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The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...Latin and Greek which formed the basis of their education, the wealthy and well connected of the eighteenth century were at home with the poetry, history and philosophy of the ancient world. In the words of Samuel Johnson, ‘classical quotation is the parole [password] of literary men all over the world’ (Boswell, 1951, vol.2, p. 386). When Johnson dined in company...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...Latin word ‘solacium’ (comfort) and the Greek word ‘algos’ (pain) and is used to indicate a specific type of distress caused by the climate crisis. Namely the pain that people experience when beloved aspects of their environment are damaged by the changing climate, for example the loss or suffering of animal or plant species, a home destroyed by fire, wind or...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...Latin for 'unit of quantity' or 'amount' and was introduced into physics by the German scientist Max Planck (1858-1947), in the course of his investigations into the emission of electromagnetic radiation from hot surfaces. Crudely speaking. Planck was looking into why hot things glow. He knew that the light given off by a heated object is a mixture of all the possible...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...Latin meaning ‘to stand by/adhere to decided cases’, i.e. to follow precedent. In other words, once a legal principle is decided in one case it should be followed in similar future cases. The doctrine of binding precedent refers to the fact that, within the hierarchical structure of the courts, the decision of a higher court will be binding on a lower court. In...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...Latin words used in law, French words used in cooking, German words used in academic writing, Japanese words used in martial arts? Do you count Scots dialect? Teenage slang? Abbreviations? English has over 171,000 dictionary entries for words in current use, and an estimated 250,000 distinct words. That is a lot of words to learn. Activity 1 How many words are in your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...Latin word ‘risicum’. The two possibilities quite neatly combine to give us the meaning for the English term in this context. The Latin word originally referred to the challenge presented to seafarers by a barrier reef and so implied a possible negative outcome. The Arabic word, on the other hand, implies ‘anything that has been given to you (by God) and from which...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...Latin American and Asian cultures, which can lead to tensions between colleagues with contrasting cultural viewpoints. He also reports that approaches to staff motivation can change with culture, from a focus on risk-aversion in Northeast Asia and the Middle East, to a more flexible and opportunistic stance in the UK and US. In a multicultural team, it helps if a leader...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...Latin and Greek authors, as well as French seventeenth-century classic literary works such as those of Racine and Corneille. From 1815 he studied in the studio of the neoclassicist Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, where he was immersed in subjects from antiquity (see Plate 14, Guérin’s The Return of Marcus Sextus). Like his contemporaries, Delacroix regarded classicism as a...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs