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.
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.
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Design & Arts
Courses
DESMA X 481.65
Designing for Accessibility
Learn how to design digital products with accessibility in mind, improving usability and inclusiveness.
DESMA X 485.23
Emotional Intelligence and UX
This course will provide an overview of several facets of emotional intelligence (also known as "EQ"), providing scenarios to illustrate the importance of EQ to one's level of success in user experience (UX) and how it can optimize one's operation.
DESMA X 479.6BB
Entertainment Graphic Design
Create campaigns for theatrical key art movie posters, entertainment packaging, and other collateral materials built around the industry’s needs and opportunities.
DESMA 767.13
Exercise Your Design Brain
Join a series of fun, interactive creative exercises designed to get those wheels turning and remind your brain what it means to think like a designer.