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Course name	Format	Tuition	Next start date	Status	More	Description
	Online	$800	Jul 7, 2026	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: Sep 22, 2026
	Online	$690	Jul 7, 2026	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: Sep 22, 2026
	Online	$995	Jul 7, 2026	Open	Details	Gain insights into the challenges of working with real-time clinical data. Key areas include data cleansing, the value of data warehouses, and the differences between experimentally generated and observational data. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$640	Jul 7, 2026	Open	Details	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. Other start dates: Oct 06, 2026
	Online	$640	Jul 7, 2026	Open	Details	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. Other start dates: Oct 06, 2026
	Online	$640	Jul 7, 2026	Open	Details	Gain an understanding of basic Japanese syntax and grammar in this online course, designed to improve your reading and writing skills. Practice writing Japanese words and phrases, read a variety of authentic Japanese documents, broaden your vocabulary and produce simple and functional writing samples. Other start dates: Oct 06, 2026
	Online	$640	Jul 7, 2026	Open	Details	Gain an understanding of basic Korean syntax and grammar in this online course, designed to improve your reading and writing skills. Practice writing Korean words and phrases, read a variety of authentic Korean documents, broaden your vocabulary and produce simple and functional writing samples. Other start dates: Oct 06, 2026
	Online	$640	Jul 7, 2026	Open	Details	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. Other start dates: Oct 06, 2026
	Online	$640	Jul 7, 2026	Open	Details	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. Other start dates: Oct 06, 2026
	Online	$640	Jul 7, 2026	Open	Details	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. Other start dates: Oct 06, 2026
	Online	$640	Jul 7, 2026	Open	Details	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. Other start dates: Oct 06, 2026
	Online	$640	Jul 7, 2026	Open	Details	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. Other start dates: Oct 06, 2026
	Online	$640	Jul 7, 2026	Open	Details	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. Other start dates: Oct 06, 2026
	Online	$640	Jul 7, 2026	Open	Details	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. Other start dates: Oct 06, 2026
	Online	$640	Jul 7, 2026	Open	Details	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. Other start dates: Oct 06, 2026

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