Design & Arts Courses & Certificates

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

Still Life Photography

This course provides a historical, commercial, and hands-on approach for exploring still life photography.

Surface Design for Consumer Products

Explore style guides and the role they play in consumer products, then create an original style guide for a complete product line of your choice.

Tattoo Workshop: Visual Language, Identity & Cultural Symbolism

This course introduces tattoo as a visual language, exploring its cultural history, symbolism, and connection to the human body. Weekly workshops and guided exercises help students develop technical and conceptual skills through drawing, composition, iconography, and body-aware design.