Social Sciences Courses and Certifications

Causal Inference Bootcamp - Your Guide to Experiments

Comprehensive guide to causal inference, covering experimental design, analysis, and real-world applications. Explores controlled experiments, natural experiments, and key issues in research methodology.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Academic Achievement of Children in Same Sex and Different-Sex-Parented Families

1 rating

Explore research on same-sex parenting, including socio-economic characteristics, challenges, and academic outcomes of children. Gain insights into debates surrounding this topic and understand the latest findings from comprehensive studies.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Econometric Methods in Social Sciences

Master econometric methods for analyzing causal relationships in social sciences, covering regression models, hypothesis testing, time series analysis, and panel data through practical applications in economics and finance.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

项目策略和评价的要点

非营利组织或政府机构提供了各式各样的社会项目(social program)，无论这些项目涉及到健康、教育、药物滥用或环境或是其他领域，他们都需要妥善的规划与评估。在本课程中，我将引导你们学习如何运用策略框架（strategic framework）来更好的发展你们的组织和项目 。

• edX
• 4 weeks, 5-10 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Computation for Social Sciences: Wolfram U Class

Explore social science concepts using Wolfram Language: analyze texts, map historical boundaries, study social networks, and determine political sentiment from tweets using built-in and external data.

• Wolfram U
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

A Law Student's Toolkit

5 ratings

Build a strong legal foundation with terminology, concepts, and tools used by lawyers and academics. Develop critical thinking skills to analyze arguments and craft your own in various legal contexts.

• Coursera
• 22 hours 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Impact of Evolutionary Thought on the Social Sciences - Lecture 22

Explore evolutionary transitions in human society, examining conflicts between individual and group selection, and their impact on cooperation, aggression, and cultural norms.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Science of Networks - C4 Public Lectures

Explore the emerging science of networks, their structure, and function across diverse systems. Learn about phase transitions, interdependence, and mathematical models for predicting network behavior and consequences.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Incentives, Levers and Beliefs

Explore psychological, social, and economic mechanisms to mitigate pandemics and their societal effects. Gain insights from experts on collective decision-making and applying rigorous social science concepts to combat current and future health crises.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Law of the Few

Explore how a small group of influencers shape information flow in social networks, using mathematical models and experiments to explain this phenomenon and its economic implications.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Research in Action - Making an Impact Through Social Science

Experts share strategies for translating academic research into real-world impact, discussing challenges and offering tips for emerging social scientists to effectively communicate findings beyond academia.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Understanding economic policymaking

5 ratings

Analyze economic policies' impact on GDP, inflation, and unemployment. Learn fiscal and monetary tools, debts, deficits, and real-world applications in developed countries.

• Coursera
• 17 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Child Protection: Children's Rights in Theory and Practice

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Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

• edX
• 16 weeks, 2-6 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Does the Left Have a Future? - 2017-2018 Dean's Lecture in Social Sciences

Historian Michael Kazin explores the current crisis of the left in Europe and the US, analyzing its causes and potential paths forward for both radical and liberal factions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Aspen Institute

Restructuring America and Reopening Cultural Venues - Day 1 Plenary

Explore transportation's role in restructuring America, the revival of theater post-pandemic, and valuable life lessons from the global crisis in this thought-provoking discussion on societal changes and cultural resilience.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video