UCLA Extension

UCLA Extension is a continuing education institution headquartered in Westwood, California, on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. Classes are held at UCLA, in Downtown Los Angeles, and other locations throughout Los Angeles County, including Torrance.

Founded in 1917, it is part of the University of California system, and all courses are approved by the University of California, Los Angeles, although it is financially self-supporting.

UCLA Extension is accredited, through UCLA, by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

On February 14, 1893, the Regents of the University of California adopted the extramural instruction plan, which officially founded University Extension.

In 1902, University Extension was reorganized as a self-governing body within the University. The doors of UC Extension in Los Angeles (officially "University of California Extension Division, Southern District") were opened in September 1917.\

Extension's original location was in downtown Los Angeles. For the growing film industry, one early course was "Motion Pictures: The Film as a Factor in Molding Tomorrow's Citizenry." By 1919, more than 1,600 students attended almost 100 classes.

Beginning in 1942, Dean Baldwin Woods guided University Extension through the revisionist era of World War II and the postwar years. "Long before many leaders in the community realized that the knowledge explosion had shattered the myth of ever 'finishing' one's education, he perceived the huge and unending task of continuing education."

Currently, UCLA Extension offers more than 5,000 courses and more than 100 certificate programs.

UCLA’s Entertainment Studies program has graduated Emmy-, Grammy- and Oscar-nominated and winning alumni, more recently including: Gavin Hood (Ender’s Game, Tsotsi, Rendition, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Darryl Swann (Macy Gray, Black Eyed Peas, Mos Def). Award-winning instructors include Kirk Saduski (John Adams, The Pacific, Game Change, The Seventies), among others.

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