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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
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...simple colour terms to the ‘correct’ colour (e.g. matching the word ‘blue’ to the colour blue) isn’t something that children master until around three years of age (Pitchford and Mullen, 2002). One reason children do not achieve this earlier is because it takes children a while to learn the boundaries of each colour. For example, in many languages there is a...
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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
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...simple diet, free from preservatives? Or do we focus on our greater knowledge of the body, the scientific progress we've made? For example, with understanding the role of minerals or vitamins in the diet, and developing vaccinations and finding ways to preserve food safely. And which attitude really matters here? In this course, we've arranged the themes by looking at the...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...simple as a raise of the eyebrow, a smile or a frown can convey a clearly understood message from one person to another. In fact, everything we do is communication. We can show people what mood we are in just by the way we walk down the street or by the way we answer the phone. The next activity asks you to think about the ways people communicate. Activity 2 Timing: Allow...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...codes or greetings are listed to avoid offending individuals of another nationality. Select the answer for Question 1c here State control This final example is a news item from 2013 (and did not appear in I. Piller’s book). In the article, journalist Olga Khazan investigates how homophobic sentiments and laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community have gained traction in Russia...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...coding problem, attributing this performance to ‘the ability of people to work together to generate and adopt correct responses, reject erroneous responses, and effectively process information.’ Creativity – Stolaki et al. (2023) examined the effects of collaboration (among other factors) on the team performance of over 200 university Informatics students, finding a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...code by filling the universities with silk ‘Wherewith the students shall be bravely clad’ (l. 93) strikes me as a harmless, even appealing, expression of social rebellion. Faustus's motives in this speech seem to be mixed, neither all good nor all bad, rather like the Chorus's initial portrait of him. I'd like to say a bit more at this point about Faustus's desire to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs