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Spanish Lower Intermediate

Course

Focus on using Spanish 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. Begin to learn about nuances of Spanish, including correct levels of language to use in various situations.

Spanish Summer Institute: Beginner 2 & Lower Intermediate

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Add to your Spanish vocabulary and expressions in order to communicate in everyday situations involving travel, food, shopping, family and business. Focus on using Spanish in authentic real-life situations to advance your language skills by learning more complex structures with a defined communication goal in mind.

Spanish Summer Institute: Intermediate & Advanced

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Focus on improving your conversational Spanish fluency by acquiring more complex grammatical structures and sentence formation. Grammar topics may include the advanced level verb tenses (conditional, future anterior, and introduction to subjunctive), or use of relative pronouns.

Speaking Clearly in English

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Learn to communicate with clarity and confidence in a variety of workplace, professional and personal settings. Understand how native English speakers handle conversations at work fluently and effectively by using appropriate words and vocabulary, implied meanings and non-verbal communication.

Speaking Clearly in English Part 2

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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.

Storytelling for Organizations

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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.

Strategies for Effective Intercultural Communication

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Take your intercultural understanding to the next level and build essential skills and practices to create welcoming spaces for all

The Data Science Toolbox

Course

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.

The Peter A. Allard School of Law Executive Learning Program in Mining Law and Sustainability

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Allard's Executive Learning Program in Mining Law and Sustainability provides an overview of the complex legal and regulatory instruments that govern sustainable mining practices. It offers a new framework for making sustainable mining and business decisions: one that goes beyond business as usual to consider Indigenous participation, climate change, human rights and anti-corruption laws and regulations that advance sustainable mining.

Thriving in Diverse Teams

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Learn tools to build culturally diverse and inclusive teams. Enhance your skills to establish, motivate and lead your existing group toward inclusion. Develop strategies for transforming conflict and understand the influence of culture on teamwork.