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Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...religion and so on Cognitive and social openings to new influences Social isolation and exclusion Grievances about discrimination that may be personal, related to unfair treatment at work, access to health care or about other inequalities in society Unemployment Migrant status and experiences before and after immigration International conflict that is considered unjust...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...religion was another big thing. So it was all about pray and turning to God, and I also felt like if we did talk about it, it was like we didn't trust God because instead of talking to someone about it, we should be on our knees praying and believing and trusting in God. And in the absence of that, it almost means-- feels like you don't trust God or you don't believe in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...religion and spirituality, a very early adopter of interdisciplinary studies. His student Aristotle was also a philosopher and scientist. His writings cover many areas, including physics, biology, zoology, poetry, theatre, music, psychology, and politics and government. Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni, a Persian polymath regarded as one of the greatest scholars of the mediaeval...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...religion is dominant, a completely different religion is dominant. Interviewer: OK. So it’s an encounter where basically you notice different values, beliefs and behaviours, and perhaps feel a little, what, uncomfortable about that? Mike Byram: That’s exactly so, yeah, yeah. Interview with Mike Byram Answer Byram defines an intercultural encounter as a situation in...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...religions especially are ‘ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate’ – and, it might be remarked, many), and to the privileging of ‘race and name’ and caste over individual identity. Second, Asia is too large and too full of people, ‘swarming with human life’. Added to these problems of scale are those of unnegotiable difference and unrecognizability from a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...religion, angels exist and have minds of some kind, as does God, if He exists. What is the mind of an angelic being like? It depends, first of all, on whether angelic beings have material bodies, for we need to know whether they have any sense organs. Opinions about this differ in much the same way as opinions about the nature of the soul differ. Consider, for a moment,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...religion, language, abilities or any other status. The Convention must be seen as a whole: all the rights are linked and no right is more important that another. The right to relax and play (Article 31) and the right to freedom of expression (Article 13) have equal importance as the right to be safe from violence (Article 19) and the right to education (Article 28). …...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...religion and authority, symbolised by the inmates' crowns and sceptres. In ‘private’ works such as this he was free to choose his subjects and could escape the confines of public commissions. 1819 Goya moves to the Quinta del Sordo and a year later begins work on the so-called Black Paintings. 1820–3 He works on later plates from the Disasters of War series. 1820...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs