Our courses | Extended Learning

Our courses
Course name	Format	Tuition	Next start date	Status	More	Description
	Online	$950	Sep 15, 2026	Open	Details	Learn how AI in digital media can improve interactive experiences for users and contribute to business success in this four-week online course. Other start dates: Jan 19, 2027; Apr 20, 2027
	Online	$480	Sep 15, 2026	Open	Details	This course focuses on sharing opinions and comparing personal qualities using ASL. You’re introduced to your first ASL fable, The Fox and the Crow. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$500 - $515	Sep 15, 2026	Open	Details	In this course, take part in reflective activities that expand your awareness of your unconscious biases. Develop practical and concrete strategies and techniques for addressing these biases, and noticing, identifying and responding to microaggressions. Other start dates: Feb 02, 2027; May 04, 2027; Nov 16, 2027
	Online	$695	Sep 15, 2026	Open	Details	Develop a distinctive poetic voice through close reading, creative experimentation, revision and reflective writing practices. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$480	Sep 16, 2026	Open	Details	Focus in-depth on American Sign Language (ASL) storytelling, and take your skills and knowledge of this visual literature to a new level. With seven stories in the curriculum, including six childhood stories, the course moves at a quick but exciting pace. Formerly Sign Language Intermediate 2. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$480	Sep 16, 2026	Open	Details	Learn to communicate in a wider array of situations and further develop your fluency and comprehension of American Sign Language (ASL). Formerly Sign Language Intermediate 3. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$695	Sep 17, 2026	Open	Details	Learn feature screenwriting fundamentals, including story structure, character development, dialogue and screenplay formatting. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$1,220 - $1,260	Sep 17, 2026	Open	Details	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. Other start dates: May 27, 2027
	Online In-Person	$460	Sep 19, 2026	Open	Details	Focus on improving your conversational French fluency by acquiring more complex grammatical structures and sentence formation. Possible grammar topics, based on student needs, may include the advanced level verb tenses (conditional, future anterior, and introduction to subjunctive,) or use of relative pronouns. Other start dates: Sep 21, 2026
	Online	$380	Sep 19, 2026	Open	Details	Learn about Deaf people's experiences and culture and connect with a new perspective. Learn about Deaf Gain versus hearing loss and develop the core knowledge and skills you need to be an ally and to interact sensitively with members of the Deaf community. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$350	Sep 19, 2026	Open	Details	Build your Japanese fluency, vocabulary and grammatical awareness by practising speaking and listening with your instructor and classmates. Topics will change from term to term so you can repeat the course to continue developing your skills. Other start dates: TBA
	In-Person	$460	Sep 19, 2026	Open	Details	Learn the Persian alphabet and develop the skills necessary to recognize, read and write letters, words, phrases, simple sentences and short paragraphs. Build confidence as you learn how letters connect and change shape within words. Apply familiar vocabulary about everyday topics to help you develop your literacy as you progress from single words and short sentences to simple descriptive passages. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$460	Sep 20, 2026	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. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$460	Sep 21, 2026	Open	Details	Arabic Beginner 1 is designed to help you gain basic communicative ability in Levantine (Syrian) Arabic, a dialect spoken in Syria that has a close relationship to many neighbouring Arabic varieties. You will also learn to read and write the beautiful Arabic alphabet. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$1,620	Sep 21, 2026	Open	Details	Explore the sustainable blue economy in this part-time online course and build practical skills for ocean and freshwater careers. Other start dates: TBA

Stay connected

Sign up for news and updates about UBC Extended Learning programs, courses, info sessions and more.

How can we help?

Follow UBC Extended Learning

UBC Vancouver is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).