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 HIS 825.48B
Feminist Legacies/Feminist Futures, Part II
This class will focus on work being created by artists today, taking into account historical precedents found internationally in Feminist Art since the 1980s. Includes an introductory online session, followed by three visits to museums, galleries and artists studios.
ART 750.19
Finding Your Light
In this one-hour workshop focused on portraits, award-winning photographer Amanda Rowan shares how the right lighting can enhance and elevate your images, even if you’re shooting with your iPhone.
DESMA X 481.24B
Frontend Web Development: A Practical Introduction with React
This course introduces the essential tools of modern front-end web development using React.
DESMA X 479.3AB
Graphic Design Career Launch Pad
Gain a polished strategy for the steps needed to take to enter the design profession, with projects designed to challenge creativity and advance preparedness for the real world.
DESMA 713.14
Idea to Image: Illustration for Designers
Discover how illustration is less about technique and more about communication and connection.
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