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Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...worlds and engage us with the power of their invention. They provide us with more than the immediate interest of narrative – of something happening – and more than the pleasures of imagination: they enlarge our understanding of ourselves and deepen our appreciation of life. (p. 27) Did your own answers to the question of why we read touch on any of the reasons DiYanni...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Social psychology: sense-making in crises
Society, Politics & Law

Social psychology: sense-making in crises

...world. This course will be experiential, focusing on the concept of the frame as a tool of sense-making. The aim of the course is to provide you with a perspective well-suited for our crisis-ridden twenty-first century – one that is very much in need of being made sense of...This free course provides an introduction to social psychology as second order sense-making....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...world. Criminology is often studied alongside other social science disciplines, most commonly: psychology, sociology or law. This course will help you to make sense of some of the key differences between criminology, psychology, sociology and law, while illustrating how certain topics might be approached and understood by someone from these different disciplinary...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...world continues to change in disruptive ways. Here, disruptive means a change to something new, which is not incremental or minor. For successful leadership in any domain – business, public sphere, civil society – you need to understand and adapt to the changing world that brings many challenges. Successful leadership requires you to reconsider what it means to lead...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...world exclusively through a professional lens. Undertaking original research using methods she was unused to and subjecting her data to rigorous, systematic analysis reveals contexts and influences to which as a professional she was completely oblivious. Kathy illustrates well the value of looking at the everyday familiar with fresh academic eyes. One thing that happens...
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Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...World War. You’ll explore Woolf’s views on the role of this novel, and the wider significance of literature and language. As well as reading about the novel, you will read several extracts from it, which will have audio readings accompanying them, and you’ll be asked to analyse these extracts, and determine how Woolf achieved her aims by depicting images, memories,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...world, social scientific study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves and understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This free course, The social in social science, provides a basic overview of how social science contains deeply embedded cultural assumptions, and outlines...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...world around us, both in talking about it among ourselves and in thinking about it as individuals. When someone utters the sentence, ‘The German economy is bouncing back’, for example, they are able to convey to their audience something about the German economy. Their utterance may be correct or it may be incorrect, but either way it is making a claim about how things...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs