Penn LPS Online

The Concentration in Writing integrates professional and creative writing into a cohesive course of study that emphasizes clarity, creativity, and strategic communication. Drawing on both workshop-based creative practice and scenario-driven professional writing, the concentration helps students develop versatile writing skills applicable across academic, artistic, and workplace settings. Students build expertise in business writing, brand storytelling, audience-centered communication, and literary forms such as fiction, poetry, nonfiction, journalism, and screenwriting.

Despite the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change, public understanding and action are often hindered by misinformation, political polarization, and complex media environments. The Advanced Certificate in Strategic Climate Communication equips students with the scientific knowledge and applied communication skills needed to bridge this gap by effectively conveying climate science and policy implications to diverse audiences.

The Certificate in Digital Storytelling and Content Creation equips students with the skills needed to create compelling short- and long-form digital content, build audience engagement, and communicate confidently across today’s rapidly changing online platforms. Blending user-generated content (UGC), storytelling, social media strategy, and editing, the program teaches students how to craft and communicate narratives that influence audiences, inspire action, and communicate complex ideas with clarity. Students learn strategies for ethical engagement with virtual communities.

Penn LPS Online courses are created to expand your professional knowledge or allow you to explore an area of personal interest. Designed and led by Ivy League faculty and experienced professionals, Penn LPS Online courses offer hands-on learning and highly collaborative online experiences that can be completed on your schedule. You can dive into a course to satisfy intellectual curiosity, try out a new skill, take several courses to achieve a certificate, or use course blocks to build a degree.

The Upskill Certificate’s focus on career readiness is backed with the timelessness of the liberal arts and designed to map coursework to in-demand professional skill sets to support your progress toward your next career goal.

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The Certificate in Science Foundations enables you to increase your skills as both a consumer and communicator of scientific information while honing the foundational skills required for careers in the sciences.

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The Certificate in Global and Regional Studies introduces you to a wide variety of analytical approaches and conceptual frames that help you understand the forces that shape culture, trade, and other social exchanges worldwide.

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The Certificate in Digital Strategies and Applications will help you develop skills as a critical consumer, designer, and creator of information and multimedia content. Each online course in the certificate offers flexible approaches for using technology to reach your goals in this ever-changing world. While technology has transformed the ways we live, work, and connect with one another, many of us are understandably ambivalent about its role in society.