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Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...Et voilà! Dave Myers: Et voilà! Shop assistant: Bye. Dave tries out his French 1 How does the shopkeeper respond to Dave’s efforts to address her in French? Answer The shopkeeper consistently replies to Dave in English. 2 Why do you think the shopkeeper answers the way she does, despite the fact that Dave addresses her in French? Answer We can only speculate why...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...et al., 2013). The following video clip explains how numerous micro-expressions can involuntarily flicker across your face in 1/25th of a second. NARRATOR To navigate our increasingly complex social world, we need to learn to collaborate and cooperate with one another. And that means we must learn how to understand the needs and desires of others. GIRL And we’re done....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...Institute)...Week 1: What are moons?: 2.9 Small bodies can have moons - Many other objects in the Solar System, not just planets, have moons orbiting them. Sometimes, with smaller primary bodies, the moon in orbit around it may be almost the same size. An example of this phenomenon is the dwarf planet Pluto; its moon, Charon, is so large in relation to Pluto that the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...institution. UK Parliament website (n.d.). In practice five uses have emerged: Where it would be more effective to legislate on a UK basis in order to put in place a single UK-wide regime (for example, powers for the courts to confiscate the assets of serious offenders). Where there is a complex inter-relationship between reserved and devolved matters that can most...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...et al., 1999, Kojima, 2010). Ghrelin is often called the ‘hunger hormone’, although its name is derived from a different function – causing the release of growth hormone (Growth Hormone Release Inducing). It is released into the blood when the stomach is empty and travels to the brain. There, it acts on a control centre in the brain called the hypothalamus and makes...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...et al., 2004). As you begin to delve further into the study of criminology, it will become clearer that what a society defines as ‘crime’ always needs careful scrutiny and questioning. What the criminal law narrowly focuses on does not always cover the most dangerous harms in society, and some actions deemed to be criminal change over time and place. Likewise, the way...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...institution or profession you will have access to inside knowledge that an outsider will not be able to gain. The third way in which the insider/outsider concept can be understood is by considering the role of the researcher in the field of anthropology. In fact, anthropologists approach those being studied (e.g. remote cultures, tribes, social groups) as outsiders. As...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...Institute (police commissioned)] survey of racial minorities carried out in 1982 (Brown, 1984). More comprehensive information has become available recently from the British Crime Surveys of 1988 and 1992 (Mayhew, Elliott, and Dowds, 1989; FitzGerald and Hale, 1996) and from the fourth PSI survey of ethnic minorities carried out in 1994 (Virdee, 1997). Police records are...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs