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 5A
Basic Drawing I
A beginning course in drawing designed to develop and expand one's observational abilities and rendering skills.
ART X 5D
Beginning Painting: Acrylics
From palette building to mark making to composition, this course explores the fundamentals of painting with acrylic paint--a fast-drying, permanent, and clean water-based medium that permits easy correction and change.
DESMA 850.19
Design a Brilliant Career and Find Your Professional Purpose
Design education leader Scott Hutchinson teaches you how to take your design career goals from lackluster to brilliant.
DESMA X 479.2D
Design III: Branding
Learn to develop memorable identity systems using symbols, icons, logos, and comprehensive environments.
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."
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