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List of NPTEL Humanities Courses 2025
| SUBJECT | COURSE | INSTITUTE | DURATION | COURSE STARTING DATE | ENROLLMENT DEADLINE | CLICK TO JOIN |
| Humanities and Social Science | Development of Sociology in India | University of Allahabad | 4 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs09/preview |
| Humanities and Social Science | Education for Sustainable Development | IIT Kharagpur | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs12/preview |
| Humanities and Social Science | Elements of Literature and Creative Communication | IIT Kharagpur | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs15/preview |
| Humanities and Social Science | Emotional Intelligence | IIT Kharagpur | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs16/preview |
| Humanities and Social Science | Employment Communication A Lab based course | IIT Kharagpur | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs17/preview |
| Humanities and Social Science | Introduction On Intellectual Property To Engineers And Technologists | IIT Kharagpur | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs38/preview |
| Humanities and Social Science | Legal Compliance for Incorporating Startup | IIT Kharagpur | 4 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs52/preview |
| Humanities and Social Science | Petroleum Economics and Management | IIT Kharagpur | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs62/preview |
| Humanities and Social Science | Soft Skill Development | IIT Kharagpur | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs72/preview |
| Humanities and Social Science | Strategic Performance Management | IIT Kharagpur | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs73/preview |
| Humanities and Social Science | Training and Development | IIT Kharagpur | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs78/preview |
| Humanities and Social Science | Victorian Literature: An Interdisciplinary Introduction | IIT Roorkee | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs82/preview |
| Humanities and Social Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science | Social Behavior and the Brain: An Introduction to Social Neuroscience | IIT Kanpur | 8 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs101/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Advanced Level of Spoken Sanskrit | IIT Kharagpur | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs01/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | An Introduction to Microeconomics | IIT Kanpur | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs02/preview |
| Humanities and social sciences | Appreciating Hindustani Music | Ahmedabad University | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs03/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Basics of language Science | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs04/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Bilingualism: A cognitive and psycholinguistic perspective | IIT Guwahati | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs05/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Contemporary Literature | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs07/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Contextualizing Gender | IIT Roorkee | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs08/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Economic Growth And Development | IIT Guwahati | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs11/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Educational Technology and ICT | Visva-Bharati | 12 weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs13/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Effective Writing | IIT Roorkee | 4 Weeks + 4 Weeks (New) | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs14/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Energy Resources, Economics and Environment | IIT Delhi | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs18/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | English language for competitive exams | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs19/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | English Literature of the Romantic Period, 1798-1832 | University of Hyderabad | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs21/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Exploring Survey Data on Health Care | IIT Roorkee | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs23/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Feminism : Concepts and Theories | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs24/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | German – I | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs25/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | German – II | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs26/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | German – III | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs27/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Globalization: Theoretical Perspectives | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs28/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Great Experiments in Psychology | IIT Kharagpur | 4 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs29/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Group Dynamics | IIT Roorkee | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs30/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Health Research Fundamentals | NIE | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs31/preview |
| Humanities And Social Sciences | Indian Business History | IIT Guwahati | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs32/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Feminisms: Concepts and Issues | IIT Hyderabad | 4 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs33/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Poetry in English | IIT Roorkee | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs35/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Intellectual Property | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs36/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Introducing Modern Western Art: Movements and Artists | Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan | 4 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs37/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Introduction to Brain and Behaviour | IIT Kanpur | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs39/preview |
| Humanities And Social Sciences | Introduction To Cognitive Psychology | IIT Guwahati | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs40/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Introduction to Cultural Studies | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs41/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Introduction to Environmental Economics | IIT Roorkee | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs42/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture | IIT Kanpur | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs43/preview |
| Humanities And Social Sciences | Introduction To Modern Indian Political Thought | IIT Guwahati | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs44/preview |
| Humanities and social sciences | Introduction to Pāṇinian grammar | IIT Bombay | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs45/preview |
| Humanities And Social Sciences | Introduction To Political Theory | IIT Guwahati | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs46/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Introduction to Psychology | IIT Kanpur | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs47/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Introduction to World Literature | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs48/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Japani Bhasha – Saral swaroop | IIT Kanpur | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs49/preview |
| Humanities And Social Sciences | Language, Culture And Cognition: An Introduction | IIT Guwahati | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs50/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Learning English in Hindi | IIT Madras | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs51/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Literary Criticism (From Plato to Leavis) | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs54/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Literature and Coping Skills | IIT(BHU) Varanasi | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs55/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Literature and Life | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs56/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Modern Indian Writing in Translation | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs57/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Narrative Mode and Fiction renamed as ‘Fiction: Epics, Novels and Poetry’ | IIT Roorkee | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs58/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Online Communication in the Digital Age | IIT Roorkee | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs59/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Patent Drafting for Beginners | IIT Madras | 4 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs60/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Patent Law for Engineers and Scientists | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs61/preview |
| Humanities And Social Sciences | Philosophical Foundations Of Social Research | IIT Guwahati | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs63/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Philosophy and Critical Thinking | IIT-ISM Dhanbad | 12 weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs64/preview |
| Humanities And Social Sciences | Phonetics And Phonology: A Broad Overview | IIT Guwahati | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs65/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Psychiatry – An Overview and How the Brain Creates Mind | IIT Kanpur | 8 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs66/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Psychology of Personality and Individual Differences: Theory and Applications | IIT Guwahati | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs67/preview |
| Humanities And Social Sciences | Psychology Of Stress, Health And Well-Being | IIT Guwahati | 12 weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs68/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Science Communication: Research Productivity and Data Analytics using Open Source Software | IIT Delhi | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs70/preview |
| Humanities And Social Sciences | Sociological Perspectives On Modernity | IIT Guwahati | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs71/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Strength & Conditioning for the Indian Population | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs74/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Technology Transfer Through Joint Venture | IIT Kharagpur | 4 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs75/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | The Nineteenth – Century English Novel | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs76/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Trauma and Literature | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs79/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Twentieth Century Fiction | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs80/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) | IIT Hyderabad | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs81/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | समास samāsa in Pāṇinian grammar- I | IIT Bombay | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs83/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Cognitive Ergonomics | IIT Roorkee | 4 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs84/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Complete guide for campus interviews: Step by step preparation for Internships and Full-time jobs | IIT Palakkad Careerbolt | 4 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs85/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Enhancing Soft Skills and Personality | IIT Kanpur | 8 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs87/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Essentials of Sports Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation | IIT Madras | 8 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs88/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Forensic Linguistics | National Forensic Sciences Universtiy (INI) | 4 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs89/preview |
| Humanities And Social Sciences | Human Behaviour | IIT Guwahati | 8 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs91/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Human Movement Science | IIT Madras | 8 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs92/preview |
| Humanities And Social Sciences | Introduction To Modern Indian Drama | IIT Guwahati | 8 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs94/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Language and Mind | IIT Madras | 8 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs95/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Mastering Speaking and Presentations: A case Based Approach | IIT Kharagpur | 8 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs96/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Modern Indian Art From the Colonial Period to the Present | Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan | 4 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs97/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Modernisation and Creative Communication | IIT Kharagpur | 8 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs98/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Psychology Of Bilingualism And Multilingualism | IIT Kanpur | 8 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs99/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Sociology and Sanitation: An Introduction | University of Allahabad | 4 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs102/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | The Science of Happiness and Wellbeing | IIT Kharagpur | 8 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs103/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Towards an Ethical Digital Society: From Theory to Practice | IIIT Bangalore | 4 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs104/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Anti-Doping Awareness in Sports | IIT Madras | 8 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs105/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Toolkit of PE Teachers: Basic | IIT Madras | 4 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs106/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Advanced Course in Performance Traditions of the Mahabharata in Tamil Nadu- 2 | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs107/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Korean II | IIT Madras | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs108/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences (Economics) | Introduction to Economic Growth- I | IIT Kanpur | 4 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs93/preview |
| Humanities and Social Sciences,English | Refugee, Migration, Diaspora | IIT Roorkee | 12 Weeks | January 20, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs69/preview |
| Humanities/Urban Studies/Gender Studies | Gender Inclusive Urban Spaces: Issues and Questions | IIT Madras | 4 Weeks | February 17, 2025 | February 17, 2025 | https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs90/preview |
