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The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...de Football Association, or FIFA as it is more commonly known, itself has experienced significant controversy relating to the internal politics (or the small ‘p’ politics) of the organisation. However, before you delve into FIFA, take a moment to explore what is meant by ‘political’ in this course. Activity 1 Identifying political themes relating to this course...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...la (shortened to l’) for una – is used, followed by the hour. For midday and midnight, è is used, without the article: È mezzogiorno. It’s midday. È mezzanotte. It’s midnight. To emphasise an exact time on the hour, you can add in punto (‘on the dot’). Sono le undici in punto. It’s eleven o’clock precisely...Week 1: Talking about the time: 4 Expressing...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our optional end-of-course survey. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others. This course is supported and recommended by STEM Returners, a programme that helps to facilitate a start in or return to STEM careers....Introduction and guidance: Introduction and guidance -...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...DES Data Encryption Standard PSTN public switched telephone DMZ demilitarised zone network DNS domain name system RC2 Rivest cipher 2 DSS Digital Signature Standard RC4 Rivest cipher 4 FTP file transfer protocol RSA Rivest, Shamir and IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Adleman block cipher Authority S-HTTP secure hypertext transfer ICMP internet control message protocol...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...de Boer in the Netherlands employ a low-price positioning strategy. Another strategy is to launch a low-price version of an existing product targeted at price-sensitive consumers. For example, Apple launched the Mac mini, a basic version of the Macintosh computer. With this low-priced machine Apple believes it can tempt people who have bought an iPod (and become fans of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our end-of-course survey. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others....Week 1: Chance and chaos: Introduction - Mathematics has long been associated with certainty. For example, the equation 2 + 2 = 4 has been a synonym for evident truth since at least the middle of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...feedback, it was all kind of, ‘I think I got that shot, I seem to remember it. Was it in focus? Well, I’ll have to hope so!’ Along comes electronic and you can play it back to yourself, you can look at it and the costs of running the camera have come down, tiny. It used to cost about £20 a minute to buy the film and get it to the stage where you could even look at...
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Video 35 mins
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...and case studies - [Described image] Figure 6 The exemplary city: damage to the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, in 1871, following the collapse of the Paris Commune. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Paris is a basic reference point for modern urban theory There is a clear relationship between causal generalisation and the use of empirical case studies underlying Harvey’s explanatory narrative. The explanatory analysis ......
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs