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Course name	Format	Tuition	Next start date	Status	More	Description
	Online	$440	Jan 27, 2026	Open	Details	Through a variety of engaging and practical exercises, learn how to write effective stories that capture the hearts of any audience. Topics include the art and science of storytelling, structures to help make your stories flow, as well as tips and tricks for ensuring that you're delivering your stories with maximum clarity and impact. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$760	Jan 29, 2026	Open	Details	Discover how to identify and fix common errors, inconsistencies and weaknesses, whether in your own writing or others'. Learn the processes for editing and proofreading, and understand how the right tools - style guides, style sheets and dictionaries - can make you a better, faster editor. 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
	Online	$1,750	Jan 29, 2026	Open	Details	How can equitable systems design transform your workplace and the industry you work in? How can we (re)design systems and sectors that impact not only workplaces and individuals but also industries, sectors and society? Spanning specific workplace to industry-wide EDI challenges, your first (of two) courses in the UBC Micro-certificate in Equitable Systems Design (ESD) is a participatory experience leading to the creation of equitable solutions through a series of equity-centered design challenges, frameworks and strategies focused on systemic-change within your industry. Other start dates: Apr 09, 2026; Sep 24, 2026
	Online	$1,220	Jan 29, 2026	Open	Details	Learn tools to build culturally diverse and inclusive teams. Enhance your skills to establish, motivate and lead your existing group toward inclusion. Develop strategies for transforming conflict and understand the influence of culture on teamwork. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$1,220	Feb 5, 2026	Open	Details	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. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$500	Feb 10, 2026	Open	Details	This course explores the meaning of intersectionality, and solutions for respectfully engaging with all members of our communities. Understand the complexity, range and depth of intersectionality by first paying attention to your identity, then considering others' narratives which are generated at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religious identity and ethnicity, among other social identities. Other start dates: Oct 13, 2026
	Online	$475	Feb 17, 2026	Open	Details	A proficiency level online micro-course for IT and digital professionals to develop practical skills in real-time AI-driven threat detection. Learn to deploy, configure, fine-tune and evaluate AI cybersecurity systems in enterprise environments. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$3,200	Feb 23, 2026	Open	Details	Career Coaching Practitioner is a dynamic and holistic 8-week career coach training course that gives coaches the tools they need to support career-focused conversations. Learn skills and approaches to tap into self-reflection, visioning, goal-setting, implementing and more to strengthen your clients' relationship with themselves, and enhance their ability to make decisions and navigate their careers. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$950	Feb 24, 2026	Open	Details	This business-oriented course explores popular cybersecurity attack vectors, and how different defence mechanisms can be used to secure and minimize impact on your infrastructure and resources, including connected devices, networks, applications and systems. This is one of two courses in the UBC Micro-certificate in Cybersecurity Strategy and Risk Management. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$3,200	Feb 24, 2026	Open	Details	Gain understanding of ins and outs of ethical hacking, including footprinting and reconnaissance, scanning networks, vulnerability analysis and cryptography concepts Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$475 - $500	Mar 3, 2026	Open	Details	Build awareness around the ways in which white supremacy manifests as our workplaces grow more diverse, and take a close look at the impact that white supremacy has on both individuals and systems. Reflect on the tensions between the desire to champion anti-racism while experiencing the privileges that whiteness confers. Other start dates: Jun 02, 2026; Nov 03, 2026
	Online	$480	Mar 16, 2026	Open	Details	By using structured writing tools from the Guided Autobiography method, this course helps enrich our understanding of what the years after 55, often called the wisdom years, can mean for us by exploring six wisdom-rich themes. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$950	Apr 7, 2026	Open	Details	This comprehensive course offers an accessible gateway into the world of cloud security, providing learners of all backgrounds with vital knowledge to identify, understand, and mitigate digital risks. This course is part of the UBC Certificate in Cloud and Technology Transformation. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$475	Apr 28, 2026	Open	Details	An advanced mastery level online micro-course that equips IT and digital professionals with the skills to become strategic AI leaders. Master AI defense strategies, lead security transformations and develop enterprise-ready cybersecurity frameworks. Other start dates: TBA
	See details		TBA	TBA	Details	This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. Learn about the intricacies of mental illness, examining its causes, symptoms, and treatment from biological, psychological, and social perspectives. Other start dates: TBA

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