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UCLA Extension offers over 100 professional certificates, specializations, and stand alone courses. Learn from subject-matter experts in accounting, business, entrepreneurship, engineering, digital technology, education, law, health care, entertainment, writing, and design, to name a few.

 

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Arch X 494.65 Sketching and Plant Identification

Learn to identify plant taxonomy! Held at locations in and around the Southern California area, this course is an introduction…
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FILM TV X 478.39 – Writing Coverage: Story Analysis for Film

Designed for both aspiring story analysts and screenwriters who want to accelerate their careers, this course helps you master the…
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Biolgy X 499.3A Building a Garden Ecology with CA Natives

Design and install a “watershed”. This service learning course helps gardeners and landscape architecture students of all levels understand the…
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ENVIRON X 403: Sustainability Capstone

Are you ready to launch your own sustainability consulting practice or take your existing practice to the next level? Do…
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PUB PLC X 460.5: Renewable Energy Economics and Policy

This rigorous course provides accelerated exposure to the real-world challenges and opportunities of implementing renewable energy projects. Participants are introduced…
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GEOG XL 5: People and the Earth’s Ecosystems

This course explores the ways in which human activity impacts the natural environment and how modification of environment can eventually…
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MGMT 843.1 – Project Management Professional Exam (PMP) Preparation

Considered the leading professional association for project managers, the Project Management Institute (PMI) administers a globally recognized and respected certification…
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MGMT X 418.26 IT Project Management

This course covers the four major aspects of information technology (IT) project management: technologies, people, organizations, and procedures. Topics include…
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MGMT X 445 Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management

This course covers the domain of purchasing and the flow of purchasing tasks—from determining the requirements for goods and services…
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Biolgy 497.19 The Study of Trees

Study arboriculture. With trees being the largest and often longest-living elements of our outdoor environment, proper tree selection and management…
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ARCH X 493.773 Introduction to SketchUP for Landscape Architects

Produce professional 3-D project models using SketchUp. This course is intended for students and practitioners of landscape architecture with little…
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WRITING X 471.1 – Video Game Writing I

Videogame players demand deep stories with rich characters, as hits such as Fallout 4, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and The Last of…
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Biolgy 751 Horticulture & Gardening Program Open House

February 8th Information session on certificates and specializations available in horticulture and gardening. Click here to find out more!
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ARCH X 467.12A – Design Communication I

Introduction to design fundamentals, including exercises in figure-ground relationships, color interaction, line, texture, shape, scale, balance, rhythm, emphasis, and organization…
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ARCH X 467.15 – Lighting Design

Basic lighting topics, including light and texture, light and color, focal lighting, light sources, fixture schedules, switching patterns for commercial…
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ARCH X 452.1 – Color Theory and Application

Emphasizing individual experimentation through lab exercises and demonstrations. Topics include the color wheel, perception of color, its permutations, and its…
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ARCH X 427.7 – Surface Materials

Covers the selection and use of textiles, wall coverings, hard and soft surfaces, floor coverings, rugs, ceramic and vinyl tile,…
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SCRIPT X 469.4E – How to Pitch Your Feature Film and Television Series

Topics include outlining and preparing your live pitch, character building, pacing with emotion, sizzle versus story, presenting yourself as a…
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WRITING X 455.3EWS – Marketing and PR for Writers and Agents

Aspiring authors or literary agents learn about the work of a book publicist or marketing professional and the skills necessary…
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SCRIPT X 426.1WS – Showrunners Bootcamp

How do you create a narrative dramatic series, sell it, and have the series made, all while keeping your vision…
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