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Click on the name of an online humanities & liberal arts certificate courses to view the detailed information; you can also find out about the college or university offering the category by clicking on "School's Profile". |
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"Fade In" to "Fade Out": A Workshop in Rewriting Your First Screenplay (Online) (X 451.26) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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University of California, Los Angeles Extension |
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You've completed a draft of your first screenplay, and know that it has problems, but you don't know how to fix them. If you are a serious aspiring screenwriter with a completed draft in hand and the desire to rewrite it to industry standards, this workshop shows you how to do it. You analyze your script thoroughly, then rewrite and polish it using screenplay structure as the guiding light. Your script will be vastly improved, and you will have learned the invaluable process of rewriting, which you can then apply to subsequent scripts. The course includes mini-lectures on craft points and discussions of the business of screenwriting. |
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American Fiction (X135A) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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UC Berkeley Extension Online |
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This course surveys the major American novelists and short story writers of the 19th century. You learn about various literary movements such as romanticism, realism, and naturalism and are encouraged to consider questions of aesthetics, morality, poverty, racism, gender, and power. Supervised final examination. |
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American Fiction (X135A) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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This course surveys the major American novelists and short story writers of the 19th century. You learn about various literary movements such as romanticism, realism, and naturalism and are encouraged to consider questions of aesthetics, morality, poverty, racism, gender, and power. Supervised final examination. |
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American Fiction (X135A) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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This course surveys the major American novelists and short story writers of the 19th century. You learn about various literary movements such as romanticism, realism, and naturalism and are encouraged to consider questions of aesthetics, morality, poverty, racism, gender, and power. Supervised final examination. |
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Business Writing Review (X455) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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UC Berkeley Extension Online |
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This hands-on course is designed for those of you who want to refresh and refine your business writing skills. It reviews the basics of composing effective letters, memos, and reports and emphasizes how to find the style and format that fits your subject and audience.
After completing the course, you will be able to:
- Write an effective business letter, memo, and short report
- Identify grammatical and punctuation problems in your writing
- Edit your writing
- Identify fuzzy language in business writing
- Organize your writing more effectively
- Feel more confident in your business writing ability |
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Classics of Children`s Literature (X75) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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UC Berkeley Extension Online |
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During a 50-year period, from about 1860 to 1910, many of the major works of children's literature were published - among them, Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, Treasure Island and The Wizard of Oz. This course examines these and other classics of children's literature with the aim of discovering what visions they present of childhood, of the social world, and of the self.
Particular attention is given to how these books address the two audiences of children's literature - the child and the adult. Most of these books create a world elsewhere, apart from daily reality - Wonderland, Oz, Never-never Land. The course explores the meanings these other worlds assume within their social settings. |
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Composition and Literature (X2B) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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UC Berkeley Extension Online |
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In this course you will learn to write about literature through the analysis, evaluation, and enjoyment of representative short stories, poems, plays, and a novel. A variety of English and American writers are covered, as well as works in translation.
Introductory Composition X2A is not a prerequisite to X2B. Supervised final examination. |
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Creating Dynamic Scenes: A Workshop for Screenwriters (Online) (X 451.38) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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University of California, Los Angeles Extension |
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Scenes aren't just a lot of talk, they're full of action. So writers beware: a static scene can bring a script to a dead halt. In this course, the various layers of scene writing are explored and writers are provided tools for creating dynamic scenes--scenes that move the story and characters toward the inevitable climax. Various tensions in scenes--between what is said and what is unspoken, between upfront reasons and background motives--are investigated. Progressing from the basics (action, behavior, and dialogue) and moving through the refining elements (such as rhythm/pace, tone, and visual imagery), writers receive feedback on the dynamics of their scenes, including guidance on essential points, such as the art of leaving out and where a scene really ends. |
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Creating Readable Documents (Online) (X 439.18) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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University of California, Los Angeles Extension |
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Reading is the customer-end of writing. No matter how well we think we write, if other people don't understand a document we create or it causes needless fatigue, then we have failed to satisfy our customers. We also have failed to achieve the intended goal of our writing--whether it is to persuade, inform, or entertain. This fact is as true for marketing brochures, presentation slides, and Web sites as it is for reports and books. In this online course, you learn the factors that contribute to readable documents and apply them to your writing. This course is intended to provide you with the information and skills you need to identify factors that affect readability, such as format, space, color, text length and syntax, graphics, and vocabulary; adjust document readability to meet the needs of diverse readers; identify Web and computer presentation design features that either can aid or impede readability; locate online and other resources for creating readable documents; and create highly readable documents. |
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Creative Nonfiction Workshop (X140) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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UC Berkeley Extension Online |
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This workshop provides an opportunity for writers who have mastered the basics of good writing and are interested in applying the techniques of storytelling to nonfiction prose pieces, including personal essays, features, commentary, reviews, reports, journal entries, and memoirs. The workshop also addresses broader concerns: how to become a critical and productive reader of your own and other writers' works, how to get started on a piece, how to maintain momentum, and how to revise after the first draft is complete. |
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Critical Thinking (X23) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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This course teaches strategies for learning how to learn and for critical and creative thinking, including complex problem solving, and examines from a psychological standpoint why people think the way they do. It helps you identify the strengths and weaknesses in your thinking, avoid common errors in thinking, and develop higher-order thinking skills for your personal and professional development. |
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Cultural Diversity in the Classroom (Online) (X 325.02) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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University of California, Los Angeles Extension |
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This course presents an intensive consideration of culture and diversity; their impact on instruction; and issues related to demographics, migrations, and immigration. Instruction focuses on the nature and manifestations of culture, as well as methods and strategies for learning about cultural differences and similarities. Issues of racism also are examined. Participants evaluate their personal attitudes toward people of different cultural, linguistic, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds and individuals with disabilities. |
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Developing the Novel (X125.1) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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Designed for writers who are interested in developing ideas and characters for a novel, this course explores the craft of longer fiction and ways of meeting its creative challenges. You learn how to develop characters, language, voice, pace, tone, theme, and setting, and participate in posting critiques of other students' work.
At the conclusion of this course, you will have:
- gained a brief history and structural overview of the novel;
- produced an outline and opening chapter of a novel;
- developed the discipline of regular writing; understand the importance of revision and developed the ability to revise;
- received feedback on your work; developed critical skills through giving feedback to others that they can then apply to their own work;
- gained a strong sense of future direction with your novels.
There are no prerequisites, but some previous creative writing experience and an idea for a novel are recommended. |
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Developing the Novel (X125.1) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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Designed for writers who are interested in developing ideas and characters for a novel, this course explores the craft of longer fiction and ways of meeting its creative challenges. You learn how to develop characters, language, voice, pace, tone, theme, and setting, and participate in posting critiques of other students' work.
At the conclusion of this course, you will have:
- gained a brief history and structural overview of the novel;
- produced an outline and opening chapter of a novel;
- developed the discipline of regular writing; understand the importance of revision and developed the ability to revise;
- received feedback on your work; developed critical skills through giving feedback to others that they can then apply to their own work;
- gained a strong sense of future direction with your novels.
There are no prerequisites, but some previous creative writing experience and an idea for a novel are recommended. |
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Economic Development and Nation Building in Native America (Online) (X 492.03) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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University of California, Los Angeles Extension |
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Economic development is a critical challenge across Native America. On many reservations, employment opportunities are scarce, reliance on public assistance is high, and the local economy is weak. Yet on other reservations, tribes have established thriving Indian-owned ventures and built economies that generate employment and income even beyond the borders of their reservations. While some of the variation in economic performance can be explained by underlying levels of natural resources, human capital, and other internal factors, research has shown that tribes with strong and capable institutions of self-government, a long-term vision for their economies, and a purposeful regard for matching business initiatives to their tribal culture enjoy significantly improved chances of economic success. This course examines several real-world case studies of economic development strategies and projects from across Indian country and evaluates the factors that contribute to their success and failure. Instruction advocates a nation-building approach to economic development--a view that acknowledges that developing a vibrant economy is as much a political, cultural, and social challenge as it is an economic one. Given the heterogeneity of Native cultures and the circumstances in which they are located, no one solution will work in all settings. Instead, the course seeks to equip current and future leaders with the skills to think analytically about economic development strategies in their respective cultural contexts. |
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Editorial Workshop (X413) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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This course teaches the fundamentals of copyediting and explains the copyeditors role in the publishing cycle. It develops your skill in copyediting books, magazines, newspapers, reports, manuals, newsletters, and other nonfiction. Both mechanical and substantive editing are covered, with attention to various stylistic conventions and typical usage problems. The course is designed for beginning editors, more experienced editors needing structured review, and publications managers, newsletter writers, desktop publishers, word processors, and proofreaders who want to acquire editorial skills.
Prerequisite: Mastery of English language usage and grammar equivalent to successful completion of English X2A and X2B. |
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Exploring Your Creative Writing Potential (X70) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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This course gives you an overview of the most common genres of fictional self-expression: poetry, short stories, novels, the first-person essay, and plays. You have an opportunity in a safe environment to experiment and discover. The purpose of learning the history of genres and their conventions is not to follow in predecessors' footsteps but to become aware of what others have done so that we can build on it. In class assignments, emphasis is placed on the shorter forms to maximize the number of genres in which you are able to experiment. |
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Fundamentals of Screenwriting I (X413) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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This introductory scriptwriting workshop helps you turn your ideas into blueprints for feature-length films. The course reviews structure, theme, plot, action, and dialogue, as well as narrative conventions and script format. You produce a written project, submitted in standard script format. Students will learn to analyze screenplay structure through the study of professional, produced screenplays, in their own writing, and in the writing of their classmates.
For anyone interested in writing or film, novelists, and playwrights interested in adapting their work to the screen, and film professionals. No required texts for this course: requires access to a VCR. |
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Fundamentals of Screenwriting II (X415) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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The focus of this course is to help students complete a feature-length screenplay that delivers what it promises in its premise. Writing assignments center on the important elements of a good screenplay, including structure, advancing plot and theme, maintaining tension, developing character, and creating dialogue. This hands-on writing workshop provides an opportunity for students to participate in peer reviews and obtain instructor critiques of their work. Requires access to a VCR. Eight videos are analyzed in the course. Students may choose from a list compiled by the instructor.
Prerequisite: One completed screenwriting class or workshop and one completed rough draft of a first act of a screenplay. |
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Genres of Fiction: A Writing Workshop (X437) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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Emphasizing the techniques that are essential to several categories of fiction -- literary, mystery, science fiction, romance -- this course guides you through the writing process, helps you develop self-assessment and critical skills, and helps you prepare your manuscript for publication. As you write and revise two short stories or chapters of a novel, you acquire an understanding of the basic elements of fiction writing and of your own viewpoint and skills as a writer. |
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