to expand your resource base.

Build on the art, concepts and requirements of accounting learned in Financial Accounting UGBA XB102A/XBW102A. You'll focus on applying concepts in developing a set of financial statements that clearly and accurately depicts a company's performance. You'll study income, balance sheet and cash flow statements; revenue recognition; accounting for cash and receivables; inventory valuation; intangible assets; acquisition and disposition of property, plant and equipment (PPE); depreciation and impairment of assets; and investments.

Build on your learning from Intermediate Accounting I UGBA X421.1 by focusing on developing financial statements that clearly and accurately depict a company's performance. You'll study stockholders' equity, earnings per share, income taxes, leases, pensions, revenue and cash flows.

A continuation of Basic Corporate Finance BUS ADM X430.1, this course rounds out the comprehensive overview of corporate finance topics and examines the concepts, techniques and tools that financial managers use to make effective investing, financing and working capital management decisions. Understand advanced capital budgeting topics, financing decisions, working capital management and multinational finance.

Continue to explore the craft of writing fiction, focusing on the short story. Examine the form’s intricacies of plotting, narrative voice and personal style. Class sessions include instructor-led critiques of your work and focus on improving your ability to edit and revise your stories. Enrollment is limited to 18.

Understand international finance from both corporate and international banking viewpoints, as well as financial constraints on international business and differences between domestic and international environments. Examine the international monetary system, the differences between foreign trade and foreign investments, international sales terms, measurement and management of foreign-exchange exposure, international financial markets and banking, import/export financing, current-asset management and international taxation.

Work in a new, professional environment to gain valuable experience, insight and skills that can serve you in future employment in graphic and interactive design and related fields. You share your real-world internship experience with other students in the course. Your work experience should be a place where you have not previously worked. Present your résumé and portfolio to a professional graphic design or related office that is sponsoring the internship. Once an internship is agreed upon, you then submit the Internship Approval Request with a description of the company to the Graphic and Interactive Design program director/instructor. On approval of the internship, you set up a mutually agreeable work schedule with the company and give a copy to the program director/instructor.

Immerse yourself in the interior design profession through an internship at a design or architectural firm. With the guidance of your instructor and the supervision of the host organization, you work as a junior designer to gain greater exposure to the real design world and prepare for your future profession.

You are responsible for finding an interior design or architectural firm with which to intern. A total of 90 internship hours is required within a six-month period. Before enrolling, please contact us to request an internship packet, complete a request form for your site approval and schedule a meeting with the instructor. To complete the internship, you must provide a daily journal, a paper, an oral presentation summarizing your internship and an evaluation from your job supervisor.

The term "Big Data" is used broadly to describe very large or complex data sets that cannot adequately be stored, processed, or analyzed using traditional database technologies. Big Data, in addition to large volume, may involve a wide variety of data types and high-velocity data streams. This course is designed to help students understand concepts and issues related to Big Data systems including design and usage of these systems. In this course, you will learn to design and implement big data systems based on the Lambda architecture. This methodology provides a way to scale and to handle complexity. This course is ideal for individuals that have prior familiarity with data and want to learn how to handle vast and complex data sets.

Building information modeling (BIM) is the state-of-the-art approach to facility design and construction using object-based 3-D models. Learn how to employ BIM technologies for analytical purposes such as visualization, quality takeoff, cost estimating, scheduling, coordination, and facility management. Study current technologies that enable the BIM process, including tools such as Autodesk Revit Architecture. Gain practical knowledge to work with architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing models, and learn to identify potential conflicts quickly and effectively among them. Create basic 3-D models in Autodesk Revit. Examine the technical logistics to set up successful projects using BIM technologies. You also gain exposure to real-world BIM industry applications and practices.

Learn the C programming language and its fundamental programming concepts. Gain the knowledge to write simple C language applications and undertake future courses that assume some background in computer programming. Topics include variables, data types, functions, control structures, pointers, strings, arrays and dynamic allocation principles. You need access to any programming environment that allows you to write, edit, compile, link and debug a C program.

Study a broad spectrum of interrelated global environmental issues through hands-on case studies to develop your planning skills and prepare for jobs in the sustainability industry. Review scientific evidence, and examine issues related to natural cycles of the biosphere, biodiversity, ecological restoration and environmental management. Contemporary global issues and real-world case studies include topics such as the biochemical cycle, ecosystem management and toxicology.

Gain a solid foundation in clinical research by reviewing the drug development process, the principles of good clinical practice, clinical trial phases and design, the principal players in clinical research and regulatory oversight of medical devices.

Get an overview of computer technology and programming. Using a Raspberry Pi, you learn how computers internally represent information, and the logic and hardware they use to process it. You also learn about programming languages and concepts using Python as an example. Other topics covered include operating systems, computer applications, computer systems, software development technologies and data communications.

Learn to protect computer technology assets using mechanisms to enforce confidentiality, integrity and availability of data. As fraud, identity theft and cyberwarfare continue to occur exponentially, online security is vital. In this course, you examine various mechanisms to implement a comprehensive cybersecurity program within an enterprise organization. Specific mechanisms include security policies, ethics, asset security, security engineering, cryptography, security assessments, security training, threat detection, forensics and software development security.

Get an introductory overview of data analytics. Learn to formulate and apply descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to guide decision making in various industries. Learn through lectures and hands-on practice using spreadsheet skills, SQL, and R with models in regression analysis, cluster analysis, linear programming, and more. Throughout the course, you learn and practice thinking critically with data and generating actionable insights. This course is ideal for beginners to learn the foundations of data analytics.

Gain an understanding of the core concepts of data science illustrated through the use of the Python language. Learn the data science lifecycle, roles and fundamentals, and build a solid foundation before diving deeper into the theory and practice of predictive analytics and programming in future courses.

In this course, students learn the principles of effective database design and gain a general overview of database management systems (DBMS). The emphasis is on relational and NoSQL database management systems which have a variety of applications in modern website development, software development, and data science. Students learn dimensional, object-oriented, and object-relational architectures, along with best practices for managing data integrity and security.

Gain the foundational knowledge and skills needed for the constantly evolving role of the facilities manager. Examine the decision-making processes and functions of a facilities manager within the total organization. Course topics include planning, project management, finance and budgeting, real estate, maintenance, operations and technology. This course is designed for individuals interested in or just starting their career in facilities management.

HR analytics is one of the fastest-growing, most in-demand skillsets for human resource professionals today. This course will introduce you to the concepts of how analytics can be applied to the various areas of HR and talent management; no previous experience or analytics skills are necessary. In this course, you will learn the basics of measuring people at work, how to use the information available to make critical recommendations to senior leaders, and how to tell a compelling story using people data.

Understand the complexities of the cells, tissues, and major organs and systems of the human body. Study a different system each week, concentrating on basic mechanisms underlying human life processes and important diseases affecting normal human function.

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Explore the complexities of the cells, tissues, and major organs and systems of the human body. By focusing on basic mechanisms underlying human life processes and important diseases affecting normal human function, you’ll be able to delve into important themes in physiology such as:

• how structure and function are closely related
• why most processes require energy and how those processes are executed
• the flow of information that coordinates body functions

By applying your knowledge and understanding of concepts and processes to real-life case studies, you will be able to describe the major organ systems’ basic anatomical features, their functional principles, their inter-relationships and their common pathologies.

See the classroom version of this course.

Introduction to Kinesiology teaches how the body responds, adjusts, and adapts to exercise including muscular, circulatory, respiratory, energy, and endocrine systems.

Introduction to Kinesiology teaches how the body responds, adjusts, and adapts to exercise including muscular, circulatory, respiratory, energy and endocrine systems.

Learn the fundamental concepts of green building. Examine case studies of LEED certified building projects, concepts of integrated design, third-party verification, and the LEED administration process. The course prepares students to earn the LEED Green Associate credential from the Green Building Certification Institute and is intended for design, construction and real estate professionals, building owners, or anyone who wants to develop their knowledge in this area.

Learn why the open-source programming language Python has been extensively adopted by the machine-learning community and industry. Python allows its users to create products that parse, reduce, simplify and categorize data, and then extract actionable intelligence from that data. In this course, you’ll use Python to understand machine-learning concepts, terms and methodology, and then build applications to gain an intuitive understanding of the mathematics underlying the program. Example real-world applications include search engines, image analysis, bioinformatics, industrial automation, speech recognition and more.

Note: Name changed from Introductory Organic Chemistry in Feb. 2021

Study the essentials of public relations and get a start on a new career. Learn how to make your message newsworthy based on media conventions so you can pitch effectively and ensure optimum coverage. Learn how to write press releases and email pitches and how to package and sell them. Explore techniques to spread your news through strategic use of new media. Final press packets are critiqued by the instructor, giving you the experience to think and write as both a publicist and a journalist.

Understand the variety of risks faced by businesses from small to large, and best practices to mitigate those risks. Topics include the transfer of risk through insurance and reinsurance, the role of government in risk management, the function of financial institutions as arbitrageurs and speculators, and strategies for hedging against market volatility through creative use of financial derivatives. Develop and apply the kind of numerical tools that are employed by corporate treasury staff and investment managers to analyze and control financial risk.

Get in-depth training of the core Structured Query Language (SQL) designed for beginners, focusing on Data Query Language (DQL) and Data Manipulation Language (DML). Learn and practice how to filter data, join tables, write aggregate queries, subqueries, and other complex SQL statements. SQL is the standard language used to query and update databases, and is also used to perform some data analysis, making it useful for professionals working with data. 

An introduction to probability and statistical inference, focusing on an intuitive approach to the concepts, methods, and techniques used and misused in statistical practice. This course develops statistical and critical thinking using probability and descriptive statistics. Key topics include sampling, distributions, the binomial distribution, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, regression, and significance tests.

Develop your personal writing style. Learn the basic concepts and techniques of writing fiction, with the aim of heightening your sense of language and developing your ability to solve problems of structure, characterization, viewpoint, storyline, imagery, dialogue and believability. You also study major examples of the short story and representative critical texts. The instructor evaluates your manuscripts and leads classroom discussion. Enrollment is limited.

Note: Name changed from Introductory Biology with Lab Part A in Feb. 2021

Get an overview of investment management. Topics include modern portfolio theory, fundamental and technical analysis of equities, concentrated equity positions, fixed-income analysis, benchmarking, capital markets, the appropriate use of mutual funds, the importance of asset allocation, IRAs, 401(k)s and tax-efficient portfolio design. You also pay attention to interest rates, inflation, Federal Reserve policies and general economic policy as they pertain to course topics.

Study topics basic to understanding securities markets and applying investment theory to individual portfolio management. Review the organization and structure of securities markets and common sources of information about them. Learn to analyze stocks and bonds, focusing on pricing, quality, liquidity, risk and reward.

Java’s platform independence (write once, run anywhere) allows the same code to run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, mobile phones and supercomputers. Java is popular for enterprise applications that run on Web servers. This high-level language enhances productivity and reduces bugs through automatic memory management and strong typing. Using the free Java Development Kit, you learn practical fundamentals of the Java programming language, as well as basic object-oriented programming to be able to write applications with Java.

Do you aspire to a career in journalism or simply want to explore journalistic storytelling? Get a practical, task-based introduction to news writing and reporting, and learn standards embraced by the best media practitioners—old and new.

This class is suitable for those looking to become freelancers, expand on pre-existing freelance gigs, or find entry-level media. Students with undergraduate degrees can take this class to test their aptitude and appetite for graduate school in journalism. Other students may want to explore personal interest along the lines of a hobby or to learn how to tell nonfiction stories focused on environmental or political causes, business or non-profit organizations, and other interests. Student-teacher interactions simulate a newsroom environment.

Together, we’ll come up with story ideas that capture audience attention, and learn how to find the facts, sources and details to bring these stories to life. That is the essence of journalism: telling true stories that affect an audience. You may not change the world. But you will change yourself by learning how to tell print or audiovisual stories that matter.

This course will investigate and understand instructional leadership issues and opportunities related to preschool through third grade (P-3) education including current educational policy and future policy directions, integration of Universal Transitional Kindergarten into K-12 educational systems, family and community partnership, and issues related to inclusion such as multilingual programs and servings students with disabilities. With a focus on issues of educational inequality, course content and assignments will focus on ameliorating and improving public education with a P-3 focus.

Students must be pre-approved to enroll in this course. If not pre-approved, please follow this link: https://bit.ly/4a7f0DF

Machine learning plays an important role in big data analytics. In this introductory course, you learn the basic concepts of different machine-learning algorithms, answering such questions as when to use an algorithm, how to use it and what to pay attention to when using it. You use Apache Spark—an open-source cluster computing framework that is garnering significant attention in the data industry—as the primary platform for implementing these algorithms. The course curriculum minimizes mathematical derivations in favor of hands-on mastery of Spark's data-processing and streaming features. You also get an introduction to deep learning fundamentals and hands-on experience of deep learning with TensorFlow.

If women are to succeed in the workplace, then institutions must change. However, there are specific skills needed to rise to leadership positions. This course will provide practical information that will help you advance your career, including networking, coaching, organizational politics, non-defensive communication, negotiation, public speaking and managing up. Through lecture, discussion and interactive exercises, you will learn skills that will help you excel in today’s workplace and apply high standards of ethical practice and compassionate leadership.

Managing a small-, medium- or large-scale construction project is a complex process from beginning to end. An error can lead to budget overruns and costly delays, but good management can bring projects in on time and in line with the cost estimates. This course provides a practical, in-depth introduction to construction management and preconstruction services. Multimedia presentations by industry experts introduce you to common management techniques. Both individually and with a group, you cover preparing a request for proposal (RFP), including an estimate with the accompanying qualifications and assumptions; conducting constructability reviews and value engineering analyses; creating construction schedules; and developing staffing and general conditions costs for projects from the preconstruction stage through construction completion. Enrollment is limited.

Managerial accounting, also called management accounting, focuses on providing information to help individuals inside an organization make better operational decisions. It differs from financial accounting, which focuses on providing information to persons or companies outside of the organization, such as creditors. In this introductory course, you learn basic accounting concepts and how managers use accounting data to make decisions.

Creating and maintaining a high-performance organization requires building individual and organizational change capability to create a culture of learning and continuous improvement. As organizations experience the acceleration of change, it becomes even more critical that managers comprehend the process more fully. A lack of appreciation and understanding of change can have a substantial negative impact on employee morale, commitment to the organization and business efficiency and effectiveness.

In this course, you’ll understand the psychology of individual and organizational change from a human-dynamic perspective and its implications for managing change. Gain valuable insights on how to foster goodwill and commitment during times of transition and on the critical success factors in implementing organizational change. Learn how to design and manage change more efficiently and effectively; plan and lead effective change in the workplace; think systematically about change; address people’s readiness and capability for change; and increase people’s receptivity and adaptability to change. Bring an example of an organizational change in which you have been involved as your case study; this example could be an initiative that you have led, participated in or observed. Learn to apply the principles of change management to your specific case.

Formerly Introduction to High Tech Product Management and Marketing

Whether you are a product manager, product marketing manager, startup founder or CEO, this introductory course provides the real-world knowledge and the tools you need to succeed in building a successful product. Students will learn practical techniques and solutions like identifying market need, building consensus for a product idea, taking a concept into product development, learning about product launch, product positioning, sales enablement and managing a full product lifecycle. Additional topics include how to define product priorities, market sizing, competitive analysis, pricing and packaging.

Learn successful strategies to cultivate conditions that allow for swift implementation of sustainability projects within your company. Examine ways to integrate such conditions into an existing organizational culture. Topics include the essential roles of systems thinking, sustainability visioning, robust metric dashboards, cost-benefit analyses, community-based social marketing and strategic messaging.

Communicate with your patients in Mandarin. If you are a medical professional, engage in activities and discussions that emphasize the vocabulary of the medical world. Learn to conduct basic professional conversations with Mandarin speakers.

Acquire the ability to use Mandarin Chinese in linguistically and culturally appropriate ways at the beginning level. Develop four language skills including listening, speaking, reading and writing to gain communicative competence in Mandarin and connect Chinese culture with language. Learn through lectures, student-centered activities and small group tasks.

In this continuation of Mandarin: Beginner EA LANG X407, increase your general comprehension and facility with the language. You interact closely with the instructor and other students to enhance your speaking and listening comprehension skills, learning grammar structures and vocabulary in meaningful contexts. By the end of the course, you should be able to pronounce Mandarin with good accuracy, talk about daily activities, make and respond to suggestions, and ask for and give opinions. You should also be able to read and write 200 simplified characters and their corresponding pinyin romanization.

Learn oral expression in idiomatic Mandarin. By the end of the course, you should be able to use vocabulary and idiomatic phrases appropriate for some formal occasions. You should also be able to read and write 300 simplified characters and their corresponding pinyin romanization. The course is designed to develop the functional language abilities of beginning learners in using Mandarin Chinese in linguistically and culturally appropriate ways at the beginning level. We emphasize training students in four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and aim to help students acquire communicative competence in Chinese while sensitizing them to the links between language and culture. The course focuses on the learning process as well as results. Classroom activities involve instructional lectures, student-centered activities and group tasks.

Build on the knowledge and skills gained in Strategic Marketing Analytics BUS ADM X466.3 to explore powerful, advanced marketing analytics models and metrics. Learn about segmentation, regression, competitive analysis, conjoint analysis, decision trees, portfolio resource allocation, distribution channel analytics, and sales analytics and metrics. Apply models and metrics to hands-on case studies to increase revenue and drive ROI of marketing campaigns.

Learn to use data visualization and business intelligence to support marketing decision making in a variety of enterprises. Examine strategies to turn big data into market insights. Gain proficiency in visualizing and presenting data. Understand how to tell a story using data to inform senior management's marketing decisions in driving revenue and growth. Tie in the content learned in Strategic Marketing Analytics and Marketing Analytics Tools and Technologies to efficiently build data- and analytics-driven presentations.

Get the foundational knowledge of marketing concepts, terminology and practices and how to apply them to current marketing situations to affect an organization’s profitability. You learn about consumer, industrial and service marketing; selecting markets; product planning, pricing, distribution, and promotion; and the integration of marketing with other business activities, such as social media.

Go beyond the basics of Python with Mastering Python. In this intermediate to advanced level course, students examine the latest version of Python and its data structures in depth. This course also covers object oriented programming, filesystem, Web, and database modules. You practice utilizing AI libraries to automate repetitive coding tasks. This course is intended for students that already have experience with Python programming and want to delve deeper into the intermediate and advanced features of Python for programming and software development.

An introduction to the mathematical skills and techniques used in business or in preparation for M.B.A. coursework. Designed to provide a solid foundation in probability and descriptive statistics including: measures of central tendency, probability distributions, correlations, and regression and statistical hypothesis testing as well as explore basic math principles in the context of business, economics, budgeting, statistics, and probability. Emphasis will be on applying these principles to the study of economics, finance, mathematical analysis of investments, decision making, and other business applications.

This course introduces students to the definitions and use of medical terms. It is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of word parts, medical terms, abbreviations, and how they are used in relation to human body systems, disease, and treatment. This course will provide a foundation for students interested in pursuing a career in or further education in healthcare.

Read work by Bay Area fiction authors who come to class to discuss their work and how they make a life as writers. Class discussions delve into elements of craft and aesthetics, serving to inspire and instruct your own pursuits. Guided homework helps you emulate and learn from each writer’s approach with critical responses to craft. Throughout the class, you read and discuss literature not as a student, but as a practicing writer, informing the ways in which you engage with the texts and the authors who visit.

The 10-week course is divided into five two-week sections, each devoted to a different fiction writer. The first week of each section, you read the writer’s most recent work.  The following week, the writer visits the class and engages in a conversation reflecting on their practice and craft. You then write critical responses to the work of each writer, as well as a directed mimic to practice the time-honored practice of apprenticeship. As young painters learned from their masters in Renaissance studios, you emulate different works, and, through the intentional study of craft, come to understand each writer's place in contemporary fiction. 

We are pleased to announce our spring 2020 guest writers: Vanessa Hua, Peg Alford Pursell, Elizabeth Stix, Vincent Chu and Peter Orner.

Learn painting and drawing methods, textural effects and collage techniques that encourage improvisation and experimentation in your work. Learn about the use of water-based painting media and their combination with drawing media, including pencil, charcoal and ink.

The European and American modernist revolution that began in the late-19th century and continued into the 20th subverted traditional art and laid the groundwork for contemporary art. Through illustrated lectures and class discussions, you examine important artworks from the Romantic period through the pop-art era. You also explore the cultural conditions that produced these works—including the artists' lives—and investigate the critical and theoretical writings that shaped the aesthetic discourse and subsequent art history.

Note: Name changed from Principles and Techniques of Molecular Cell Biology in Feb. 2021

The mystery is the one of the most popular and pleasurable forms of storytelling for both readers and writers. In this class you explore the art, craft and business of writing crime fiction in its many forms, including detective stories (from cozy to hard-boiled), police procedurals, thrillers and suspense. Class discussions, writing exercises and guest speakers give you clues and techniques for creating successful mystery novels and short stories: creating strong characters, portraying vivid settings, building suspense and developing a convincing plot with a satisfying resolution. The course guides you through the entire creative and publication process, from finding ideas to marketing your work.

Get an overview of the fundamental principles of the organization, function and development of the human nervous system, including neural development and diseases. Examine experimental approaches from anatomy to molecular biology, and critically evaluate papers from the primary scientific literature. This course is a foundation for advanced study in the neurosciences.

You cover a variety of fundamental laboratory techniques applicable to the study, separation, purification and preparation of organic compounds. This course is aimed at biology majors; premedical, prehealth and returning students; and professionals interested in chemistry. It is associated with Organic Chemistry II CHEM X36B.

Get an introduction to current management concepts and practice. Using conceptual and interactive approaches, you explore the four different areas that explain "American Management" style and the new organizational structure: the individual; the small group; organizational structure; and the interaction between management, organization and technology.

Every organization is perfectly designed to achieve the results it is currently getting. And nearly every organization wants to do better: expand, grow, gain more profit, serve more customers. What factors matter most in helping the organization change?

In this course we’ll learn the fundamental theories of Organization Development, explore the dynamics that happen at the individual, team and leadership levels that impact change, and apply OD approaches to diagnosing and enabling the organization to change.

To communicate in an increasingly complex business environment, managers need advanced skills that prepare them to communicate upstream and downstream within their organizations, as well as with vendors, clients, stakeholders and other partner organizations from a variety of business cultures. In this interactive course, you gain the skills to tackle complex communication tasks that managers and professionals face. Learn how to be a flexible, resilient, media-savvy communicator who can move with ease across media; have empathy for different audiences; and employ strategies for speaking, listening and persuading.

Expanding on the basic painting techniques and principles learned in Painting Fundamentals ART X410, this course further engages you in the use of composition, color, contrast, light and movement. Image-illustrated lectures, demonstrations, and individual and group critiques provide opportunities to expand your artistic skills.

This intermediate- to advanced-level workshop helps you realize your creative ideas by focusing on personal expression. You are encouraged to take risks, to explore unpredictable rather than predictable painting and to engage in painting rather than picture making.

Understand the law of business organizations in an accessible, straight-forward manner. Study relevant examples from the day-to-day practices of business lawyers and their paralegals. You'll learn about four basic business organizations: sole proprietorship, partnerships, corporations and limited-liability companies. Learn what a paralegal needs to know to assist the reviewing attorney in assessing a client's most viable organizational options, as well as how to prepare the necessary information and documentation.

In this course, you cover litigation procedures in the state courts of California from both academic and law practitioner's viewpoints. Receive step-by-step instruction on how to prepare summons and complaint; obtain default judgment; prepare answer and cross complaint; evaluate and draft various pretrial motions and discovery requests; prepare cases for trial and trial-related documents and motions; and enforce a judgment after trial. In addition, you also learn the California court systems and basic appellate process, how to interpret and apply California Code of Civil Procedure, California Rules of Court, and various local court rules and legal forms.

In this comprehensive study of contract law, learn how to form effective legal contracts, how contracts are performed, the remedies for nonperformance or breach of contract, and third-party contracts. Contracts are involved in virtually every field of law and this course emphasizes such skills as contract drafting, analysis and contract litigation. You will view many different kinds of contracts and draft a contract as a part of the course requirements.

As a paralegal, learn how to assist a criminal attorney in all phases of work by introducing substantive and procedural criminal law. Learn about such topics as the purposes and goals of the criminal justice system, as well as identifying the elements of and defenses to criminal charges.

E-Discovery is the process of recovering, searching, organizing and analyzing data stored on computers, hard drives, floppy disks, mobile devices and other digital storage devices for the purpose of being used as evidence in court.

The course covers two aspects of E-Discovery.

1. E-Discovery Process concentrates on the concepts and procedures surrounding the E-Discovery Reference Model (EDRM).
2. E-Discovery Practice focuses heavily on the necessary forms provided in the required textbook.

The ability to manage high-volume data demands in the modern law firm is the foundation of E-Discovery as critical evidence. Skills and competency in this area allow paralegals to make critical contributions to this important pre-trial process, in part because older, more experienced trial lawyers are not deeply familiar with E-Discovery. While paralegals are unlikely to retrieve the digital data, they can be involved in preparing E-Discovery requests and responding to those requests by identifying sources of data, helping to ensure data is not compromised, arranging for data retention, and other areas of critical importance for the process.

Focus on the paralegal's role in a family law practice. Learn about such topics as jurisdictional issues, child custody and visitation matters, child-support issues, property rights and division, and spousal-support considerations. You'll also cover issues of traditional marriage and alternative marriage, as well as paternity proceedings, adoption and surrogacy rights.

Explore trademark, copyright, patent and trade-secret law as they relate to a paralegal's role in representing clients. Gain quantifiable paralegal skills in the area of intellectual property law to assist clients with their intellectual property matters under an attorney's supervision.

Get an overview of personal injury, product liability and malpractice. You will also examine intentional torts of battery, assault, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of mental distress, trespass to chattel, trespass to property and conversion, as well as the analysis of negligence, breach of duty, causation and damages, liability issues and defenses, and malpractice.

Learn the mechanisms of pathogenesis at the molecular, cellular, organ and system level in practical contexts, participating in discussions using real-life cases relating pathophysiological mechanisms to a wide spectrum of signs and symptoms. Gain a deeper understanding of the pathology of organ systems, including endocrine, nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory and renal disorders. Use learning activities to explore many aspects of general pathology including cellular responses to injury, tissue repair, neoplasia and immunologically mediated diseases.

Apply the substantive knowledge gained in prior courses to prepare and present a complete financial plan in an environment of nonliability. Considerable role playing is involved, and you receive feedback on written work. Enrollment is limited.

Accelerated Path to CFP® Certification: If you are already a CPA, CFA®, ChFC, CLU or attorney—or if you hold a DBA or Ph.D. in financial planning, finance, business administration or economics—then this capstone course is all you need to qualify you to sit for the CFP® exam.

An Evening of Great Returns

Don't miss an outstanding evening devoted to networking and career planning. Join our Personal Financial Planning (PFP) Program Industry Advisory board members at this event for our PFP students, alumni and members of the Bay Area professional financial planning community.

This event will include networking sessions and a panel discussion with industry experts. Due to building security requirements, all attendees must register in advance for the event.

As this event will be held in person, please ensure that you meet our public health requirements.

Panel Discussion: 6–7:30 pm
Personal financial planning professionals discuss their career choices and the satisfactions and challenges they experience on the job.

Due to building security requirements, all attendees must register in advance for the event.

Learn the general principles of pharmacology and mechanisms of drug action at the molecular level. Study the different drug classes and their effects on the various systems of the human body. Explore current topics of pharmacogenomics and gene/protein therapy, as well as the regulatory (FDA) and industrial aspects of pharmacological science. This course is designed for those interested in becoming health care professionals in the fields of medicine, nursing and pharmacy, as well as those interested in basic scientific research and biotechnology.

Explore creative ideas while working in either traditional film materials or digital media. Through concept-based assignments, you develop a language to discuss and think critically about photographs. Slide-illustrated lectures, demonstrations, critiques and course projects clarify the technical aspects of photographs while encouraging inno­vative approaches to picture making.

This course covers the use of Adobe Photoshop, an essential tool for the work of any graphic or visual designer. The class focuses on the creation of “composites”, a design technique unique to Photoshop.

Students will learn the fundamental concepts of the latest version of Photoshop: use of layers, selection and painting tools, masking, tonal and color management and correction, blending modes and photo retouching and editing.

The class will also cover basic management of “master files” and conversion to appropriate output formats. Students will perfect their conceptual skills through a series of real-world production assignments that place an emphasis on becoming more adept at individual expression as well as making gif (animated) files for personal or work purposes. The end goal of the course is to have portfolio quality pieces that can be used in student’s personal websites.

Check out former student Sarah McKinney's work. Matt Linzer did great work by combining many different skills and tools within Photoshop.

Study the fundamental concepts of physics, including forces, properties of matter, kinetics, thermodynamics, heat, wave motion, fluids and sound. This class is designed for biology, premedical, prehealth and architecture students. In addition, it is appropriate for returning students interested in physics and professionals in other disciplines considering a career change to the sciences. This course is associated with Physics Laboratory I PHYSICS X3.1A.

Get an introduction to fundamental concepts in physics, including electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic waves and optics. Aimed at biology, premedical, prehealth and architecture students, this course is also appropriate for returning students interested in physics and professionals in other disciplines considering a career change to the sciences.

Get an introduction to the fundamental concepts of physics, including introduction to forces, properties of matter, kinetics, thermodynamics, heat, wave motion, fluids, sound and other topics of interest. This course is associated with Physics I PHYSICS X3A.

Get an introduction to fundamental concepts in physics, including electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic waves and optics. Aimed at biology, premedical, prehealth and architecture students, this course is also appropriate for returning students interested in physics and professionals in other disciplines considering a career change to the sciences.

Explore multiple writing and revision techniques, drawing possibilities for new work from your own work and the poems of others. Learn to open up your poems to further invention and revise them to invite both surprise and mastery. You read published poems and essays to encourage shared discussions about the craft, style, aesthetics, process and psychology of writing. Finally, you gain insight into the world of publication through researching and sharing information on literary journals and assembling a submission packet. You emerge with a good number of new or revised poems and a collection of useful writing and revision tools, as well as skills for discussing new work one on one or in a workshop setting. Enrollment is limited to 18.

Study, emulate and engage in discussion with noted Bay Area poets. The course is divided into two-week segments, each devoted to an individual poet. The first week, you study the poet's work, including one of his or her latest books. The second week, that poet attends class for a discussion of poetics and process. You also write your own poems from exercises inspired by the five poets' work, and a part of each class is devoted to a workshop of students' writing. Emphasis is on the exploration of new writing ideas and approaches arising from the work studied. Instructor Laura Walker, M.F.A., is the author of story (Apogee, 2016), Follow-Hawed (Apogee, 2012), bird book (Shearsman Books, 2011), rimertown/an atlas (UC Press, 2008) and swarm lure (Battery Press, 2004). A UC Berkeley Extension instructor since 2004, she has also taught in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco and at San Francisco State University. She is the recipient of a Fund for Poetry grant. Each term, we invite a select group of poets to offer their advice, expertise and talent to the class. Invited poets for this term are listed in the section notes to the right.

All Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Visual Arts students must successfully complete a portfolio review and discuss their art in formal, philosophical and historical terms to receive the certificate. Instructors determine students’ readiness for graduate study and give feedback on student portfolios.

(Available summer term)

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students officially accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program.

This DAT Preparatory course is delivered by Kaplan. The DAT Limitless Preparatory course from Kaplan integrates self-paced videos with a live channel, providing daily classes that you can conveniently attend.

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students officially accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program.

This GRE Preparatory course is delivered by Kaplan. Choose from in-person or live-online course formats.

You will gain access to 7 class sessions, a complete GRE Student Kit, 7 full-length computer-adaptive practice tests and the Official Test Day Experience, the GRE Channel, and more than 5,000 practice items with customizable quizzes and mobile GRE flashcards.

Please refer to the Kaplan course schedule to pick the specific course that you want. Take note of the Class Code, start and end dates, and time. This information will need to be entered when checking out.

In-person GRE: To show more options at the Berkeley center, click on the plus arrow below the listed schedules. Please note that more in-person courses will be scheduled for the future.

Live Online GRE: To show more options, click on the plus arrow at the bottom of the listed schedules.

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students officially accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program.

This MCAT Preparatory course is delivered by Kaplan in live-online course format.

MCAT Prep includes:

• 48 hours of live instruction
• 90+ unique hours of optional online MCAT workshops, taught live 6 days a week; students can attend as many as they like
• Personalized study calendar that prioritizes assignments according to students’ testing timeline and available study time
• Approximately 80 hours of on-demand video instruction
• MCAT book set (containing the 7-Book Subject Review set, Quicksheets and test-like Noteboard/Pen), provided in both print and digital book formats
• 10,000+ MCAT practice items, including 16 full-length practice tests
• All available official AAMC practice
• 3,000+ question Qbank to create customized quizzes

Please refer to the Kaplan course schedule to pick the specific course that you want. Take note of the Class Code, start and end dates, and time. This information will need to be entered when checking out.

Live-Online MCAT Prep

In-Person MCAT Prep: Not currently available.

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students officially accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program.

This OAT Preparatory course is delivered by Kaplan. Live-online course format.

You will gain access to 12 sessions (including 4 online sessions covering Physics and Organic Chemistry), a complete OAT Student Kit, full-length practice tests in CBT format, section tests and Science Challenge quizzes.

Please refer to the Kaplan course schedule to pick the specific course that you want. Take note of the Class Code, start and end dates, and time. This information will need to be entered when checking out.

Live Online OAT: Tto show more options, click on the plus arrow at the bottom of the listed schedules.

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students officially accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program.

This PCAT Preparatory course is delivered by Kaplan. Live-online course format.

You will gain access to 12 sessions (including 3 online sessions), a complete PCAT Student Kit, 2,500-plus practice items and 5 full-length practice tests in CBT format.

Please refer to the Kaplan course schedule to pick the specific course you want. Take note of the Class Code, start and end dates, and time. This information will need to be entered when checking out.

Live Online PCAT: To show more options, click on the plus arrow at the bottom of the listed schedules.

If you’ve completed or are planning to complete the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing this year, this capstone class helps you consider the next steps in your writing. Receive guidance and advice from an approved Writing Program instructor, using your submission of a self-assessment and a writing sample for evaluation. Meet individually with the instructor and the Writing Program director to discuss your development as a writer, as well as the best course of action for accomplishing your writing goals.

Develop a cohesive body of work that demonstrates your approach to art making; gain a skill level appropriate for potential application to graduate programs; and practice the presentation of your conceptual intent and artworks in formal, philosophical and historical terms. Receive individual guidance and evaluation from an approved program instructor. Evaluate your artistic growth, and discuss issues of meaning, content, technique and formal resolution in your artwork.

(Available every term)

Explore the dynamics of aesthetic expression, perception and process through interdisciplinary study. Learn the essential principles of visual design and composition, narrative, and conceptual intent that inform and enrich your artistic practice. Course topics investigate form and content issues, problem-solving methods and strategies for developing a cohesive body of work.

(Available fall term)

Present original artwork to your peers, and receive in-depth responses regarding issues of meaning and content, as well as technical and formal resolution. Get useful feedback on the development of your portfolio of artwork. Discuss relevant topics in visual art and culture, and develop your vocabulary and skills of critical awareness.

(Available spring term)

Examine the value of graduate-level education, the state of the art market, prac­tical realities of applying for grants and public commissions, and the role that the media plays in developing an artistic career.

(Available summer term)

Explore how leaders use power and influence to achieve organizational commitment and effectiveness. Discuss topics of organizational culture, appropriate types of power, influence with and without authority, business ethics, and effective goal setting and planning. Research materials and case studies about the global economy, Silicon Valley innovation and current events provide you with the tools to develop personal leadership skills and styles.

Build on prior coursework in methodology, second-language acquisition, linguistics and cross-cultural communication, and gain project-based practical experience in the fundamentals of course design. Move through the curriculum cycle and needs assessment, objective writing, lesson and material development, and evaluation. Embedded in the course are exercises in teaching techniques, classroom management, and testing and assessment.

Read about one student's experience in the Practicum in Course Design for ESL/EFL Teachers.

Email the Education department if you plan to enroll in this class for additional information and for approval to enroll.

This course is designed as a culminating experience for students in the Professional Program in College Admissions Consulting. You will deepen your knowledge and skills by working directly with students in their transition to college. You will complete a minimum of 40 hours of involvement in a school, nonprofit, family or IEC setting, working with high school or community college students who are exploring the transition to college.

Study the rules and practices of quantitative communication to ensure that your audience understands your financial and other numerical presentations. Examine ways to use software tools such as spreadsheets to produce your reports quickly and efficiently. Learn how to apply the rules and tools of quantitative communication to your specific business needs. Ensure that your financial communication supports a narrative that is clear and meaningful, whether you deliver it in printed, electronic or spoken form.

People who want to be successful in business or real estate need to know how to deal with legal issues and when to refer questions to an attorney. Learn to identify the issues and know when you have a legal problem—and, if so, what it is. Survey California law to better understand its jurisdiction and procedures under its court system. You also study basic principles of the laws of contracts, agency, partnership, corporations and limited-liability companies, as well as employment and intellectual property.

Epidemiology is the study of the distribution of disease and health in human populations. Learn the basic principles of epidemiology, their application to specific public health situations and criteria for critically evaluating epidemiology studies. Discuss epidemiological concepts and their application to sample problems. Topics include disease risk, methods of evaluating the causative factors of disease, and the assessment of epidemiological study designs and research activities.

Study DNA structure and replication, RNA and protein synthesis, and the genetic code. Gain an understanding of the fundamental concepts and complexities of molecular biology, including both structures and processes common to most organisms. Critically evaluate current scientific literature, learn about important molecular biology tools and techniques, and investigate the experimental basis of molecular biology.

Learn about the regulatory authorities whose regulations and requirements must be met to ensure compliance with the laws governing the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Examine the steps leading to testing products in humans, the approval of products, post-approval requirements and industry implementation.

Study the health effects of drugs, chemicals and natural substances on biological systems and the environment. Learn about the properties of toxic substances, the toxic mechanisms of chemicals, the fate and reactions of foreign chemicals in people’s bodies, the identification and evaluation of toxicity, and health risk assessment methodologies.

This project is the final requirement in the Professional Writing Program, where you synthesize the concepts you have learned and apply them to an individualized writing project. This capstone project can be used to enhance your portfolio or complete a work-related project. All projects are subject to approval by the Program Director in advance and will be assessed by a dedicated instructor/adviser from the program before you can enroll.

Get an introduction to the fundamentals of Python programming. Python is one of the world’s most popular programming languages as it offers multiple applications, including data science and analytics, web and database applications, system administration, scientific computing, artificial intelligence, financial analysis and more. The core language is quite simple and serves as an excellent platform for demonstrating the benefits of object-oriented programming as well as good programming design. This course covers data structures, conditionals, iteration, programming patterns, functions, object oriented programming, working with local and Internet files, pattern matching with regular expressions, and using modules. This course is ideal for beginners interested in learning Python.

Procuring products and services is an essential part of a project manager's responsibilities. Learn the fundamentals of the procurement process, from developing procurement documents and specifications to evaluating vendor proposals, crafting appropriate contracts and overseeing successful execution of contracts. Examine a variety of contractual arrangements and fee options.

A successful project manager relies on an effective management process and a project baseline plan to monitor progress, identify variances and take action to mitigate the impact of problems. Learn how to manage project execution through completion and evaluation. You also explore the tools and techniques for project control, and build on processes you learned in Project Management BUS ADM X470. We recommend that students pursuing a certificate in project management complete this as their final course.

Gain the leadership and communication skills to support successful projects in your organization. Through team-based activities and projects, master the most difficult aspects of team management. Discover how to build and maintain a high-performing, motivated project team using techniques such as teamwork and employee empowerment. Learn how to work together with your project team to avoid and resolve conflicts, make collaborative decisions, and build the foundation of trust and interpersonal relationships required for cohesiveness and successful project results.

Proper management plays a crucial role in executing and completing projects efficiently. Get a step-by-step introduction to the project management process, and review the differences between theory and practice. Use the tools and knowledge acquired to create your own project plan. 

This course focuses primarily on pre-project planning activities—the process of identifying and translating business needs into project requirements. You learn how to launch project initiation, develop stakeholder management plans and conduct requirements analysis. You also learn to justify projects through ROI analysis, feasibility studies and a comprehensive business case. As a result, you gain an understanding of the project charter as the output of comprehensive initiation processes that then guide project planning and delivery.

The course ends with an examination of how to launch project planning, with a look at team building, developing project infrastructure and project-kickoff activities.

Projects today are more time constrained, pose greater technical challenges and are less likely to have adequate resources than in the past. However, specific techniques can help you deal with project risk and recognize and manage potential problems. Learn practical methods for completing difficult projects, and explore how to apply these methods to your own projects.

Get a comprehensive overview of quality management. Understand the philosophies and strategies of prominent quality authorities, and explore ways to implement a management-improvement program effectively.

In this course, students learn and practice how to analyze data with the Python programming language. This course introduces students that have some experience with statistical analysis to the Python programming language to make their analysis more powerful and capable of analyzing large datasets. The course is intended for those who are new or have limited programming experience but have an interest in building on their statistical skills as data analysts.

Get an introduction to what qualitative research is, the types of qualitative research methods, the appropriate situations to apply qualitative methods, and how to conduct your own qualitative research. You learn to build a research protocol and use various techniques to design, conduct, analyze and present an informative research study.

At the end of the course, you are expected to conduct your own qualitative research study. To that end, you develop a research plan based on the given situation, collect data using qualitative methodologies, engage with various techniques for coding and analyzing qualitative data effectively, and present the data and insights in a manner that is best aligned with the goals of the research.

Prerequisites: None.

Explore the principles, techniques and instrumentation involved in quantitative analysis, with special emphasis on clinical applications. Learn the basic physiology, analytical procedures and clinical (normal and disease state) correlations to systems such as carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, enzymes, nonprotein nitrogen, acid-base metabolism, hormones, vitamins, electrolytes, body fluids and others. Study organ system function (normal and abnormal) and associated laboratory testing methods. Learn proper laboratory safety and regulations, statistical methods, and quality assurance and management. This course is especially useful for students looking to transition into a career in the clinical laboratory setting or other health-related fields.

Learn how to measure the success of product design through obtaining data and then turning that data into actionable information. Gain insight into how industry professionals assess product success and provide strategic recommendations by studying the user. You gain a fundamental understanding of how usability data is collected and interpreted through methods used for assessing product development, such as customer surveys, website visits, benchmark studies, A/B testing, psychometrics and statistical techniques. Some of the topics of this class include basic statistics review, hypothesis testing, nonparametric testing; and the collection, analysis and visualization of data. When it comes to usability and its applications, you set up questionnaires for assessing perceived usability, design a post usability questionnaire, design experiments using a standardized usability questionnaire, and analyze and present usability results. You also create a survey and launch it on dScout to analyze results faster.

Using System Usability Scores (SUS) to compare designs, course content and assignments are derived from real-life industry problems that prepare you for hands-on product development through user research. By completing this class, you walk away with a strong research project for your personal portfolio.

Learn to utilize the R programming language for data manipulation, statistical analysis, and graphics applications. R is available as free/open source software with thousands of available libraries or "packages'' for everything from time-series analysis and machine learning, to data visualization. Due to its power and versatility, R is a popular language of choice for analysts, engineers, scientists, and researchers engaged in data preparation, analysis, and the generation of high-quality typographical and graphical results.

This course in postmodern literary practice explores the radical experiments taking place in narrative design and poetics from the mid-twentieth century to the present.  Each course offering will explore a single writer whose work captures the essence of this disruptive critique and departure from modernism and the Enlightenment tradition. Our readings focus on the postmodern writer in the context of our cultural moment. We’ll study the politics of human identity, as new definitions for subjectivity emerge from the critical theory that has shaped late twentieth century intellectual history. By the end of the class you will see that the postmodern writer weaves the three realms of genre, gender, and culture into a text that often transgresses their boundaries, to produce a body of work that challenges our expectations for conventional literature.

Get the tools you need to make informed decisions about real estate investments. Topics include investment real estate basics, using a cash flow model tool, impact of taxation and debt, case studies, and the financial relationship between real estate and other personal financial planning matters. Financial planners will find skills in these areas essential in working with clients who own real estate investments among their assets. You also will benefit from the tools and process for measuring performance and best practices.

Learn how to manage conflicts, issues and changes to ensure that stakeholders and the project team agree on the solution scope and how requirements are communicated. Study the elicitation knowledge area, which includes details for eliciting business, stakeholder, solution or transition requirements. You also explore the "Requirements Management and Communication" knowledge area, which describes the activities and considerations for managing and expressing requirements to a broad and diverse audience. Gain the training and knowledge necessary to become a Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP®).

In Focus: Business Analysis Competency Model

In this course, you will gain skills in the Elicitation and Collaboration and Requirements Life Cycle Management sections, including:

• Trace requirements
• Maintain requirements
• Prioritize requirements
• Assess requirements changes
• Approve requirements

Learn more about the IIBA® Business Analysis Competency Model.

Understand how financial planning practitioners bridge the gap between their clients' wealth preservation and their extended income needs during retirement. Assess retiree financial situations and longevity probabilities, and develop risk-mitigation strategies. Learn to develop income models that aim to replace the stability of a regular monthly paycheck. Other learning objectives include applying income-planning research and stochastic modeling techniques, understanding the tax implications and restrictions on distributions from qualified plans, applying Social Security planning techniques to individuals and married couples, discerning the advantages and disadvantages of insured solutions and reverse mortgages, and integrating these techniques using real-world cases.

Learn the fundamentals of building information modeling (BIM) using Autodesk Revit Architecture. See how to implement and employ BIM software to facilitate the design process and automate documentation. Participate in hands-on activities to familiarize yourself with powerful, parametric 3-D modeling tools that enable you to generate fully coordinated plans, sections, elevations, 3-D perspectives and renderings.

Get a practical introduction to the diversity of science-writing opportunities, including those for news organizations, magazines, institutions and websites. Learn about finding story ideas and reliable sources, conducting interviews, matching writing style to the target audience and choosing the best structure for the given field. Study the craft of making complex, scientific concepts understandable and exciting to a general audience. In addition to many in-class exercises, you write a weekly science blog and an in-depth science article. A background in science is not required, but an interest in scientific topics is encouraged.

If you already know screenwriting basics, you can use this course to build on your skills while developing a feature-length screenplay, pilot or short film script. Through writing exercises, in-class readings and critique, you learn to craft emotionally compelling story lines, engaging characters, effective dialogue and dynamic visual scenes.

Please come to the first class meeting prepared to pitch your story and discuss your objectives. We recommend that you take Screenwriting: the Art of Visual Storytelling ENGLISH X470 or an equivalent course before this one, though there are no formal prerequisites. Enrollment is limited.

For information about the equivalent course offered by our partner institution, please refer to the enrollment information for Strategies for Inclusion of Diverse Learners for CTE at UCLA Extension.

You’ve completed half of the curriculum in the Post-Baccalaureate Program for Counseling and Psychology Professions, and you’ve decided that graduate school is in your future. So how do you apply to the school of your dreams? In this career seminar, get an overview of the application process as well as practical information to help you strengthen your graduate or professional school application. You’ll gain specific guidance on how to construct your personal statement, obtain letters of recommendation, interview, and fulfill other requirements.

Get an introduction to the fundamentals of service design. You gain an understanding of how services are designed through the ability to group together human, physical and digital interactions in order to create excellent customer experiences for your users. You learn best practices for determining what design methodologies are most appropriate to use to create intangible experiences that make up the services we use every day.

Research and user preparation entails orchestrating your audience and stakeholders, processes and touch points to influence the metrics and evaluations of your testing results. In this course, you get an opportunity to learn more about the crucial co-design activities that allow users to become an active part of the creative development of a product by interacting directly with your service blueprint and design cycle.

You also learn the elements of service design systems, including topics such as service safaris, experience prototyping, storyboarding and service blueprinting. You then learn to apply those tools and practices in a real-life service design project during the course. The service design assignments and final presentation are designed so that you come away with a portfolio-ready project.

Learn about the intelligent energy grid that supports today's green-energy initiatives. Study real-world value propositions, business perspectives and solution scenarios from business-economics and technical-practicalities points-of-view. Discover the evolution of today's power-distribution grid and the potential benefits from dynamically applying intelligence for improved efficiencies. This course lays a solid technical foundation for business professionals and a contemporary overview for technical staff; it is ideal for proposal staff, product developers, system managers, urban planners or anyone interested in exploring and entering this exciting field.

Learn to critically analyze, interrogate and reflect on social justice issues in higher education. Power inequalities in society shape these injustices in ways that are not only systemic and structural but also personal. We will explore ways in which issues of oppression, privilege and difference impact individual and systematic interactions in the context of colleges and universities. Students are expected to build a community that will enable participants to feel supported, encouraged and empowered to discuss and analyze issues, concerns and experiences related to diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice in higher education.

Please note: This course was previously called Multicultural Practice for Student Services.

Explore social media and semantic web strategies and tactics by using contemporary and emerging new-media channels, and digital and mobile technologies and platforms. Learn how to establish realistic business and performance goals within these environments; integrate new communications platforms and technologies into existing marketing plans; systematically evaluate new technologies and delivery platforms to determine an optimal marketing mix; and evaluate in-market results. Analyze the strengths and pitfalls offered by channels such as email, RSS, SEO-optimized websites, blogs, audio and video podcasts, social and business networking sites, and social media newsrooms. Explore emerging technologies that could alter the landscape of contemporary marketing. At the end of the course, you will be able to plan and execute a cost-effective, strategic marketing program that will include new media integrated with conventional marketing approaches to make brands and companies “go viral” and increase lead-to-sales conversion rates.

Examine processes that occur both within and outside ourselves as we interact with others in a complex social world. Some of the topics covered include social cognition, attitudes, impression formation, social influence, persuasion, conformity, obedience, stereotyping, prejudice, interpersonal attraction, prosocial behavior and aggression. Major goals of this course are threefold: (1) to critically examine social psychological theories and processes (2) within an empirical context and (3) to apply them to your life and to real-world events.

Get an overview of software design principles and cloud platforms in this course. You first review object-oriented design fundamentals and best practices for building software using design patterns. Then, you take a deep dive into coding each design pattern with Python, along with service-oriented architecture (SOA). Through exercises and collaborative activities, you learn how to implement well structured software solutions and microservices. During the course, you also gain familiarity with AI tools for design patterns and use AI-augmented testing tools to enhance design pattern performance. The class is intended for beginning and experienced software developers with a background in computer science and an interest in software architecture.

Gain a theoretical and a practical understanding of Quality Assurance in the context of Software Development and Engineering. You should be comfortable being asked to install and use an integrated development environment for homework assignments but this is otherwise intended as an introductory course to the tools and concepts presented. Structured into three sections, the course will first present concepts and theory, progress through a practical introduction to modern best practices leveraging Selenium IDE, and conclude with a high-level introduction to automation and other tools that you may encounter in a professional context including AI-augmented testing tools. By the end of the course, you should feel confident applying to entry-level positions in both agile and waterfall organizations and will have a solid foundation for more advanced studies in this area.

Develop plans that satisfy programmatic needs and use space efficiently. Learn techniques for assimilating client-project information, analyzing program requirements, and developing schematic space-planning solutions for residential and commercial situations. You also study building codes, fire safety and barrier-free designs as essential components of laying out a workable interior space.

In this lively, interactive course for students who have completed intermediate-level Spanish at UC Berkeley Extension (or its equivalent), you enhance your fluency and comprehension, practice new vocabulary, review grammar, and gain conversation opportunities. You continue to develop functional, communicative language ability through reinforcement, expansion and synthesis using readings, cultural materials, activities, and discussions.

In this introductory course, you learn to use modern Spanish for practical communication. Lively, interactive activities emphasize listening and speaking skills, and a relaxed atmosphere helps your reading and writing skills. Study major grammatical structures, including present, simple future and present progressive tenses of regular, irregular and reflexive verbs. This course is taught mostly in Spanish. Enrollment is limited.

In this continuation of Spanish: Beginner SPANISH X416, you further develop your use of modern Spanish for practical communication. Hone listening and speaking skills through interactive activities, and strengthen reading and writing skills in a supportive atmosphere. Major language topics include uses of the preterite and past tenses, pronouns, and the present perfect tense. The course is conducted mostly in Spanish. You gain an elementary understanding of the Spanish language, are able to converse on a basic level with ease, and become knowledgeable about Spanish culture and customs.

Stock-based compensation is often the most valuable part of a client’s compensation package, especially in the Bay Area. And yet, due to complex plan structures, special tax law exposures, corporate and regulatory restrictions, and the psychological commitments many clients have, optimizing the management of these wealth-building devices is especially difficult. As a result, skilled advisors can help clients navigate this maze to create exceptional professional service opportunities. Learn how to maximize the value of your clients’ stock-based compensation plan, manage concentration risk or pursue concentration opportunities, minimize taxes, and deploy stock-based strategies for charitable giving, family wealth transfer and company succession plans. Gain confidence managing restricted stock units (RSUs), employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs), incentive stock options (ISOs), non-qualified stock options (NQSOs), net unrealized appreciation (NUA) and alternative minimum tax (AMT).

Stock Compensation and the Management of Concentration Risks and Opportunities has been approved by CFP Board for 15 hours of Continuing Education Credit.

Designed for those interested in keeping the momentum going with their writing through the summer, this six-week intensive workshop focuses on what makes a given piece of fiction or nonfiction successful. You read and discuss author interviews and secondary sources to become more sensitive and deliberate in both your reading and writing. You examine how structure, narrative voice and a variety of other authorial choices contribute to the fullest expression of a story or essay. You then turn that level of focused attention upon your own stories in a supportive workshop setting.

Read more about Story Lab.

Learn how to build and maintain strong brands. You'll focus on such topics as brand strategy, research and positioning, as well as brand extensions, global branding, and measuring and managing brand equity over time. You then apply the information learned in class in a brand audit, where you examine a brand of your choice and make recommendations to build its brand equity.

Familiarize yourself with the principles and strategic concepts of marketing analytics, a high-growth area that uses computer-based models and metrics to improve marketing decisions and return on marketing investment (ROMI). Through case studies and applications, learn techniques to determine market share and sizing, forecasting and positioning; develop and interpret surveys; understand predictive analytics and data mining; grasp total, fixed and variable cost concepts; and assess the lifetime value of the customer. In a world where senior management demands marketing accountability in measuring the effectiveness of dollars spent, you can benefit from this big-picture overview to understand the advantages and objectives of quantitative marketing.

This is the second course of a two-course sequence that introduces the knowledge and skills required to advise students in the transition from high school to college. You will expand your knowledge of specific college options and the admissions process. Emphasis is placed on affordability, list building, counseling special populations, and first steps toward exploring work as an independent educational consultant.

Learn theories about student development in college and how to apply such theories to programs, services and behavioral interventions. Explore the contexts of student development and focus on practical applications within the higher education setting. You study four primary theoretical areas in student development, including psychosocial and identity development theories, cognitive-structural theories, environmental theories and typological theories. Additionally, you consider the constructive-developmental concept of self-authorship in student development.

What makes change happen? Why do some companies and communities adapt more easily to change and others less so? What is your relationship to change?

Sustainability is fundamentally about change. Through the lens of systems thinking, strategy, communication, collaboration and personal mastery, explore how to be a leader for change. By examining successful sustainability companies and initiatives, you gain an understanding of the sustainability learning curve to give you a better understanding of how to influence change. This course is hands-on; you put what you learn into practice and see what develops in your spheres of influence.

Learn about income taxation of various entity types: corporations ("S" and "C"), LLCs, sole proprietorships, partnerships, estates, and trusts. We'll also discuss gift and transfer taxes, and review rules governing the formation, operation, and disposition of partnerships and corporations.

Students who completed all program requirements and who have received approval to enroll in Teaching Practicum should do so in Fall 2022. Students who will be eligible after 2022 can enroll in the equivalent course, CTE Portfolio and Teaching Practicum, offered by our partner institution UCLA Extension.

Use your experience in the classroom to demonstrate proficiency through the development of portfolio projects. The course contains a discussion of a complete curriculum plan for the course or subject taught, including goals, objectives, daily lesson plan, classroom materials, teaching strategies and student-assessment materials.

The Portfolio serves as a tool to provide evidence that you have demonstrated proficient performance in all competency areas of the credential program. It is an authentic assessment procedure that allows teacher candidates to set personal learning goals, assess growth and progress toward demonstration of the identified program competencies.

Learn the tools and concepts to produce effective technical documentation and presentations relevant to a wide range of professional fields, whether you are in engineering, physical or social sciences, industry, health care, academia or government. You develop your writing and presentation skills and learn how to use information design to both interpret and produce effective technical documentation such as manuals, reports, feasibility studies, proposals and web content. You are introduced to information architecture, and learn best practices for building documents and presentations based on core design principles. Ultimately, you learn how to use information design to inform, instruct, and persuade your audience.

Build on the skills you developed in Technical Communication I JOURN X465, and hone your ability to define a document's audience and purpose to present the information in an optimal form. Improve your technical writing style and technique while creating writing samples that include a variety of document types for both print and online presentation. Review technical communication tools and technology, as well as current Web content and formatting languages.

Study the principles and best practices for information design in today’s workplace. Learn the fundamentals of graphic design theory while gaining valuable knowledge in the human information processing system. Learn how to understand and build information graphics in technical writing during a 12-week workshop in data visualization. This is a class in visual thinking for technical writers who need to create effective visual explanations for their audience. Enrollment is limited.

Editing technical material requires specialized skills. Focus on how to edit different types of technical documents for clarity, consistency, cohesiveness and correctness. You learn to identify and correctly use specialized vocabulary and how to employ editing tools such as proofreader’s marks, style sheets, style guides and standard editorial reference materials. You also understand how to distinguish and correct common problems such as inconsistency, ambiguity and incorrect punctuation. The course requires frequent editing assignments.

Learn cancer biology fundamentals, including cell proliferation, cell death, the process of metastasis and tumor progression, oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, and cancer therapeutics. Explore scientific and clinical research on cancer through readings and presentations.

This course focuses on the business aspects of working in educational consulting and helps learners understand keys to success within this rapidly growing profession. You will explore how to manage your career as an educational consultant, identify how you will find clients and manage the marketing and selling side of the business, determine how you will run the business, and determine how you will do the actual work with students seeking college advising.

To write well, you must read well. By learning to read with the eyes of a writer, you can develop an understanding of what makes great literature work. Class readings include novel excerpts, short stories and memoirs, from classics to contemporary treasures. Weekly writing assignments emphasize analytical responses to the works, while providing the chance to practice writing strategies revealed through close reading. Appropriate for all levels of writers, this course teaches you to read widely, respond deeply and turn any piece of writing into your own best teacher.

Become comfortable with the craft elements fundamental to creative writing, including imagery, voice, character, scene, summary and setting, and learn to apply these craft elements in the fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction genres. Through weekly readings and discussions, you learn and develop skills and techniques to help you pinpoint what makes a piece of writing memorable. You’ll use what you learn to discuss your classmates’ writing critically and thoughtfully and to revise your own writing. Enrollment is limited.

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people to see without a camera.”
—Photographer Dorothea Lange

Learn to employ the eye and the mind and incorporate both perception and concept into image-making. Explore the creative process and develop your aesthetic awareness to make photographs that communicate effectively. Investigate key elements of the visual language and cultivate your individual style and point of view through illustrated lectures, demonstrations, course assignments and critiques.  

Get a detailed picture of all aspects of the complex and highly interrelated activities involved in bringing a pharmaceutical discovery to approval and market. Although the focus is on pharmaceuticals, seminar discussions also integrate biologics, diagnostics and devices. This course is designed for executives, disciplinary experts who wish to broaden and advance their careers, nontechnical professionals, investors, and others interested in fully understanding the biopharmaceutical industry.

Class discussions are guided by experts with years of hands-on experience with large and small pharmaceutical, biotechnology and related companies. Seminar topics include industry environment, discovery and pharmacology, chemistry manufacturing and controls (CMC), toxicology, pharmacokinetics, program management, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspections, biologics, assays and devices, clinical trial design and conduct, clinical trial statistics, pharmacogenomics, FDA compliance regulations, patents and intellectual property, and commercial development.

How You Can Benefit From This Course

Understand the processes that are vital to successfully bringing a biotechnology product to market. Recognize the critical roles of each company unit, and gain insight into the integrated and multifunctional nature of drug development. Interact with experts and colleagues from a wide range of disciplines in the biopharmaceutical industry. Leave with knowledge of the entire process, enabling you to understand industry terminology and work more effectively in multidisciplinary teams.

Schedule (tentative)

• Welcome and Introductions
• Regulatory Affairs
• Biologics/Biopharmaceuticals
• CMC/Pharmaceutical Development
• Toxicology

• Drug Discovery
• Drug Metabolism and Safety
• Pharmaco-omics
• Biomarkers Companion Diagnostics
• Case Study Discussion

• Drug Delivery Technologies
• Financial Aspects of Drug Development
• QA/QC and Compliance

• Post-Approval and Surveillance Activities
• Patents/IP
• Pharmacokinetics
• Clinical Development
• Clinical Trial Monitoring

• Medical Affairs/Commercialization
• Program Management

Automation and globalization are shrinking the number of good, well-paying jobs. What's a person to do? What's society to do?

This free public lecture offers practical advice for everyone—from people starting out to older people wanting to stay relevant in a changing economy. Dr. Nemko also addresses a range of best-, moderate- and worst-case scenarios for how the reduction in good jobs can play out. He also proposes a bold but practical blueprint for what society and individuals can do to maximize a best-case scenario outcome.

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students officially accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program.

This DAT 20+ Preparatory course is delivered by The Princeton Review (TPR) in a live-online course format.

Please refer to The Princeton Review course schedule to pick the specific course that you want. Take note of the Class Code, start and end dates, and time. This information will need to be entered when checking out.

UC Berkeley Extension students will not be eligible for the Money Back Guarantee.

Students must enroll by the 15th of the month PRIOR to the month the course begins. For example, if you choose a course that begins December 12th, you must enroll here by November 15th.

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students officially accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program and concurrently enrolled in DAT 20+.

• TWO, two-hour tutoring sessions
• ONE subject of your choice
• Expert tutors matched to your goals within two-three weeks of enrollment

Students must enroll by the 15th of the month PRIOR to the month the course begins. For example, if you choose a course that begins December 12th, you must enroll here by November 15th

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students officially accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program and concurrently enrolled in UNEX 1461 TPR DAT Prep and UNEX 1464 DAT Tutoring (4hr bundle).

Students must enroll by the 15th of the month PRIOR to the month the course begins. For example, if you choose a course that begins December 12th, you must enroll here by November 15th.

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students officially accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program.

This GRE Preparatory course is delivered by The Princeton Review (TPR) in a live-online course format.

GRE Prep includes:

• 24 hours of expert-led live instruction covering all content and test-taking strategies
• 180+ hours of total instruction and practice
• 8 computer adaptive-by-section practice exams
• Interactive score reports for focused test review
• 470+ online drills
• 3500+ practice questions
• Hours of instructional on-demand lessons

Please refer to The Princeton Review course schedule to pick the specific course that you want. Take note of the Class Code, start and end dates, and time. This information will need to be entered when checking out.

Students must enroll by the 15th of the month PRIOR to the month the course begins. For example, if you choose a course that begins December 12th, you must enroll here by November 15th.

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students officially accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program and concurrently enrolled in GRE Fundamentals.

• TWO, two-hour tutoring sessions
• ONE subject of your choice
• Expert tutors matched to your goals within two-three weeks of enrollment

Students must enroll by the 15th of the month PRIOR to the month the course begins. For example, if you choose a course that begins December 12th, you must enroll here by November 15th.

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students officially accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program and concurrently enrolled in UNEX 1462 TPR GRE Prep and UNEX 1465 GRE Tutoring (4hr bundle).

Students must enroll by the 15th of the month PRIOR to the month the course begins. For example, if you choose a course that begins December 12th, you must enroll here by November 15th.

This MCAT 515+ Preparatory course is delivered by The Princeton Review (TPR) in a Live Online course format.

MCAT 515+ Prep includes:

• 365 days access to online resources
• 123 hours of live instruction, including all content and strategy
• Exclusive access to MCAT Topic Focus ($1,399 value)
• 4 to 6 subject-matter experts
• 500-plus MedFlix videos
• 17 full-length practice tests and 12 subject-specific section tests
• All official AAMC materials, including the new Practice Test 4 and online flashcards
• Thousands of practice questions
• 9 MCAT books, including 4 exclusive titles
• Interactive score reports

Please refer to The Princeton Review course schedule to pick the specific course that you want.

Take note of the class code, start and end dates, and time. This information will need to be entered when checking out.

UC Berkeley Extension students will not be eligible for Money Back Guarantee.

Students must enroll by the 15th of the month PRIOR to the month the course begins. For example, if you choose a course that begins December 12th, you must enroll here by November 15th.

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students officially accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program and concurrently enrolled in MCAT 515+.

• TWO, two-hour tutoring sessions
• ONE subject of your choice
• Expert tutors matched to your goals within two-three weeks of enrollment

Students must enroll by the 15th of the month PRIOR to the month the course begins. For example, if you choose a course that begins December 12th, you must enroll here by November 15th.

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students officially accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program and concurrently enrolled in UNEX 1460 TPR MCAT Prep and UNEX 1463 MCAT Tutoring (4hr bundle).

Students must enroll by the 15th of the month PRIOR to the month the course begins. For example, if you choose a course that begins December 12th, you must enroll here by November 15th.

The Typography Fundamentals course will provide students with a broad understanding of contemporary typography and how to make intelligent, confident typographic design decisions. It is intended to help students develop a professional grasp on the craft of typography and the application of professional processes to content design. It will consider technology, across multiple media. You will receive an overview of the evolution of typography in both forms and printing technologies and you will also gain industry knowledge and printing standards.

Some of the topics you will learn through this class are: grid systems, (column, manuscript and modular). Swiss typography, type classifications which is fundamental to understand and setup typography and type anatomy. Learn how letterpress works and know that it is still highly used in 2021. Gain skills in designing book layouts, and get a grasp of web type, the ideal type set up for websites and applications as well as Google fonts.

By the end of this class, you will be able to identify general typeface and font families, examine and analyze individual letterforms and typefaces, develop micro and macro-typographic analytical abilities, create basic letterform designs, display knowledge of typographic sequencing and progression, and produce great typographic layouts.

Get a glimpse of what our former student Ankita Mantri designed for this course. See some samples of hand-lettering digitized by former student Ian Erlich and be ready for the world of expressive typography by breaking the type rules after you learn them.

Gain real-world experience in creating a literary journal.  You and the other editors select the writing and artwork to be included in this print publication, and learn how to work with authors and artists to refine and polish their work for publication.

Course curriculum comprises three primary phases:

Content
Learn how to evaluate work with the eye of an editor and a reader, how to query authors, how to revise the work of contributors to improve quality and concision and comply with Ursa Minor style guidelines.  

Assembly
Focus on the sequencing and overall flow of content, typography and layout, cover design, and the design of front- and back-matter pages including the letter from the editors, acknowledgements, table of contents and biographies of contributors.   

Production
Oversee the delivery of the manuscript to the copyeditor, the publication designer and, ultimately, the printer.  Once printed, you then assist with the promotion and distribution of the journal as well the planning of a publication launch and readings at local bookstores.

Download the latest volume of Ursa Minor (PDF).

Get an introduction to the fundamentals of UX research. You gain an understanding of the logistics and theory of conducting user research and how to impact user experience design and product development. You also learn best practices for determining when to use particular methodologies, either qualitative or quantitative research and how to develop appropriate research interviews.

You then apply user research to better understand user behaviors, needs and motivations through observation techniques, task analysis and other feedback methodologies. You also learn about eye tracking and where a person is looking when using a device.

User experience research (UXR) aims at improving the usability of products or services by incorporating experimental and observational research methods to guide the design, development and refinement of a product. Class assignments offer you opportunities to define research objectives, develop a research plan, conduct contextual interviews, execute a research study, analyze results and report findings effectively. You conclude the course with a portfolio project that demonstrates your research skills, when and how to apply different research methods for products or services.

Study the principles of information, interaction and navigation design to organize and present information for optimal user interface design (UI). Examine human-computer interaction (HCI) in the context of graphical user interfaces (GUI) by exploring the core principles of UI. These principles include: make it intuitive to interact with the interface: perception, simplicity, clarity, consistency, hierarchy (visual and temporal); and the human capabilities that motivate them, including motor skills, attention and human error. (In other words, "Good design is as little design as possible" by Dieter Rams.)

Lessons in UI, color theory, Gestalt principles, style guides and a holistic approach to design help strengthen your interface knowledge. The interface can take on many forms such as apps, kiosks, websites, software and many more. Course curriculum focuses on interfaces for digital products and experiences. Learn in a studio-style format that prioritizes collaborative/cooperative discussion for a more active learning environment. You leave the course with a comprehensive project presentation to add to your UX portfolio.

See a sample of former student Lulu Wang who works for Altitude Networks as a UX designer.

This capstone course guides students in creating a professional UX design portfolio for career advancement or graduate program applications. The portfolio will reflect your personal brand, highlight your strengths, and address areas for growth. The course emphasizes refining, editing, and synthesizing your design work, focusing on storytelling to make projects more engaging and meaningful.

You will build a cohesive portfolio website by transforming 3-4 projects from previous coursework or freelance work into detailed case studies. You’ll also conduct research to understand today’s design landscape while developing personal branding materials such as a résumé, business card, cover letter, reference sheet, and custom logo.

Throughout the course, you’ll gain insights from the instructor, guest speakers, alumni, and industry experts. You will also receive personalized feedback from experienced UX designers and researchers. By the end of the semester, you’ll have a polished, comprehensive portfolio website that effectively showcases your projects.

Explore the underlying principles of visual/graphic design through a series of weekly studio exercises, online lectures, readings, seminars and guidance in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. You use these software demos to explore color theory (CMYK, RGB, Hexadecimal #), grid systems, logo design, perception, balance, line, repetition, composition and Gestalt principles of design.

Throughout the course, you develop graphic communication and visual design strategies to solve design problems. These strategies include conceptual and technical approaches focusing on layout, typography setup and appropriateness to client and target demographics. Two core projects centered around specific design principles allow you to experience the entire creative process, including: analyzing problems through systematic research, generating solutions by acquiring information and improving any developing skills, testing chosen solutions, and communicating the final solution to your classmates. You then parlay that knowledge to understand visual design as it relates to user interaction, prototyping and best practices for web design. You learn traditional skills, and gain a historical background and an awareness of current trends in design. You work toward a professional portfolio that you can show to potential employers or clients.

See a sample of former student Monica Ma, who works for Google's San Francisco office.

Get an introduction to HTML5 and CSS3 to create a personal website. Applying Web standards as you code and master the fundamentals of Web development and design, you proceed rapidly, moving from text editor and browser to Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Lightroom. You review alternative open-source software and best practices for usability and accessibility. You need to purchase or create a free account with a web host. Initial costs are minimal.

Get an introduction to HTML5 and CSS3 to create a small or personal website. After Applying web standards as you code and mastering the fundamentals of web development and design, you then proceed rapidly with semantic coding, starting from text editor in the browser and ending with a website on the Internet. Class discussions include alternative open source software and best practices for usability and HTML accessibility.

Learn to code web pages by creating a website and prototyping interactive sites using Figma to build a complete site worthy of a portfolio piece. You begin with the research phase, then continue to wireframing, prototyping and development. Industry standard tools applied in this course include Figma, Visual Studio Code and GitHub. You build out a final website throughout the class by using HTML5, CSS files, video integration, CSS3 transitions and animations, transformations, responsive web design, version control of code, browser development tools and site deployment. We make coding doable and digestible for designers.

Take a moment to view Amanda Hinton’s B-52’s portfolio website which she coded and Kyra Polyudova’s website project fully designed from scratch.

The process of working in series is an effective vehicle to unlock creative potential, capitalize on unexpected discoveries and uncover new forms of self-expression. Illustrated lectures introduce you to contemporary artists who work in series and to the ideas behind this approach. Through course assignments you expand your innovative thinking and delve into your own serial explorations.

When you write poetry you engage in a dialogue with poets from the past and those writing today. Your own work is nurtured by reading and listening to the poems that affect you deeply. In this course, the first half of each session is devoted to experiencing and discussing modern and contemporary poetry. The second half is a writing workshop devoted to developing voice, metaphor, rhythm, motion, and imagery. You will be encouraged to experiment with various styles and techniques to assure originality and enrich your expressive power as a contributor to the ongoing poetic dialogue.

Gain real-world writing experience and career exposure through an internship with a Bay Area news organization, ad agency, PR firm or publishing house. Use your Extension-enhanced writing skills to complete various projects with the guidance of your host organization and our program director. Your role should equal or exceed ninety hours of commitment within a six-month period.

Creative nonfiction can take many different forms and includes the subgenres of personal essay, memoir, nature and science writing, travel and food writing, and historical and biographical narrative. Learn to master the form and elements of creative nonfiction through reading assignments, writing exercises and respectful criticism of peer writing in a workshop format. The material you cover applies to a wide array of disciplines, including the humanities, the sciences and journalism. Enrollment is limited.

Learn to write effectively for social media, specifically blogs, Twitter and Facebook. Establish a coherent writing process; learn editing techniques; and examine the interplay among context, content and style. Classes focus primarily on workshop critiques, peer editing and weekly composition of posts and tweets. Note: This course focuses primarily on content writing and editing, not Web technology.

One joy of writing fiction is the many kinds of stories you can tell. In this class, you will explore several popular genres of fiction—literary, mystery, thriller, science fiction, fantasy, horror and romance. Learn techniques that are essential to all fiction while examining the characteristics, conventions and reader expectations associated with each particular genre. Receive guidance with the writing process, develop self-assessment and critical skills and prepare for publication of your manuscript. As you write and revise a short story or chapters of a novel, you will acquire an understanding of the basic elements of fiction writing and of your own viewpoint and skills as a writer.

Good writing isn't fussy. It's clear, concise and grammatically correct, no matter the audience or purpose. In this course, you’ll draft, write and revise your own work; read literary essays as examples of effective syntax and coherent structure; share work in a supportive, focused workshop environment; and review common grammar pitfalls. Build your writing skills and confidence through critical reading of outside work, frequent writing exercises and class discussions. The skills emphasized in this course lend themselves to business or technical writing, as well as journalism or college-level essay writing.

Develop an understanding of how feature stories blend journalism and art, exploring the dual nature of features based on facts but with the voice of a novel. Learn how to analyze features and how to research, report and write your own. You also learn how to grab the attention of editors and audiences, and create successful feature stories for magazines, newspapers and online publications.