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Course name	Format	Tuition	Next start date	Status	More	Description
	Online	$440	Apr 15, 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: Jul 08, 2025
	Online	$450	Apr 15, 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: Jul 08, 2025
	In-Person Online	$455	Apr 16, 2025	Open	Details	Designed especially for professionals whose first language is not English, this fast-paced and dynamic course empowers you to improve your conversational skills for today's business environment. Develop the confidence to feel successful in one-on-one discussions, workplace meetings, interviews and business negotiations. Other start dates: Jun 11, 2025; Jul 05, 2025
	Online In-Person	$435 - $445	Apr 16, 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. Other start dates: Apr 17, 2025; Jul 02, 2025
	Online	$445	Apr 16, 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	$445	Apr 16, 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	$435 - $445	Apr 16, 2025	Open	Details	Gain practical speaking, reading and writing skills in Korean. Perfect for those with no knowledge of Korean, this beginner course covers basic vocabulary and grammatical structures, and the Korean alphabet, Hangul. Learn about culture and everyday life in modern Korea. Other start dates: Jul 02, 2025
	In-Person Online	$435 - $445	Apr 16, 2025	Open	Details	Learn phonetics and study the tonal system of Mandarin. Learn to share information about yourself, discuss your family and ask basic questions of those around you allowing you to function in everyday settings. The use of Pin-Yin, the rendition of Chinese characters in the Latin alphabet, facilitates the learning process for students at the elementary level. Other start dates: Jul 02, 2025; Jul 03, 2025
	Online	$435 - $445	Apr 16, 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. Other start dates: Jul 02, 2025
	In-Person Online	$490	Apr 16, 2025	Open	Details	Sound more natural and confident when you speak English by learning about rhythm, stress patterns, linking sounds and intonation. Understand your pronunciation as it relates to sounds that may not exist in your first language to improve the clarity of your English and increase others' understanding of your speech. Other start dates: Apr 29, 2025; Jun 03, 2025; Jul 02, 2025
	Online	$445	Apr 16, 2025	Open	Details	Focus on improving your conversational Spanish 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.
	Online	$3,400	Apr 21, 2025	Open	Details	The Equity in Coaching Practitioner Course is an eight-week program designed for coaches who want to strengthen their ability to work effectively across identity, culture, and context. This course takes a systems-based approach, including grappling with systems of oppression (race, gender, ability, sexuality, etc).
	Online	$950	Apr 22, 2025	Open	Details	Gain proficiency in using WEKA for data handling, analysis, visualization, and executing machine learning processes. The course covers visualizing datasets and data reduction, and introduces foundational concepts. Other start dates: Aug 12, 2025; Nov 18, 2025
	Online	$1,750	Apr 24, 2025	Open	Details	How can you implement systems-level change from an equity design perspective? How do you practically apply design practices to address inequities in workplaces and industries? Applying the data-driven strategies and frameworks from the first course of the UBC Micro-Certificate in Equitable Systems Design (ESD), learn how to practically implement equity-centered solutions in your workplace and industry context. You will build a systems design toolkit leading to an equitable systems design roadmap presentation to the course facilitation team to transform your organization and industry’s impact. Other start dates: May 08, 2025; Nov 06, 2025
	Online	$1,185 - $1,220	Apr 24, 2025	Open	Details	Take your intercultural understanding to the next level and build essential skills and practices to create welcoming spaces for all Other start dates: Sep 11, 2025; Jan 15, 2026; Apr 16, 2026; Sep 10, 2026

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