Online Social Science Courses & Certifications

The Remembering Empire online course is about the collective memory of the empire. It talks about the memories of French settlers in Algeria and their view of Algerian colonial history. In this program, you will learn about these settlers’ history, the subsequent eight-year-long Algerian War of Independence, and the French settlers’ mass exit in 1962. The curriculum focuses on the mass migration’s cultural impact and aims to arrive at how France shaped Algeria’s colonial history. 

The UK Government’s Arts and Humanities Research Council has funded the Remembering Empire certification. It is a five-week online course in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities. You will be learning through videos, short readings, discussions, and quizzes through an interactive and comprehensive journey. 

Dr. Fiona Barclay of the University of Stirling, Scotland, will deliver the Remembering Empire program. You do not need any prior knowledge to join this course. Moreover, this in-depth curriculum will help you seek career prospects in cultural industries, charities, and amongst memory activists, museums, etc. 

The Re-imaging God in Korean Context certification course is launched by Coursera and is taught with the joint collaboration of Yonsei University, and Coursera for an estimated time of 7 hours. This is a beginner-level programme with shareable certificates being offered as soon as the course is completed. 

The Re-imaging God in Korean Context training will offer an overview of the different theological perspectives that are related to the cultural context of Korea. The more the students are towards the near course completion they will understand how culture has dynamically influenced the dynamic development of the churches in Korea. The course will be teaching how God is imaged in their cultural context.

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.

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 Agile Leadership Principles and Practices program is a self-paced course for four weeks, where students learn about the powerful Agile leadership style. Students will pick up on agile applications and principles that exist in the industry.

Learners will study how this new leadership style redistributes and redefines team roles. Other topics included in the Agile Leadership Principles and Practices syllabus are decision science, negotiation techniques, lean decision-making tools, and emotional intelligence (EQ). The University of Maryland, College Park- a preeminent public research university offers this online course.

Professor John Johnson from the university teaches the Agile Leadership Principles and Practices training program. He also instructs the edX finalists awarded course “Agile Project Management Professional Certification Programme,” which comes as an associated program. 

Additionally, students can receive up to 10 Professional Development Unit (PDU) credits recognized by the Project Management Institute (PMI). This advanced course based on engineering allows students to gain a verified certificate after paying a nominal fee.

The ‘Gender justice and workplace security’ online course is organized to enable students to develop their understanding of aspects of gender justice such as gender equality and other significant laws that have been drafted over the years to support the position of women in society. This National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning(NPTEL) course is provided by Swayam and the course of study is designed to be completed in four weeks.

The course instructor for this elective course for the undergraduate level students is Prof. Dipa Dube from the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. The students of this program will gain a comprehensive knowledge of gender-based concepts and theories in the context of a workplace.

The ‘Gender justice and workplace security’ online training program ensures the participants of the course with a course certificate and credit points after finishing the program with the assessments according to the qualifying criteria. This management studies program is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE).

The candidates interested in brushing up their skills can enrol in the Foundations for Transforming Teaching and Learning about Native Americans certification and learn about the impact of problematic narratives. Different ways to recognize this impact have been covered in the course. For the course, the candidates will join the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Assignments, projects, and modules have been designed by the experts to help the participants have a grab on the topic. The Foundations for Transforming Teaching and Learning about Native Americans online course is based on a three-part live webinar series. Modules have been designed to help candidates know the topic.

After the completion of the course, the candidate shall be awarded a certification if they chose the enrolment by paying the course fee. The certificate shall help the candidates get a hike in salary and better jobs in any organization. The candidates can share the certificate on LinkedIn for broader exposure. Also, the students can audit the programme for a limited duration free of cost. 

Understanding Gender Inequality certification is a short online course. The course is a joint venture of the University of Exeter and FutureLearn. Since gender inequality is a very important challenge in today’s society that is the reason empowerment of women, and equality of gender is one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. By giving just 3 hours to this course on a weekly basis, will allow the participants to gain knowledge of why inequality of gender happens, what are the aftereffects of it, and how can one get rid of this.

Understanding Gender Inequality certification syllabus involves understanding this concept at work, in the family, and in the context of media. This course will guide students about what has been done till date to address gender inequality, and what must be done in the coming years.

Understanding Gender Inequality training is held for a month and allows students to track what exactly is their learning progress. Since the learning content is a mix of short videos, articles, audio, and practical drills so the students can be motivated without getting bored.

The Why Religion Matters: Religious Literacy, Culture and Diversity online course helps you to explore the history of religion and why it has played an essential part in the lives of people for centuries. Most importantly, it gives you a deep dive into how religion affects political and personal decisions. In today’s world, understanding this is potent to comprehend global challenges we face involving religion. 

Furthermore, the FutureLearn Why Religion Matters: Religious Literacy, Culture and Diversity programme involves learning about religious diversity and religious literacy within societies and their traditions. The programme starts with learning why religion is essential to make sense of international conflicts and domestic policy decisions.  

Besides, the Why Religion Matters: Religious Literacy, Culture and Diversity programme by Futurelearn provides case studies to discover and explore Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, and many other indigenous religions. The curriculum not only teaches contemporary context but also brings forth the modern perspective.

The Postcolonial Literature online programme is a free elective course offered by Swayam in partnership with IIT Kanpur. The course is aimed towards postgraduate English literature students from any college or university. The robust course syllabus involves various crucial literary texts that emerged in the 1980s by significant writers such as Raja Rao, Chinua Achebe, Joseph Conrad, Jhumpa Lahiri and some literary critics.

Furthermore, the Postcolonial Literature certification falls under the English studies and Humanities and Social Sciences categories. The elective course will run for four weeks and help you navigate some complex concepts and theories that are a part of postcolonial literature. Also, the programme is curated by IIT Kanpur and is delivered by its department of English Literature.

At the end of the Postcolonial Literature certification course, you will have a thorough understanding of postcolonial studies and the rich texts that left their literary imprints on the history of world literature.

Essence Of Hinduism teaches the two facets of Hinduism. On the one hand, there is historical Hinduism's aim to strike a balance between a worldly and spiritual way of living. The Hinduism of the Gita, the Upanishads, and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, which is the pinnacle of Ahimsa, as well as pure worship of one immanent, formless, imperishable God is the opposite one. The main virtue of ahimsa has been attempted to be rationalized away by our people as being exclusive to Sannyasis.

The Essence Of Hinduism Training explains how living things are subject to the laws of nature and vulnerable to growth and decay. The variations in the seasons have an impact on this enormous tree called life (soul), which was once one and unbreakable at the base. 

The Essence Of Hinduism Certification Course is more than just being a sacred religion that practices sacred and pure methods. It's a way of life and subsequently, it leads to personal self-realization and enlightenment.

All students get Essence Of Hinduism Certification by Amrita University or Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (AVV) 

How were Shakespeare's plays printed and performed four centuries ago? Why does his work still inspire us? How has Shakespeare's image changed over time? Well, the Shakespeare: Print and Performance course by FutureLearn was developed to answer these questions and more.  The programme is a four-week study into the glorious works of Shakespeare, and how it was adopted in the print and theatre medium.

The course is curated by King's College London in partnership with the British Library and Shakespeare's globe. It is designed to help you explore how Shakespeare's works continue to manifest themselves in contemporary storytelling and drama. Moreover, Shakespeare: Print and Performance online course also includes input from renowned curators, academics, publishers, theatre directors, musicians, and actors. Each of them provides their personal opinion about the global icon's early modern world works.

You will also get access to some exclusive, priceless manuscripts, made available to you by the British Library. Throughout the course, you will be engaging in scholarly discussion with the diverse learning community and will be able to draw from everyone's experiences. By opting for the “upgrade” access option of the FutureLearn Shakespeare: Print and Performance programme, you can also get a course completion certificate.