Online Social Science Courses & Certifications

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.

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. 

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.

The Tabernacle in Word & Image: An Italian Jewish Manuscript Revealed certification course is an estimated 5 weeks online course. This programme can be studied through the online platform edX. The syllabus comprises five video lectures in number and are short that explore Mantua, Malkiel Ashkenazi’s Tavnit ha-mishkan manuscripts.

The Tabernacle in Word & Image: An Italian Jewish Manuscript Revealed training course has no pre-requirement of knowing Jewish or intellectual history. This short history programme also introduces a free, and fascinating Italian Jewish text concerning the collection portrayed at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Guetta explains through this programme by studying the manuscripts which state how Jews intellectually lived their lives.

2 different tracks are offered by Edx, one of which is the audit track which offers limited but free access whereas the other one is the verified track which gives unlimited access to the course materials.

In the recent past, conserving cultural heritage has become a vital discussion worldwide. Time and again, urbanisation poses challenges for new development that can maintain the age-old qualities and values of urban areas. The Cultural Heritage in Transformation training allows students to understand, explore, sustain, and utilise a city's cultural heritage.

RWTH Aachen University, one of the most famous institutions in Europe, is offering the five-week-long Cultural Heritage in Transformation programme. The instructor-led course requires students to devote five-six hours per week. Throughout the training, industry veterans will introduce several topic-based approaches and methods using the City of Aachen as a model for candidates. Students will learn with examples of the city, landscapes, artefacts, and individual buildings. 

The Cultural Heritage in Transformation course curriculum also features assignments and revision questions for practice and better understanding. The intermediate-level training runs on a course schedule. The signed and verified edX certification that you will receive after completing the curriculum and paying a fixed price will add immense value to your job profile.

The online programme is provided in a self-paced mode and it can be taken by the learners in two modes; certificate and free. In the paid certificate mode, the candidates will get unlimited access to the course whereas in the free mode, they will be given access only for a limited period of time. 

A significant part of the history of the world, the American past holds a great number of gems hidden to date from many which can be used to figure out patterns that are closely interlinked with the present of this globe, which precisely the course will be mentioned in detail. Smithsonian’s Objects That Define America boasts about a perspective of history that is unique to its contents and mentions the iconic symbols, which though were of great significance in that era, have come to be forgotten.

By the end of the Smithsonian’s Objects That Define America certification course, the candidates will have a distinct knowledge of objects narrating the key points in the history of America. They will have gained insight into the distance as well as the recent past through observation of the moments collected in Smithsonian, giving them the opportunity to recognize precious artifacts, their stories and be able to connect and create their lifetimes. 

Smithsonian’s Objects That Define America course will help the candidates in all fields connected to or using the knowledge of, America’s history, valuable memorabilia, their theoretical studies, sequencing timelines, and such.

Have you ever wondered what made Star Trek a cult classic? How it began as an unsuccessful network series and transformed into a whole universe of feature films, fan conventions, television series, and memorabilia? If yes, then choose edX’s Star Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology III programme. Here, you’ll take an in-depth look into why this globally popular series resonates with millions. Offered by The Smithsonian Institution, this is a five-week introductory training in ‘History’. 

The immersive Star Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology III certification syllabus will employ object exploration, critical analysis, Star Trek’s clips, experts’ viewpoints, and debate sessions with fans. Additionally, you will also examine how this series’ motion films and live-action tv shows impacted audiences worldwide. The curriculum will also explain how this cult movie tackled various controversial subjects, including gender, sexuality, race, and ethics.

The Star Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology III online course provides free auditing and an optional certificate (paid). The curriculum schedule is self-paced, has English transcripts, and requires just one to three hours of study every week. 

From the year 1868 of Japan’s emergence as a new nation, the Modern Japanese Architecture Part 1: From Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War course by edX illustrates the roots of modern buildings in Japan. These lasted over three-quarters of a century. Teachings and video transcripts for the course are available in English. By paying a fee, edX offers a verified certificate to its learners.

The edX Modern Japanese Architecture Part 1 course focuses on the westernisation of Japanese architecture that lasted from the period of 1868 to 1945. Intensive processes set in by westernisation include the ‘functionalist’ innovations of Le Corbusier. It also includes the ‘stripped-down’ approaches of Walter Gropius that influenced Japanese architecture. 

Spread across five weeks, this intermediate course in Modern Japanese Architecture is taught by a specially appointed professor of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Mr. David B. Stewart is the author of several books and monographs relevant to the course and has relevant domain experience.

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 message of social change must be communicated effectively to the people, to bring about a necessary change in society. Stories have the power to influence people and even shape their attitudes. When the viewers or listeners connect with the protagonist, the artist, or the storytellers, the audience receives the message. The Storytelling for Social Change Course by Edx explores how you can trigger social change through the art of storytelling.

Furthermore, the Edx Storytelling for Social Change Course discusses how a well-crafted story can create empathy in a listener that can help them see world issues from a new perspective. The course will help budding writers and writing enthusiasts learn valuable writing skills and create a change in the social structure through storytelling. 

Besides, the Course on Storytelling for Social Change is a self-paced programme in which students shall learn through video interviews and performances. The free course includes professionals working for non-profit organisations as well as social activists and community workers. Candidates can choose their path when they look forward to enrolment. They can choose either the audit track or the verified track. In the case of the audit track, the candidates will only be able to access the course for a limited period whereas in the case of the verified track, the course access is unlimited.

The candidates that participate in this Energy Markets of Today Certification will be dealing with the knowledge of laws of economics that govern the energy market. The Energy Markets of Today course by edX makes sure that the candidates have the fundamental concepts strengthened in them such as the impact of generators and consumers, and the role they play to shape the energy market and its transactions, and ultimately the energy system. They will also be learning the invisible hand that is the economics behind these processes. After being graduates of this Energy Markets of Today Certification, they will be able to answer many questions such as why electricity rates fluctuate and how are these rates determined, and also, the reason why encouragement of investments is difficult in the generation of electricity.

Within five weeks and an intensive study of 4 to 6 hours per week, candidates will be getting themselves ready to apply for different workplaces as well as will be taking on challenges, problems and questions related to the nature of energy markets and their operations. The learners can purse the course either by paying the fee (verified) or free of cost (audit). In the audit track, they will have only a limited period of access to the programme. 

Development in Emerging Economies: The Case of China program is made by the Peking University's Guanghua School of Management to make the subject of China's advancement more available through a cooperation with the World Bank's Open Learning Campus.

Guanghua's educators will unload China's improvements in more than five weeks, first giving an outline of China's monetary development as a setting before tending to private value, land financing, banking, the securities exchange, abundance of the board, and different subjects related to China's monetary business sectors. The last fourteen days will zero in on giving an outline of the business climate in China, including fintech, customer attributes, web organizations, the computerized economy, and business ventures and advancement. Before the finish of the course, students ought to have a strong handle on the victories China has seen during its advancement just as difficulties it should even now survive.

The data given in Development in Emerging Economies: The Case of China Certification will be helpful for students associated with global business, financial matters, or accounts; students inspired by Asia, and students from the public authority area searching for novel plans to apply in their nations. One can find 2 tracks for studying the course, one is the audit mode and the other is the verified mode. During the audit mode, the candidates will be able to access the course for a limited period. On the other hand, the candidates will be getting unlimited access to the course materials in the verified track.

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. 

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. 

The media is a powerful tool for promoting social justice. The Activism and Citizen Journalism through Media programme will provide valuable information and guidance to individuals for using media to create awareness for social causes. Individuals will learn how to practise ethical and safe media practices.

Activism and Citizen Journalism through Media by edX will provide in-depth information on how to identify a newsworthy story and how to create and assess the impact it creates. It will also guide you on how to zero-in on appropriate platforms to publicise a story. This is a short-term course with a duration of four weeks.

Activism and Citizen Journalism through Media is an introductory course in Communication and requires no prerequisites to join. It is the result of a collaboration between edX and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wit University), Johannesburg. The educators consist of an experienced panel of faculty from Wits. The course also offers a verified certificate for students who successfully complete the course.