SDG 17: Partnerships Courses

Lund University

Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities

53 reviews

This course explores sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy in Europe and around the world. We place cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change. We connect the key trends of urbanization, decarbonisation…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 13th Jun, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

UCT

Becoming a changemaker: Introduction to Social Innovation

36 reviews

This free 6 week course is for anyone who wants to make a difference. Whether you are already familiar with the field of social innovation or social entrepreneurship, working for an organization that wants to increase its social impact, or just starting…

• Coursera
• 20 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 3 weeks from now (18th Jul)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

The Age of Sustainable Development

14 reviews

The Age of Sustainable Development" gives students an understanding of the key challenges and pathways to sustainable development - that is, economic development that is also socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable.

• Coursera
• 30 hours worth of material, 14 weeks long
• Tomorrow
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Food and Our Environment

This course is designed to help learners around the world become more sustainable eaters.

• Coursera
• 5-6 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• Tomorrow
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Confronting Gender Based Violence: Global Lessons for Healthcare Workers

3 reviews

This course introduces participants from the healthcare sector to gender based violence (GBV), including global epidemiology of GBV; health outcomes; seminal research; and clinical best practices for GBV prevention, support, and management.

• Coursera
• 22 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• Tomorrow
• Free Online Course (Audit)

LEI

The Changing Global Order

10 reviews

How are international power relations changing and how can global peace and stability be maintained? This course familiarizes you with some main theories of international relations, shows how the global order is gradually changing and discusses how selec…

• Coursera
• 30 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• Tomorrow
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Global Trends for Business and Society

1 review

In this course, you’ll learn to analyze rapidly changing global trends, their effects on consumer and labor markets, financial systems, and geopolitical relationships among countries all over the world.

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (4th Jul)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Feeding the World

This course will explore the concepts driving current food production science (population growth, urbanization, emerging affluence, resource constraints, and underlying biological limits) with the main focus on livestock production.

• Coursera
• 20 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• Tomorrow
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Health and Society

7 reviews

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the major social variables that affect population health.

• edX
• 4 weeks long
• Self paced
• Paid Course

The Challenge of World Poverty (Spring 2011)

This is a course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty, and are hopeful that economists might have something useful to say about this challenge.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 25 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Poverty & Population: How Demographics Shape Policy

The course is part of a sequence in social policy that has an HONORS TRACK. This course addresses issues of power, oppression, and white supremacy.

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (4th Jul)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Sustainability

16 reviews

This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations.

• Coursera
• 25 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 2 weeks from now (11th Jul)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

America's Poverty and Inequality Course

1 review

It’s a special moment in U.S. history in which income inequality has reached unprecedented levels, poverty remains extreme, and racial and gender inequalities are intransigent. Why is there so much inequality and poverty? How might they be reduced? Find…

• edX
• 2-4 hours a week, 9 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Country Level Economics: Policies, Institutions, and Macroeconomic Performance

1 review

This course examines macroeconomic performance in the short and long run based on the economy’s institutional and policy environment.

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 2 days from now (29th Jun)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Global Strategy I: How The Global Economy Works

1 review

Starting in the late 1990s, “globalization” became a buzzword to describe the apparent integration of markets in the world economy. Many authors and pundits claimed that the world was converging towards a market-friendly democratic place, while gurus and…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• Tomorrow
• Free Online Course (Audit)