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Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...Social media and the internet have opened up new opportunities for local residents to express their opinions through websites such as Facebook, blogs or Twitter, or to offer their support by signing online petitions, or for graffiti artists/activists to promote their work or the cause they are campaigning for. Social media played an important role in relation to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...social life or family responsibilities. These skills are: organising yourself, managing time and managing stress. Unfortunately, there is no universal prescription for any of these skills. However, you will consider what events make you stressed, the impact that different demands and pressures have on you, and different ways of dealing with them so that you can maximise...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...social justice, drawing on a wide range of primary sources. In doing so, it assesses the achievements, shortcomings and revolutionary qualities of the civil rights movement...In this free course, The American Civil Rights Movement, you will learn about the mass movement for racial equality in the United States that reached its zenith during the 1950s and 1960s. During...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...social, political and economic change. Opinions about law, lawyers, judges and the function of the legal system vary. The role and function of law is often in the news and much debated. Whether law is used to protect, regulate, uphold rights, challenge authority, resolve disputes or govern, it is central to society. In this week you are encouraged to explore your own...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...Social Research Council (ESRC). Its aim was to increase understanding about formal and informal learning. The project involved in-depth interviews with 117 adults, aged between 25 and 85 years. The project took a ‘biographical’ approach by asking adults about their learning biographies and life learning ‘trajectories’ or pathways. [A typewriter with the words...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...social order, and who are expected and perceived to do so (Hosking, quoted in Bogenschneider, 2016). Leadership is typically defined by the traits, qualities and behaviours of a leader (Horner, quoted in Bogenschneider, 2016). There are clear parallels between many of these definitions, for example ‘influence’ is a common theme, but there are key differences in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...social anxiety offset by cheap alcohol. It was a harbinger of the next four years. On Friday and Saturday nights, the air in Flat G4, Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds would be heavy with perfume and hair products vaporising from hair straighteners. The five of us girls who lived there would sit on the plastic-tiled floor of our kitchen, backs against cupboard doors,...
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Article 10 mins
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...social classes, it's a very useful device for disparaging the manners and material culture of your enemies. Laurie Taylor: In this exhibition, those of you who have been round it, will have seen 17th Century Delft tiles, the point being made by their presence here is the - that they were specifically developed to facilitate cleaning and if you look by those tiles as well...
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Article 30 mins