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Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...family relationships, a work situation or maybe a situation in your local community. Discussion It’s interesting to notice that most people’s response to this is to think that of course they would be more forthcoming if someone was empathic and understanding – and yet we still buy into the myth we see in films that, when talking to a police suspect, for some reason...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...family that hired him will gain little status, and he will probably not be invited to play in that area again. A wayang must first be entertaining. The art, therefore, is receptive to the demands of its audience, and the audience has brought new demands. ‘People want to laugh more.’ ‘Audiences prefer new stories.’ ‘Audiences want to see lots of fighting.’...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...history of human culture, water supplies were often unsafe to drink, due to the presence of pathogens. It was often the case that the only safe beverage to drink was beer or wine, so the use of yeasts has been pivotal in lowering mortality rates...Week 3: Sugar, yeast and life: 3.1 Experiment 4: Yeast experiment - Figure 1 Living organisms, like yeasts, need food and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...families and friends (e.g. see the Guardian’s article: Families divided by Brexit, 2016); a good reminder of how the ‘personal’ is also ‘political’ and vice versa. Social psychology attempts to understand such political events by asking fundamental questions about how and why people engage with political processes and structures. Why do people vote the way they...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...family (Cercopithecidae). The marmosets, tamarins and capuchin-like monkeys of the New World are found in Central and South America; they comprise two related families. Apes (gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos) and humans are the subject of course S182_10, so I will say little about them here. As DA points out in LoM p. 272, apart from humans, very few...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...family violence, incest) or within a restricted social setting (the school, the workplace, the street). A further difficulty in studying racially motivated crime or racial harassment is establishing racial motivation. One approach is to accept the victim's view; another is for an observer to make a judgement based on a description of the facts. Definitions used vary in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...history; some of its best/worst amenities (parks, sports or cultural facilities and regular social activities); the character and/or groupings of its inhabitants; the effectiveness/ineffectiveness of its public services; its political make-up. Draw lines from the central bubble outwards to the others, and add more bubbles and lines as you think of related things that you...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...history. (Sutliff, 1901) The rise of information and communication technologies (ICT) – that is, computers, software, telecommunications and the internet – and the large impact that these new technologies are having on the way that society functions, have prompted many to claim that we have entered a new era, often referred to as the ‘Third Industrial Revolution’,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs