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Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...accounts and illustrations. At the same time, the Grand Tour brought its tourists into contact with new and exciting ‘foreign’ places, people and objects. These cultural encounters with the unfamiliar – which could be both pleasurable and dangerous – had to be managed, and the art that might be produced in response to the Grand Tour – from paintings to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...accountable and more people in the team are accountable and responsible for the team’s performance or the team’s outcome. INTERVIEWER And it’s interesting hearing about the relationships and that sense of connectedness and how important it is, and stepping up amongst leaders and it’s fascinating to see. In terms of sports, is there, you know, developing team...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...account: sociological, cultural, historical, economic, political’ (Citron, 1990, p. 112). Thirdly, she highlights that when we are choosing works to include, ‘we have to confront the issue of what criteria we are imposing’ (Citron, 1990, p. 112)...Introducing music research: 2.3 New directions in feminist musicology - More recent feminist musicology aims at greater...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...account for things going wrong in terms of what the other person did, or in terms of other external factors. Such explanations are usually at least partly true. The snag is that they may obscure ways in which we might have handled the situation differently. Secondly, thinking about our own practice isn't something that most of us take seriously as a matter of course....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...accountable for their writing within a student role. Consequently, an important element of your learning will be how to write the documents required within your own practice setting. The service users you work with (such as children and families, adults with mental health needs or older people) and also the setting will all impact on the kinds of documents you will write...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...account so that their benefits and other payments can be paid into an account which is separate from the family bank account and can be accessed separately. It is worth thinking about getting independent financial advice too. You may want to use an independent financial advisor, and free advice is available from Citizen’s Advice Bureau and Welfare Rights. There are...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...account of carbon pricing by proxy through other measures, you know, some level of subsidy for onshore wind would still be justified. And I think the question with onshore wind is the question of local acceptability, which is obviously a legitimate issue, but there’s a lot of diversity around the country for example, Scotland is ploughing its way through with you know...
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Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...account. First, this summary has been stitched together from a wide range of sources. Versions of the Troy story don’t just appear in Homer: we have other literary sources, including fragments of rival epic poems about the war (one called the Cypria narrated its beginning, another called the Sack of Troy its end); a poem about the origins of the cosmos under Zeus’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs