Social Sciences Courses and Certifications

Stanford Seminar - Life Hacks for Breakthrough Thinking

Discover mental exercises to enhance creativity, embrace failure, and cultivate innovative thinking. Learn practical tools for fostering "eureka" moments and developing breakthrough ideas from expert authors and speakers.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

William J. Perry on Energy, National Security and Technology

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William J. Perry shares insights on the intersection of energy, national security, and technology, drawing from his extensive experience in government and defense.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Action for India - Scaling Social Impact through Technology

Explore how technology can scale social impact in India, featuring insights from Action for India leaders on entrepreneurship, innovation, and transformative change.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Using Nudges to Create Sustainable Lifestyle Changes

Learn strategies to create an environment that promotes healthy choices through nudges, with actionable examples to help achieve your health goals from a registered dietitian and diabetes educator.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Challenges, Choices, and Rewards of Caregiving - A Conversation with Dave Iverson

Intimate conversation exploring caregiving journey, balancing challenges and rewards. Insights from journalist's decade-long experience caring for his mother with Parkinson's, offering valuable perspectives on eldercare.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Caring for Family Members with Chronic or Serious Illnesses - Roles, Challenges, and Coping

Explore caregiving challenges in Asian cultures, focusing on dementia and breast cancer. Learn strategies to identify and manage stress while supporting family members with chronic illnesses.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Coping when Caring for Adults with Chronic or Serious Illnesses

Strategies to increase joy and lower stress when caring for adults with chronic illnesses, presented by Dr. Ranak Trivedi. Explores the emotional aspects of caregiving and offers practical coping techniques.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

AI, Archaeology, and Archives - How Data Science is Helping to Reveal Past Epidemics

Exploring malaria's impact through data science, integrating archaeological, historical, and genetic datasets to reveal socio-political influences on disease spread over the last 300 years.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Amy Zegart - Spies, Lies, and Algorithms

Explore the evolving landscape of intelligence in the digital age, examining challenges, emerging technologies, and the democratization of espionage in our interconnected world.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Regulating Problematic Behaviors Through Environmental Change - Stanford Seminar

Explore how social environments shape misinformation exposure and out-party animosity, and learn strategies for designing interventions to reduce problematic behaviors.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Rethinking Design for Accessibility

Explores innovative approaches to accessibility in technology design, emphasizing collaborative, situated, and enacted perspectives. Presents case studies that challenge traditional views and highlight social and political dimensions.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Human-Centered AI for Mental Health Prediction in Social Media Data

Exploring human-centered machine learning for ethical and compassionate mental health predictions on social media, combining Media Studies and Computer Science approaches.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Replication Strategies for More Robust Human Simulation - Stanford Seminar

Exploring replication strategies to enhance robustness of human behavior simulations using Large Language Models, focusing on perturbation and iteration techniques.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Online Communities as Model Systems for Commons Governance

Exploring how online communities serve as laboratories for self-governance, offering insights into institutional design and functioning through computational social science approaches.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Silicon Valley and the U.S. Government - Saronic Technologies' Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Explore maritime security innovation with Saronic Technologies' CEO, discussing unmanned surface vehicles and the intersection of Silicon Valley technology with government collaboration.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video