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 746.12
The Working Photographer: Professional Practices & Business Essentials
In this free one-hour session, photographer and UCLA Extension instructor Dr. Craig Havens breaks down the fundamentals of building a professional photography practice.
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.
DESMA X 481.99AF
User Experience I: Survey
This course introduces the latest tools, techniques and technologies used by leading agencies to develop world-class user experiences.
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