Community & Urban Studies Courses and Certifications

Changing cities

19 ratings at OpenLearn

Urban processes are increasingly held to be responsible for causing a variety of problems environmental destruction, social injustice, global financial instability. They are also identified as ...

• OpenLearn
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Empowering communities

5 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Empowering communities, discusses the most common forms of community empowerment, and explores the barriers to community empowerment and ways that these can be overcome. It will ...

• OpenLearn
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Seeing institutions in different ways

1 rating at OpenLearn

To help you to understand the complexity of institutional development, this free course, Seeing institutions in different ways, will present institutions in three key ways: as rules and norms, as ...

• OpenLearn
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Making a Difference Ⅰ: Evidence-based Impact

1 rating

Learn how you can make a difference at a global scale using reliable evidence, careful evaluation, and your unique skillset.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Applied Social Impact: Service Learning and Community Engagement

Explores service learning as ethical, reciprocal co-creation with communities through reflection, participatory appraisal, and community-focused project design.

• Swayam
• Available until Oct 31, 2026
• Free Online Course

Applied Social Impact: Service Learning and Community Engagment

Learn how service learning builds ethical, reciprocal partnerships through community needs assessment, co-created solutions, reflection, and community-focused projects.

• Swayam
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

In this 4 hour course, you’ll learn more about the Lean Data mindset and how to scope your own lean data initiative.

• Acumen Academy
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Fostering Virtual World Community Conversations

Design thinking provides “social technologies” to channel conversations into more productive areas and provides structures to make for a safe environment for individuals involved in the problem-solvin

• edX
• 5 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Career Certificate

Leading Community Based Projects in A Virtual World

This program will introduce communication tools to encourage virtual work groups and develop opportunities for connection with support networks from around the world.

• edX
• 18 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $618.00
• 3 courses

ESG Community Engagement: Strategy, Stakeholders & Reporting

4 ratings at Udemy

Build trust, map stakeholders, design initiatives, and report impact with GRI/SASB/CSRD-aligned ESG practices

• Udemy
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Who belongs to Glasgow?

1 rating at OpenLearn

How is your image of a place influenced and changed? Does it depend on whether you are a resident or an outsider? How do government and tourism campaigns and stories in the media affect your ...

• OpenLearn
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

MSO-003: Sociology of Development

Compare modernization, Marxian, Gandhian, dependency, and sustainable development perspectives on how societies change.

• Swayam
• 16 weeks
• Available until Nov 15, 2026
• Free Online Course

Connection and Community

Connection and Community emphasizes the necessity of connection and investigates how all life-forms are wired to connect, whether at a cellular level through our nerve cells, at a planetary level thro

• edX
• 12 weeks, 3-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UGC;  Dayalbagh Educational Institute

Community Engagement and Social Responsibility

Explore community engagement in rural India through self-help groups, local administration, government schemes, field work, and ethical community-engaged research.

• Swayam
• 10 weeks
• Available until Oct 30, 2026
• Free Online Course

Urban Geography

Explore how Indian cities emerge, expand, and transform through urban theory, maps, data, and lived realities.

• Swayam
• Available until Oct 31, 2026
• Free Online Course