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Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...architecture as well as consumer products. It will also examine the process of designing, including a critical appraisal of some of the accepted models of design. The term innovation is widely used today and this course reflects on what constitutes innovative design and innovative designing. Design is an essential part of engineering, and, in a competitive world,...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...architecture of new social housing projects, and the use of modern art and design by a range of political movements on the right and left (including the Republican government in Spain and the Fascists in Italy). If ordinary people were not conversant with modernism, many, especially in urban environments, were aware of it. We will not look at modernist art in any great...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
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Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...architecture; or visit world-class museums such as the Louvre or the Musée d’Orsay. Take your companions to the Centre Pompidou or walk up the Champs Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe. Look in at the luxury shops along the way (good for some window shopping!). When you reach the Arc, take a moment to pause at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, before climbing the monument...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...architectures of planetary systems...The formation of exoplanets: 3.1 Forming giant planets via core accretion - Once the mass of a planetary core reaches a few Earth masses, it starts to build up a gas envelope. This process can lead to a variety of outcomes because, as seen in Activity 5, the speed at which a core grows and its final mass depend on where in the disc it...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...architecture through the use of automatically generated images and layouts. Figure 4 looks like it was drawn by hand, but it was actually generated by artificial intelligence (AI) via the software tool Adobe Firefly. It was created using the text prompt: ‘What does algorithmic design look like?’. Acquiring an understanding of the logics and principles of algorithms...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...Architecture for the Internet Protocol, Kent, S., Atkinson, R. Schneier, B. (1996) Applied Cryptography, 2nd edn, Wiley. Stallings, W (1999) Cryptography and Network Security, Prentice Hall. Stallings, W (2001) SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, and RMON 1 and 2, 3rd edn, Addison Wesley. Further reading Anderson, R. (2001) Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...architecture of the body with that of a house: And just as architects relegate the drains of houses to the rear, away from the eyes and nose of the masters, since otherwise they would inevitably be somewhat offensive, so nature has banished the corresponding organs of the body far away from the neighbourhood of the senses. (2.56.141) Did the reality of life in the ancient...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...architecture, are a million miles away from what is usable for the citizen. So that’s a challenge. Now at this stage do I despair? I don’t actually. I’m really, really optimistic. I’m really optimistic that the law and your experience of the law could get and will get is about to get much, much better. And we’re kind of calling this good law. First rule of good...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs