Optimize website navigation and create an engaging user experience for customers.

Ease of use is now a vital feature of an effective digital environment. For a website or app to holistically serve its purpose, it needs to offer customers a seamless, intuitive user experience (UX).

The University of Cape Town (UCT) User Experience Design online short course enables you to understand how users interact with online content so that you can design environments that meet their evolving needs. You’ll discover key UX research and design techniques, and learn how to work with stakeholders, run user tests, design wireframes, and develop prototypes. You’ll also analyze current trends in the field, and map out a professional journey for yourself so that you can better leverage your new skills to launch a career in UX.

Is this course for you?

This course is suitable for anyone who wants to boost their understanding of online user behavior and walk away with tools to improve the usability of a website or app. The content is ideal for professionals who need to develop highly transferable, practical UX design skills in order to improve performance in their current position or who wish to prepare for future career growth. Those already in a design, digital marketing, product ownership, or web development role will further expand their knowledge and validate their existing expertise. No prior technical knowledge of coding is required for this course.

Learn to manage complex programmes, and discover the key monitoring and evaluation tools that help facilitate success.

While project management is vital in ensuring that specific tasks run according to plan, it takes a programme manager to successfully lead a collection of projects to meet high-level goals.

The Programme Management: A Monitoring and Evaluation Approach online short course from the University of Cape Town (UCT) helps you understand how best to design, plan, and implement a programme, as well as actively monitor and evaluate phases throughout the process.

Over eight weeks, you’ll engage with the core aspects of programme management across the four key phases of the programme life cycle, namely diagnosis, planning and design, monitoring and implementation, and outcomes. You’ll also explore the tools required in each phase, and gain strategies for finance and resource tracking against a programme goal.

With expert guidance from experienced UCT faculty, you’ll walk away with the key stakeholder management and governance skills needed to successfully deliver on programmes of various size and scope.

Is this course for you?

This course will be relevant to anyone who wants to lead a programme or collection of projects towards a common goal. This includes both individuals in the public sector who must strategically deliver on programmes with economic and social benefits, and private sector professionals who must report projects against funds and objectives.

Project, product, and portfolio managers will find the programme management skills and tools learnt in this course valuable to their current roles. Additionally, existing programme managers, project coordinators, and programme coordinators can grow in confidence and signal their worth to their employers with an updated skill set and certificate of completion as validation of their knowledge.

Learn how to approach and execute projects more effectively and efficiently.

Project management is an important skill for those eager to boost their impact on their organization.

This online short course from the University of Cape Town (UCT) will guide you to discover new and established project management tools and techniques, and help you gain an understanding of a project life cycle.

Whatever industry you find yourself in, the transferable skills that this project management course gives you will help you to work more effectively and efficiently. You’ll learn how to build and lead project teams, handle time and budget constraints, and communicate workable solutions to stakeholders.

Is this course for you?

This course is aimed at both those currently working in a project-oriented role and those aspiring to launch a career in formal project management. Professionals who are new to the field, or who are looking to upskill themselves, will gain the foundational knowledge and confidence they need to run projects more effectively to make a real difference to their company. At the same time, existing project managers can polish and consolidate their understandings, and earn a certificate as proof of their refined competencies. There are no formal prerequisites for this course.

Strengthen your ability to manage inventory, track revenue, and organize financial information.

Skilled bookkeepers are an invaluable part of any organization. Without them, companies would find it challenging to maintain financial clarity and keep track of the information needed to make important operating and financing decisions.

The University of Cape Town (UCT) Bookkeeping online short course covers a range of bookkeeping fundamentals and provides instruction on topics like inventory control, value-added tax (VAT) liability, bank reconciliations, and statutory returns. Learn how to complete journal entries, prepare ledgers and compile accurate, reliable financial reports. Improve your ability to impact your company positively, and receive formal proof of your skills from Africa’s leading university.

Is this course for you?

This course is aimed at junior bookkeepers and entry-level finance clerks looking to update their skill sets and formalize their knowledge. It’s equally suitable for professionals in administrative roles who want to develop new skills, and small business owners eager to acquire basic competencies in accounting. While there are no formal prerequisites for this course, some prior experience in bookkeeping will be advantageous.