Nos podemos encontrar una variedad bastante generosa de cursos gratuitos, si he dicho gratuito, y con una gran calidad docente, cursos a distancia eso si, pero con videos de explicación y material por escrito muy completo. Tendrían que aprender mucho aquí en Europa de esta demostración de formación a distancia. Ni corto ni perezoso me apunte "Introduction to Sociology" que os muestro un fragmento de la explicación y del profesor que dirige el curso:
Introduction to Sociology
Mitchell Duneier
In this class we will cover the essentials of sociology, to help you better understand your own life and situaAbout the Course
We live in a world that is changing very quickly. Sociology gives us the tools to understand our own lives and those quite remote from us. The premise of this class is that in order to benefit from the sociological perspective, we need to learn how to ask certain basic questions. We need to know how to seek answers through methods that strive to be systematic and generalizable.We will begin with some of the essential questions: How are the things that we take to be natural socially constructed? How do we live today? How determined is social life? Does the individual make a difference? How is social order possible? Then we will ask what techniques are available to make sense of these questions. We will review comparative, historical, demographic, experimental, and ethnographic methods. Along the way, we will study core concepts including ethnocentrism, social networks, community, unanticipated consequences, social capital, race, class, and gender.
We will strive to understand how interaction in micro-level contexts affects larger social processes and how such macro-level processes influence our day to day lives. We will learn to conceive of inequality by asking how race, class, and gender work in tandem. We will address one of the crises of recent sociology -- whether we can actually isolate the effects of social context. We will think about how social science is changing at a time when we are literally swimming in oceans of data generated by the internet.
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About the Instructor
Mitchell Duneier is Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he has received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the City University of New York. Duneier is the author of Slim's Table and Sidewalk, and the co-author (with Anthony Giddens, et. al) of the textbooks Introduction to Sociology and Essentials of Sociology.La duración del curso son 6 semanas, con un profesor de sociologio más destacados del planeta con un curriculum que hecha para atrás. Merece la pena escuchar las horas de videos con subtítulos en inglés, y con material lectivo que lo puedes descargar en pdf. Como este curso estaba empezado en Junio he llegado un poco tarde, pero para empezar bien a finales de julio empeza la lista de los lista que me he apuntado:
- Introduction to finance "University of Michigan" - 23 Julio 2012
- Gamifacation "University of Pennsylvania" - Agosto 2012
- Statistics One "Pricenton University" - 3 Septiembre 2012
- Model Thinking "University of Michigan" - Septiembre 2012
- Networks: friends, money and bytes "Princenton University" - 3 Septiembre 2012
La verdad es que no se si voy a tener tiempo para tanto pero la oferta docente es de calidad, se nota que son universidades privadas que cuestan un pastón, jajajajajaja....
Os animo a provar estás iniciativas que están muy bien!! Explicarme vuestras experiencias y si os habéis apuntar en alguno de los cursos.
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