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Concepts and theories in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Concepts and theories in international relations

...simple explanations of the positivists, or the more complex interpretive explanations of post-positivist. Some theories focus on understanding the richer details of a given case. Critical theories seek to interrogate the existing patterns of international relations to uncover the power structures that are maintaining unfair practices. Normative theories do this too, but...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...simple and neutral. The nature of the question can influence the outcome. Matt Qvortrup, professor of applied political science at Coventry University, says that long questions can cause voters to become mistrustful. He also says that the nature and timing of the campaign is likely to be more significant than the wording of the question. A short, positive campaign held...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...codes, values and norms that govern scientific practice...’ (Chapter 1, page 19) and Merton's ‘CUDOS norms of Communalism, Universality, Disinterestedness, Originality and Scepticism’ (Chapter 4, p. 48). These ‘norms’ – by which we mean the types of informal social rules that are learnt and enacted, as people practice science professionally – are examined in...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...code human and divine’. It would only be natural that an author reading such reviews of their work would feel disheartened, and Charlotte Brontë wrote to her publisher on 17 November 1847, ‘The Spectator seemed to have found more harm than good in Jane Eyre, and I acknowledge that distressed me a little’ (UK RED: 28479). But for the most part, Brontë accepted the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...codes of society and human desire to push against them, self-consciously and sometimes subversively. To access these operations Greenblatt is interested in those aspects of culture that don’t fall neatly into place. Texts and images are marked not by coherence and unity but, as he writes elsewhere, by ‘fields of force, places of dissension and shifting interests,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...simple. Clutterbuck (2008) highlights the features that they seem to have in common; both: require, and draw upon, the helper’s experience involve giving advice in some form coaching and mentoring are based on goals set by, or for, the learner methods deal with significant transitions the learner wishes to make deal with personal growth ambitions. However, there are key...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...codes and different possibilities for portrait production. (As you will discover later in this course, ancient Romans could use coins, statues and a range of other options for portraits.) However, the decisions King Abdullah of Jordan has made in his image construction provide us with a more modern example of the visual framework constructed by Augustus as we turn back to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Scales in space and time
Science, Maths & Technology

Scales in space and time

...simple leaves. They can have a diameter of 2.4 metres and an area of 4.5 metres squared. Some of the smallest leaves, from plants in the Wolffia genus, which are also aquatic plants, can fit through the eye of a needle. They have a length of 0.6 millimetres and an area of 0.81 millimetres squared. The leaves of an English oak are about 8 centimetres long and 15...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs