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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
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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
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
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
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...codes and secret languages, and more simply, because I grew up on Tolkien. I suppose, if the truth were told, I should have to confess that I ended up as a postgraduate student of literature because of an infantile obsession with Gandalf’s Middle Earth. Discussion Source: A.S. Byatt (2001) The Biographer’s Tale, London: Vintage. Genre(s): modern gothic romance,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...simple, structured approach to setting goals effectively and to increasing the range of choices you consider. If you face a setback, this approach will help your adaptability. In the next activity, you’ll try using the GROW model to set yourself a goal. Activity 4 Goal-setting with GROW Timing: Allow about 20 minutes Watch this video of the GROW model in action: Video 4...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...simple narratives that focus on exploitation – that the Chinese are extractive, caring little about their impact; are more willing to deal with dubious regimes and; are less concerned with adhering to ethics and standards protecting human rights or environment safeguards. What you have hopefully learned over the course of the five sessions is that the story of China’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs