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Course name	Format	Tuition	Next start date	Status	More	Description
	In-Person	$2,050 - $5,270	Jul 7, 2025	Open	Details	This mini school is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders on-campus program for high school students ages 15–18. In this two-week mini-school, you are introduced to professional journalism practices with a focus on mobile journalism (MOJO), an emerging method for gathering facts, information and images, editing and then sharing stories. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$475 - $500	Jul 8, 2025	Open	Details	Expand your understanding of anti-racist work. Deepen your understanding of the historic and current realities of racism in Canada, and learn from the perspectives and experiences of racialized professionals. Consider the commitment, courage and creativity required to dismantle racism within organizations both on micro and macro levels. Other start dates: Oct 21, 2025; Jan 13, 2026; Apr 14, 2026; Jun 23, 2026; Oct 20, 2026
	Online	$670	Jul 8, 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. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$475 - $500	Jul 8, 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. Other start dates: Nov 04, 2025; Feb 03, 2026; Apr 28, 2026; Sep 22, 2026
	Online	$760	Jul 8, 2025	Open	Details	Learn how to write informative and persuasive documents for the workplace that are clear, concise and professional. Practise analyzing, planning, drafting and revising business and technical documents. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing and Communication Skills for the Workplace: Business Communication or as a standalone course. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$440	Jul 8, 2025	Open	Details	Drawing inspiration and techniques from time-tested creative writers, learn how to transform, bend and sometimes break the rules of grammar and style to create attention-grabbing writing - no matter what genre or audience you're writing for. Formerly Writing Well: Process and Practice. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$450	Jul 8, 2025	Open	Details	Learn how to write well-constructed sentences and effective paragraphs. Topics include tips for devising clear, concise sentences, and avoiding common mistakes such as faulty parallelism, fragments, run-on sentences and dangling and misplaced modifiers. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing and Communication Skills for the Workplace: Grammar and Style or as a standalone course. Other start dates: TBA
	In-Person	$595	Jul 14, 2025	Open	Details	Focus on improving your conversational Spanish fluency by acquiring more complex grammatical structures and sentence formation. Grammar topics may include the advanced level verb tenses (conditional, future anterior, and introduction to subjunctive), or use of relative pronouns. Other start dates: TBA
	In-Person	$2,675	Jul 20, 2025	Open	Details	This residence package is available only to students ages 15-18 enrolled in a Circuit Stream pre-university tech course delivered at the UBC Vancouver campus in partnership with UBC Extended Learning. Other start dates: Aug 03, 2025
	In-Person	$1,885 - $5,045	Jul 21, 2025	Open	Details	This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders on-campus program for high school students ages 15–18. Learn how to interpret, contextualize, and critically evaluate popular media, its representations, claims, and narratives. Other start dates: TBA
	In-Person	$1,885 - $5,045	Jul 21, 2025	Open	Details	This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. This comprehensive yet entertaining introduction to the art of cinematography delves into the fundamentals of camera functionality, explores the essence of cinematography, and unravels the intricacies of visual storytelling. Other start dates: TBA
	In-Person	$1,885 - $5,045	Jul 21, 2025	Open	Details	This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders on-campus program for high school students ages 15–18. This course introduces you to the science of trees, soil, wildlife and resource management and how these are impacted by humans, technology and climate change. Other start dates: TBA
	In-Person	$1,885 - $5,045	Jul 21, 2025	Open	Details	This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders Online program for high school students ages 15-18. Explore a range of contemporary topics in medical anthropology including 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. Other start dates: TBA
	In-Person	$1,885 - $5,045	Jul 21, 2025	Open	Details	This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. Explore the motivations and processes behind political radicalization through the lens of individual and social psychology. Other start dates: TBA
	In-Person	$595	Jul 21, 2025	Open	Details	Add to your Spanish vocabulary and expressions in order to communicate in everyday situations involving travel, food, shopping, family and business. Focus on using Spanish in authentic real-life situations to advance your language skills by learning more complex structures with a defined communication goal in mind. Other start dates: TBA

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