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Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...learn how to evaluate news items, and to go behind the headlines and begin to explore some of the more contemporary and controversial findings within the field...This free advanced level course, Exploring anxiety, serves as an introduction to masters level study in neurosciences and mental health. Focusing on anxiety, you will consider key issues concerning diagnosis,...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: discuss what it means to be a person read and understand arguments discussing this question...Philosophy: The nature of persons: 1 Introducing the concept of the 'person' and 'persons' - This course explores what it is to be a person. There are several philosophical questions around the nature of...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the diversity of ingredients on dinner plates from around the world list the ingredients of a dinner plate and place them on the taxonomic tree recognise traditional and cultural associations of food identify geographical origins of different foods and intellectual property rights over them...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe and use a general classification of models outline and discuss the process of systems modelling, where models are used as part of a systemic approach to a range of different situations recognise that systems models may be used in different ways as part of a process for: improving understanding...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the key contemporary issues surrounding gender in sport draw on evidence (not just statistics) to understand gender equality in sport understand gender discrimination in sport via traditional perceptions of masculinity and femininity...Sporting women in the media: 1 ‘You run like a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The caring manager in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The caring manager in health and social care

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: outline why it is important to be aware of stress in others and your own response to stress describe how caring managers and leaders can respond appropriately to stress in others identify the role of caring management or leadership in reducing stress when implementing change in health and social...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...learn that he could not obtain the amount till the draft became due. A man of less sensitive feelings would have returned to Pall Mall East, and have there waited securely and comfortably till I came. How to frame his apology to our trusty domestic was the difficulty that sent him into the den where I found him. He produced the draft to me from out of his Bible, which he...
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Article 10 mins
The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators
Nature & Environment

The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators

...learn is more reminiscent of dogs and cats. Their hunting behaviour is visually guided and includes aggressive mimicry, a form of deception where, on locating a spider, they manipulate the web by plucking it, imitating a small ensnared insect. Portia can generate an almost unlimited number of signals and adjusts them in response to feedback from prey. In other words, they...
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Article 10 mins