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  1. Freelance Writing: Introduction

    Course

    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.

  2. French - Discovering Cheese - Lower Intermediate to Advanced

    Course

    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.

  3. French Beginner 1

    Course

    Speak and hear French from the first day as you quickly gain basic conversation skills to communicate information about yourself, your family and friends, your work, and your daily life. Learn grammar, pronunciation, expressions and vocabulary that allow you to function in everyday settings.

  4. French Beginner 2

    Course

    Add to your base of French vocabulary and expressions in order to communicate in everyday situations involving travel, food, shopping, family, and business. Continue to improve your pronunciation and learn to talk about future plans and express past events. This immersive course focuses on oral communication skills and uses meaningful scenarios to help you use the language in authentic situations.

  5. French Intermediate and Advanced

    Course

    Focus on improving your conversational French 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.

  6. French Lower Intermediate

    Course

    Focus on using French in authentic real-life situations. Continue to expand your vocabulary, and start to elevate your level of language by learning more complex structures with a communication goal in mind. Concentrate on speaking correctly, and distinguishing between the past, present, and future tenses.

  7. French Yoga - Language in Motion

    Course

    Take your French language experience to the next level by exploring the connection between heart, body and mind in this all-levels yoga series offered entirely in French. Learn or practice your French vocabulary as it relates to movement, breath and spiritual wellbeing.

  8. AI and Cloud Strategy: Fundamentals

    Course

    Gain an understanding of the essential components of AI and a critical lens through which to consider the technical, business, societal and ethical implications of its use. This is the first of two courses in the UBC Micro-certificate in Artificial Intelligence Cloud Solutions Strategy.

  9. German Beginner 1

    Course

    Gain basic German conversation skills to communicate information about yourself, your family and friends, your work and your daily life. Learn grammar, pronunciation, expressions and vocabulary that allow you to interact in everyday settings using primarily the present tense.

  10. German Beginner 2

    Course

    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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