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Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...everyday, and so permeates the most basic levels of our daily lives. In this course, we will be concerned with some of the different ways in which the imagination is talked of and conceived, exploring just what the imagination might be and what philosophical issues it raises. The course is divided into two main sections. In the first, we will look at the range of...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...everyday life? What about in policymaking, science or medicine? And figuring out what racism is can help us to identify it, and work out what sorts of things we should be trying to get rid of or remedy. In this course you’ll explore some different answers to these questions. Philosophers can (and often do) disagree, but this doesn’t mean that philosophy is just a...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...everyday life provides plenty of evidence for it. Consider driving, for example. One can drive a car, drawing upon one's knowledge of the rules of the road and of the car's controls, without giving any conscious thought to what one is doing. Or think of cases where the solution to a problem pops into one's head some time after one has given up thinking about it...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...English language this is one, two, three, four, etc. When counting objects, children learn to refer to each object (perhaps by pointing) and to say the next number in the sequence. This is called one–to–one correspondence. The last number in the counting sequence gives the number of objects being counted (one, two, three, four, so there are four objects). This is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America

...everyday conditions imposed on them by the environment they live in. You will travel from Chile to Honduras and use videos, audio recordings and articles on your virtual journey towards the discovery of amazing landscapes and individuals who will share their opinions and concerns with you. Avoiding the big cities, you will journey through remote areas such as the Central...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Numbers, units and arithmetic
Science, Maths & Technology

Numbers, units and arithmetic

...everyday number system is the decimal system, where the position of a digit within the number determines whether it represents units, tens, hundreds, thousands etc. For example, the number 1375 means one thousand three hundred and seventy-five. The position of the 3, third from the right, means that it represents 3 hundreds. A thousand thousand, 1 000 000, is called a...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...English attitudes to the landscape of Wales in the 1760s with the development of the Romantic movement. This extract is from Programme 6, Love and learning, of the BBC Radio Wales Millennium History series, The People of Wales (1999). Audio 10 (duration 1:55)...Welsh history and its sources: 3.7.1 Welsh nonconformity - Neil Evans discusses Nonconformist religion in...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...English. But when it originally appeared in 1739 it had, in Hume's words, ‘fallen dead-born from the press’ (Hume, 1962, p. 305). Hume attributed this lack of commercial success to an overly academic style, and set about publishing a more reader-friendly version in the form of two Enquiries in 1748 and 1751 (Hume, 1975). He dithered over whether or not to include some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs