Featured Certificate and Professional Sequences
The only one of its kind in the Bay Area, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing formalizes your training and prepares you for graduate study in writing.
Professional Sequence in Editing is designed for both working editors who need to acquire additional skills and those who want to enter the publishing field as editors.
Professional Sequence in Technical Communication provides a competitive edge in this increasingly attractive career option.
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Writing, Editing, and Technical Communication
The field of written communication encompasses both the creative and the functional, from poetry, novels, and screenplays to essays, product manuals, and website content. In addition, the craft of editing and the business of publishing are crucial to the process of delivering, clear, polished writing to varied audiences. UC Berkeley Extension's courses in writing give you opportunities to receive encouragement, direction, and feedback on your work. Our courses in editing, publishing, and technical communication help prepare you to join or advance in these exciting and challenging fields and help you meet industry's need for engaging, effective communication.
One-to-One Writing Critique
If you are a writer interested in receiving individual feedback on a short story or other prose work of fiction or nonfiction, consider the Writing Program's One to One Writing Critique. Submit a work to an instructor for review and then meet with the instructor for a critique session tailored specifically to your work in progress. Sessions are conducted by Deborah Lichtman, program adviser to the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing. Especially suited for writers who seek to revise a work for publication or to complete a portfolio for submission to a writing program. For more information please contact the Writing Program at (510) 643-1637 or letters@unex.berkeley.edu.
New Courses This Term
Intended for working editors and students enrolled in the Professional Sequence in Editing program, Technical Documentation Overview for Editors focuses on how editors can leverage their training and experience to produce and improve documentation and online content with an overview of documents commonly produced in software, hardware, and green technology companies.
New! From Pitch to Print: A Five-Week Introduction to Public Relations Workshop gives the essentials of public relations to get you started on a new career. You learn how to make your message newsworthy and how to understand media conventions so you can pitch effectively and ensure optimum coverage.
Featured Courses This Term
Survey of Genre Fiction examines the craft and conventions of genre fictions and then delves into more abstract considerations of the high- and low-cultural impact of commercial fiction such as fantasy, science fiction, horror, romantic suspense, and mystery.
Writing for Magazines: A One-Day Seminar helps you get started and expands your skills targeting what different publications want, writing persuasive query letters, approaching editors, and getting published, in a one-day workshop.
Travel Writing Weekend Workshop takes you through the process of writing a travel article, from choosing a good article idea, selecting the right angle, organizing your research materials, selecting the major points to include, and structuring the article. Bring notes, photos, brochures, flyers, tourist publications, guidebooks, maps, and other materials that relate to the trip or location you wish to write about.
Food for Thought: A Writing Workshop introduces many aspects of the genre, including magazine and newspaper articles, recipe writing and restaurant reviews, full-length cookbooks, food history, memoir, and biography. Participants should bring a one- to two-page personal food history—including the earliest or most vivid personal food memory—to the first class meeting.
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