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Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...codes, and often saw history and biography as having important moralising and didactic elements The extracts that you were asked to read from the SHA and Dio Cassius are just that: extracts, smaller parts of a larger whole. Here the aim was to give you a flavour of these works and the issues surrounding them. The SHA is a problematic source. It is late in date, of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...code word for the very old-fashioned idea of ‘defer to the person in charge’. That said, it is our case that leadership does indeed offer something distinctive to management. If management seeks to make work more predictable and efficient, leadership disrupts, bringing out new issues and ideas. This course’s position on leadership and management As a way of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...coding gene in the genome would have to be analysed. The enormity of this task can be appreciated only by considering the number of genes that are activated in a single biological process. For example, during the transition from aerobic to anaerobic respiration in cells of the yeast S. cerevisiae, changes in the expression of 1740 genes have been recorded. This large...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...code of the years 1900 to 1914 looks like children play acting in comparison with what comes after that. So I think that’s one reason that in the 1920s people aren’t anxious to revisit political militancy of that type because it just, it suddenly seems spurious in comparison with the real violence and the real carnage that’s been suffered during the war. Audio 2...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...Code of Ethics for members. It is not, however, the legal regulator of social work. Explore the types of roles that a social worker can do and the organisations where social workers are employed. Are there any particular roles that you are attracted to? Now having considered the range of roles that a social worker might undertake, watch the two videos in Part 2 to explore...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...codes, rules and standards for assessing what is right or wrong regarding the marketing activity being undertaken...Marketing in the 21st century: 2.1 Ethics in practice - What does this mean in practice? Let us consider this case study. Case study: BAE Systems and the sale of radar systems to the Tanzanian Government [In 2010 BAE Systems, a military equipment producer,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Introduction to complex analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to complex analysis

...simple functions like z long right arrow from bar one and z long right arrow from bar z are known, we can find the derivatives of other more complicated functions by applying the following theorem. Theorem 3 Combination Rules for Differentiation Let f and g be complex functions with domains cap a and cap b , respectively, and let alpha be a limit point of cap a...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...simple, if self-dramatizing, poverty (see Figure 5 ). Strict economy notwithstanding, he commissioned his then favourite architect Henry Holland to convert the farmhouse into a gentleman's residence with good views of the sea and the Steine. Rebuilt in the early summer of 1787, it would come to be called the Marine Pavilion. [Figure 5] Figure 5 Anonymous, Love's Last...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs