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Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...attention to the person's wishes and feelings, when it comes to making decisions for a person lacking capacity. So there will be pressure on the mental capacity act to include much more provision for recognising the person's wishes and preferences. The other challenge is likely to be around the issue of deprivation of liberty. The Law Commission, in 2017, produced a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...attention to the different ways in which shell shock and trauma have been represented in art and literature. You will encounter some authors who may be familiar to you, such as Siegfried Sassoon, but you will also examine other artistic representations of trauma. For example, you will be introduced to the works of German artists, Otto Dix, and Käthe Kollwitz, who...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Mathematics for science and technology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...attention to measurement. You can now go to Week 2...Week 1: Powers and scientific notation: Acknowledgements - This course was written by Maria Townsend/The Open University STEM faculty. It was first published in October 2019. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...attention in the last few decades, and it is now recognised as a powerful factor in the cause of emotional disorders. We start by considering what is meant by the term ‘stress’, how it is perceived, and the evidence that it is a risk factor for the development of emotional disorders. We then move on to look at the biology of stress, in particular how it affects the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...attention- and headline-grabbing global political events. We will then turn to the more ‘ordinary’ face of politics and consider the role politics plays in our everyday lives...What is politics?: 1.1 The extraordinary - Most of us can probably name at least a few extraordinary global events that have taken place in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Even those...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...attention to the fact that decisions about environmental issues are almost always taken in light of imperfect, incomplete or unclear information. Geographers and Environmental Studies researchers use the concepts of values, power and agency to help understand key factors shaping environmental issues: Values refer to what is of worth, merit, or importance. They include the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...attentive to opportunities that present themselves. One thing that I’ve found helpful is to carry a small notebook around with me where I can jot down interesting comments that I’d like to recall. We’ll see that that notebook is also helpful if we’re doing observational research...Conversations and interviews: 1.4 Interviewing skills - Interviewing, whether in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...attention to the prejudices of the manager whose assumptions she is outlining. Such material can help social scientists to unpack everyday exchanges and the routine experience of racialisation and ethnicisation. However, the interview has to be interpreted and understood in its social context. It has to be interpreted in relation to other social phenomena and does not...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs