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Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...family and the importance of the family and different family structures and different family shapes that aren’t all the same, but the role of those informal relationships. So it’s not just about what happens in the NHS and indeed it’s not just about what people in government and policy makers say. The implementation of social policy covers a wide range of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...history and the popular imagination, about the kinds of minds that exist or that could exist and little agreement about what these minds might be like...Minds and mental phenomena: An introduction: 3 Varieties of mental phenomena - We have been considering, in a very general and highly speculative way, what kinds of creatures have minds and wondering what these minds...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...history at all? CAREGIVER No, I don't. I know she used to-- actually, her husband told me she used to cook. But that's all I know really about Thelma. INTERVIEWER Do you know has there ever been a time where you thought if I knew a a little bit more it would be helpful or does that not seem-- CAREGIVER I suppose everything-- every aspect like-- well, yes, I suppose it...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...families are well documented (Huysmans, 2005). Nationalism and national self-determination are living political ideas that people do indeed live (and die) for. The main reason that such conflicts are so important to leaders and followers caught up in them is that to achieve and sustain statehood for one's nation is the ultimate expression of political independence, as it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...family had moved into the street. My house was at one end of the road; his, the other. We matched in several ways: dark hair, dark eyes and glasses. People mistook us for siblings. But one thing that didn’t match was our ability to sing. While I could be outdone on a harmony by a choir of alley cats, Jonny had a voice like velvet. Every day, he’d rehearse in front of...
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Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...family as well. They were teenagers at the time and teenagers aren't the easiest to deal with at the best of times. I was poorly and it was extremely difficult for them. They were able to talk to her about it as well as me. She was there for us all as a family. Speaking to a nurse or a doctor is difficult. They have a completely different attitude. When she came here, I...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...history of digital humanities, discover how physical objects can be made readable by computers through digitisation, understand the meaning of metadata and its importance for search engines, and reflect on doing research with born-digital data. When you think of doing research in the humanities, what comes to mind? Searching through documents in an archive, reading rare...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...history of the world. (Stendhal, Racine and Shakespeare, 1825; 1962 edn, p. 144) This course looks at a period of 50 years or so during which European culture underwent one of the most profound and far-reaching changes in its history. This occurred against a background of political and social turmoil and transformation equally unprecedented, marked by revolution, war and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs