Learn about social issues online with flexible online courses exploring the modern world's most pressing social problems.

Learn new skills, pursue your interests or advance your career with our short online courses.

University of Leeds

Incarceration: Are Prisons a Suitable Punishment?

2 weeks

4 hrs per week

Included in Unlimited

University of Leeds

Social Model of Disability

2 weeks

4 hrs per week

Included in Unlimited

The Open University

Understanding Global Development Management

2 weeks

3 hrs per week

Included in Unlimited

University of Bristol

Unleash Your Potential: Global Citizenship

4 weeks

3 hrs per week

Included in Unlimited

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

The History of Protest in Aotearoa New Zealand

6 weeks

3 hrs per week

Included in Unlimited

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Biodiversity, Guardianship, and the Natural History of New Zealand: A Museum Perspective

2 weeks

2 hrs per week

Included in Unlimited

UCL (University College London), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) & Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI)

Transforming Urban Mobility: Introduction to Transport Planning for Sustainable Cities

4 weeks

3 hrs per week

Included in Unlimited

Amnesty International UK

Anti-Racism and Human Rights: Understanding and confronting racism, discrimination and inequality

3 weeks

1 hr per week

Included in Unlimited

Explore the social issues that matter, with these online courses from FutureLearn.

You’ll examine some of the most challenging and fascinating issues facing our society right now – from migration to gender to the need for interfaith dialogue.

FutureLearn is designed to make learning easy, fun and flexible. You’ll be able to study big social issues online in little chunks – in your own time, on your own terms. These courses are ideal for anyone wanting to tackle the grand issues society faces, and learn what we can do about them.