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An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...de Haan and Loader, 2002; Karstedt et al., 2011; Drake & Harvey, 2014). Crime, harm and victimisation are all issues that can draw out painful or angry responses, and sometimes these responses are amplified through the media and the stories that you hear about crime. These passions will help to stimulate your criminological imagination, but they can also, sometimes, get...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...classes, between men and women, and so on.) All in all, therefore, sadness and anxiety have the same biological bases in all humans, and are experienced in fundamentally similar contexts – thus bad feelings are reliably aroused by losses, threats of losses, and the inability to reach important goals (Emmons, 1996). However, culture does have an effect. It can affect...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...variables – the chemical composition of the starting rock, and the pressure and temperature conditions under which metamorphism occurred. A useful analogy is with cooking – the product of baking in an oven depends on the ingredients that went in (chemical composition) and the temperature that the ingredients were subjected to in the oven. Just as the shape, colour and...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...classes, a riding school, ballroom dancing classes, ballet classes, tea dances, even, in the Windscale Club. MARGARET DAVIS All the people were young and ambitious, and there was chemists, there was teachers, there was physicists. There was all kinds of people. People from all over the world. We all got on wonderfully well, and it really was-- it was quite exciting....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...class. Minority groups might also see their identities as partially forged by the discrimination and exclusion they experience, which means that as discrimination changes, so identities can shift in relation to it. Other people might derive their identity from a geographical area, so they might say ‘I’m a Londoner’, ‘I’m a Geordie’, ‘I’m from Belfast’,...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...class of kind and has become as much of an artistic personality as Leonardo, or Giorgione at least. (Berenson, 1953, p. ii) For Berenson, making Caravaggio ‘as much of an artistic personality as Leonardo, or Giorgione’ allowed him to be incorporated into the art historical canon or mainstream. The canon itself consists of mostly male, white, western artists (Perry,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...classed as reliable. [Described image] Figure 5 Scale of reliability Other jurisdictions, such as the USA, have taken a hard line on the question of reliability. For example, the US case of Daubert v Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Footnote 5 established that the trial judge exercises a ‘gatekeeping’ function to ensure that the purported area of expertise rests on...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...variable performance of teams – why is it that some teams seem to work very effectively whereas others have huge conflicts and problems within them? This section will look at the way teams work and the behaviours that can contribute to their success or failure. An understanding of these areas can help you to evaluate your own team performance and identify any necessary...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs