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Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...everyday conversations. The point of this activity is to make you focus upon what can be conceived of as Roman and to think about whether or not some of the things you have met so far in Africa are familiar because you have already encountered similar things in Rome or elsewhere in the empire. Some of the cases above are fairly clear cut. Something like a capitol is...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...everyday lives. What, then are the consequences of neglecting the mundane in favour of the special? Are we continuing to portray an idealized version of family life following traditions inherited from the past? To answer this we need to look at the occasions when our ancestors chose to be photographed. We might also want to think about changing our practices. Once we...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...everyday example of error control is the barcode, as in Figure 9. Figure 9 is known as an EAN-13 code. These codes are widely used as identifiers for articles such as books and other consumer items. The pattern of narrow and broad lines represent the 13-digit number shown below the lines. Scanners can read the pattern of lines and work out the number represented....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...English, French and American versions, so the reader will come across occasional references and allusions to developments which are out of context with the period when the essays were first written. I shall draw to your attention any that affect your reading of the shortened version of the essays. I also want to convey directly the flavour of the whole work, which has...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...English Midlands. She manages a small team of part-time youth workers and between them they provide a range of daytime, evening and weekend opportunities for young people living in the local area. I’m based in a youth and community centre which shares a site with a secondary school, and the school is a key partner for me. I’ve established a good relationship with the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...English- and French-speaking Canadians as well as first-nation Canadians. Another example is land rights claims in the post-colonial period, promoting the status and rights of groups such as native Americans, Australian Aborigines, and the New Zealand Maoris. The fourth debate concerns how far the stretching of rights claims can go. Can they be expanded indefinitely? To...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...English Reference Dictionary defines as ‘of or having the nature of an image of portrait’. While the dictionary also mentions ‘(of a statue) following conventional type’, the word is used to describe something worth noticing and worth commenting upon; anything assigned ‘iconic’ status is identifiable and special, just as the religious icons are recognisable....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Oedraniaeth a gwahaniaethu ar sail oedran
Society, Politics & Law

Oedraniaeth a gwahaniaethu ar sail oedran

...English version is also available. [Logo Comisiynydd Pobl Hŷn Cymru]...Oedraniaeth a gwahaniaethu ar sail oedran: Cyflwyniad - Gall oedraniaeth newid y ffordd rydym yn gweld ein hunain a phobl eraill ac achosi i anghyfeillgarwch barhau rhwng cenedlaethau, gan brisio’r hyn y gall pobl iau a phobl hŷn ei gyfrannu yn isel. Gall hefyd gael effaith negyddol ar ein hiechyd,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs