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Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...world of the twenty-first century, such endeavours have become central to the critical enterprise. To this end, notions of a ‘supranational criminology’ (Smeulers and Haveman, 2008) have been developed. This area of critical criminology is concerned with the study of international crimes, harms, and violations that have an impact on a mass or global scale – for...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...world, with mixed results. More recently, the mass production paradigm has been replaced, but there is as yet no single approach to managing operations that has become similarly dominant. The different approaches for managing operations that are currently popular include: Flexible specialisation (Piore and Sabel, 1984) in which firms (especially small firms) focus on...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Scales in space and time
Science, Maths & Technology

Scales in space and time

...world record for the 100.0 m sprint is 10.49 s, as set by Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988. To calculate the (average) speed at which she ran, you need to divide the distance over the time: multiline equation line 1 100 m divided by 10.49 s equals 9.532 times m divided by s line 2 equals 9.532 m s super negative one Her average speed was therefore 9.532 metres per second...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...world. They require a degree of mental effort to bridge the gap between them and the aspects of the ‘real’ world they stand for. Approach them slowly and with care, allowing yourself time to get the feel of what you are looking at. Don't assume you already know what you are looking at...Reading evidence: 1.2.4 Stage 2: Find a way in - It's easy to be distracted by the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...world of classical music is. [Described image] This week, you will reflect on how we got into this situation, including the historical exclusion of women composers from the classical music canon and music education, issues accessing scores of their compositions, and financial nervousness around programming works with which audiences might be unfamiliar. You will then turn...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...world enriched’ (Philpott, 2008). This suggests a conception of learning and hence an aim of teaching as being about more than the mere transmission and acquiring of factual musical knowledge or even instrumental or vocal skills. Reflection point Think back to your own experiences as a young learner. Identify one example of teaching (from any subject), which you think...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...World : Management and managerialism (Payne, 2009), pp. 143–5 and pp. 153–6 Strategic planning and leadership (Payne, 2009), pp.183–4. Then, to gain a deeper understanding of management and leadership theories, read the following book chapter: Leading, managing, caring This is by Simons and Lomax and appears in Mackian, S. and Simons J. (eds) Leading, Managing,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...World Health Organization (2004) and covers mental disorders in Chapter V. You will see how this handbook describes schizophrenia later in this course. Both manuals take a fairly similar approach and describe many of the same conditions, mainly differing in how they group various disorders together in subsections of chapters. In both handbooks, sets of symptoms are listed...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs