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An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...learn about assisted dying and will consider the different sides of the assisted dying debate. In Section 4, you will briefly be introduced to ethics and ethical dilemmas in practice. In the final section, you will explore grief and the expression of grief in private and in public. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K220 Death,...
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...learning what each item can tell us about life in ancient times. On the course, you'll divide the body up into organs and systems, using each as a starting point to explore ancient theories of the structure and function of the human body, and other aspects of ancient life. You'll discover ancient Greece and Rome in full, from the public to the personal, and from army and...
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...learn to identify and evaluate the importance of relationships within the process and assess the relative importance of stakeholders. You will also be able to classify a systems engineering project in terms of the balance of demands, choice and constraints...This free course, Systems engineering: Challenging complexity, examines system engineering and why it is important....
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: assess how the contrast between media sources and published academic research on doping may illustrate some of the topics and arguments that make up a contemporary issue identify how contemporary issues, such as doping, often benefit from a little social context and/or background history to help...
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...Learning Outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define what a project is understand the importance of risk define the questions a decision maker needs to ask list the main activities and tasks of a project manager consider phased development, prototype approaches or agile methods...Project management: the start of the project journey: 1 Conception:...
What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?
Nature & Environment

What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?

...the future Chinese Elite, the potential is obvious. The internationalisation of higher education, and global environmental degradation are two big contemporary social themes. By linking them in academic research, we might find that the former can help us learn how to deal with the latter. This article was originally published at Sociology Lens under a CC-BY licence...
Why do some cities thrive?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do some cities thrive?

...learned from the past 50 years of economic history that might help cities prepare for the decades ahead. It will be the largest ever analysis of the post-industrial fortunes of the UK’s cities. It builds on work that Martin and his team carried out for the UK Government Office for Science (GoS) Foresight Project on the Future of Cities – the brainchild of Government...
What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...learned how the exchange of cash between buyers and collectors of scrap helped structure community life by creating durable social bonds that functioned like contracts. Over 20 months from 2013 to 2015, I interviewed more than 100 garbage collectors, scrap buyers and policymakers and worked alongside collectors on their garbage collection routes, at their homes where they...