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Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...based, economic challenge to employers’ ability to use the growing numbers of post war unemployed as a reserve army of labour to ratchet down wages. Bloody Friday in George Square is, perhaps, the most obvious symbol of this interpretation of Red Clyde, with its focus on the potential of extra-parliamentary action to shape political struggle. [Tanks and soldiers...
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Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...base your professional relationship. You are more likely to understand your customers if you can communicate in both languages...Why study languages?: 1.2 Be a knight in shining armour - In your own country or abroad, being bilingual puts you in the position to be an ad-hoc translator. Even people who speak English are often not saying what they mean to say because of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...de Benzion fragments, based on parallels such as the scene in the tomb-chapel of Nakht (Theban Tomb 52) The artificiality of the image is heightened once its symmetry is restored. There are now two Nebamuns, two Hatshepsuts, two boats, and two children, a male child on the left to balance the female child on the right. The fishing and fowling scene is in short not a...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...based on a recognition that the leadership of an institution needs to be understood in its socio-cultural context. Leadership is historically, culturally and politically situated. Its nature is interwoven with the tools and artifacts associated with a particular place (such as the curriculum, official standards, facilities), as well as with people in interaction (Spillane...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...based. You'll examine different objects closely, learning what each item can tell us about life in ancient times. On the course, you'll divide the body up into organs and systems, using each as a starting point to explore ancient theories of the structure and function of the human body, and other aspects of ancient life. You'll discover ancient Greece and Rome in full,...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...based) requirements and a series of complex negotiations. The formal process of leaving the EU was triggered by the UK government in March 2017 with the invocation of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which sets out the rights of member nations to leave the EU and spells out the procedure for doing so within a two-year timetable. Following the referendum Parliament held a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...based or crowd-sourced science and volunteer monitoring, to name a few. The term citizen science was first used in the 1990s in both the UK and the USA and came from two different frameworks. In his book Citizen Science, Alan Irwin considers the role that scientific expertise can play in bringing the public and science together and building a more scientifically active...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...based on a ‘bio-medical’ model of mental health...Making sense of mental health problems: 2.1 Diagnostic handbooks - Figure 3 Maggie from the interactive ‘A Support Net’ which is associated with this OpenLearn course Two handbooks or manuals are particularly significant in the process of psychiatric diagnosis; both are commonly known by their abbreviations: the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs