Sociology Courses and Certifications

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

Gender Studies

An interdisciplinary introduction to gender as a social, cultural, embodied, and performative force shaping identities, institutions, and power relations.

• Swayam
• 8 weeks
• 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

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

41 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Death and medicine: postponement and promise, helps you to explore the extent to which death and dying in western societies are medical events and what aspects of death and dying ...

• OpenLearn
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Criminology (犯罪学)

Explore criminological theories from classical to integrative approaches, connecting explanations of crime with punishment, criminal policy, prevention, and criminological research.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

China's Approach to Poverty Eradication

Examines China's distinctive approach to eradicating poverty.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

China's Approach to Poverty Eradication

Examines China’s path to poverty eradication through economic reform, public policy, governance, cultural practices, media, and welfare systems.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Gender and Development: Critical Theories and Approaches

11 ratings at edX

Learn about critical theories and topics in the field of gender and development

• edX
• 8 weeks, 5-8 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Men, Boys and Masculinities

8 ratings at edX

This course provides a solid introduction to studies on men, boys and masculinities, and addresses gendered issues relating to men and boys across a variety of fields.

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

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

6 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families, stems from research that explored how to improve the care and support for older people with learning ...

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

Digital innovation in social care and social work

4 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Digital innovation in social care and social work, explores how digital technology has made a difference, both to the social care sector and people living in their own communities...

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

Euro Noir: Cultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives

1 rating

Learn how crime novels, films and television dramas can help investigate European cultural identity.

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

New Media and Cultural Studies

1 rating

Analyzes how new media shape culture through rhetorical, semiotic, gender, consumption, ritual, subcultural, spatial, technological, and globalization criticism.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Gender-based violence: how to become an active bystander

Learn to recognize gender-based violence, understand its causes, and intervene as an active bystander, drawing on university-level support practices and the relevant norms and laws.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• 5 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Gender Equality in the Clean Energy Transition

Explore how greater representation of women in clean energy drives innovation: where gender and energy meet, women's experiences, and ways to expand their role in the transition.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• 7 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate