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Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...work in this course. It should also whet your appetite for further studies in this fascinating area! Activity 1 Watch the video clips below. Click below to view part 1 of the course introduction. Paula James voice-over The Classical world is a world of the past. But in numerous ways it's still present today. Exploring the Classical World is a course about the past of...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...social stigma, with the exception that some professions would have been closed to him. He was a welcomed child and was raised in his father’s house, who married another woman. [Statue of Leonardo's Vitruvian man in Stockholm] 1460 Leonardo moved to Florence (see Florence), with his father. Florence In the 14th Century, Florence had been a city in decline. It had seen...
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...Social Research, 2016). Yet religion retains immense cultural influence, and the absolute numbers of religiously motivated people remain significant enough to require consideration in local and national policy decisions. A variety of religiously committed people are also regularly encountered on high streets and neighbourhoods throughout Britain. The figure below compares...
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...work demonstrate sufficient skills to ‘read’ and ‘draw’ a wide range of diagrams, following given conventions, that help improve an understanding of a situation select diagrams suited to the needs of the situation being investigated and the purposes/preferences as the diagrammer...Systems diagramming: 1 How to use this course - This course is a learning resource....
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?

...works that contain consensual sex or more extreme fetish material involving adults. This sounds broad but the body’s list of unacceptable content includes material where adults role-play as non-adults, acts that could cause pain whether real or simulated, and strong verbal abuse, even if consensual. The most consternation comes from the fact that the BBFC’s decisions...
Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job
Society, Politics & Law

Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job

...social groups became associated with or excluded from such stories. It highlighted how landscapes could tell us about cultural values and how they served to create particular, selective understandings of ‘nature’. Then, since the late 1990s, many geographers have sought to suggest that something important has been lost in this keen focus on the ‘representational’...
Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative

...work is intrinsically linked to ongoing world events is both a privilege and a frustration. A privilege, because I am in the position to interpret and analyse the politics and international relations of my chosen area: Iran, and the Middle East more widely. A frustration, because the ongoing conflicts in the region are prone to sensationalised reporting and partisan media...
‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability
History & The Arts

‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability

...work concerning these emotions involves spelling out the precise nature of the conflict. Some argue that such emotions involve rational conflict, where subjects undergoing such emotions are endorsing two conflicting judgements, e.g. that flying is both safe and unsafe. By contrast, others argue that subjects are undergoing some other form of conflict, say endorsing a...