University of Pennsylvania and the United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are jointly launching a free
massive open online course on social norms and social
change.
The complete course, which consists of one
theoretical and one practical part รก 4 weeks coursework,
is taught entirely in English.
Students who already
attended previous sessions of the course rated the first
part of the course with 4.5 and the second part of the
course with 5.0 out of 5.0 possible points.
The first course will teach students how to make the
distinction between social norms and social constructs,
like customs or conventions. These distinctions are
crucial for effective policy interventions aimed to create
new, beneficial norms or eliminate harmful ones.
The course teaches how to measure social norms and
the expectations that support them, and how to decide
whether they cause specific behaviors.
The course
discusses several issues that are closely related to
human rights such as child marriage, gender violence
and sanitation practices.
The second part of the course will examine social
change, the tools that might be used to enact change
and put into practice everything that has been learnt in
the first part of the course.
While both course parts are available for free, those
who want to receive a Penn-UNICEF certification can
opt-in for a paid verified certificate.
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