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Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...education process both ways. But at the end of the day, you have to make your own decisions. Learn from feedback, but you have to write your own books. ...Week 4: ‘Treat ’em mean, keep ’em keen’: engagement with villains: 1.3 Gordon Brown - Authors often take part in writing panels (or author panels). These typically take place in book shops, or at conferences or...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...technology, particularly the internet, mean alternative types of finance are commonplace in today’s economic landscape...Organisations and the financial system: 2.1 Crowdfunding - One solution to the limitations posed by traditional means of financing has been to rely directly on the public to search for potential funders. Crowdfunding is the process of raising...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...education of a young boy. The stringed instrument, of which there are four examples, is a ‘barbitos’ (βαρβιτος), a relative of the lyre. The teacher holds open a papyrus roll, containing what appears to be the beginning of a poem. The poem begins with an address to the muse (Μοισα), as do the Iliad and Odyssey...Session 2: Sounds: 1 The sounds of Greek -...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...educated wealthy men. Can we recreate the experiences and perspectives of women, children and slaves? Only by studying a variety of evidence and by carefully evaluating its context can we begin to recreate and explore differing perspectives. This block, like the course as a whole, is about posing questions, finding ways of investigating these questions and evaluating the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...educated guesses about the whole population. The formula uses “s”, which is calculated from our sample, to estimate how spread out the entire population might be. The t-distribution follows a unique pattern that differs from the normal distribution. When you calculate the t-statistic multiple times using various samples, the results conform to this t-distribution....
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...technology of printing. The area of the visual arts was broadened by the publication of prints by artists from both Italy and the north, the German master Albrecht Dürer prominent among them. Venetian printers were also engaged in map-making, not least nautical maps of the main sea-routes and ports around which Venetian trade was organised. And it has been established...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...technological devices, from rulers to clocks, to help us in doing this. We also deploy quantification in making sense of our own and of others’ behaviour. We think about how often we go to the gym, pray, have sex, and so on; and we also talk about how strongly we or others believe in various things, how effective teaching has been, how powerfully events affected us, who...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...technological advancements to enable the first exoplanet to be identified, and the result was surprising: 51 Pegasi b (named after its Sun-like host star 51 Pegasi in the Pegasus constellation) was unlike anything in our Solar System. 51 Pegasi b is a hot Jupiter: a planet with a similar mass to Jupiter, but with an incredibly high surface temperature as its orbit takes...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs