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Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...physically disappearing up into heaven. More than in any of the other songs we have discussed, I would say that, by the end of ‘Ganymed’, we have the sense of having travelled a long way since the song began. There is one particular musical reason for this: as in ‘Prometheus’, the song ends in a different key from the beginning. It starts in A flat major and ends...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...physical environment. One of the most innovative and challenging approaches to the art of this period is to be found in Svetlana Alpers’s controversial book The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century, in which she seeks to identify a distinctive northern tradition of ‘descriptive’ art that can be distinguished from the predominantly ‘narrative’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...physical – and interceding between one soul and another. For Aristotle, the imagination – or phantasia – was a kind of bridge between sensation and thought, supplying the images or ‘phantasms’ without which thought could not occur. Descartes argued that the imagination was not an essential part of the mind, since it dealt with images in the brain whose existence...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...Physics, but as a Jew he was unable to obtain work; he lived with his parents on their savings. Although born in Berlin, his father came from Romania and his mother from Poland. He grew up with Romanian citizenship, was naturalized as a German citizen in 1932, but lost this citizenship again in 1935, under new laws designed to preserve the ‘purity’ of the German...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...physical properties of light, other than each band of wavelengths produces light of a particular colour (see Figure 1). [Figure 1] Figure 1 The visible spectrum, showing how the colour and properties of light relate to wavelength. Note that ultraviolet and infrared light cannot be seen by the human eye You may be familiar with the terms used to describe the shortest and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...physically in school or on a campus. This free course introduces the use of innovative methods for assessment within secondary, further and higher education. The course is highly practical in nature and guides educational and training professionals through the process of introducing flexible formative and summative assessments that can meet the needs of a standardised...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...physical or mental health issues that are affecting their performance? If the Practice Supervisor has spoken to the student and a problem is still apparent the Practice Assessor can arrange a tripartite meeting to explore the reasons for the student’s behaviour. The Practice Assessor should communicate with the practice education team within the student’s organisation...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...physically or mentally unable to work – how do you take account of such eventualities as a freelance? (Samuelsson-Brown, 2010, pp. 3–4)...Translation as a career: Vicky Sharvill - [Described image] Figure 3 Vicky Sharvill As a project manager for a language service provider that specialises in medical, pharmaceutical and patents translation, Vicky talks about her work...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs