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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
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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Article 15 mins
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
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...history of rivalry, and resistance to Rome’s might. Was it possible for these cultural and political differences to be worked out? How far could the peoples of North Africa come to identify with a Roman life-style? And in Judaea, Jewish religious traditions, Greek secular culture and Roman officialdom reveal just how culturally complicated the Roman Empire could be....
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
The caring manager in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The caring manager in health and social care

...family member’, which is a stressful event. Given that these colleagues completed the inventory during the COVID-19 global pandemic it was not surprising that both had a ‘change in work hours or conditions’ and ‘change in number of family get together’. Colleague B scored 145 and noted ‘Marital separation’ was a significant stress for them. Both had scores...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...history. It is considered to be one of the major innovations of the Treaty of Lisbon and enables one million EU citizens to call directly on the European Commission to propose legislation of interest to them in an area of EU competence.’ (http://www.citizens-initiative.eu/) Non-EU bodies such as the Council of Europe (CoE) also stress the importance of active...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...history, many plants have evolved adaptive traits that not only allow them to persist in flammable environments but to depend on fire for reproduction and growth. One important consequence of natural fires is the creation of spatial and temporal variation within a landscape, which generates and maintains biodiversity. Many animals exploit the consequences of fire and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs