Sociology Courses and Certifications

Sociology for Teachers: Professional Development

A broad sociology survey for teachers, covering foundational theories and research methods alongside society, inequality, identity, institutions, and social change.

• Study.com
• 14 hours 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Sports and Society

9 ratings

Examine sports through anthropology, sociology, and history: globalization and nationalism, race and cultural identity, women's sports, the megabusiness of sports, and extreme outdoor adventure.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Model Thinking

64 ratings

Think with many models: work through Schelling segregation, tipping points, Markov processes, random walks, the prisoners' dilemma, and replicator dynamics to explain social phenomena.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

• Best of All Time

Global Sociology

1 rating

Connect your personal biography to global history as you develop your sociological imagination.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

University of Hyderabad;  UGC

Environmental Sociology

1 rating

Examines how social structures, environmental movements, resource governance, and theories of risk and sustainability shape human–nature relations, with an Indian perspective.

• Swayam
• 15 weeks
• Available until Oct 26, 2026
• Free Online Course

Fundamentals of Sociology

11 ratings at edX

This course is an introduction to the study of human social behavior, social groups, and society. The course emphasizes the basic concepts and theories found in the discipline of sociology. This cours

• edX
• 8 weeks, 8-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Career Certificate

Computational Social Science

146 ratings

Digital technology changed both society and how we study it: use computational social science methods, social network analysis, computer simulations, and big data ethics to examine human behavior.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

Computational Social Science Methods

151 ratings

Survey computational social science through four applications: digital footprints and development, machine learning and AI, social network analysis, and computer simulations of social emergence.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

• Best of All Time

Sociology of Work

Explore how work, workplace culture, labour markets, and production relations shape social identity, wellbeing, inequality, and everyday life through sociological theory.

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

Sr.Secondary : Sociology (331)

An introduction to studying society scientifically, examining institutions, groups, social interactions, and processes of sociocultural change.

• Swayam
• 24 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

New York Institute of Technology;  Modern States

Introductory Sociology

This course covers all of the substantive material that is usually taught in an introductory one-semester college course on Sociology

• Independent
• 6 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

SOC101: Introduction to Sociology

Explore how society works: culture and socialization, social inequality, major institutions, and the forces behind social change and contemporary social issues.

• Saylor University
• 42 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Introduction to Sociology

Explore how sociology applies to everyday life, examining social class and social institutions such as churches, education, healthcare, government, the economy, and the environment.

• StraighterLine
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

NPTEL;  IIT Kanpur

Introductory Sociology

An introductory survey of society, institutions, power, inequality, social change, and sociological methods, including ethnography in India.

• YouTube
• 1 day 13 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Becoming a changemaker: Introduction to Social Innovation

40 ratings

Learn to act as a social innovator: tackle complex "wicked" problems, spot hidden resources, apply Design Thinking, challenge system rules, and scale social impact.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

• Best of All Time