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Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...social climbers.) The polar bear is strongly specialised to hunting seals and is the only largely land-based animal that does so. You'll know from LoM that there are a few other bears that appear to have travelled down the road of dietary specialisation. While the Malayan sun-bear [p. 165] eats the eggs and nestlings of ground-nesting jungle fowl and the larvae of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...social life. There are many mature adult males and rivalry can lead to conflict and fighting between individuals, using a spectacular array of horns and antlers, as you will have seen towards the end of the programme. However, since so many plant predators do live in herds, on balance it must be beneficial. If you are studying the next course in this series, you will be...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...social context. The aim is for you to move away from considering the law for the law’s sake, to placing the law within its wider context. Your research may be focused on a piece of proposed or actual legislation, a case or legal ruling, or an organisation, but the significance of your results must be considered with relevance to the wider context. You will need to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...social context in which learning is taking place. As learners, we need to think about how other people learn and the types of activities that promote learning for us and for the pupils in our classrooms. Diegetic Simon Bland: So, we’ll just have a look then... What you should have is something that looks like this – now, we’re going to open a screen now where you...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...social rule is followed by men and women, young and old. If the two people are related or are very good friends, instead of shaking hands they often kiss each other on both cheeks. The number of kisses varies between regions. In Paris, for example, you would give four kisses alternating between cheeks, but in the south of France people only give two kisses, once on both...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...social issues, and the magic realist novel. Abdulrazak Gurnah Well, fiction quite often tells us things, gives us news, tells us about things. Sometimes you’ll find people saying things as if this is an inferior function of fiction. But I don’t think so. I think when I read fiction, I look for many things, and sometimes you get more of this than the other, but one...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...social impacts of the oil pollution. The company experienced a number of other effects over the following years: The company had to agree to an $18.7bn legal settlement to cover the costs of the disaster clean-up and compensation for businesses. It lost the opportunity to bid for new contracts with the US government. It threatened access to new and existing oil field...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...social media’. Its roots point to two word bubbles, in which are written: ‘Loss of confidence in traditional media’ and ‘Low levels of critical thinking and news literacy’ on the left; and on the right, ‘Shifts in business models’ and ‘Malicious actors’.] Figure 1 The roots of ‘fake news’, from UNESCO’s 2017/2018 Report into World Trends in Freedom...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs