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An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...everyday practical ways, how does social work make a difference? SPEAKER 2 Well, someone can take control of their support and commission it themselves. And then, it could also be seen as another arm of the state in terms of we have statutory duties to abide by and comply with. So for example, in The Adult Support and Protection Act 2007, we have a statutory duty to...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...everyday experience of the vagaries of human life. Question 2 In principle, according to Newtonian mechanics, it is possible to predict the entire future behaviour of the Universe provided the initial positions and velocities of all the particles in it are known, and the laws describing their interactions are known. List at least two reasons why this goal is, in practice,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...everyday life...Session 1: Understanding resilience: 1 Defining resilience - [Image of the word resilience in a dictionary] In a seminal paper on resilience in human development, Masten (2001, p. 235) argues that resilience comes from ‘the everyday magic of ordinary, normative human resources’ and not from rare or special qualities, suggesting that it is attainable...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...everyday life and reflects upon a number of case studies. By the end of the course you will have gained knowledge about strategies that will help you to understand how to support and improve the wellbeing of either yourself or a carer you know...Are you a carer? Or do you work with a carer, or know someone who is one? This free course, Physical activity for health and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...everyday to the extraordinary. A note on ‘human’ and ‘animal’ differentiation in this course While humans are, of course, animals, for the purposes of this course the term ‘animal’ will be used to refer to non-human species, in order to allow a clear distinction between human and non-human mental abilities in the discussions...Living psychology: animal minds:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...everyday reading matter, introduce you to some basic techniques for adjusting your reading to suit the purpose you have in mind, and focus on some of the more common problems that students may experience when reading unfamiliar material and suggest some possible ways of dealing with them. In Sections 4–8 we focus on techniques of: highlighting, note taking and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...everyday issues like the quality of street lighting or even where your cup of coffee comes from. Increasingly, many of these challenges are identified as having their causes in the nature of urbanisation itself. For most places, the challenges they face are mostly not entirely of their own making and are sometimes not of their making at all. Even when everyone pitches in,...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...English word ‘nostalgia’, which might quite literally mean something more like ‘homesickness’ than the idea of longing for the past which it carries today). A whole strand of the Trojan War tradition seems to have revolved around the nostoi of the Greek heroes after Troy; you may remember that the bard Phemius sings of the Greeks’ homecomings in the first book...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs