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Complimentary Courses & Seminars

In an ongoing effort to eliminate barriers to education and strengthen our global community’s connection to UCLA, we are proud to offer UCLAxOpen.

UCLAxOpen is your gateway to free personal enrichment and professional development through UCLA Extension.

Our complimentary online courses and seminars are thoughtfully designed to offer you timely and relevant lifelong learning opportunities.

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*The courses offered below are numbered 700-799. These non-credit courses do not confer academic credit or continuing education units, and will not appear on student transcripts. Learn more about course numbers.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Building Schools That Work: Inside K–12 Construction Management
May 27
Explore how K–12 school construction projects are planned, designed, and delivered in large urban districts like LAUSD. Learn how teams manage budgets, schedules, risks, and regulatory approvals while coordinating stakeholders to successfully bring new school facilities from concept through occupancy.

Computer Science & Engineering

	Beyond RAG: Building AI Agents That Think, Plan, and Act May 14 Agentic RAG expands traditional retrieval by enabling AI to reason, plan workflows, self‑correct, and take action, teaching participants to build autonomous, data‑grounded AI agents for real‑world tasks.
	Marketing in the Age of AI Agents: SEO, Automation, & Strategy June 4 Free webinar on Agentic AI shows marketers how AI agents transform SEO, discovery, and automation, with practical demos, real examples, and a preview of an upcoming AI marketing course.
	The Data Behind Modern AI June 18 Discover how strong data models, exploratory analysis, and modern datastores prepare high‑quality inputs for AI, with practical skills drawn from real analytics and AI projects.
	Running a Local LLM: AI on Your Own Computer July 10 An introduction to local language models, showing participants how to install, configure, and run lightweight LLMs directly on their own computers — providing privacy, control, and offline capability. We’ll explore the open-source ecosystem and demonstrate practical applications for teaching, research, and business workflows.

Design & Art

	Disruptive Design: Creative Pathways in AI June 9 \| 5:00PM - 6:00PM PT Join Roosevelt Brown, renowned product and footwear designer, for the first installment of this two-part series exploring how creatives can lead and thrive in a rapidly changing design landscape.
	Finding Your Light June 16 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.

Early Childhood Education

Supporting Young Children’s Healing and Growth in a Time of Collective Trauma
May 18
This webinar addresses a critical challenge facing early childhood educators at this time; understanding the unique nature of collective trauma and how to support the healing and growth of young children in their care.

Osher (OLLI)

The Art Legacies of Helen Clay Frick and Electra Webb
August 20 | 1:00PM - 4:00PM PT
Osher (50+). In this course, we explore the art collections of Helen Clay Frick and Electra Havemeyer Webb.

Writing

Introduction to Being a Showrunner
August 22 | 10:00AM - 12:00PM PT
Learn about the critical function of the showrunner, the lead producer/writer on a television series.