Welcome to the Social Capital Course, August 2022.
Each week you will have three video-on-demand lectures to watch, supporting materials to read, and a simple quiz for each lesson to test your knowledge. At the end of the week, you can attend an optional Zoom tutorial to review the content for the week, ask questions, and discuss the content. The course content will be released a week in advance so that everyone is progressing through the course content at approximately the same time.
The course dates and outline are below:
Week 1: starting Monday, August 22, 2022
- Self-paced lectures and readings are available from Saturday, August 20, 2022.
- Introduction to social capital
- History and evolution of social capital
- Understanding social capital
- Optional Zoom tutorial for discussion and support on Friday, August 26, 2022 (two sessions to choose from 8am or 8pm UTC)
Week 2: starting Monday, August 29, 2022
- Self-paced lectures and readings are available from Saturday, August 27, 2022.
- Dimensions of social capital
- Social capital levels
- Bonding and bridging social capital
- Optional Zoom tutorial for discussion and support on Friday, September 2, 2022 (two sessions to choose from 8am or 8pm UTC)
Week 3: starting Monday, September 5, 2022
- Self-paced lectures and readings are available from Saturday, September 3, 2022.
- Sources of social capital
- Criticisms of social capital
- Measurement of social capital
- Optional Zoom tutorial for discussion and support on Friday, September 9, 2022 (two sessions to choose from 8am or 8pm UTC)
The tutorials will be held on Friday of each week at two different times to ensure a session is accessible for everyone in the world, regardless of your time zone. The tutorials will include revision of the course content for the week, discussion of key points, and will be an opportunity for participants to ask questions. These tutorials will be facilitated by Tristan Claridge, who has over 20 years of social capital experience and is an expert teacher and facilitator.