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Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...changing the endings of both elements in accordance with Italian grammatical and spelling rules. In the third example the author is treating the term as Latin, this time changing the endings of both elements in accordance with Latin grammatical and spelling rules...Exploring languages and cultures: 2.2 English as a lingua franca - We now turn to the most successful lingua...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...changes to the muzzle allowed the muscles of the face to extend, giving mobility to the upper lip, enabling anthropoids today to make a wide variety of facial gestures. Facial and vocal communication are very important in anthropoid societies...Studying mammals: The social climbers: 3.5 Communication - Compared with many other mammals, primates have a rich repertoire of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...that they are not malleable, at least to some extent, though perhaps they are harder to change...Emotions and emotional disorders: 1.1 What is an emotional disorder? - The terminology used to classify mental health disorders like emotional disorders has developed and changed over many decades. Multiple usages are current and can be very confusing. ‘Affect’ is another term for ‘mood’, so one term often used ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...changed the background to either a different seascape or no background at all. Japanese participants judged focal objects (e.g. the fish) more accurately when in the original background than when presented in a different underwater background or with no background at all. On the other hand, the changing backgrounds didn’t impact the performance of US participants. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...change our attitude or perspective?...Ever wondered about the psychology of literature or stories? Or how a certain narrative might change our attitude or perspective? This free course, What happens to you when you read? explores our relationship with books and the ways in which engaging with fiction in particular can change readers. Research shows that as well as...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...changes to a situation, to help in decision making and to help with quantitative model building. The course has a link to an animated tutorial that covers the purposes, elements and conventions of specific types of diagrams most widely used in systems studies. It also acts as a glossary of the major diagramming types used in systems work...Systems diagramming: 2 What is a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...change the amount you spend each month and seeing if your budget can cope with the interest rate on your mortgage rising sharply (normally by assessing the impact of a 3% hike in the mortgage rate you pay). So ahead of talking to your lender there are some things you should do to help present your best financial profile to your lender: Check your credit files and ensure...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...changing our bodies? And furthermore, what role does society play in shaping both our bodies and our identities? These questions of individual-social and agency-structure dualisms form the basis of the next sub-section in which we consider the notion of the body as an ‘identity project’...The body: A phenomenological psychological perspective: 2.2 Body as ‘identity...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs