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Course name	Format	Tuition	Next start date	Status	More	Description
	Online In-Person	$435 - $445	Jan 18, 2025	Open	Details	Learn more complex Mandarin grammatical structures and complex sentence formation. Improve your grammar and vocabulary through interesting conversational exercises such as debates, presentations, cultural discussions and small group work using authentic materials.
	In-Person Online	$435 - $445	Jan 18, 2025	Open	Details	Expand your Mandarin vocabulary and start to elevate your level of language by learning more complex structures and refining your skills. You concentrate on speaking correctly and distinguishing between the past, present and future tenses. Native-speaking instructors provide you with insight into the culture, traditions and etiquette of China.
	Online	$850	Jan 18, 2025	Open	Details	Explore a range of contemporary topics in medical anthropology. Topics include medical regulation, genetics, cancer, addiction, medical ethics, mental health and the law. Come face-to-face with the humanity of medicine by studying the experience of illness. Understand the busy and complex intersection of health professionals, patients and families as they face Nature's ultimate democracy: the equalizing force of illness and death. This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders Online program for high school students ages 15 -18.
	Online In-Person	$435 - $445	Jan 18, 2025	Open	Details	Speak and hear Spanish from the first day as you quickly gain basic conversation skills to communicate information about yourself, your family and friends, your work, and your daily life. Learn pronunciation, expressions, and vocabulary that allow you to function in everyday settings.
	Online	$435	Jan 19, 2025	Open	Details	Topics in this course change each term and are designed to further spoken fluency in Italian. Each course begins with a half hour of guided conversation followed by structured exercises and lessons in advanced Italian grammar and conversation.
	Online	$435 - $445	Jan 20, 2025	Open	Details	Gain basic German conversation skills to communicate information about yourself, your family and friends, your work and your daily life. Learn grammar, pronunciation, expressions and vocabulary that allow you to interact in everyday settings using primarily the present tense.
	Online In-Person	$435 - $445	Jan 20, 2025	Open	Details	Learn to share information about yourself and ask basic questions in Italian using the present tense. Practise listening and speaking about everyday social situations such as meeting new people, describing yourself, your family members and friends, and expressing opinions. Focus on pronunciation and basic grammar in interactive and conversational classes.
	Online	$435 - $445	Jan 20, 2025	Open	Details	Add to your basic Italian vocabulary and develop the complexity of your sentences in everyday situations, including travel, food, shopping, transportation, family and business. Focus on speaking correctly and distinguishing between the past, present and future tenses.
	Online In-Person	$435 - $445	Jan 20, 2025	Open	Details	Learn to share information about yourself and ask basic questions of those around you in Japanese. Learn structure and vocabulary that allow you to function in everyday settings such as introducing yourself, discussing your family and your likes and dislikes. Begin to understand complex language structures in an immersion classroom setting while learning to speak primarily in the present tense.
	Online In-Person	$435 - $445	Jan 20, 2025	Open	Details	Add to your basic Japanese vocabulary in everyday situations involving travel, food, shopping, transportation, family and business. In addition to improving your functional ability when speaking in the present tense, you begin to express yourself in the past and future tenses. Native-speaking instructors provide you with insight into the culture, traditions and etiquette of Japan. The Japanese writing system of katakana is introduced at this level.
	Online	$435 - $445	Jan 20, 2025	Open	Details	Gain practical speaking, reading and writing skills in Korean. Build your vocabulary and grammar skills through live, interactive classes, audio recordings and videos as you learn about culture and life in modern Korea.
	Online	$435 - $445	Jan 20, 2025	Open	Details	Learn to share information about yourself and ask basic questions of those around you in Portuguese. Learn structure and vocabulary that allow you to function in everyday settings such as ordering food in a restaurant or asking for directions.
	Online	$435	Jan 20, 2025	Open	Details	Expand your Portuguese vocabulary and start to elevate your level of language by learning more complex structures such as prepositions and object pronouns and refining the skills acquired in previous levels. Concentrate on speaking correctly and distinguishing between the past, present and future tenses.
	Online	$1,250 - $2,500	Jan 20, 2025	Open	Details	Developed by the UBC Faculty of Medicine, and the UBC Academy of Translational Medicine's Regulatory Advisory Council, this five-week course explores this emerging discipline, as well as patent regulations, post-market surveillance and regulatory reforms.
	Online In-Person	$435 - $445	Jan 20, 2025	Open	Details	Add to your base of Spanish vocabulary and expressions to communicate in everyday situations involving travel, food, shopping, family and business. Continue to improve your pronunciation and express preferences. Practise your new Spanish skills and interact with your classmates in a comfortable atmosphere.

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