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Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...public spaces? What meaning do they hold for their associated believers and practitioners? And what messages do they give to those who are not part of their community? These are some of the issues you will be introduced to briefly in this short course. They are explored more fully in A227 Exploring religion: places, practices, texts and experiences...Religious diversity:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...health (the lack of water or use of polluted water can generate ‘water-related diseases’). The WWP therefore actively addresses the impoverishment of black South Africans, which is a serious issue. 14 million South Africans currently have no or inadequate water supplies. In 1997, unemployment stood at 37%, and 50% of the population was classified as ‘poor’. With...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...public involved. I think social media has given the public a voice directly so these groups, so in a way they’re doing it fantastically. What’s the importance of social media for today’s filmmakers? I think certainly because I grew up with social media it’s kind of second nature to me. And I think some of the perhaps… and I mean this in the nicest possible way,...
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Video 30 mins
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...Health Service and in local government, and I've also maintained a practice as a part-time amateur academic. I've had a strange trajectory, really. I studied psychology back in the early 1970s, and reacted pretty much against what was then seen as a revolution in psychology, the cognitive revolution, which didn't really set me alight very much. I became a behaviourist,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...public pressure)? What practices does an innovative organisation engage in with respect to environmental management? Systems ideas are used to explore and develop critical perspectives on innovation in relation to environmental management by organisations. A systems approach raises the question of perspective: who decides what is innovation, what boundary judgements are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...publication of high quality educational materials, organised as courses. In 2001, MIT was the first university to work on putting many of the teacher-defined support materials from its undergraduate and graduate courses online, in MIT OpenCourseWare. The term ‘open educational resources’ was coined by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...publicized the health-giving properties of bathing in, and drinking, sea water in his A Dissertation: Concerning the Use of Sea Water in Diseases of the Glands, etc . (1752). Sea water taken one way or another, according to Russell, would cure almost any disease, including ‘fluxions of redundant humours’, rheumatism, madness, consumption, impotence, rabies and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...publics (free dances open to everybody). In this section a variety of people explain how they celebrate Bastille Day and what it means to them. Vitrine de confiseur décorée pour le quatorze juillet...Intermediate French: 14 July: 1.1 Les avis sont partagés - What exactly does the average French person celebrate on Bastille Day? As you will see, opinions can differ...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs