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Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...et d'Art Contemporain de la Ville de Liège (Plate 9.12). Michel-Ange Houasse, The Drawing Academy, c.1725, 61 x 72.5 cm, oil on canvas, Royal Palace, Madrid (Unit 1, Figure 1.8). Diego de Velásquez, Las Meninas, 1656, 318 x 276 cm, oil on canvas, Prado, Madrid. After José Aparicio, Glories of Spain, engraving, after a painting of 1815–18, now lost, Biblioteca...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...et al. 2000) points out that sociology literally means ‘the study of the processes of companionship’. Although people have always been interested in how their society worked the actual term ’sociology’ was first publicly used by Auguste Comte in 1838. According to Abercrombie et al. (2000), Comte thought that sociology was a science employing observation,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...motivation for spending. These ideas can be understood further by looking at the observations of two other writers. First Thorstein Veblen, writing nearly a century ago, talked about how spending is a way of displaying a person’s wealth. Some luxurious things are bought so that others can see how well-off the buyer is. And in a society where wealth confers a high...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...motivation – leisure, professional development or academic. It’s the one stop shop for engaging with languages, professional communication and intercultural dialogue. Our short courses allow us to be agile and responsive to the needs of learners who want to be part of a global society. We offer non-accredited short courses in a range of subjects including modern...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...motive, or individualism in capitalist societies are compatible with notions of justice and fairness for the many and not just the few. There may be a post-financial crash fashion for so-called corporate social responsibility and even conscious capitalism (Mackey and Sisodia, 2014), but these are only papering over the cracks left by the retreat of other moral and ethical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...et cetera. So we looked all these things up. I learned about Grunt. And we started, kind of this step forward from taking this from a prototype or a proof of concept to something that could be a little bit more. And the whole time we were kind of like, what are getting into here? It wasn’t ever like, OK, we’re going for this, we’re doing this. But we started getting...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...motivated by life experiences and want to help people. Working with people in social care and social work can be extremely rewarding. Increasingly, the term ‘social care’ is used as the umbrella term to encompass both social care functions and social work functions, and both include a wide range of roles within the care sector. Throughout this session, ‘social care...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...motivation coming from? Where do these players get together? When did these rules begin to seem dated? When did people begin to think differently about this issue? When did these players start getting together? Why have these rules emerged? Why has it made sense to think differently about this issue? Why did these players get together? How are the rules being enforced?...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs