Free Social Sciences Courses & Certifications

The Methodology and Pedagogy of Teaching Social Sciences program by Swayam introduces Teaching and Learning Social Sciences, focusing on skills and methods for teaching social science, and instructional strategies. This program is based on student-teachers and working teachers in Social Science. The University of Calicut delivers the 15-week course.

The Methodology and Pedagogy of Teaching Social Sciences training will help learners to study the theoretical framework of Instructional plan in social science and how to implement it in classrooms. Learners will successfully understand all the fundamental ideas of Teaching Social Sciences. They will also learn relevant psychological theories and learn how to apply them in Social Science. 

Moreover, the Methodology and Pedagogy of Teaching Social Sciences certification course can be studied by any individual at any level of teacher education, including working educators to magnify their teaching skills. The syllabus combines practical and theoretical teaching to give a holistic learning experience.

The Intellectual Property by Swayam program on Intellectual Property is a substantive course formulated for students across a diverse field. The online certification program will be providing a brief overview of the “intellectual property” landscape in the Indian subcontinent. The Intellectual Property training will also make the applicants aware of the role of intellectual property in the modern intangible economy. 

The Intellectual Property certification can be offered as a generic elective subject under the Choices that are being provided under the based credit system in affiliated colleges and universities as suggested by UGC. The  Intellectual Property certification syllabus will be covered over a period of twelve weeks. 

The topics that will be covered are- Trademark, Government's role in fostering IP, Enforcement of IP—protecting your rights and other topics related directly or indirectly to intellectual property rights. Hence after completing the Intellectual Property online course the students will learn to formulate and strategies policies to deal with the issues pertaining to intellectual properties.

The Globalization: Theoretical Perspectives certification course offers the candidates learning on different social theories on globalization. The course provides extensive learning to illustrate the engagement with the process of globalization and the subsequent outcomes. All the theories have been well explained by using certain examples.

The course also includes assignments, quizzes, discussion forums, and studies for students to have a better learning course. The candidates will also learn about the examples and how it varies across different globalization. Certain specific themes have been covered in the course for finding out the engagement in the Indian society.

The Globalization: Theoretical Perspectives online course also has a certificate, which is awarded if the candidates take the end term exam. The end-term exam involves all the learning in every module. This course also prepares the participants for future industry exposure. The candidates will also learn about the different levels of globalization and how we categorize them. 

Learning how to manage various large-scale complex health survey databases for in-depth analysis is made possible by Exploring Survey Data on Health Care Certification. The most recent statistical programs, such as SPSS and STATA, will be used to explain these ideas and this is the primary objective of this certification. 

Exploring Survey Data in Health Care Classes will be practically oriented and it covers everything from recognizing health-related variables to gathering, tabulating, and analyzing data.

All students get an Exploring Survey Data on Health Care Certification by the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) under the Swayam Initiative by the Government of India. 

Language, Culture and Cognition: An Introduction Certification discusses the relationship between language, cognition, and culture from three separate perspectives: language processing, cognitive linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience of language.

Language, Culture and Cognition: An Introduction Classes address a variety of topics, including how language interacts with other mental functions and does not operate in a vacuum. Together, they aid in our ability as humans to interpret our experiences. Experiences can vary from one culture to the next, adding a new dimension to the interaction between culture and the mind and cognition. 

All students get a Language, Culture and Cognition: An Introduction Certification by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) under the Swayam Initiative by the Government of India. 

This online course Interdisciplinary Innovations for Population Ageing training consists of an eight-week online course. Hong Kong Polytechnic University offered and designed this course, which was delivered via the EDX platform. This online course is explained by top experts in the field.

We will start investigating and examining the method of incubating innovative ideas in three areas, namely the social sciences, design, and engineering, in this course. Individually, learners will acquire skills and knowledge from these disciplines, as well as understand the synergy generated when working toward innovations using an interdisciplinary approach.

Topics are specifically designed within the domains of social care programs and policies for the elderly, engineering for the elderly, and design for the elderly. In addition to meeting the need to equip global learners with interdisciplinary problem-solving skills to address the ageing challenge, the above MOOC will have included interdisciplinary perceptions, problem-solving models, case analysis, and assessment strategies to encourage learners to formulate innovative ideas for the ageing population in their own cultural and ecological contexts.

The learners can join the self-paced programme either for free or they can pay some amount. In the verified track, they need to pay the required course fee and get unlimited duration during which they can access the course. In the free track, they can audit it for a limited duration.

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Sino-Japanese Interactions Through Rare Books certification is an online short course that is presented by FutureLearn and is prepared by Keio University, a leader in higher education since 1958. Books have always been an important part of japan’s culture, and mainly those that had been imported from China. This course is the best when it comes to identifying what impact these books have had, publishing in the Japanese region, and the connection between books and religion in Japan.

Sino-Japanese Interactions Through Rare Books certification syllabus has a lot to teach including Chinese books, language, their characteristics and culture, how exactly is Japanese culture influenced by the Chinese culture, the interconnectedness between religion, and books in East Asia, and much more. Another important topic that this course tends to cover is the effects of Zen Buddhism on Japanese culture.

Sino-Japanese Interactions Through Rare Books training is one of its kind. The faculty who are involved in teaching this course are all renowned experts in Chinese and Japanese literature, Moreover, FutureLearn allows students to learn based on their time, whenever they are comfortable with it, and provides a page to track their progress.

Provided by the University of York, the An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Accents, Attitudes and Identity certification is a short-term course that is issued on the FutureLearn platform. This course is prepared for the main people who want to know how to speak and understand the English language in a proper sense. This Linguistic course shows what effects on oneself and society are established when attitude comes into the picture.

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Accents, Attitudes and Identity certification syllabus says that there are different accents when it comes to people’s speaking. This course will act as a guide about how attitudes are formed in society, and what it does to people’s way of speaking languages. 

These 4 weeks of An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Accents, Attitudes, and Identity training will enlighten on the sociolinguistic research methods and their impact on real-world implications of the Language spoken by society as a whole.

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The ‘Managing Intellectual Property in Universities’ online certification course is focused on delivering insights on the features involved and the importance of establishing an intellectual property center in universities and colleges to increase the ranking and enhance the innovation ecosystem in educational institutions. This free training program is provided by Swayam online portal in collaboration with the National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL).

The participants of this course are guided by the program instructor, Dr. Feroz Ali who teaches Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The classes are conducted online through videos, lectures, online resources, and other evaluation techniques. The students of this course will gain both theoretical and practical experience with the hands-on training during the program which enables students to get practical experience with forming and managing an IP center.

The ‘Managing Intellectual Property in Universities’ certification course helps students to receive the course certificate and credit points after completing the course which is done within four weeks in this elective program.

The course deals with the methods and concepts of peace building and conflict management inspired by Gandhian ideologies that have the utmost potential to change the life of people.

The Introduction to Peace and Conflict Management course offered by Swayam is a humanities and social science course coordinated by Dr. Bishnu Mohan Dash of the Indira Gandhi National Open University. The course discusses vital topics such as the role of peace in ultimate human survival, contemporary concepts of conflict resolution and the practical ways of proceeding with them.

The Introduction to Peace and Conflict Management is taught in English medium by experts in the field. The course aims at discussing the fundamental aspects of peace and conflict resolution from a Gandhian perspective. The self-learning method of the course is supported by audio and video texts and assessed through online assignments and a term-end exam.