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Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...VERB MEAN ESTIMATE OF SPEED (MPH) Smashed 40.8 Collided 39.3 Bumped 38.1 Hit 34.0 Contacted 31.8 Those who were asked the ‘smashed’ question were also more likely to believe they had seen broken glass in the film clip than those who were asked the ‘hit’ question. There was no broken glass. (Source: Loftus and Palmer, 1974)...Making decisions: 4.4 Using information...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...verbs. You may not be aware of using them or hearing them, but without using them nothing quite makes sense. The music of Mozart for example, although it is distant in time from the blues, similarly makes use of primary chords to create its characteristic sounds and structures. [Described image] Figure 10 Playing the blues Primary chords and the scale patterns from which...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...le gazon It is forbidden to walk on the turf Attention / Glissant Attention / Slippery Frisch gestrichen! Recently painted! Hombres trabajando Men working Al salir tengan cuidado de no introducir el pie entre coche y andén When you leave, take care not to put your foot in between the train and the platform 一箭双雕 One arrow for two birds 软硬兼施 Soft and hard me...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...He once wrote: ‘Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte_’._ –Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters, Letter XVI, December 1656. Translation: ‘I wrote this very long [letter] because I didn’t have the time to make it shorter’. What do you think Pascal meant by this? [Photo of Claire]Figure 8 ClaireShow descriptionA photograph of Claire. Claire, whose research looks for ......
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Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...verb ‘sat’ and would make no sense on its own. In this example, the adjective ‘grey’ and the adverb ‘idly’ occupy a lower level of hierarchy in the syntax. Thus ‘the grey idly on the mat’ would be an incorrect reduction, and would of course make no sense within the rules of English syntax, just as Example 7b makes no sense within the harmonic language of...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...verb or this kind of adjective versus that kind of adjective and it’s looking at lots and lots of fMRI scans that allow you to see those clusters, those patterns. Machine learning has been used beyond science and engineering, so for instance it is used in detecting credit card fraud. It’s used on Wall Street, (the answer from the back of the room). When you go to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...les rapports de l’art Vénitiens avec l’art Crétois jusqu’à 1500’, in A. Pertusi (ed.) Venezia e il Levante fino al secolo XV, vol. 2 (Florence), p. 69–124. Chatzidakis, M. (1974b) ‘Les débuts de l’école Crétoise et la question de l’école dite Italogreque’, in Μνημόσυνον Σ. Αντωνιάδη (Venice), p. 169–211. Chaztidakis, M....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...les Français’. Although we may represent five cows by the number 5, it remains true that if we say or write that there are ‘five cows’ a French person will not recognise this as the same as ‘cinq vaches’. Think again about a photograph of a cow. If we show it to the French person, they will recognise it immediately as ‘une vache’. An English person will...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs