UCLA Extension courses

This internship—which may be taken as a substitute for MGMT X 408.805 Capstone: Building the Preparedness Plan—provides practical experience and application of the knowledge and skills learned in the previous courses. Emergency Management and Homeland…

This course provides training and education to effectively deal with the success or failure of every preparedness plan: the human execution of best practices in a highly stressed environment. Learn how to increase plan effectiveness by working in advance to…

Every organization has unique vulnerabilities, assets, exposures, and employees. Learn the tools for applying a risk or vulnerability assessment to any organization and incorporating these assessments into thriving emergency plans. Emergency plans must then…

This course is designed to provide an introduction to the subject of sustainable supply chains in business. The course provides a basic understanding of the nature of complex supply chains, the role that sustainability plays in business, and the most commonly…

Responsible for maintaining financial controls and financial reporting of all production funds, the production accountant must provide timely and accurate reporting of the financial information that will enable the producers to maximize production values.…

What are the considerations involved in financing, packaging, selling or acquiring a financially viable film? Producers, filmmakers and screenwriters learn what makes a project attractive to potential buyers; study a variety of deal structures; and learn how…

This course covers the financial aspects of each step of the motion picture value chain (from development through profit participation) and considers the implications of financial choices. Designed to give you a general understanding of how financial deals…

With the entertainment industry converging into a worldwide mass media, both business and operation models continue to rapidly evolve. This introductory course for producers, directors, writers, development personnel and aspiring media executives examines the…

This is a reading and exercise-based class designed to explore and practice dialogue, voice and point-of-view in fiction and creative nonfiction. Each week, we read sample fiction and creative nonfiction to identify how the content is influenced by the…

This unique course explores key legal principles and contractual relationships within the film and television industry through a dynamic assortment of lectures and hands-on workshops. You develop a core understanding of subjects including idea protection,…

A practical primer on starting a business, staying in business, and thriving—whether in motion pictures, television or another entertainment industry venture. This course addresses essential issues regarding the legal and business affairs basics, planning,…

This is a slow meditative course, intended for those with little or no yoga experience, or those with physical limitations. In this course, we practice breathing techniques, chair yoga, and gentle vinyasa yoga, in which participants perform flowing asanas on…

Gain a broad exposure and intimate knowledge of the business aspects of sustainability through real-world business case studies. Key elements of this course include identifying practical tools, measuring performance and reviewing best practices. Upon…

Setting and description are foundational to a story and can support larger themes well—if done thoughtfully with fresh and vivid language, attention to detail, implication and perspective. They can, in effect, give one's characters a home or space to work…

Poets push language to the limits of its potential by forming words into sounds and images. In this workshop, you read examples from diverse contemporary poets as you learn how to craft images while avoiding clichés, employ simile and metaphor to enhance…

Romance novels generate just over one billion dollars in sales revenue annually in the United States. With online platforms allowing authors to learn to write better, find compatible publishers or publishing options and market the work product, there has…

The second in a two-course Principles of Financial Accounting sequence, this course covers corporations, analysis and interpretation of financial statements, and statements of cash flows, as well as examines accounting for operations of departments and…

This course is the first in a two-course Principles of Financial Accounting sequence and provides an introduction to accounting theory, principles and practice. Instruction covers the uses, communication and processing of accounting information, as well as…

This course presents the theory and application of managerial functions; the processes of planning, organizing, leading and controlling in a wide variety of organizational settings; and how the management of people and resources can accomplish organizational…

This course surveys marketing methods, practices and institutions from the perspectives of manufacturers, distributors and consumers. You examine marketing concepts, functions, operations and organizations of retail and wholesale enterprises; distribution…

This course demonstrates the advanced implementation of corporate finance through the presentation of theories and their applications. Students analyze stock and bond valuations, capital budgeting and working capital management, leasing, option pricing,…

This course introduces managerial finance fundamentals, with an emphasis on the methods and sources of financing for corporations. Topics covered include corporate financial analysis, financial planning procedures, present value and security valuation,…

Join us for our OLLI holiday lunch! Tis the season—to feast, repose, and fraternize with your fellow OLLI members at a festive offering just for OLLI@UCLA members. There will be food, prizes and entertainment.

This course explores individual income taxation issues, including tax determination; personal and dependents exemptions; concepts and inclusions of gross income; general deductions and losses; deduction of certain business expenses and losses; depreciation,…

This course examines partnerships and joint ventures; installment and consignment sales; receiverships, estates and trusts; and governmental units. International operations, including accounting for transactions with foreign companies, use of foreign exchange…

This is the third course in the three-course Intermediate Accounting sequence. MGMT X 120C covers such complex accounting issues as accounting for investments, revenue recognition, pension plans, leases, accounting for income taxes, accounting changes,…

This is the second course in the three-course Intermediate Accounting sequence which covers accounting for long-term assets and intangibles, current and long-term liabilities, and stockholders' equity. Transferable for UC credit.

This is the first course in the three-course Intermediate Accounting sequence. MGMT X 120A covers the interpretation, use, processing, and presentation of accounting information and the preparation of principal accounting statements. Topics include an…

This course explores the elements of probability, probability distributions, estimation and confidence intervals, tests of significance and hypotheses, linear regression and correlation, time-series analysis and principles of index numbers. Additionally, the…

This course provides a fundamental background for administrators in the public and private economic sectors, as well as a solid review of pre-M.B.A. mathematics. Topics include linear and matrix algebra (with special emphasis on demand/supply and cost/revenue…

Communication, whatever method used, needs to inform. In the business environment, writing clear, concise and comprehensible copy is critical to success. In this course, learn techniques for clarifying purpose, understanding readers and organizing ideas.…

This course examines the effort of the enterprise to secure profits and the nature of demand for its products. Topics include cost and production, allocation of resources through competition, forms of market competition, relation of size to efficiency,…

This six-week course is perfect for anyone getting started on their path to becoming a screenwriter. Each class offers a broad-strokes introduction to a different writing format, which includes Feature Film, Television Specs and Television Pilots, as well as…

MAE C250P Aircraft Propulsion Systems (Instructor: Prof. Karagozian, A.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisites: courses 105A, 150A. Thermodynamic properties of gases, aircraft jet engine cycle analysis and component…

Understanding how Hollywood operates is crucial for any new screenwriter seeking agents and managers for representation. First, you must know the differences between the roles an agent plays versus a manager. Furthermore, differentiating between power agents,…

Great, funny, compelling dialogue is easier than you think. It comes when you focus on one single thing: your moral premise. There’s a vice and a virtue ready to argue with each other, and funny lines arrive when you see the strengths and weaknesses in your…

Pulled from today’s headlines, this exclusive speaker series offers an in-depth analysis of significant contemporary issues. Each week, an expert from the political, social, technological, or economic spectrum provides a 1-hour lecture focused on a major…

Electrostatics in vacuum and in water. Electricity, circuits, magnetism, quantum, atomic and nuclear physics, and radioactivity, with applications to biological and biochemical systems. Transferable for UC credit.

Thermal properties of matter, free energy, fluids, ideal gas, diffusion, oscillations, waves, sounds, light and optics, with applications to biological and biochemical systems. Transferable for UC credit.

Offered by UCLA Extension, the course "Physics for Life Sciences Majors: Mechanics and Energy" delves into the statics and dynamics of forces, motion, and energy, including thermal energy, with applications to biological and biochemical systems. This Emerging…

Join a panel of current TV showrunners, writers, and producers as they reveal their journey to a writing career and to creating, scripting, and running the popular TV series and describe their paths to success. Topics include writing on staff vs. freelance,…

This course provides students with an understanding of the human body and its organization--from molecular to cellular to tissues and organs--and how component parts function in an integrated manner to permit life as we know it. Transferable for UC credit.

This course presents a structural survey of the human body, including the musculoskeletal, nervous, circulatory, respiratory, digestive and genitourinary systems. Laboratory includes examination of human cadaver specimens. For live-online course laboratory…

This course is designed as an overview of the mechanisms and consequences of disease based on physiological dysfunction in the major organ systems. Each organ system is introduced by a brief and basic review covering normal structure and function, followed by…

This course provides students with a background in the basics of nutrition and stresses the link between nutrition practices, health, disease and exercise performance. Topics include macronutrient needs; vitamins, minerals and other supplements; energy…

This course provides fitness instructors with an in-depth exposure to the interaction of the cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, nervous and musculoskeletal systems during exercise. Instruction emphasizes practical application of the physiologic concepts…

This course explores the molecular, cellular, and circuitry mechanisms that underlie the function of the mammalian nervous system, with special emphasis on the human brain. Topics include analysis of electrical properties of neurons, chemical communication…

Examine the physiology of animals at the molecular, cellular, system and whole organism levels. Instruction covers neural, muscular, circulatory, renal, immune, respiratory, reproductive, and digestive systems and focuses on a wide variety of vertebrates and…

The endocrine system is an intricate complex of hormone-producing glands that maintain homeostasis and healthy function of the body. This course explores the molecular and cellular mechanisms that mediate how hormones affect metabolism, growth and sexual…

Scientists have learned more about the central and peripheral nervous systems in the past 10 years than in every previous century due to the accelerated pace of research and new techniques in neuroimaging. This course takes advantage of the emerging science…