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Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...table: ‘Brenda needs to be taken to the doctor as soon as possible’. Was there anything inappropriate about these messages? If so, what would you do instead? Comment The message about cleaning the kitchen does not belong in a communication book. It is a conversation about roles and responsibilities that should take place between the people involved or with a line...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...table. Notice how in the ‘success of others’ row, there is a strong connection to what you learned in Session 3 about role models: ‘finds lessons and inspiration in the success of others’ clearly describes the potential impact of role models. Some of the things Bradley Busch said about mistakes and failure among teenagers in Session 3, Activity 3 also links to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...de Henares station outside of Madrid (which killed 191 people). Two weeks later Mayfield was released when Spanish police made a positive match between the same fingerprints and another suspect, a match the FBI confirmed as correct. DNA analysis is a robust technique based on sound scientific principles, but even it can fall foul of human error. For 16 years, German...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...table as her decaying wedding-cake. In addition to the reciprocal transformation of human and non-human in the Dickens world as a means of representing the inner life of his characters, the momentum of his plots is driven by moral imperatives rather than realistic events. They ‘obey a‘causal order – not of physical mechanics but of moral dynamics’ (ibid., p.249)....
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...de-platforming’ those whose views are thought to be ‘disagreeable’ or cause ‘offence’ are now at the frontline of today’s ‘culture wars’. On one side are those who argue that in a democracy people must be allowed to speak freely – even if that means airing views that might offend others. On the other side are those who defend their right ‘not to be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...de-Christianisation of 1793–4 – as showing where such tolerance of ‘infidelity’ can lead. Significantly, though, his horror is not (unlike Burke’s) directed at the Revolution as such, but rather at this particular phase in its development. Indeed, in the footnote he implies that he does not see the Revolution itself as either a consequence or a cause of moral...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...de (1879?) The Imaginary Invalid (Le Malade Imaginaire), trans. Roscoe Mongan, London, James Cornish and Sons (first published 1673). Miller, A. (1998) Philosophy of Language, London, UCL Press. Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct, London, Allen Lane. Schiffer, S.R. (1972) Meaning, Oxford, Clarendon Press. Schiffer, S.R. (1987) Remnants of Meaning, Cambridge, Mass.,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...De Jonge and Kemp, 2012) How easy was it to decipher the meaning of these text messages? For many children it’s easy, although for others it can seem like a completely new language. Optimists view text message abbreviations as playful, inventive and creative features, but pessimists feel that they threaten more traditional standards of written English, leading to a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs