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Writing Well: Storytelling
$430
Sep 24, 2024
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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.
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German Beginner 2
$435
Sep 25, 2024
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Add to your basic German vocabulary in everyday situations involving travel, food, shopping, transportation, family and business. In addition to improving your functional ability when speaking in the present tense, you will begin to express yourself in the past and future tenses.
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Italian Beginner 2
$435
Sep 25, 2024
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Add to your basic Italian vocabulary in everyday situations involving travel, food and shopping. Respond to simple questions about likes, dislikes and past times. Using role play, order at a coffee shop and talk about your job. Learn how to communicate simple ideas orally and in writing.
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Japanese Lower Intermediate and Intermediate
$435
Sep 25, 2024
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Expand your Japanese vocabulary and start to elevate your level of language with improvement in pronunciation, grammatical structures and complex sentence formation. Concentrate on speaking correctly and distinguishing between the past, present and future tenses. Learn about nuances of the language, including correct registers of language to use in various situations.
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Mandarin Intermediate and Advanced
$435
Sep 25, 2024
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Learn more complex Mandarin grammatical structures and complex sentence formation. Improve your grammar and vocabulary through interesting conversational exercises such as debates, presentations, cultural discussions and small group work using authentic materials.
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Spanish Intermediate and Advanced
$435
Sep 25, 2024
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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.
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AI and Society: AI for a Greater Good
$2,950
Sep 30, 2024
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This micro-certificate will explore the implications and ethical considerations of combining creativity and automation and the importance of eliminating biased data regarding racial, cultural, gender or political identities for AI-powered decision-making. This course is part of the UBC Certificate in Cloud and Technology Transformation.
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Latin American Culture
$600
Oct 1, 2024
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Develop an understanding of Latin American beliefs, values, custom, and business protocols by exploring both historical and contemporary topics in Latin culture. Improve your Spanish communication skills and your contextual use of the language while discovering the linguistic and cultural diversity of Latin America.
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Latin American Culture 2
$600
Oct 1, 2024
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Explore historical socio-cultural aspects of Latin American culture from pre-Hispanic to present times. This Part 2 course covers the cultures and contributions of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama.
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Reading and Writing Chinese Characters - Beginner 1
$600
Oct 1, 2024
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Get an introduction to the basic principles of the creation of modern Chinese characters such as pictographs, indicatives, ideographs and phonetic compounds, along with their evolution, stroke orders, radicals and writing structure. By the end of this course, you should be able to read and write about 250 Chinese characters.
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Reading and Writing Chinese Characters - Beginner 2
$600
Oct 1, 2024
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Increase your knowledge of Chinese characters with this second level course. More radicals, phonetic compounds, grammar and syntax rules are introduced. The focus is on reading simple articles and writing more complicated sentences and short paragraphs. At the end of this course, you should be able to read and write about 500 Chinese characters.
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Reading and Writing French - Advanced 1
$600
Oct 1, 2024
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Reading and Writing French - Advanced 1 -10 courses are designed to improve the accuracy, fluency and clarity of your written French communication. These courses add sophistication and polish to your writing while enriching your understanding of Francophone cultures and their nuances.
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Reading and Writing French - Advanced 10
$600
Oct 1, 2024
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Reading and Writing French - Advanced 1 -10 courses are designed to improve the accuracy, fluency and clarity of your written French communication. These courses add sophistication and polish to your writing while enriching your understanding of Francophone cultures and their nuances.
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Reading and Writing French - Advanced 2
$600
Oct 1, 2024
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Reading and Writing French - Advanced 1 -10 courses are designed to improve the accuracy, fluency and clarity of your written French communication. These courses add sophistication and polish to your writing while enriching your understanding of Francophone cultures and their nuances.
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Reading and Writing French - Advanced 3
$600
Oct 1, 2024
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Reading and Writing French - Advanced 1 -10 courses are designed to improve the accuracy, fluency and clarity of your written French communication. These courses add sophistication and polish to your writing while enriching your understanding of Francophone cultures and their nuances.