Social Science
What you’ll learn
- Key factors on India’s development and the challenges they present (language, culture, communication technology, etc.)
- Key ideas–push and pull factors–that drive India towards the path of globalisation
- The dynamic, complex and interdependent nature of various cultural facets, and their application to your personal and professional contexts
What you’ll learn
- Discover what happiness is and why it matters to you
- Learn how to increase your own happiness
- Understand the power of social connections and the science of empathy
- Discover what is mindfulness and its real world applications
What you’ll learn
- Why and when rigorous evaluation of social impact is needed
- The pitfalls of common evaluation designs, and why randomization helps
- The key components of a well-designed randomized evaluation
- Alternative techniques for incorporating randomization into project design
- How to determine the appropriate sample size, measure outcomes, and manage data
- Guarding against threats that may undermine the integrity of the results
- Techniques for the analysis and interpretation of results
- How to maximize policy impact and test external validity
- The whys and hows of comparative cost-effectiveness analysis for informed policy making
What you’ll learn
On completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Understand what employability is and why it is important.
- Recognise opportunities for employability development.
- Apply self-reflective methods to interpret your experiences and connect them to your employability.
- Develop your communication skills to convey your potential to employers in the recruitment context.
- Convey your unique qualities and skills to potential employers in various employment contexts.
- Define professionalism and understand how to conduct yourself appropriately in the work environment.
- Prepare for the transition from university to your first job.
- Determine how to develop your employability throughout your career and understand the benefits of lifelong learning.
- Recognise the value of working globally.
What you’ll learn
- Understand the multidimensional nature and content of corporate social responsibility.
- Adopt a critical perspective on managerial practices related to societal issues.
- Stimulate and manage impactful changes in organizations, toward more responsible postures.
- Reconcile multiple stakeholders’ interests (and understand the importance of doing so), into a clear, persuasive, smart action and communication plan.
- Recognize the risks of CSR washing, as well as the opportunities related to a strong CSR communication strategy.