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Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...Latin word ‘ars’ signified skilled work; it did not mean art as we might understand it today, but a craft activity demanding a high level of technical ability including tapestry weaving, goldsmith’s work or embroidery. Literary statements of what constituted the arts during the medieval period are rare, particularly in northern Europe, but proliferate in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...Latin name for this bear is Ursus maritimus, which means ‘bear of the sea’. The reason for this is given by the writer Barry Lopez: The polar bear is a creature of arctic edges: he hunts the ice margins, the surface of the water, and the continental shore. ... He dives to the ocean floor for mussels and kelp, and soundlessly breaks the water’s glassy surface on his...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...Latin poet Horace's Ars Poetica: ‘In short, everything you write must be modest and simple.’ Gottsched instructs the song composer to strive for ‘nothing more than an agreeable and clear reading of a verse, which consequently must match the nature and content of the words.’ Later in the century, writers praised song that was devoted to ‘the noble simplicity of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...Latin phrase homo bulla, ‘man is [fragile] as a soap bubble’: just as a bubble floats into the air and catches the radiance of light, only to burst into nothing, so human life is brief and evanescent. The location of this image near the centre of the painting, at a point where several lines converge, gives credence to de Jongh’s proposal that Steen has provided us...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...Latin America 20.1% 11.9% 50.8% 1.3% 3.9% 11.4% 0.6% a. 20.1% b. 11.9% c. 50.8% d. 1.3% e. 3.9% f. 11.4% g. 0.6% The correct answer is g. Select the answer for Question 1g here Unknown 20.1% 11.4% 3.9% 11.9% 1.3% 50.8% 0.6% a. 20.1% b. 11.4% c. 3.9% d. 11.9% e. 1.3% f. 50.8% g. 0.6% The correct answer is b. Select the answer for Question 1h here In 2014 the world...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...Latin term ratio decidendi. This is often shortened to the words ‘ratio of the case’. Under the common law system these principles establish rules which, if all the facts are similar, must be followed in subsequent cases in the same or a lower court. This is known as the doctrine of precedent, which you are about to examine...Week 3: Argument and precedent: 2.1...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...Latin phrase ‘et al.’ (meaning ‘and others’) when an article has more than three authors, so that the reader doesn’t have to read through a long list of names. In the reference list, you would see the full list of authors along with the other source details: Li, N., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D., Wilson, P. and Rose, K. (2018) ‘Communicating data: interactive...
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Article 5 mins
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...Latin] being assimilated into the general meaning of the word ‘homo’. Woman is the negative, to such a point that any determination is imputed to her as a limitation, without reciprocity. I used to get annoyed in abstract discussions to hear men tell me: ‘You think such and such a thing because you’re a woman.’ But I know my only defence is to answer, ‘I think...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs