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Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...class (although the audience probably includes more women and children). Not applicable Yes; it includes women and children. Yes; it includes nobles, as well as children and a higher proportion of women than in the performing group. 4 Which aspects of performance seem most important or highly valued? Size of group, volume, social interaction. Participation/ unity, ritual...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...class life (1957), a semiautobiographical examination of the cultural upheavals of the 1950s, Richard Hoggart recalled his upbringing in Leeds. “Every so often one heard that so-and-so had ‘done ’erself in’, or ‘done away with ’imself’, or ‘put ’er ’ead in the gas-oven’,” he wrote. “It did not happen monthly or even every season, and not all...
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Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...de l’Egypte, initially in ten volumes accompanied by 900 engraved illustrations, between 1809 and 1828. These brought a comprehensive and accurate visual survey of Egyptian temples, tombs and their sculpted and painted decorations before the European public for the first time. A second key development was the Egyptian hieroglyphic script being deciphered by the French...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...feedback, and interdependencies. Western intellectual traditions have laid greater emphasis on systematic thinking and action than on systemic thinking and action. If you are educated in the western tradition, it is often hard to escape the trap of thinking that can be described as mechanistic, linear, reductionist and systematic, with all those attributes in service of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...feedback from a satisfied customer or internal customer. On the other hand, you may feel you could improve your performance of the task and have some ideas how to go about it. There may be physical resource improvements based on the state of the equipment you used, or the materials you had to work with. Perhaps there were financial reasons based on the cost of the inputs...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...Class I) 35–40 obese (Class II) over 40 morbidly or severely obese (Class III) Activity 8 What is the BMI of a woman of 1.7 m who weighs 65 kg? Answer This value means that she would be in the healthy range for her body mass index. Both overweight and obesity classifications are associated with increased incidence of serious conditions such as high blood pressure...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...de Compostela is, and supposedly, according to legend, when his body was found it was surrounded by scallop shells, and this is therefore ever since been the symbol of the saint. So you will not just see the scallop as an individual symbol, but if you look at churches, if you look at hospices, if you look at other buildings connected with St James, they all have somewhere...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...des Sables, which is a six-day race covering 155 miles through the Moroccan Sahara Desert. Cycling – extreme endurance events are referred to as ‘ultra-distance cycling’ and this term is reserved for events longer than 100 miles (referred to as a century). These events can be on roads or trails. For example, the Transcontinental Race in Europe is a race of around...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs