Led by the members of UCLA's BruinLIGHTS, this course will cover the basics of acting, including character work and improv. The class will be very fun and hands on, with everyone participating in our various games.

Ever have something mortifying happen to you? Like so mortifying you're not sure if you ever want to think about it again? Or maybe it was also kind of funny and you've been wanting to write a story about it. Well, either way, you've come to the right/write place. In this workshop we will overcome our most embarrassing moments by writing short stories about them, and at the end of the class, we will mix up the stories and each read a different person's story aloud.

Teaching chess open to all levels

A beginning hip hop class made to have fun and release stress.


Prerequisites
Willingness to learn something new.

An important skill in life to have is the ability to improvise, wether it be in a conversational, musical, or professional context. I will take my block of time in order to teach students the basics of improvisation in a musical context, and also teach them how to apply the concepts in their life in order to become more successful.


Prerequisites
Students are encouraged to bring any musical instruments/noise making machines that they already play or are interested in playing. Horns, guitars, wood blocks, anything goes!

Exploration of the fundamentals of speaking and communication:
- explore the different interview styles
- craft imperative interview skills and techniques
- basic public speaking mannerism
- practice impromptu brainstorming and speaking

Come learn an introduction to Graphic Design! Learn the basic elements of design such as typography, layouts, and colors, in addition to the basics to navigate through editing software like Photoshop and free software!


Prerequisites
Come with a laptop ready to download software!

UCLA is home to one the country's largest and most renowned Ethnomusicology departments. In this class, you will learn to identify different styles of world music, and find out about what makes music such an important part of culture.

Fashion design is one of the most expressive applications of one’s aesthetics. Unlike most other artistic modes, fashion design literally makes the wearer a part of the art. So why don’t we make some art of our own! I may not be McQueen or Valentino but I can definitely guide you through the design process - from inspiration to sketching to final product. Not only will we be learning more about fashion illustration and the fashion construction process as a whole, we’ll also learn some interesting things about different types of fabrics, stitches, designers and other random fashion facts. Who knows, after this maybe I will be seeing your collections at the next New York Fashion Week.

If you don't know Anthropology from Economics, I got you. This class is perfect for students who love History/Social Studies but don't know how to pursue the field into college and beyond. We'll cover the fields of Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, History, Economics, Philosophy, International and Area Studies, Geography, and – my hometown – Political Science.

Lots of pictures and video clips of the awesome research going on in each field. Bring your questions about university, research, and social science jobs!

Language is all around us, and the way we use it says not just a lot about the speaker, but those listening as well. In this lecture students will learn the difference between prescriptive and descriptive approaches to linguistics through interactive technology, realizing how innate our preconceived notions about someone are, just by the way they speak.

Through slavery, immigration, and the Civil Rights Era, the banjo has played a crucial role in American history. But why is this hillbilly instrument so important? Where did it come from? This class will answer those questions! Using videos, recordings, and live examples, we will explore the banjo's roots and diaspora and listen to some cool music from all over the world.

This course aims to give an thorough explanation for the factors that led to the unexpected victory of Donald Trump and then will explain Trump's views and policies and how they will affect the country for the next few years.


Prerequisites
An interest in politics is recommended, but not necessary.

Enjoy a break for lunch with your friends! Please register for at least one lunch period on each day of the program.

This course is intended for individuals who want to understand the importance of computer security. The main aim is for educating students so that they can keep their online identity secure on platforms such as Facebook, Gmail, etc. Moreover the second half of the lecture will deal with simple classical cryptographic protocols.


Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Computers

Learn about how to do mental calculations faster as well as general tricks for doing mathematics more effectively. Also learn how math applies to your daily lives in ways that you might not have known about before. (As an added bonus, you might even hear some bad math puns...)


Prerequisites
None.

Several math topics that have nothing to do with each other. Topics will probably include:

Why math might be broken (Godel's Incompleteness Theorems)
The cost of anarchy (Braess's Paradox)
Using physics to solve math problems (Buckingham π Theorem; AM-HM inequality)

Some problems aren't just difficult for computers, they're impossible! Starting only with simple assumptions about what computer programs can do, we'll show that you can't reliably detect when a program has an infinite loop. Using that we'll prove Rice's Theorem, a shockingly powerful statement about the impossibility of many problems we might like to solve.

The following class description was written before Trump was elected:

"I don't know who the 45th president is, but I do know that there are much better ways we could have chosen one: we're flying half-blind by having voters only vote for one candidate. In this class we will discover and compare the better voting systems that are possible when voters rank ALL the candidates."

Learn to solve (and write) puzzles like these: primepuzzles.wordpress.com


Prerequisites
None. In fact if e.g. you can already recognize a few common patterns in Slitherlinks, this class is not for you.

The results are in: the plants you've been singing to grew taller than the others! ...by a millimeter. Have you really discovered that plants like singing, or has randomness struck again? (By the way, please don't actually do this silly experiment.) Come learn about statistical significance tests: a powerful tool we can use to decide how likely it is that an experiment's results are meaningful. There are a bunch of such tests, actually, and computers are quite good at doing them for you, so we won't delve into the details of any single one. Instead we'll focus on the intuition behind all of them: taking this class should help you use and interpret any significance test and be a more discerning consumer of statistical information (and maybe do much better in science fairs)*.

*according to purely anecdotal evidence

This course will begin with the history of modern aviation and world events which contributed to space exploration. Afterwards, the course will proceed into the history of crewed expeditions (in the United States and abroad) discussing both its successes and failures in the engineering, medical, and institutional aspects. Careers into the aerospace industry will also be discussed.

Teaching people how to make ice cream in a plastic bag and its chemical processes.

Introduces some basic concepts of special relativity, such as the Lorentz transform, spacetime diagrams, the time dilation effect, the twin paradox, etc.


Prerequisites
Basic algebra, preferably some knowledge on matrix multiplication.

From books and theatre, to audio and film, the art of storytelling has evolved together with our technologies and new forms of media. For our generation, our new form of media is Video Games.

Go beyond gameplay and learn how Video Games are able to tell stories in a way that no other medium can!


Prerequisites
Beware of spoilers Testing

Introduce the student to the field of entrepreneurship and why college is the best time ever to pursue their dreams. Skills learned and practiced will benefit the student for a lifetime. Self-confidence will increase as a result of the opportunity to practice the skills of persuasive presentations. Some key areas to be covered are:
- Overview of entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship in College
- 10 essential sales skills
- Psychology in sales & persuasion
and more…

In this course we will discuss stress and ways to cope with it from different perspectives. We will start with discussing biological and social origins of stress, and then learn about effects of stress and how our bodies respond to it. We will lastly, through teaching and student interaction, learn about different ways to cope with stress.

Handwriting--we it take for granted. We use it all of the time, and it reflects a lot about us.

Most of us are not taught how to use our muscles to write beautifully. We end up scrunched or hard to read writing.

I believe that the key to beautiful handwriting starts with a simple training in muscle movements.

Take this course to learn just how to use you arm and hands together to write the very best that you can!

Have you had to speak in front of your classmates? Maybe even in front of a larger crowd? Well you're not alone. Everyone experiences public speaking eventually and it can be pretty nerve-racking. But it's an essential skill that everyone needs in life and it doesn't take long to master it. So come join me and learn how to overcome this fear!