Design & Arts
Design & Arts
Learn to create from creatives.
Design user-focused websites that delight. Create impact through brand strategy. Think with your hands and paint. Capture a story through photography.
Then turn your passion into a career.
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Design your dream career with us.
Whether you're just starting out, or have years of experience, UCLA Extension offers courses to sharpen your skills and prepare you for greater levels of success. (And yes, we even have courses you can take just for fun.)
From user experience to photography, studio arts to art history, our courses are taught by experienced professionals who have successful creative careers of their own.
Design & Arts
Courses
ART X 413.20
Tattoo Workshop: Visual Language, Identity & Cultural Symbolism
This course introduces tattoo as a visual language, exploring its cultural history, symbolism, and connection to the human body. Weekly workshops and guided exercises help students develop technical and conceptual skills through drawing, composition, iconography, and body-aware design.
DESMA 851.15
ART X 450.99
Telling Your Story: Narrative Photography
Develop a unique photographic storytelling perspective and define your personal narrative voice.
DESMA 713.6
The Art of Creative Thinking
Spark passion and enhance creative thinking in this workshop.
DESMA 713.5
The Art of Motion Graphic Design
Bring design to life with animation.
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