Arts Professional & Continuing Education

Gain the foundational knowledge and core skills to effectively and ethically engage in frontline service provision to individuals experiencing mental health and substance use challenges.

Learn the fundamentals of story structure and complete a detailed, scene-by-scene routine of your novel idea in this course designed by award-winning professors Annabel Lyon and Nancy Lee.

Move from outline to draft writing with crucial craft lessons on scene design, dialogue, character development, and plot in this online course designed by award-winning professors Annabel Lyon and Nancy Lee.

Discover story analysis strategies and rewriting tools in this online course designed by award-winning professors Annabel Lyon and Nancy Lee.

Self-paced six course certificate. Learn the learn the tools and techniques of writing for video games in a program designed by working game writers and writing teachers.

Join award-winning writer and UBC professor Sarah Leavitt as she teaches the primary building blocks of comics, suitable for all writers (art skills not required).

This course focuses on appreciating the Sanskrit language in an accessible and fun way, offers non-denominational ideas, phrases, pronunciation, and chanting techniques that you can integrate directly into modern yoga practice.

These instructor-led Creative Writing courses provide a student-centred writing education that values thorough feedback, supportive community and a deep knowledge of craft.

Philosophy instructor Anders Kraal explores Kierkegaard's second authorship, where he writes about love as the key to the question of the meaning of life.

How does one live a good life? In this two course series, Professor Edward Slingerland explores how ancient Chinese thinkers answered that question two thousand years before the birth of modern science.

Is it possible to change the past? Could you meet your younger self? This course uses time travel and science fiction to explore philosophy's deepest questions.

Created by experienced screenwriter and UBC instructor Zac Hug, these two online courses will help you tell your own romantic comedy story. You will learn how to outline and write a script that brings your rom-com vision to life.