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Making sense of ourselves
Learn more to access more details of Making sense of ourselvesThis free course, Making sense of ourselves, introduces you to well-known psychological topics by asking and answering everyday questions, such as Why don’t we like one another? Why would I hang around with you? Do you see what I see? What’s the point of childhood? You’ll learn how psychologists can go about addressing these questions using ...
Level: 2 Intermediate
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Living psychology: animal minds
Learn more to access more details of Living psychology: animal mindsDoes your pet cat or dog experience emotions the same way you do? Can non-human animals solve complex problems? To what extent do other species have minds that are like human minds? This free course, Living psychology: animal minds, explores these, and other, issues in the psychology of animal minds. Studying animal minds is of great importance ...
Level: 2 Intermediate
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Investigating psychology
Learn more to access more details of Investigating psychologyOne of the keys to understanding psychology is to know about its history and core questions. This free course, Investigating psychology, allows you to explore psychology using an interactive resource. You can follow links to people, contexts, perspectives and methods to discover information, images and links from across psychology. The resource ...
Level: 2 Intermediate
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Exploring anxiety
Learn more to access more details of Exploring anxietyThis free advanced level course, Exploring anxiety, serves as an introduction to masters level study in neurosciences and mental health. Focusing on anxiety, you will consider key issues concerning diagnosis, causes and interventions. You will also learn how to evaluate news items, and to go behind the headlines and begin to explore some of the ...
Level: 3 Advanced
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Exploring depression
Learn more to access more details of Exploring depressionThis free advanced level course, Exploring depression, serves as an introduction to masters level study in neurosciences and mental health. Focusing on depression, you will consider key issues concerning diagnosis, causes and interventions. You will also begin to explore theoretical models, biological and psychological explanations, and look at ...
Level: 3 Advanced
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Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Learn more to access more details of Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depressionThis free advanced level course, Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression, serves as an introduction to masters level study in neurosciences and mental health. Focusing on anxiety and depression, you will consider key issues concerning diagnosis, causes and interventions, exploring how these conditions relate to each other. You ...
Level: 3 Advanced
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The psychology of cybercrime
Learn more to access more details of The psychology of cybercrimeIn this free course, The psychology of cybercrime, you will explore different questions about cybercrime from a psychological angle in an attempt to better understand this relatively recent field of psychology. You will consider the realms and limits of cybercrime, distinguishing between the different types of cybercrime (e.g. trolling, ...
Level: 3 Advanced
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Social psychology and politics
Learn more to access more details of Social psychology and politicsWhy are social psychologists interested in politics, and how can they help us understand things like social movements, protest and activism? This free course, Social psychology and politics, moves away from a state-centric study of politics and, using insights from social psychology, explores the role of identity, personality and culture for ...
Level: 2 Intermediate
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The social in social science
Learn more to access more details of The social in social scienceIn a complex and rapidly changing world, social scientific study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves and understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This free course, The social in social science, provides a basic overview of how social ...
Level: 3 Advanced
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Passports: identity and airports
Learn more to access more details of Passports: identity and airportsThis free course, Passports: identity and airports, offers a sociological analysis of the modern airport. Using a lively mixture of videos, interactive exercises and readings, the course explores how the social world of the airport is made and maintained. In particular, it investigates how the processes that constitute this world - queuing, ...
Level: 2 Intermediate
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‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Learn more to access more details of ‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ placesThis free course, 'Problem' populations, 'problem' places, looks deeper into the entanglements of welfare, crime and society. It encourages you to think through these entanglements through a focus on 'problem' populations and 'problem' places. It includes treatment of the victims of Hurricane Katrina that hit the US in 2007, and also of the ...
Level: 2 Intermediate
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Children’s rights
Learn more to access more details of Children’s rightsHow do children fit in to our society? This free course will help you to understand the issues surrounding children's rights as well as examining the implications of seeing children as citizens. You will also explore the meaning of childhood and analyse children's needs.
Level: 2 Intermediate
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Does prison work?
Learn more to access more details of Does prison work?Does prison work and what purpose does it serve? This free course allows you to listen to a discussion on the purpose, efficacy and regulation of prisons. Does prison benefit those serving the sentence or simply satisfy a public demand?
Level: 2 Intermediate
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Social problems: Who makes them?
Learn more to access more details of Social problems: Who makes them?Anti-social behaviour, homelessness, drugs, mental illness: all problems in today's society. But what makes a problem social? This free course, Social problems: Who makes them?, will help you to discover how these issues are identified, defined, given meaning and acted upon. You will also look at the conflicts within social science in this area.
Level: 2 Intermediate
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Social construction and social constructionism
Learn more to access more details of Social construction and social constructionismWithin the field of social sciences the terms 'social construction' and 'social constructionism' are frequently used, particularly in relation to social policy. This free course, Social construction and social constructionism, will enable you to achieve a greater definition and understanding of these terms.
Level: 2 Intermediate
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