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Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...thinking about the speaking and listening you do in your everyday life. How can you speak so that people understand you? Why is this course about listening as well as speaking? And just how important is body language?...Speaking and listening: 1.1 Speaking - Whether you consider yourself to be quiet and shy or bubbly and chatty, you have to do some speaking from day to...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...Think about these issues in relation to another place or other places. What is being represented/promoted? Who gains and who loses? 3. The main points to grasp from this programme are: that ‘image and identity’ are central to our geographical imagination; that images and identities are socially constructed and are not neutral or objective: how we define a place...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...think it is! This free course, Religious diversity: rethinking religion, introduces you to a selection of the vast variety of religious beliefs and practices in Britain today. Having some familiarity with religion and belief is increasingly required to make sense of issues of local, national and international importance. The course will introduce you to issues and skills...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?

...think – but not the society as a whole). Still, such studies might get closer to how people feel than many of the big claims currently going around in journalism (and some social science writing) about politics. They might also help with the second problem: Can people feel more than one thing? Too often we assume people to be simple souls, capable of feeling or thinking...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit

...think when the result appeared to reflect the priority of visceral feelings over thought, and to privilege authenticity (who is speaking) rather than expertise (the authority of facts and evidence). And, if what you speak is dismissed as being politically correct, how can you speak? What’s your discursive armoury when language itself has been corrupted? I got over this,...
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Article 5 mins
Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?

...think about. People may be more familiar with thinking about ‘quality of life’, which if often linked to patient outcomes. In this article, we’ll outline what taking a wellbeing approach to dying matters and what it could look like...Firstly, let us define wellbeing. There are many definitions available, and each person may have their own sense of what wellbeing...
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Article 5 mins
Reactions and reflections to On a Wing and a Prayer
Society, Politics & Law

Reactions and reflections to On a Wing and a Prayer

...think more about the relationship of Alia Syed’s journey through the tunnel to Mr. Haroun’s journey through the tunnel. It raises the question of whether this Syed’s journey is a re-enactment, a phenomenological engagement with Mr Haroun’s journey and what the ethical and political challenges of this are. Is Alia’s journey a way to step into Mr. Haroun’s...
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Video 5 mins
Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...thinking about how his local environment was changing was related to thinking about the wider world, about people on the other side of the globe. I thought about how little attention I pay to the natural world around me. I doubted that I’d notice any changes in my local river, but knew that I’d spot a new café opening next to it. When I first read about the changing...
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Article 10 mins