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Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...thinking about how to make contemporary society more harmonious. Using the findings, this course will enable you to engage young people with a collection of short texts, images and videos (which will be referred to as ‘clippings’) to broaden their understanding of the subject and make their own short films (which will be referred to as ‘docutubes’) to share their...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...think critically about issues, models and frameworks and their application in different contexts, to take a proactive ‘questioning’ approach, to put forward your views, and to argue a case convincingly backed up with evidence that supports your view. These are skills that you will continue to develop if you move on to postgraduate study. But before we broach these...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...think back over things you have already read and see if you understand them or can apply them to your own life. ‘Thinking back’ in this way is a vital component of what we mean by reflection. Reflection is one of those things that is both really simple and quite complex. It is simple because, like learning, we all do it – it is really nothing more than thinking back...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...think about our personal wellbeing, you might think that it would be difficult to quantify, or to put it another way, to put a number on our sense of wellbeing. You would not be alone, some people do think it is difficult or even impossible to measure something like wellbeing. However, in the UK the Office for National Statistics measures personal wellbeing in the...
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Article 10 mins
Human use of animals
History & The Arts

Human use of animals

...think is probably aware of its own existence over time – so I think there’s good evidence that chimpanzees are persons. Nigel: What about adult humans who lack the mental capacity to think about their own past as their own. Would they not be persons? Peter: I think they’re no longer persons. They may have been persons and we may choose to respect the wishes they had...
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Audio 15 mins
The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...think if you wanted to categorise where it stands, it’s interdisciplinary. But it’s, I suppose one could describe it as a political geography in particular. And so as a result of all of that, I've integrated those experiences, all that – all the places that I've been to as well as my own academic interests, which have been fundamentally in power, in inequality, and...
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Audio 10 mins
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...system, only at sub-second speeds. Just as the postal service enables people to send one another envelopes containing messages, the internet enables computers to send one another small packets of digital data. (BBC, 2014) Almost all adults (91%) in the UK use the internet and adults with disabilities are increasing their use of the internet too (78% of those with reported...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...think about a variety of elements of a person’s life to help them take a holistic view of their circumstances. It enables them to gather an individual's understanding of their situation, their strengths and their needs in relation to it and allows them to start to identify some of the key elements that are important to the person, as well as potentially identifying the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs