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Course name	Format	Tuition	Next start date	Status	More	Description
	Online	$475 - $500	Oct 28, 2025	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: Jan 20, 2026; Apr 21, 2026; Sep 15, 2026
	Online	$950	Oct 28, 2025	Open	Details	Immersive eight-week journey into adversarial cloud security, designed for those eager to grasp key concepts without deep technical complexities. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$455	Nov 3, 2025	Open	Details	Address more complex workplace communication scenarios. Gain more advanced skills and fluency for negotiating, interviewing and leading meetings and teams. Practise your presentation and public speaking skills, and acquire the language and business vocabulary you need for leading others, teambuilding and training or teaching. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$475 - $500	Nov 4, 2025	Open	Details	Understand the differences between equity and inclusion, and how each contributes to the well-being, growth and safety of employees, customers and stakeholders. Consider different approaches to becoming more inclusive and equitable. Reflect upon your role within your organization, and create a toolkit that generates a more inclusive and equitable environment. Other start dates: Feb 03, 2026; Sep 22, 2026
	Online	$1,750	Nov 6, 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: TBA
	Online	$555	Nov 13, 2025	Open	Details	This course introduces the basics of structural editing and is appropriate for people interested in editing as a career as well as those looking to improve their own documents. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$475 - $500	Nov 18, 2025	Open	Details	Understand and learn how to decolonize your research, teaching strategies and tools. Start by examining the pedagogies you use now and understand how you can deconstruct them through a decolonization lens. Other start dates: Jun 09, 2026; Nov 17, 2026
	Online	$995	Nov 18, 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: Apr 21, 2026
	Online	$475 - $500	Nov 25, 2025	Open	Details	This course supports you in identifying barriers to inclusion and equity. Gain tangible steps, strategies and tools to build a safe, respectful and more equitable workplace. Understand how to foster collective accountability and responsibility, and implement meaningful and timely action toward such measures. Other start dates: May 05, 2026; Nov 24, 2026
	In-Person	$30	Dec 11, 2025	Open	Details	In this two-hour workshop, explore - and taste! - eight major families of cheese from Quebec and France. Appreciate the culture and history of each cheese family, learn how to cut cheese correctly, and find out about the aging process and its impact on taste. Write tasting notes as you sample a variety of cheeses, and receive helpful handouts for your next cheese adventure. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$950	Jan 13, 2026	Open	Details	This business-oriented course introduces you to cybersecurity concepts, standards and policies. By the end of this course, you'll have created a cybersecurity policy document for your organization that takes into account key business and technical considerations. This is one of two courses in the UBC Micro-certificate in Cybersecurity Strategy and Risk Management. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$1,050	Jan 13, 2026	Open	Details	Learn how to install, maintain and use the core tools in the data scientist's toolbox. Get an overview of the data science tool ecosystem, as well as hands-on, practical experience working with tools like code sharing and versioning software, reproducible electronic reports and presentation software, as well as professional interactive development environments for writing code. This course is part of the UBC Certificate in Key Capabilities in Data Science. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$465	Jan 14, 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	$465	Jan 14, 2026	Open	Details	Focus on using American Sign Language (ASL) in situations such as making requests, agreeing with conditions and asking for advice. Formerly Sign Language Intermediate 4. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$465	Jan 14, 2026	Open	Details	This course covers unit 9 from the textbook Signing Naturally Units 7–12. Learn to communicate in a wider array of situations and further develop your fluency and comprehension of American Sign Language (ASL). Other start dates: TBA

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