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Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...education, of the rise of a young man from his rural roots towards metropolitan sophistication, then it also appears to undermine this very familiar Victorian tale. As Kate Flint says in the introduction (p.xvii), Pip's Bildungsroman is the ‘antithesis’ of those well-known and widely read contemporary chronicles of humble perseverance, such as Samuel Smiles's...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...educational practice, as Touchstone comically riffs on the syllogism, the standard method of argumentation used in classical logic: because Corin hasn’t been at court, he has never seen good manners, so it follows that ‘thy manners must be wicked, and wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation’. This sounds plausible enough, yet as Corin puts it in a balanced sentence...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...education and social services, barely existed. Today, along with defence, these are the largest areas of state policy and provision, even after privatisations (the transfer of state bodies and functions to the private sector) and the rise of the market principle from the mid 1980s across Western and a number of other democracies. The economic and social role of the state...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...technological superiority, economic production, changes in eating practices or simply changes in fashion is still the subject of study. Please click to view Plate 5: (a) Italian terra sigillata. (John, C. (1971) Arretine and Samian Pottery, London, British Museum Press: © British Museum) (b) African Red slip ware. (Hayes, J.W. (1997) Handbook of Mediterranean Roman...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...Education © Martini et al. (2000, Figures 18–17, p. 483) in Toates, F. (2001) ‘The other sensory systems’, in Biological Psychology, Pearson Education Figure 12 Connections from the ear to the primary auditory cortex. The arrow indicates the route of the auditory information Representation of the signal in the primary auditory cortex is tonotopic. That is, cells at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...educational qualifications. However, most of your learning is likely to be much more informal and drawn from your work and life experiences. This learning depends on your ability to reflect on and draw learning from these experiences (this is often referred to as experiential learning). For some, reflection is quite a natural process but for most of us it is a skill that...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...educational context of advanced scribal training. Early Mesopotamian culture had seen the development of specialised occupations, as a part of the newly-developing and highly-complex urban structuring of the community, and the profession of scribe was central to the running of economic, bureaucratic and other aspects of the state. There were special institutions, schools,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...technology to protect against counterfeiting and contamination. Moving around the course In the ‘Summary’ at the end of each week, you will find a link to the next week. If at any time you want to return to the start of the course, click on ‘Full course description’. From here you can navigate to any part of the course. It’s also good practice, if you access a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs