Design & Arts
Design & Arts
Learn to create from creatives.
Design user-focused websites that delight. Create impact through brand strategy. Think with your hands and paint. Capture a story through photography.
Then turn your passion into a career.
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Design your dream career with us.
Whether you're just starting out, or have years of experience, UCLA Extension offers courses to sharpen your skills and prepare you for greater levels of success. (And yes, we even have courses you can take just for fun.)
From user experience to photography, studio arts to art history, our courses are taught by experienced professionals who have successful creative careers of their own.
Design & Arts
Courses
DESMA X 479.3A
THE BIG IDEA: Talking with Impact
Each of us has the ability to ignite curiosity. Design and present a polished 12-minute TED-style talk that crystallizes and articulates your "big idea."
ART 802.21
The Business of Photography
For those seeking to have their work published, this short course draws from decades of experience in the profession to advise on the myriad of business decisions that await you as an independent photographer.
DESMA 768
The You in UX
This seminar will explore the career paths open to user experience designers
DESMA X 479.4A
Typography
This hands-on course covers the fundamentals of type, its characteristics, vocabulary, and nomenclature, as well as creative uses of type and how it is integrated in successful design.
DESMA X 479.7K
Unity I: 3D Game Design and Game Engines
Jump in and create a 3-D game experience using the world class game engine Unity. Students will design fantastic other world realities.
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