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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...write prolifically. In addition to huge domestic sales, the Maigret series was widely translated throughout Europe. Agatha Christie continued producing novels featuring her two iconic detectives, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and her nostalgic portrayal of an imagined lost past resonated both with a wide British middle-class readership and, simultaneously, in...
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Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...writing about the Classical world needs to make various choices concerning consistency. Years. The course team have opted for BCE (‘Before the Common Era’) and CE (‘Common Era’) to refer to dates (we use them in the same way as the more traditional BC and AD). In some other texts you will encounter the use of BC and AD instead, and you are welcome to use either...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...write and count. There are also distinctive cultural additions to curriculum: children in a rural school in Uruguay, for example, may learn how to milk a cow, primary school children in Vietnam perhaps learn etiquette, and children in Russia traditionally learn ballroom dancing. Perhaps when you were a child in primary school you learned something that was distinctive to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
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Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...write them down or express them creatively, to find role models, to clean up personal social media and to identify supportive groups and communities can all be of help. Gender biases are just one example of judgemental bias. You will go on to learn more about this in Week 5 on overcoming stigma and Week 6 on social and cultural dimensions of mental health in learning...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...write to him in a letter that ‘There is none of your opinions that my soul, gentle and tender as it is, shrinks from as much as that murderous and cutthroat view you maintain in the Discourse, that deprives the brutes of all life and sense’ (quoted by Wilson 1999, p. 495). As we shall see, it is not quite right to say that Descartes denied life to animals; that he...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?

...creative reimagining. Focusing on the manner in which citizenship is practiced, the remaining workshops explored specific research methods that can be used for understanding how citizenship is practiced. Eleni Andreouli focused on socio-psychological approaches to citizenship, which revealed new ways in which citizens construct, mobilise and negotiate the meanings of...
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Indian summer monsoon amplified global warming 130,000 years ago, helping end ice age
Nature & Environment

Indian summer monsoon amplified global warming 130,000 years ago, helping end ice age

...impact on the global climate. Monsoons should not be viewed in isolation, just as the polar ice sheets shouldn’t. Earth’s internal climate system is intrinsically linked and abrupt changes at one place can have significant consequences over time elsewhere. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
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Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work

...and hostile work and personal environments, rather than giving us all another job of training ourselves to be more resilient to these environments.[The Conversation] Rajvinder Samra, Lecturer in Health, The Open University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. More on Mental Health and Young People...
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