UC Berkeley Extension
Berkeley, San Francisco, Redwood City, Oakland, California, United States
http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/

Landscape Architecture

Get an orientation to landscape architecture as one of the environmental design professions in this survey, a beginning course in the Certificate Program in Landscape Architecture. Lectures and field trips explore the history of landscape architecture; the central ideas of the profession; the role of the designer in the problem-solving process; and the nature, modes, and scope of current landsc......
 

Learn the fundamentals of bathroom layout and design in this course, focusing on the practicality and overall aesthetics of the space. Learn to apply the process for selecting and using materials and plumbing fixtures that are appropriate. Through hands-on projects you gain experience in producing everything from initial concepts to working drawings....
 

When students have completed this course, they will be able to take a simple two-dimensional blueprint and convert it into a photo-realistic 3-D rendering with simplistic walk-through animation. Using a 3-D model of AutoCAD and/or 3DS MAX, students will be taught how to assign textures, materials, and light to make spaces become alive. This course is well-suited to professional architects and i......
 

This one-day course will present the rich architectural legacy created by one of the Bay Area’s most innovative architects, Bernard Maybeck. Maybeck acted as a mentor for an entire generation of California architects, including Julia Morgan and William Wurster. A slide lecture on his work is given in the morning and after a brown-bag lunch, there is a guided tour of some of his buildings i......
 

Explore and develop your creativity in this beginning studio course. You learn the principles—balance, harmony, rhythm, emphasis, contrast, and proportion—that are the foundation of good design, and how these principles interact with the elements of scale, form, color, and texture...
 

This course covers the basic principles and tools of Revit Architecture 2009. Students are introduced to integrated project delivery building and building information modeling, as well as its uses for parametric building and documentation. Key concepts to be covered include: user interface, families and parameters, worksharing, detailing, and schedules. You will have immediate application of th......
 

Interior design is a field that blends creative expression with practical application. Gain an understanding of the profession, its history, and its related specialties and disciplines. Slide-illustrated lectures and discussions help you develop an awareness of the basic principles of design and aesthetics by studying the work of past and present designers and architects. This course is fundame......
 

Learn the basic commands used for AutoCAD in this five-week course. This class is ideal for those who have never used a computer-aided drawing program or for those who would like to have an introduction to the tools that are used to create drawings in AutoCAD Design Studio. These computer skills are vital to the practice of interior design...
 

Facilities management encompasses a broad set of specialized activities. This course acquaints you with the concept of planning as a process that involves the integration of design, facility technologies, and business management principles for the purposes of identifying, documenting, and meeting organizational needs. You are exposed to the range of skills required, including architectural desi......
 

Strategic facility planning ensures that facilities are appropriately planned to meet the needs and changing requirements of building users over time. This course presents an overview of the role and methods of facilities management as it supports an organization’s long- and short-range objectives. Through lectures, guest speakers, group discussion, and completion of a major project, you d......
 

This course has been designed to provide students and practitioners with a practical, in-depth introduction and orientation to this challenging subject and to further acquaint them with all aspects of construction estimating techniques during preconstruction services, from design development to the final bid process. You work in groups on practical projects, working on case studies, performing ......
 

In this course, engineers, architects, project managers, developers, and contractors are familiarized with the variety of legal issues affecting the construction industry. California construction law is emphasized in the context of this overview of the foundational rights, statutes, case law, and legal obligations relating to the industry. On completion of this course, a construction profession......
 

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the state-of-the-art approach to design and construction of facilities using object based 3-D models. Students will learn the basics of how to employ BIM technologies for multiple analytical purposes such as visualization, quantity take-off, cost estimating, scheduling, coordination, and facility management. BIM is the most significant development in the c......
 

In the opening decades of the nineteenth century, Spanish art was dominated by Francisco José Goya y Lucientes, an artist whose work is of such quality and range that the critic Robert Hughes called him "the first Modernist and the last Old Master." Trace the evolution of Goya’s unique painterly and graphic artistic style from Rococo lightness into the moody darkness of his bold ......
 

Learn a drawing method that turns elements of chance and unconscious processes into compelling and meaningful images. You study strategies to develop automatic and accidental marks into a structured visual language and create an ongoing dialog between the drawn image and your creativity. Through a series of assignments and demonstrations, learn to create a portfolio that reflects your sensitivi......
 

Hone your production skills and refine your filmmaking style while working on your individual experimental, documentary, fiction, or music-video project. Course lectures, demonstrations and screenings focus on building skills to enrich and expand your use of the moving image. Explore the creative use of videography in the studio and on-site, pre-production planning and direction, the effective ......
 

All hardware platforms require power conversion solutions. Get an introduction to switch mode converter fundamentals and build a firm foundation for optimized power systems. Study the basic concepts of collections of inductors, capacitors, MOSFETs, diodes, and power-conversion ICs; then learn how to reconstruct them conceptually back into converters that are low-cost, low-noise, efficient, reli......
 

This four-day intensive course covers RF amplifier design techniques. You learn RF amplifier basics including amplifier classes, linearity and efficiency, DC & AC biasing, narrowband matching techniques using the Smith Chart, and noise figures of both single and cascaded stages. After understanding the basics, you learn more advanced techniques including stability, Q-factors, techniques to impr......
 

This four-day intensive course teaches students Phase Locked Loop (PLL) design techniques. It will explain basic PLL concepts including what PLLs do, review basic control loop and Laplace theories, and discuss PLL transfer functions. Students will learn commonly used PLL classes and orders along with their effects on PLL lock and stability, what PLL bandwidth means to the designer, and how to d......
 

This course teaches the concepts for testing the Analog, Digital and Mixed signal circuits. This course includes the test specification process and test plan development. The students will learn DC and AC tests and techniques, concepts of test instrument calibration, measurement accuracy and repeatability, tester hardware, device interface board design, design for test and test data analysis. S......
 

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