Social Media Courses

Visual Media for Effective Healthcare Communication

Enhance your ability to connect with an audience using visual presentation. Gain tools and strategies to communicate more effectively via the media, with guidance from leading Stanford Medicine facult

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

Leveraging Social Theories to Enhance Human-AI Interaction

Explores how interpretability tools can amplify human decision-making shortcuts, and how social theories can guide more effective human–AI partnerships.

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

Understanding Social Media's Role in Mental Health: Causal Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Pathways

Explore the complex relationship between social media and mental health through cutting-edge research, examining causal perspectives and discovering how digital platforms impact psychological well-being.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Harnessing Data for Social Impact - Empowering Communities through Visualization and Social Computing

Community-centered visualization and social computing help the public shape decisions on civic challenges such as urban planning and climate change.

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

Climate Change - The Science, Social Will, and Solutions

Explore the science of climate change, its energy connections, and solutions in this lecture by Kirsten Stasio, examining both the technical aspects and social challenges of addressing global warming.

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

Social Entrepreneurship

406 ratings at Coursera

Build a social enterprise from scratch: define the social problem, segment beneficiaries, map deliverables and costs, and run a low-cost test-of-concept.

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

What is Social?

12 ratings

Start building a social strategy: interpret digital disruption, define your target audience on social, distinguish networks from communities, and set up your social profiles.

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

Applied Social Network Analysis in Python

2729 ratings at Coursera

Model real-world phenomena as networks: measure connectivity, centrality with degree, closeness, betweenness and PageRank, and study network evolution and link prediction using NetworkX.

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

ESG: Social Issues & Materiality

Determine how social issues impact the bottom-line of company operators, financial service providers, and industry at large

• Corporate Finance Institute
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Community Organizing for Social Justice

327 ratings at Coursera

Learn seven steps for driving community change: assess community assets and needs, form core groups, navigate difficult intergroup dialogue, and build strategy around targets and allies.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Business Strategies for Social Impact

558 ratings at Coursera

Learn to lead a purpose-driven organization: apply five models of social purpose, measure impact with SDGs, ESG criteria and SROI, and evaluate impact investing models.

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

Network Dynamics of Social Behavior

402 ratings at Coursera

Invisible properties of social networks drive social change: explore agent-based models in NetLogo of segregation, complex contagions, unpopular norms, emergent conventions, and team problem solving.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

ESG and Social Activism

180 ratings at Coursera

Evaluate ESG ratings against financial performance and build boards that govern them: director independence, CEO succession, executive compensation, activism risk, and inclusive culture.

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

Ethical Decision-Making in a Social World

Examine how stereotypes, conformity, moral emotions, and power shape ethical judgment, and apply strategies to resist unethical pressure and lead with integrity.

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

Career Certificate

Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) Specialization

6308 ratings at Corporate Finance Institute

Become an Environmental, Social, & Governance specialist with valuable skills in investing, financial and corporate strategy, and more, and earn an in-demand ESG certification program upon completion

• Corporate Finance Institute
• 17 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course