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Course name	Format	Tuition	Next start date	Status	More	Description
	Online In-Person	$440 - $455	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Designed especially for professionals whose first language is not English, this fast-paced and dynamic course empowers you to improve your conversational skills for today's business environment. Develop the confidence to feel successful in one-on-one discussions, workplace meetings, interviews and business negotiations.
	Online	$950	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies present opportunities and challenges for individuals and businesses who develop and produce digital media. To remain competitive in the new AI era, it’s crucial to understand how AI is reshaping creative processes and products.
	Online	$570 - $590	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Designed specifically for students learning English as an additional language, this course introduces effective communication strategies used in the North American business environment. Create clear, convincing and memorable business communications targeted at diverse audiences.
	Online	$650	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Learn how to capture personal histories, whether for a book, podcast, video, or a series of recordings or transcripts in this fun and practical course. Find out what you need to get started, know how to keep your project on track, and learn how to overcome roadblocks.
	Online	$950	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Gain knowledge to inform the planning and implementation of your cloud technology infrastructure strategy. Focus on critical decisions that will profoundly impact many aspects of the organization. This is the first of two courses in the UBC Micro-certificate in Cloud Transformation and Technology Infrastructure Strategy.
	Online	$760 - $780	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Learn the art and craft of persuasive writing, a skill that evolved from classic print, TV and radio advertising. Explore the approaches and techniques used to write copy that motivates people to take an action. Gain key skills in writing for ads, promotional materials, web homepages and landing pages, email and social media. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing Skills for Digital Content: Copywriting or Content Marketing or as a standalone course.
	Online	$380 - $390	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Well-designed documents are not only attractive, but also engaging, easy to read and understand, and more likely to achieve their goals. Learn how to apply simple design techniques to create better documents including graphic documents (like posters and brochures), formal documents (like annual reports and presentations), and a wide range of documents people use every day (like proposals, status reports, schedules, memos, newsletters, and even routine emails).
	Online	$650 - $670	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Learn the craft of food and travel writing and storytelling from Don Genova, an award-winning journalist, and veteran of writing and broadcasting for outlets including the CBC, Globe and Mail, enRoute and National Post. Discover how to turn your food and travel experiences into stories you can share on your blog or social media, or you can pitch and sell to magazines, newspapers and digital outlets.
	Online	$760 - $780	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	This course takes you step-by-step through the art of interviewing: choosing the right technology, researching for interviews, forming questions and getting your subjects to open up. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing Skills for Digital Content: Freelance and Interviews or as a standalone course.
	Online	$760 - $780	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Learn how to write magazine and newspaper articles that sell through this long-running and popular freelance writing course. Veteran Vancouver freelance writer Jennifer Van Evra shares time-tested, step-by-step instructions on developing ideas, researching effectively, conducting successful interviews, writing pitches, structuring articles and more. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing Skills for Digital Content: Freelance and Interviews or as a standalone course.
	Online	$600 - $620	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Develop an understanding of Latin American beliefs, values, custom, and business protocols by exploring both historical and contemporary topics in Latin culture. Improve your Spanish communication skills and your contextual use of the language while discovering the linguistic and cultural diversity of Latin America.
	Online	$600 - $620	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Explore historical socio-cultural aspects of Latin American culture from pre-Hispanic to present times. This Part 2 course covers the cultures and contributions of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama.
	Online	$475 - $500	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Understand the differences between equity and inclusion, and how each contributes to the well-being, growth and safety of employees, customers and stakeholders. Consider different approaches to becoming more inclusive and equitable. Reflect upon your role within your organization, and create a toolkit that generates a more inclusive and equitable environment.
	Online In-Person	$475 - $490	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Sound more natural and confident when you speak English by learning about rhythm, stress patterns, linking sounds and intonation. Understand your pronunciation as it relates to sounds that may not exist in your first language to improve the clarity of your English and increase others' understanding of your speech.
	Online	$600 - $620	Jan 28, 2025	Open	Details	Get an introduction to the basic principles of the creation of modern Chinese characters such as pictographs, indicatives, ideographs and phonetic compounds, along with their evolution, stroke orders, radicals and writing structure. By the end of this course, you should be able to read and write about 250 Chinese characters.

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