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The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...simple as that. This course is about the business of film, and how films make money. I'm Bharat Nalluri. I'm going to be your host for this course, the Business of Film. Over the six weeks, it will give you a handy overview of the process and an understanding of who does what. It will introduce you to key terms and concepts and crucially explain how the whole house of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...simple measure, volatility or standard deviation of returns, is not enough to capture the complexity of risk as understood by investors...Asset allocation in investment: 2.1 Identifying client attitude to risk - Read the FSA (now the FCA) factsheet Attitude to risk - an adviser prompt and answer the question in Activity 2. Activity 2 Types of investor risk Timing: Allow...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...simple concept, and it is important to keep this in mind as you read further. In this course, we are going to follow this focus on disorderly behaviour by young people. We will trace two main lines of approach within the study of youthful misbehaviour: The first of these focuses on the search for the causes of delinquency: what makes young people (or some young people)...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...simple way of comparing two or more quantities. In the example discussed here, the ratio would be the number of Firmicutes compared to the number of Bacteroidetes. Ratios are typically expressed as numbers separated by a colon. As a simple example, if you had 3 apples and 6 pears in a fruit bowl, the ratio of apples to pears would be 3 to 6 (3:6) or simplified to 1:2....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...simple because there was only one copy or one version extant. So it was simply a case of engaging with that autograph manuscript, best representing it in a way that was legible and clear and accurate. In other cases, there were more than one versions of songs. And so I had to make a decision about how I wanted to engage with that. I decided to go to [the] later dated...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Succeeding in postgraduate study Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...Code for Higher Education) sets out the core attributes and characteristics of Bachelor’s and Master’s degree graduates (i.e. students who have successfully graduated from Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes). A Bachelor’s degree typically prepares graduates for a higher level qualification involving research, to advance knowledge, skills and application gained,...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...simple as pure happiness or pure sadness. And the latest research now shows that we have 21 different facial expressions to convey how we feel. That might include happily surprised or sadly disgusted. NARRATOR We now think that there are many thousands of micro expressions - moments that flicker across your face involuntarily in around 1/25th of a second when you’re...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...simple, but in the next section you will be investigating how to listen effectively, so that voices are fully heard...Session 2: What is research with children and young people?: 1 How do we listen? - We all think we listen, but if we are to listen effectively to children and young people, we may need to adapt or hone our skills in particular ways. [Photograph of a boy,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs