Online Social Science Courses & Certifications

Learning philosophical concepts with a newer twist, that is, from analysing our favorite superheroes is what this course on Power and responsibility: Doing philosophy with superheroes offers the interested learners. This introductory course on Arts and culture is offered by edX, an online provider of quality education in association with Smithsonian institute and Harvard University’s Division of Continuing education. The Power and responsibility: Doing philosophy with superheroes certification program is under the guidance of the experienced faculty, Professor Christopher Robichaud of the Harvard Kennedy school. 

Power and responsibility: Doing philosophy with superheroes certification course mainly focuses on key topics in the field of philosophy such as epistemology and metaphysics, social and political philosophy, existentialism, ethics, philosophy of mind, moral relativism, and so on, from the analysis of the superheroes such as Peace and Wonder women, Identity and Spiderman, social justice and X-men and punishment and Batman. The short yet comprehensive curriculum provides the students with a fresh learning experience on philosophy with the flexible learning system. 

The study of international development is extremely fascinating, and this “What is International Development” certification course is something which gets over in a small time of 5 weeks, and this teaches us how exactly international development is thought of and communicated as a study. This course will require a student’s time of only 2 hours of studying every week.

What is the International Development certification syllabus's primary focus is on Nairobi in Kenya and the effects of international development on different countries, their population, and other parts of the world. Nairobi’s example is explained so that it can be made relatable to the abstract concepts that are the real-life experiences of the people.

What is International Development training will provide a deep-rooted understanding of the development measures of development, growth of population, urbanization, and issues of the environment like pollution, and wastage of the people. This course will be of special benefits for people who want to gather experience about working knowledge in international development.

The Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life training revolve around the analysis of how propaganda has been utilised to instil political beliefs in society. It also focuses on how these ideologies impact the lives of the general public, with an in-depth exploration of the foundations of political viewpoints, i.e., community, justice, freedom, place, and choice.

Candidates will comprehend the different opinions and perceptions people have about political ideologies along with the imagery and symbolism used by them to express their sentiments. The Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life programme examine different contexts and phases during the 20th and 21st centuries. Candidates will realise how political propaganda promotes good and bad outcomes in the areas of belonging and identity, freedom and responsibility, and public health.

Structured and developed by the University of Nottingham, the Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life certification will be taught by trained professionals, namely Maiken Umbach, Ian Cooke, Mathew Humphrey, and Alex Henry. Besides, this five-week online course requires a minimum of four hours of weekly study for successful completion. 

Promoting decent work which serves as the primary engine of sustainable development along with analyzing the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDG) forms the primary agenda of the course on SDG: Moving towards sustainable work. This intermediate SDG: Moving towards a sustainable work training course is offered by edX, an online educational provider along with the renowned institution, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). The extensive and informative curriculum offered by the course is under the guidance of experienced professors from UC3M institution. This online certification SDG: Moving towards a sustainable work training course offers flexible learning systems of free audit courses along with the provision of upgrading the account to avail maximum benefits.

SDG: Moving towards a sustainable work certification course explores the features and possibilities delivered by the UN’s initiative on sustainable development. The course mainly focuses on key concepts such as Diversity management, the robot revolution, the digital economy, work impact, challenges in a workspace, and so on. It also closely analyses the four pillars of decent work in detail: employment, social dialogue,  social protection, and social rights. The candidates can enrol in the programme in verified or audit track. The audit track is free of cost and provides access to the programme only for a limited duration. 

In this Measuring Sustainable Development certification course candidates will get the knowledge from experienced mentors for making the Sustainable Development Report about the importance of estimating progress on the SDGs, and how an instrument like the SDG Index and Dashboards helps policymakers and different partners settle on significant choices about their improvement needs. Candidates will be able to look at the changed kinds of information that can be utilized to quantify improvement progress and become familiar with the specialized advances expected to develop a record for the SDGs.

The candidates will be able to investigate local and city-level files and examine new ways to deal with SDG estimation and information based dynamic. The duration of the Measuring Sustainable Development program is 5 weeks where candidates can study at their own pace. The efforts needed by the candidate to complete this Measuring Sustainable Development training will be 1-3 hours of weekly efforts.

The candidate who will be having the upgraded Measuring Sustainable Development certification will be getting the verified institutional certificate from edX which will be a shareable certificate that can be added on LinkedIn and the candidate can also audit this course free of cost but for a limited time and also without any certificate of completion. Another track helps the candidates to complete the course which is not free but gives a completion certificate and unlimited access. This is called the verified track and can be found on the Edx platform.

The Sustainable Urban Freight Transport: A Global Perspective online course was developed to help you build a sustainable transport perspective. And meet the rising pressures or urbanisation for sustainable logistics practices.

The Sustainable Urban Freight Transport certification syllabus will take you on a journey through a scientific foundation of logistics all the way to how it is practised in the cities. Moreover, the course also features expert instructors who will teach you the fundamentals of a highly complex social system of the urban areas.

Furthermore, you will gain an in-depth insight into applying the instructors’ real-world experiences to real-world problems. The Sustainable Urban Freight Transport programme places relentless emphasis on rigorous evaluation, theoretical foundation, and taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the complex area of logistics.

You will also have a chance to learn from your peers about the challenges that they faced in their particular city. Lastly, you can also purchase a course completion certificate to showcase your newly acquired skills. This self-paced programme has two options to enrol; verified and audit tracks. In the verified track, the students will get unlimited access and a certificate of completion while in the free audit track, they will have access for a limited period. 

Nearly one half of the world population relies on groundwater for all their needs, which has seen a ten-fold rise in usage in the past 50 years. Understanding groundwater utilization and consumption is the need of the hour. The Groundwater Cycle program, offered by Purdue University, helps learners explore the different aspects of groundwater with a unique perspective. 

Thus, the Groundwater Cycle training lets students answer the fundamental questions of how much water is available and how it is used and consumed. Candidates also discover how much plants and trees need, how much water gain happens during the rainy season, and how much increase is seen per annum. An observation of how much is lost through droughts every year is also included in the curriculum. 

The Groundwater Cycle certification syllabus, spread over five weeks, has been broadly defined to include everything from properties and classification of aquifers to principles of groundwater motion. This is the first course out of the three-course series that introduces learners to modelling fundamentals. The key principles learned here can be beneficial in other topical training programs like Wells Hydraulics and Groundwater Contamination.

The Vernacular Architecture of Asia: Tradition, Modernity and Cultural Sustainability certification programme is an introductory course under the art and culture category. The University of Hong Kong introduces the course, with Prof David P. Y. Lung and Prof Howard Davis as the head instructors. This is a five-week training and requires a minimum study of two to three hours per week.  

The Vernacular Architecture of Asia online training focuses on sustaining vernacular architecture against the threat and challenges posed by the modernised world. Candidates will explore the in-depth socio-cultural significance of vernacular architecture and the challenges posed by people migrating from villages to cities. Experts will also discuss informal settlements in Asia along with how to conserve and reunite cultural heritage with modernity. 

The Course on Vernacular Architecture of Asia will have lectures conducted in English throughout, and edX will also provide transcripts for the same. While enrolling for the course, students can choose to purchase a verified certificate to validate their skills and achievements in the course.

There are a lot of rumours, disputed claims, and scientifically fraught decisions surrounding the act of parenting. Every day, some research or the other comes up with a new claim and changes how we look at parenting while adding to the confusion by making contradictory statements. The University of California, San Diego, has created The Science of Parenting online course to dispel this confusion. 

The Science of Parenting training looks directly at science and trains candidates to critically approach parenting. It covers various topics like diet, sleeping, discipline and impulse control that are central to the lives of parents. The course explores how science makes claims from correlational data that often may be far from reality. 

The short-term course on The Science of Parenting by edX is five weeks long. During the training, you will acquire critical thinking and decision-making skills and learn how to avoid errors and make sensible decisions. You can enrol in this programme for free and audit it for a limited period. The learners can also choose to purchase the verified certificate by paying the fee. 

With the Conscious Capitalism certification course offered by the best-in-class institute of Babson, the candidates will be learning about practical implications as well as the theoretical underpinnings of conscious capitalism as an approach to business activities. They will learn to rethink the reason for the existence of their own organization, and about the role that it performs as a part of the independent global marketplace. 

Candidates will be brought face to face with the impact that conscious capitalism has on the well-being of stakeholders, be it tangible or intangible. They will also learn about the key concepts of conscious capitalism including higher purpose, conscious culture, stakeholder leadership, and stakeholder orientation.    

Candidates can complete the Conscious Capitalism certification course in a period of 4 weeks. They need to put in at least 4 to 6 hours per week to excel in the course. It is available free of cost and is self-paced for the ease of learners. The candidates can take the course either by paying the fee or free of cost. In the free track, they can audit the programme for a limited duration. 

The Global Prosperity Beyond GDP certification is responsible for creating a better world by shifting its focus on health, and prosperity rather than wealth. Within just one month, and 2 hours of sessions the candidates will approach what are the other determinants of the success of a society. This course has been designed both by University College London, and pretend on the FutureLearn platform.

No longer more success means economic growth, and by 2050, the population in the world will be 10 billion and there may be an environmental crisis. To survive such a situation, from today itself people will have to use new tools to tackle the problems of today so that the world can have a prosperous future ahead. This is exactly what the Global Prosperity Beyond GDP certification syllabus is responsible for teaching.

Global Prosperity Beyond GDP training will shift its focus from prosperity to how the world got to the economies that it is today in. In these 4 weekly modules, the students will progress from the current to the future well-being of our world.

The Social and Technical Context of Health Informatics is a beginner-level online programme offered by Coursera. The online certification course will provide an understanding of health information systems and big data. The Social and Technical Context of Health Informatics Certification Course, administered by Coursera, is the first course in the Health Informatics Specialization. 

The Social and Technical Context of Health Informatics Certification Syllabus will explore health informatics, digital health and informatics and will equip the learners to identify the problems of health informatics and the issues in the healthcare system resulting from disruptive innovation. The Social and Technical Context of Health Informatics Certification by Coursera is offered by Johns Hopkins University. 

The course in Modern Indian Art from the Colonial Period to the Present by Swayam delves into the socio-political, aesthetic, and cultural factors that have shaped the history of Indian art movements. Beginning from the colonial period, it traces the evolution of Indian art forms as a function of external and internal factors, such as shifts in patronage from kings to the erstwhile colonial rulers. 

The Modern Indian Art from the Colonial Period to the Present course is designed to look at vital moments in Indian history and correlate them with changing art styles. It also highlights how the art style changed from nationalistic to individualistic. The candidates will get to study the significant Indian artists, their works of art, and how they influenced the movement.

The Course in Modern Indian Art from the Colonial Period to the Present encourages art appreciation amongst the candidates and teaches them how to critique art forms. It is a 4-week long programme, offered by the expert faculty from Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. 

The certification course on working lives in the factories and mills: textile history and heritage is developed by the University of Strathclyde. It is a leading international technological University in Glasgow, which is Scotland's biggest city. The University is committed to useful learning. 

Interestingly, the educators at the University have, through this course, take a chance to explore the relationship between the textile factory laborers in the past and the industrial heritage of Britain today. 

Britain's key industries have seen a fascinating period of development, which needs to be understood deeply to discover how the workers' lives have changed throughout the Victorian period. The course provides an insight into the various adjustments that the workers have done to get adjusted to new professional identities, technologies, and workplaces. 

The video in the course will introduce the candidate to four different mill workers' heritage sites, namely New Lanark, Stanley Mills in Perthshire, Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire, and Verdant Works in Dundee, while they explore their history.

The Working Lives in the Coal Mines: Mining History and Heritage online programme is a four-week course, designed to give candidates an insight into the coal mining industries between the 1840s to the 1920s. Understand the experiences of the miners during this period and how this industry impacted Britain.

Developed by the University of Strathclyde, the Working Lives in the Coal Mines: Mining History and Heritage training is well-segmented and enhances the candidate’s knowledge about the history and heritage of mining labour in Britain.

Unravel the evolution of the roles shared by coal-miners and the difficulties they endured. Candidates will also be able to critically assess the lifestyle in the mines, as well as the mining artefacts, belonging to this timeframe.

To make the learning process more effective, the Working Lives in the Coal Mines: Mining History and Heritage course uses museum archives and online resource material to help polish literary, genealogical, and historical research skills.

With the eventual study, candidates will also apprehend how such representations are affected and related to global issues such as gender, class, and professional and political identity.

The early modern period saw many new inventions, but the development of printing was probably the most exciting of them all. The course on The History of the Book in the Early Modern Period: 1450 to 1800 will teach candidates about the impact of this printing revolution on contemporary politics, religion, medicine and science. 

Candidates will learn how books were made, illustrated and bound together. They will learn how these books were sold, circulated and read by the people of the early modern period. Such insightful details about the history of the book in the early modern period are bound to be an enriching experience for the candidates.

The History of the Book in the Early Modern Period: 1450 to 1800 by FutureLearn gives candidates a unique opportunity to study early modern book production using sample books from the Edward Worth Library, Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. Candidates can look through early editions of Aesop’s Fables or study the engravings of Anthony Van Dyck.