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Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...simple rule, evolved long before the emergence of human language. Although these two factors (food availability and the avoidance of predators) influence the upper limit on group size in a particular environment, it is the rich diversity of internal relationships within anthropoid groups that is fascinating and has led to many studies of primates...Studying mammals: The...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...simple. If you have no recent experience of reading academic texts you need to re-learn your reading skills. Reading magazines, newspapers or fiction is a useful basis, but entails very different skills from academic reading. The same goes for taking notes. Scribbling down the important bits of a recipe from a television cook or underlining some interesting advice from a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...simple nest, she lays between two and five eggs. It will take them nearly a month to hatch. She shoulders the burden of all the incubating. But while she sits, her mate stands guard. Though nesting on islands keeps wolves and foxes at bay, there are other dangers - ravens. When the first clutches hatch, a few addled eggs are left in the abandoned nests. These attract...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Intermediate French: Holiday plans
Languages

Intermediate French: Holiday plans

...simple listening exercises. The benefit of this is that it accustoms your ear to French sounds – without too much stress. The same can be done with the radio. If you are about to go on a car journey, do the ironing or the washing-up, use this ‘low-grade’ time to listen to French radio*. Don't worry if you don't understand everything: the point of the exercise is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...simple phrase to help you remember their imperfect form. Activity 23 Using the expressions in Box 5, write five sentences about yourself, or say them aloud if you prefer. Make sure you adapt what Yvonne Zehner said, when describing yourself. Compare your sentences with this spoken version. You can see that it uses some of the language you have just been working with, but...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...simple terms, resilience is ‘the ability to use personal qualities to withstand pressure’ (Fletcher and Sarkar, 2016, p. 136). In the sporting context, resilience relates to an athlete’s ability to manage daily stressors, where stressor is defined as ‘the environmental demands (i.e., stimuli) encountered by an individual’ (Fletcher, Hanton and Mellalieu, 2006,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...simple definition in these terms would be ‘the scholarly study of music’. Traditionally, musicology has borrowed from ‘art history for its historiographic paradigms and literary studies for its paleographic and philological principles’ (Treitler, 1995). A committee of the American Musicological Society (AMS) in 1955 also defined musicology as ‘a field of...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...simple. It’s got two premises and a conclusion. The first premise is that there’s nothing wrong with sexual preferences for things like hair colour or eye colour or these physical - merely physical traits. And that’s the first premise. Then the second premise is that there’s no difference between racialised physical traits and nonracial physical traits. They’re...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs