Communication

Use GenAI tools to personalize English learning. Practice prompt engineering, customize your study routine, and track progress with hands-on activities.

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Explore your leadership strengths and areas of growth and opportunity when leading in an intercultural setting. Complete the Intercultural Development Inventory and receive individualized feedback on your results. Reflect on your cultural identity, role and challenges in your own leadership context and develop a plan for applying your skills to create change and build inclusive communities and organizations.

Other start dates: Oct 14, 2027

Address more complex workplace communication scenarios. Gain more advanced skills and fluency for negotiating, interviewing and leading meetings and teams. Practise your presentation and public speaking skills, and acquire the language and business vocabulary you need for leading others, teambuilding and training or teaching.

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Apply specialized AI tools for English. Develop a personal project or portfolio, experiment with advanced technologies, and reflect on your learning journey.

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Designed especially for international professionals, this practical and intensive course helps you understand and use common English idioms in workplace and everyday contexts. Learn how idiomatic language shapes conversations, meetings, workplace relationships and informal interactions, and develop strategies for interpreting meanings quickly and confidently, and for applying your own idiomatic expressions at work and beyond.

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Help your organization make the most of diversity through increased creativity and innovation, enhanced employee engagement and better service to clients. Explore systemic barriers and inclusive practices in designing communication strategies with employees, clients and customers. Learn to develop policy frameworks and best practices; engage in community consultation; lead and supervise staff and volunteers; and plan programs.

Other start dates: Sep 23, 2027

Take your intercultural understanding to the next level and build essential skills and practices to create welcoming spaces for all

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Learn to integrate intercultural and social justice perspectives and take a critical look at intergroup relations. Review identity development models and explore how culture, ethnicity and race shape intercultural interactions. Look at the impact of systemic issues of power and privilege. Develop practical strategies for meaningful intergroup dialogue and engagement.

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Understand the human body and build a rich biomedical vocabulary that you can use confidently with your audience. Using a virtual 3D anatomy tool pioneered by instructor Dr. Claudia Krebs and her team, and Faculty of Medicine biomedical education materials, review the anatomical structures and physiological principles of the major body systems. This course is part of the UBC Certificate in Biomedical Visualization and Communication.

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Achieve success in conflict resolution through negotiation strategies that cut through misunderstanding, miscommunication, impasse, and implicit bias. Tap into your intercultural intelligence skills to negotiate conflict effectively.

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The capstone project of the UBC Certificate in Biomedical Visualization and Communication integrates and applies the skills, processes and learnings you acquired in Foundations - Seeing, Listening, Communicating, Human Structure and Function, and Managing Creativity.

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In this live online information session, get an overview of the programs and courses, the 100% online curriculum, and benefits and learning outcomes. Hear from a participant and learn more about how they experienced the program and how they are using what they learned in the program.

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Dig deeper into how English sounds are structured to understand your own speech rhythm and patterns and how your first language influences your spoken English. Receive continual and immediate feedback in class to help correct common mispronunciations.

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