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Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...autonomous genius and cannot simply have been painted according to official dictates. This conception of artistic creation as self-expression in fact crystallized during the period that we are considering, and is one of the defining features of Romanticism as a broad cultural movement. Click to see plate 3 Antoine-Jean Gros, Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...autonomous, separate from the rest. For traditional psychology, then, the idea that the responsibility lies with individuals to change their consumer behaviour has largely been unquestioned. You might notice that the words ‘master’ and ‘he’ were used in the previous paragraph. This is because it was white European men that developed the roots of traditional...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...autonomous creativity of the imagination. A growing preoccupation with death and an impulse towards melancholy, immortality, the divine, the unintelligible, the unseen, mystical and supernatural. A growing critique of absolute monarchy and a thrust towards republicanism and political liberty; the cult of the hero and of the will. Rapidly growing industrialisation and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...autonomously – the ‘clinical freedom’ of doctors, the social work relationship, or the conduct by teachers in their classes. There are tensions to be resolved; the need for flexibility and responsiveness has to be balanced against the agencies’ concerns to develop consistent practices and professional claims are mediated through a process of constant negotiation....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...autonomous legal system that she/he, through her/his legal training, is able to gain access to but is in no way able to influence’ (Slapper and Kelly, 2013, p. 472). The logic behind this approach is that the judge is not making the law but merely declaring what Parliament has created. If this is accepted, the judge does not make the law but is only applying the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...autonomous organisation, such as a corporation or a government. WANs typically provide link speeds between LANs that are slower than the link speeds within a LAN...Session 1: What is the IoE?: 1.3.7 The internet is bringing the world together - [Described image] Figure 12 Intelligent networks Although there are benefits to using a LAN or WAN, most individuals need to...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...autonomic nervous system. Neurons innervating brown adipocytes contain the neurotransmitter, noradrenalin; those innervating blood vessels contain another neurotransmitter, neuropeptide Y. WAT is primarily a store of fat that is mobilized to provide lipid fuel for tissues remote from itself. In contrast, the function of BAT during cold stress is that of thermogenesis....
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...autonomous system that affects all other areas of society. Thus human behaviour is, to a greater or lesser extent, shaped by technology. This seems to remove human will, or ingenuity, from the social process, and is thus usually rejected as excessively mechanistic. However, there seems to be such an anxiety about being labelled a ‘technological determinist’ that many...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs