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Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...et al., 1987, pp. 51–2) Miller and Bennett were satirizing the philosophical trends of their time, but their sketch illustrates two views about philosophy that are still fairly widespread. One is that philosophers are out of touch with everyday life and the concerns of ordinary people. The other is that philosophical debates are very abstract and often come down to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Lord John Browne - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Lord John Browne - Stories of Change

...Institute, at that time said that we’d left the church, so just totally rejected; we were, as it were, ex-communicated by the church of the API and I don’t think they would do that today. RH: No, but you’re still a million miles, when I say you, the European industry is a million miles from where America’s industry is, the sort of things, the sort of messages –...
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Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...institutions, or cities, then in turn feed back to affect the actions of the individuals within the system, both constraining and enabling their future actions. Given this emergence of new levels of order as the system evolves, the elements' capacity for adaptation, and the complex interactions within the system, it is almost impossible to predict the future state of a...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...et al. (2015) and Norton and Dalrymple (2020) note that the definition of employability continues to shift and be challenged, in the next activity you will hear directly from employers. Regardless of slightly differing perceptions, employability should be considered as a lifelong journey, rather than something that only happens when people are studying or in the early...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta
Society, Politics & Law

Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta

...et al, 2018). Faodar a thuigsinn ann an seagh fìor-bheag (gnìomhachdan co-cheangailte ri ‘uallach pearsanta’, leithid gèilleadh ris an lagh is cìsean a phàigheadh), gu ruige seagh fìor-mhòr, a’ cuimseachadh air dèiligeadh ri ana-cheartas sa chomann-sòisealta, a mhìnich Westheimer is Kahne (2004) mar shaoranachd a tha ‘stèidhichte air ceartas’. Tha e...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...et delectare and the sentiment it embodies can be traced back to the declaration by the Roman poet Horace (65 BCE–8 CE): Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci (‘He who unites the useful with the pleasant is praised’). Moreover, the identification of a close connection between textual and visual sources was a mainstay of classicist art theory, which frequently...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...et al. (1991) Three-dimensional analysis of the peculiar arterial patterns of the extremities in Lorisidae: the rete mirabile, Primatology Today, Elsevier Science; Figure 5 (b): Suckling, J. A., Suckling, E. E. and Walker, A. (1969) Suggested function of the vascular bundles in the limbs of Perodictus potto, Nature, vol. 221, January 25 1969. With permission of Nature...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...et simples dignités (‘Treatise on orders and plain dignities’); the other is from an article by Defoe (1660–1731), a novelist and social commentator, in an eighteenth-century newspaper. Read the two quotations then answer the following questions: How many groups or orders do Loyseau and Defoe identify? What is the basis for their division of society? Loyseau,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs