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Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...physical comfort? Are you comfortable with your workspace? Are there things you can do to improve it? What sort of skills and capacities do you think you might need for the unit? How many of these do you have already? What skills will you need to pick up? What will you need to look for in the unit to acquire these skills and capacities? How does your answer compare with...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...physical spaces, so getting people to buildings, to street corners. But in the future, it might be the online space where we have to encourage people to participate. INTERVIEWER: So can you think of some examples of the kinds of impact that some of these key stakeholders have on community policing? INTERVIEWER: Yes, I think that quite often the police are very reliant on...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...physical object like an apple. But even a short lyric poem is dramatic, the response of a speaker (no matter how abstractly conceived) to a situation (no matter how universalised). We ought to impute the thoughts and attitudes of the poem immediately to the dramatic speaker, and if to the author at all, only by an act of biographical inference. There is a sense in which...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...physical process of breathing, the movement of air in and out of our lungs. Within the lungs, oxygen from the air is taken in, and some carbon dioxide is released from the body when we breathe out. When the oxygen reaches the cells of our bodies (and also the cells of other animals and plants), chemical reactions break down some of the complex carbon compounds such as...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...physics), or particular fields within the sciences, as being dominated in any one period by a single paradigm. [People playing tug of war with a rope.] Figure 5 People can hold views that can be considered in opposition to those of others In the social sciences, however, within which some argue education and childhood and youth research sits, it can be argued that there...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...physical defences, there was a shift towards protecting urban areas and a noticeable example was the start of construction on the Thames Barrier. However, public confidence in the government’s approach, already waning, was shaken by severe floods in the year 2000, which triggered a shift towards a ‘making space for water’ strategy and growing unrest in the insurance...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...physical gestures. In many cases, language might be taking second place, for example when it is mainly being used to accompany actions. At the other end, an academic article will be carefully planned, with no reader input, and with very few other modes of meaning (though in some cases, graphs, diagrams and charts may well be used alongside the words). This cartoon above...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...physics, astronomy and anatomy. For example, Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), professor of anatomy at Padua University, published De Humani Corporis Fabrica (‘On the fabric of the human body’) in 1543 (Figure 10). Where medieval anatomy texts drew the human body in ways that fitted with humoral theory, Vesalius based his illustrations on observations made during the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs