UCLA Extension

Get the accounting knowledge you need, without all the extras you don't need, with Accounting for Non-Accountants. In as little as eleven weeks, students obtain a high-level understanding of key accounting principles and methods. So, you may not be fluent in the language of accountants, but you can at least understand it. This course is also ideal for entrepreneurs and others who want to know how accounting can help fuel their dreams. Specific topics include cost of sales and inventory, cash and internal control, accounting fundamentals, accounting for sales, depreciation methods, financial statement analysis, and cash flow management.

Master some fundamental accounting concepts in this 5-week principles of accounting course. Overall, students acquire the basic skills they need to process and deliver accounting information. This includes the intricacies, pros, and cons of various business organizations, such as corporations, partnerships, and sole proprietorships. Furthermore, students learn some accounting nuts and bolts, such as income, expense, assets, depreciation, and resources. Then, they learn how to place this information into spreadsheets and balance sheets which are easy to digest.

Create powerful logos and other graphic designs with the skills you acquire in an 11-week fundamentals of design course. Enhance your business profile or share your newfound abilities with others. Students learn how to analyze marketing data and incorporate this information into eye-catching graphic designs that meet or exceed industry standards. As time goes by, students complete progressively more complex projects which are professionally critiqued. That sets the stage for success.

If you think Adobe is only for scanning documents, you need this 11-week design course. Although it’s open to computer users of almost any skill level, the class uses an easy-to-understand format to convey advanced design concepts. Students learn how to create unique brochures, e-books, advertisements, and reports which communicate a company’s core values. Whether your canvas is a computer screen or a piece of paper, students learn how to combine print and images into a unique creation. These documents can be shared with employees, partners, vendors, and managers. Students with basic Photoshop abilities usually excel in this course.

This 11-week motion graphics course helps students almost literally bring their art to life, through a combination of sophisticated 3D animation and cutting-edge visual effects. The training students receive in motion design concepts and storytelling techniques has many applications, such as appealing infographic designs and film necessities like camera angle, sound, and lighting. Students learn how to design independently and with a group. This course uses a foundation of basic Illustrator and Photoshop knowledge to develop advanced skills like color modes, bit depths, frame and pixel aspect ratios, common resolutions, complex motion paths and masks, graphic and video file formats, and frame rates.

Take your motion graphic skills to the next level with this 10-week intermediate course. Create stunning graphic designs which carve out your niche in the marketplace, with the help of tools like Cinema 4D and After Effects that add advanced motion to your already attractive graphics. Business owners, salespeople, marketing professionals, and people with a passion for creating digital art all benefit from this course.

Students who complete this basic 11-week photoshop course will have the skills they need to create, manipulate, and combine digital images into attractive documents which convey your message. This course gives students a basic understanding of some commonly-used Photoshop tools which are useful at work, school, home, and pretty much anywhere else. Instructors convey basic technical and conceptual ideas using the best industry standards. Specific topics include creating digital images, using 2D print capabilities, publishing images on the internet, and exporting images to different documents.

Analyze data and use it to solve real-world problems with this 10-week Python course. This platform enables users to leverage complex data into an easy-to-understand format. Primarily using Pandas, a key data analysis platform, students learn to prepare, cleanse, format, convert, and present data. Use of statistical models and some basic data visualization techniques greatly assists this process. Course prerequisites include a beginner Python programming course or equivalent experience.

If you have problems spelling Data Science Fundamentals, this 5-week introductory course is for you. This course is ideal for people like old-school business analysis, complete beginners, and non-technology managers. Using cornerstones like Excel, SPSS, and Python, students learn basic statistical methods which help them solve simple statistical problems. This hands-on course incorporates a variety of techniques, such as lab exercises, pencil-and-paper note taking, and laptop usage, to help students truly connect with the course content and acquire the tools they need to improve their professional careers.

Explore the evolving data science domain in this 10-week intermediate level course. Data science effectively answers a number of questions, and students learn how to tap into this knowledge. Students acquire real-world skills such as data science notebook server configuration, the R programming language, problem statement preparation, and the basics of machine learning. Students who have basic Python skills usually excel in this class.

Get the most out of one of the most user-friendly programming languages ever invented with this Python programming class. After just seven weeks, students will master the basics of this portable, high-level, dynamic, and cost-effective program. Students have access to a vast library of third-party Python products which expedites the learning process. This strong foundation helps students solve real-world problems, such as database access, text processing, XML editing, GUI development, website development, and system administration. Furthermore, students in this course write and debug their own Python programs, using tools like internet access and database management.

Did you ever wonder how items like data modeling, SQL, database integrity, relational database technology, storage and client/server management, and query optimization work together? This 10-week relational database management beginner-level course puts all these concepts together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Students learn important skills like entity relationship diagramming, data model analysis, and database table creation. Students also develop a better understanding of ANSI-standard SQL encryption (DDL, DCL, and DML). This understanding helps students design efficient physical storage and other structures.

CSS and HTML are not just random acronyms. They are the two basic pillars of the internet, and this 10-week course gives students a level of understanding they thought was impossible. Students learn how to mesh Hypertext Markup Language and Cascading Style Sheets into the format and structure of web pages. Basic building blocks include page layout, CSS3, media queries, menus, properties, selectors, HTML5 tags and elements, links, forms, lists, images, and color, and the box-model. Advanced concepts include responsive design coding procedures and link, media, and image insertion using JavaScript and jQuery. Anyone with a thirst for knowledge and basic computer skills could benefit from this course.

Overall understanding of computer science applications, theory, and programming opens a number of doors. In as little as six weeks, students will be intimately familiar with concepts that may seem foreign now. Interactive exercises and examples breathe life into these admittedly difficult concepts. Students also benefit from hands-on learning in areas like data types, operators and control structures, input/output, procedural and data abstraction, object-oriented software development, recursion, arrays, strings, and pointers. Students use these tools and this knowledge to solve problems in the real world.

Master the basics of SQL, one of the most-used database management programming languages, in this six-week course. This class, which is designed for people with basic Windows knowledge, begins with an overview of basic Structured Query Language concepts, keywords, and syntax. STudents then work with a variety of database programs, such as DB2, Informix, Oracle, Microsoft Access, SQL Server, and Sybase. Students also explore more advanced SQL topics, including cursors and transactional processing, table joins, aggregate functions, stored procedures, sub-queries, and triggers.

Take the mystery out of Java with this six-week course. Java’s straightforward structure makes it an ideal programming language for computer neophytes. After learning fundamental concepts like constructors, flow control statements, object-oriented programming, data types, data hiding, abstraction, and inheritance, students will be able to write their own Java programs. This course then transitions to some core programming ideas, such as control flow statements (branching & looping), variables, methods, and input/output.

Take your Java programming skills to the next level with this intermediate 10-week course. Students use their basic programming knowledge to explore more advanced topics, such as collections and generics, graphical user interface design, object-oriented programming, threading and asynchronous processing, files, streams, database usage, and object serialization. By the end of the course, students will be able to analyze and solve real-world problems and write Java programs which are stable as well as sophisticated. Students who have completed a basic course should do well in this class.

Master Java programming skills in this advanced 10-week course. Curriculum focuses on enterprise-level issues, such as spring framework, web services, data persistence, Java servlets and Java server pages, session management, ORM hibernation, and data security. Students learn to work independently and also work in groups. This course builds on basic and intermediate Java programming classes.

This beginner course provides a general overview of basic JavaScript concepts like prototype-based inheritance, extension of built-in JavaScript objects, recursion, and data validation. Students who are familiar with other programming languages, such as ASP, PHP, and CSS, leverage these basic skills to build their own applications. Instructors also teach DOM Scripting skills, so students can design their own applications which use dropdown menus, rotate headlines, run slide shows, do image rollovers, sort data into tables, and provide animation.

Manage complex projects more efficiently with this 11-week course. Students acquire the tools they need to complete tasks on time and under budget. Instructors help students understand the basic concepts of project management, quickly identify stakeholders, integrate various processes, like quality control, communication, budgeting, and resource management, into the final product, and use a systematic approach to problem-solving. This course gives students the foundation they need to take the Project Management Institute’s PMP exam.