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Ethical Hacking Certification Training

Course

Gain understanding of ins and outs of ethical hacking, including footprinting and reconnaissance, scanning networks, vulnerability analysis and cryptography concepts

Final Group Project

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The capstone project of the UBC Certificate in Biomedical Visualization and Communication integrates and applies the skills, processes and learnings you acquired in Foundations - Seeing, Listening, Communicating, Human Structure and Function, and Managing Creativity.

Food and Travel Writing

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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.

Forensic Anthropology: Identifying the Dead

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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15 -18. Forensic anthropology is the process by which individuals, recently deceased and long-dead, are identified. Learn how to identify the sex and age of a skeleton, and how to calculate height and body weight from skeletal elements.

Foundations in Biomedical Visualization - Seeing, Listening, Communicating

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Learn how to communicate biomedical concepts clearly and effectively to a range of diverse audiences, from students to patients to health professionals. This course is part of the UBC Certificate in Biomedical Visualization and Communication.

Foundations of Human Structure and Function

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Understand the human body and build a rich biomedical vocabulary that you can use confidently with your audience. Using a virtual 3D anatomy tool pioneered by instructor Dr. Claudia Krebs and her team, and Faculty of Medicine biomedical education materials, review the anatomical structures and physiological principles of the major body systems. This course is part of the UBC Certificate in Biomedical Visualization and Communication.

Freelance Writing: Interviewing

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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.

Freelance Writing: Introduction

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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.

Freelance Writing: Non-Fiction Workshop

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Through a series of six interactive group sessions with award-winning journalist and UBC instructor Jennifer Van Evra (CBC, Globe and Mail, Harvard Business Review, and many more), polish your ideas and pitches, hone your writing and target different markets, and ask plenty of questions along the way.

French - Discovering Cheese - Lower Intermediate to Advanced

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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.