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Twentieth Century Fiction

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Twentieth Century Fiction

As a noble initiative by the Government of India to achieve access, quality, and equity in education policy, Swayam has brought the Twentieth-Century Fiction programme as an engaging and comprehensive course for English and Cultural Studies graduates and postgraduates. Throughout the course, learners will experience the best teaching-learning resources; even the less privileged can avail themselves online learning from top IIT Madras faculty in their own comfortable spaces.

Twentieth-Century Fiction certification syllabus has been distributed over twelve weeks where learners can learn at their pace and examine along with the faculty the interplay between imperialism, embodiment, identity, and other related issues and nineteenth-century and twentieth-century fiction, wherein they will read stories, poems, and more. A calculated and thorough study of selected literary texts and their corresponding cultural contexts will help learners draw a vivid picture whilst exhaustive learning of fiction, representation, and reality.

The course is highly interactive and falls ideal for Humanities and Social Sciences students as well. Moreover, as per the UGC (Credit Framework for online learning courses through SWAYAM) Regulation 2016, certain universities might even designate the course as one from which credits can be transferred to the academic record of students.

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12 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of history
Language Culture and Cognition An Introduction

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Language, Culture and Cognition: An Introduction

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. 

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8 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Language skills

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Keio University, Minato via Futurelearn
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Sino-Japanese Interactions through Rare Books

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.

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4 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Language skills
Black Lives Matter

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Black Lives Matter

4 Weeks
Beginner
Free

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