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How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...English for academic purposes online...How to be a critical reader: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: consider the importance of examining attitudes to texts understand the organisation of argument texts distinguish between facts and opinions in texts examine hedging as a technique used by writers to express opinions and avoid making...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...English. Banlieues are generally suburban districts around the major French cities, but they do not equate with suburbs as the term is generally used in the UK. As French Marxist philosopher Etienne Balibar notes: There are banlieues and banlieues, often geographically very close to one another but separated by a social abyss and a permanent antagonism …: some are rich,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...everyday life. So we might – I’m trying to eat a little less chocolate. And I’m trying not to eat blue cheese. And those other things which, at the margins, may make a difference. But the things that have got me to 69, there’s no point in junking them now in case it gave me another two months, because it’s given me the 69 years I’ve had. And that includes a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...English scientist and monk Roger Bacon were rumoured to have created heads that could talk, dismissed as sacrilegious abominations by their contemporaries. By the late 16th and early 17th centuries, fake talking heads were appearing all over Europe. The novelist Miguel de Cervantes's hero Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza encounter one: The last questioner was...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...everyday lives. The avatar body can be customised in a practically infinite number of ways ranging through height, weight, frame and figure, skin colour, eye colour, facial structure and gender, to fantasy animal characters. Activity 3 Read the extract Playing with Pixels: Youth, Identity, and Virtual Play Spaces from Chana Etengoff. Write down your response to what you...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...English chemist, physicist and meteorologist John Dalton that atoms became part of modern science; even in 1900 there were eminent scientists who did not believe that atoms are real. However, between 1900 and 1920 phenomena as varied as the motion of pollen grains in water, diffusion in liquids, radioactivity and the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, all gave similar...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...English syntax, just as Example 7b makes no sense within the harmonic language of the late eighteenth century. Most musicians would reduce this instinctively, on the basis that one version sounds right and the other sounds wrong. However, there are objective criteria for the reduction, namely the criteria of consonance and dissonance. In Mozart's style, dissonances make...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...English Riots in the Daily Express Using Moral Panic Theory’, Sociological Research Online, 20(4), pp. 1–10. Olver, K. & Cockbain, E. (2021) ‘Professionals’ Views on Responding to County Lines-Related Criminal Exploitation in the West Midlands, UK’, Child Abuse Review, doi: 10.1002/car.2704 Payne, M. (2009) ‘Modern youth work: purity or common cause?’, in...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs