Taking your first steps into higher education
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  • Introduction and guidance
    • What is a badged course?
    • How to get a badge
  • Introduction
  • 1 Some assumptions
  • 2 Active learning
    • 2.1 Higher education – some options
  • 3 What's right for you?
  • 4 What should I study?
  • 5 This week's quiz
  • 6 Summary
  • Introduction
  • 1 What is learning in the arts and humanities like?
  • 2 What is poetry?
    • 2.1 Feelings about poetry
    • 2.2 Poetry is powerful
    • 2.3 The effects of poetry
  • 3 Learning to engage with a poem
  • 4 The study diamond
    • 4.1 Effects
    • 4.2 Techniques
    • 4.3 Context
    • 4.4 Meaning
    • 4.5 Studying works of literature and art
  • 5 This week's quiz
  • 6 Summary
  • Introduction
  • 1 What is art?
    • 1.1 Defining art
  • 2 Artworks and their effects
    • 2.1 Emotional impact of an artwork
    • 2.2 The relationship between effects and techniques
  • 3 The form of art: looking at techniques
    • 3.1 Colour
      • Has a wide or narrow palette of colours been used?
      • Have contrasting colours been placed next to each other?
      • Are there more warm colours than cool colours or vice versa?
      • In what way is dark and light colour used?
    • 3.2 Analysing colour
    • 3.3 Medium
  • 4 Analysing sculpture and installations
  • 5 This week's quiz
  • 6 Summary
  • Introduction
  • 1 Social science and the everyday
    • 1.1 Identity
    • 1.2 How social science thinking works
  • 2 Social science: individuals and identity
    • 2.1 Cultural and group identities and belonging to groups
    • 2.2 Group membership
    • 2.3 Spider diagrams
  • 3 Communicating connections
    • 3.1 Appropriate space
  • 4 Stereotyping
    • 4.1 Piecing together an identity
      • Barry’s identity as you know it
  • 5 This week's quiz
  • 6 Summary
  • Introduction
  • 1 Is work in the home shared today?
    • 1.1 Changes in women’s employment patterns
    • 1.2 Division of labour within families
    • 1.3 Making sense
    • 1.4 How work is divided in different families
  • 2 Location and life chances for families
    • 2.1 Life chances and place
    • 2.2 Comparing different housing
    • 2.3 Housing wealth as an influence on life chances
  • 3 This week's quiz
  • 4 Summary
  • Introduction
  • 1 What are science, technology and maths?
  • 2 Communicating ideas and information
    • 2.1 Reading text
    • 2.2 Understanding diagrams
    • 2.3 Reading graphs
      • Population levelling off
  • 3 This week's quiz
  • 4 Summary
  • Introduction
  • 1 The relationship between population and water
  • 2 How much water do you use?
    • 2.1 Household use of water
    • 2.2 Reading tables
  • 3 Saving water
    • 3.1 Using fractions and percentages
  • 4 This week's quiz
  • 5 Summary
  • Introduction
  • 1 Reflecting back on the course
  • 2 Reflecting on the arts and humanities
    • 2.1 Poetry
    • 2.2 Contemporary visual art
  • 3 Reflecting on the social sciences
    • 3.1 Identity
    • 3.2 Domestic roles
  • 4 Reflecting on science, technology and maths
  • 5 Looking forward: what will your next steps be?
  • 6 This week's quiz
  • 7 Summary
  • Tell us what you think
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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