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

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...English and American history, they may also know nothing about it. For your purposes here, however, that should not be a problem. The commentary on the website provides some essential context, particularly in pointing out that Williams’s ideas were unusual for his time and contrasting them with the then dominant ‘old European’ way of close identification between...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...English played backwards are no less disruptive than other irrelevant speech items (Jones et al., 1990). On the other hand, simple white noise (a constant hissing like a mis-tuned radio) is almost as benign as silence. Interference presumably results from speech because, unlike white noise, it is not constant: it is broken into different sounds. The importance of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...English Midlands. She manages a small team of part-time youth workers and between them they provide a range of daytime, evening and weekend opportunities for young people living in the local area. I’m based in a youth and community centre which shares a site with a secondary school, and the school is a key partner for me. I’ve established a good relationship with the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...English Dictionary defines art as: 'The creation of works of beauty or other special significance' and, 'Human creativity as distinguished from nature'. (Collins, 2000) How far does this reflect your own views? If you want to amend your own definition in the light of this, do so now. At the end of this free course you'll revisit the question ‘What is art?’ to see if...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...English soldier says in Shakespeare’s Henry V : ‘We know enough if we know we are the king’s men. Our obedience to the king wipes the crime of it out of us.’ Not that his obedience can never be criminal; for when he violates the rules of war, superior orders are no defence. The atrocities that he commits are his own; the war is not. It is conceived, both in...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...English skills believes that whatever they write will never be as good as the material in their course book or from other sources. They decide it is better to copy it out than try to write an answer in their own words. This is plagiarism. A student gets a friend or family member to answer an assignment question for them because they have expertise in this area and so will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...English Reference Dictionary defines as ‘of or having the nature of an image of portrait’. While the dictionary also mentions ‘(of a statue) following conventional type’, the word is used to describe something worth noticing and worth commenting upon; anything assigned ‘iconic’ status is identifiable and special, just as the religious icons are recognisable....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...English- and French-speaking Canadians as well as first-nation Canadians. Another example is land rights claims in the post-colonial period, promoting the status and rights of groups such as native Americans, Australian Aborigines, and the New Zealand Maoris. The fourth debate concerns how far the stretching of rights claims can go. Can they be expanded indefinitely? To...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs