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Course name	Format	Tuition	Next start date	Status	More	Description
	Online	$590	Sep 23, 2025	Open	Details	Designed specifically for multi-language learners, this course focuses on advanced areas of professional communication including tone, context, and relationship-building strategies. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$950	Sep 23, 2025	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	$950	Sep 23, 2025	Open	Details	Gain knowledge to inform the planning and implementation of your cloud technology infrastructure strategy. Focus on critical decisions that will profoundly impact many aspects of the organization. This is the first of two courses in the UBC Micro-certificate in Cloud Transformation and Technology Infrastructure Strategy. Other start dates: Jan 13, 2026
	Online	$780	Sep 23, 2025	Open	Details	Learn the art and craft of persuasive writing, a skill that evolved from classic print, TV and radio advertising. Explore the approaches and techniques used to write copy that motivates people to take an action. Gain key skills in writing for ads, promotional materials, web homepages and landing pages, email and social media. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing Skills for Digital Content: Copywriting or Content Marketing or as a standalone course. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$670	Sep 23, 2025	Open	Details	Learn the craft of food and travel writing and storytelling from Don Genova, an award-winning journalist, and veteran of writing and broadcasting for outlets including the CBC, Globe and Mail, enRoute and National Post. Discover how to turn your food and travel experiences into stories you can share on your blog or social media, or you can pitch and sell to magazines, newspapers and digital outlets. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$780	Sep 23, 2025	Open	Details	This course takes you step-by-step through the art of interviewing: choosing the right technology, researching for interviews, forming questions and getting your subjects to open up. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing Skills for Digital Content: Freelance and Interviews or as a standalone course. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$780	Sep 23, 2025	Open	Details	Learn how to write magazine and newspaper articles that sell through this long-running and popular freelance writing course. Veteran Vancouver freelance writer Jennifer Van Evra shares time-tested, step-by-step instructions on developing ideas, researching effectively, conducting successful interviews, writing pitches, structuring articles and more. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing Skills for Digital Content: Freelance and Interviews or as a standalone course. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$445	Sep 23, 2025	Open	Details	Add to your basic Japanese 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 begin to express yourself in the past and future tenses. Native-speaking instructors provide you with insight into the culture, traditions and etiquette of Japan. The Japanese writing system of katakana is introduced at this level. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$445	Sep 23, 2025	Open	Details	Gain practical speaking, reading and writing skills in Korean. Build your vocabulary and grammar skills through live, interactive classes, audio recordings and videos as you learn about culture and life in modern Korea. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$745	Sep 23, 2025	Open	Details	Tap into your organization's origins, mission and values, and personal stories of employees and management, to explore the building blocks of compelling stories, and how they are applied and communicated in organizational settings. Gain the tactics and tools to communicate your organization's stories clearly and convincingly. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$475 - $500	Sep 23, 2025	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: Feb 10, 2026; May 19, 2026; Oct 13, 2026
	Online	$780	Sep 23, 2025	Open	Details	Gain practical, hands-on skills in content strategy and the emerging area of content design useful for websites of all sizes. Come away with a repeatable process and a suite of tools, templates and resources to plan, deliver and manage web content. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing Skills for Digital Content: Website Strategy or as a standalone course. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$780	Sep 23, 2025	Open	Details	Understand what materials are considered content marketing, how they are used and why. Explore best practices, and perfect your process as you gain experience in writing for the most popular kinds of content. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing Skills for Digital Content: Copywriting and Content Marketing or as a standalone course. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$780	Sep 23, 2025	Open	Details	Takes a deep dive into writing for the web and digital media. Understand how people read online, and the important role content plays in a visitor's interactions with a website. Get tips, tools and best practices for writing for the web. This course is part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing Skills for Digital Content. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$440	Sep 23, 2025	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

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