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
ART X 5C
Beginning Painting: Oils
Learn how to paint using oils on canvas, board and paper
DESMA 865.10
Big Ideas Workshop: Crafting your TED-style Talk, your Next Design Pitch, or Stage Presentation
Gain presentation skills that will serve you the rest of your career and beyond.
DESMA X 485.67
Blender Foundations for Spatial Media
In this practical, hands-on course, you’ll learn to navigate the Blender interface and model custom objects for game and XR environments.
DESMA X 479.8D
ART X 429
Calligraphy
This course introduces beginners to the art of calligraphy, and gives them mastery over basic calligraphic tools. Alphabets vary by quarter.
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