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Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...2; Martial, 2015, p. 3) Note your responses to the questions in the box below. Discussion There are a number of details that you might have picked out, and different ways of interpreting the poem, so don’t worry if your responses to these questions look different to the list below. The main tactic of this poem is a methodical and repetitive comparison between what used...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...2 study in Arts and Humanities...Approaching plays: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the basic technical terms associated with plays make the most out the text of a play...Approaching plays: 1 Approaching plays - Most people's experience of plays will be through seeing them on stage, or on television or video. Or, thinking...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...2 When was the early modern period? - The term ‘early modern’ is an example of periodisation: dividing the long expanse of past time into ages or periods. Periods can be defined in different ways. The reign of a monarch or family is one way: ‘Tudor England’ refers to the time when England was ruled by monarchs from the Tudor family. Historians also talk about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...skills from more knowledgeable and experienced individuals. [Described image] Figure 2 A parent bird and parent mammal with their young For a species to survive, there have to be efficient and robust mechanisms of behaviour in both the young and the carers that keep them together during the period of dependent immaturity. It is not surprising that evolution has favoured such mechanisms and that they have, to varying ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...2 Operating in uncertain times - During the pandemic organisations’ ability to manage uncertainty became critical. Many had to make decisions and implement complicated changes, including digital transformation at an accelerated pace, to pivot most of the workforce to remote working during lockdowns. The video below provides some insights from contributors about their...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...2 study in Arts and Humanities...Robert Owen and New Lanark: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the Enlightenment ideas that underpinned Robert Owen's social reform agenda understand how Owen's background and experience at New Lanark fed through into his thinking in the essays in A New View of Society understand the main...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...2 and Phase 3 clinical trials in which efficacy against the target disease is sought. When these data have been collated, analysed and reviewed by regulatory authorities, the permission to market the drug as a new medicine, as it may now finally be termed, might be granted. The key stages in the drug development process are: Disease selection and target identification...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...2 deals with the challenges facing social scientists in their attempts to understand and explain what is going on around us. As social scientists, we are faced with the task of coming to terms with a complex dynamic world. This means that social researchers have to ensure that their theoretical tools and assumptions are appropriate to the tasks they face. In Section 3, we...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs